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Author Craft / Re: Need Thesaurus help
« on: March 14, 2008, 12:24:00 PM »Earthquake?Too specific. Same with avalanche. Im looking for none specific earth-based destruction.
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Earthquake?Too specific. Same with avalanche. Im looking for none specific earth-based destruction.
"It was a stark and dormy night at Miskatonic U."
Wanna see vampires as nasty, evil beings intent only on destruction? watch "30 Days of Night"......A really good bad movie.
Maybe in in Dresden's world TWA was more successful? Maybe this is a hint that the CEO of TWA is magically talented (Maybe he's even the Gatekeeper/Cowl)They had a deal with Monoc... *pauses to imagine Ms. Gard in a stewardess uniform*
Actually, Elf is a catch-all term like Fairie. The true dark elves of legend are the Dwarves.At least in the northern Europe area (ie the Norse domain)
My idea has been on the stove top since last year at a creative writing class, but this is what I got as a Urban fantasey/sci-fi world.That sounds...Awesome! Any Ideas for characters?
The year is early 2012, and everybody thought Armageddon was going to happen, but it didn’t, until scientists discovered an asteroid in space on a collision course with earth. Now you think its going to be like Michael Bay’s movie, but nobody prepared for it. People went religious and pretended that it was never happening. Well it crashed, but no death occurred, and it acted is the strangest way. Al it did was crash into the Pacific ocean, 50 miles north of Hawaii, exploded, created a dimensional rip in the atmosphere, threw monolithic crystal towers everywhere on the planet, emitted orbs of electricity, attacked, and infected every human that lives, even in remote places. After the tragedy, people nickname it “The Wave” because of how it swooped over the planet.
There are traces of foreign substances in the brain, but later in the week, the Waves true purpose took fold. People started to mutate “supernaturally” into a form of three characteristics: A third human, a third lizard/dinosaur, and a third elf (some Night Elf similarities). All of them gain the power to wield magic and have a spiritual companion, called totems, to teach them their new abilities. Another part is that the totems call them Terrans, even though they never herd of Earth’s recorded history.
The story will have these points of interests that got me thinking about it in the first place: magic returning to Earth, adjusting to change, a deeper and darker secret behind the crash, starting points of world war 3, knowing what you were born to be, and alien ties. It will have aliens involved, but I’m not there yet.
And no, it does not have anything to do with Shadowrun or evil corporations.
Reality quake?
I would love to see an urban fantasy were the hero doesn't continually get more and more powerful each freaking book!! Jim does a good job of this since Harry only gets stronger through time and Tavi's powers a not special at all considering his father and mother.The power creep is pretty integral to any hero development. I mean, a hero who doesn't improve is just plain boring. And a hero who is supposed to be interesting over the course of multiple books has to improve somewhat because the challenges they face in each subsequent book needs to be challenging and more difficult than the last, else why are we interested in this characters development?