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MacPhoenix:
To all writers; amateur - pros. How does one nightmare up the, "The being who would be Emperor" in one's own little yarn?
P.S . This is a beginner's outreach for guidance. Go easy.
P.P.S. First blog/forum as well.
hallowedthings:
Care to expand a bit? :P
I'm not really sure what you mean by the being who would be emperor. Do you mean it in a general sense (something that's going to rise and rule) or are you referring to a specific trope? (Googled it but couldn't find anything) xD
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
One way is to make them absolutely and utterly convinced that they are right and working for a good end.
Another is to make them alien enough that they can sincerely believe something utterly appalling and regard your heroes being more conventionally heroic as an appalling thing in turn.
Example off the top of my head; think of fish, laying thousands of eggs and relying on statistics to have enough survive to the next generation. Imagine fish becoming sentient, and getting technology enough to have communities and drive off predators and so on. If they're to survive without population explosion and starvation, they'll have to take over culling the vast majority of their offspring themselves. So you end up with your fish emperor absolutely unshakable in a belief that they know to their core is right, that it's your moral duty to kill most of your children. Humans who have relatively few children and take care of them will seem utterly vile, disgusting and depraved to that fish emperor.
MacPhoenix:
I was just using the emperor reference
to point out the creation of a great villain for a story.
MacPhoenix:
Thank you neurovore for your reply that was helpful.
I didn't really know where to start off even creating a villain.
All I brought forth was just an antithesis to my hero, but that does not
give a villain his/her/its black soul.
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