Birdland,
Thanks for the input. I’ll head down to the bookstore this weekend and investigate your suggestions.
If anyone else has any suggestions, feel free.
Ibun_Clawarrow,
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While I would be interested in trying to a find new direction for fantasy besides the "Dark Lord" convention, its been very difficult for e to think of anything else for characters in a fantasy book to do other than fight an omniprescent evil overlord.
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Try thinking out of the box. Lets see…
Lets say that once there really were elves, gnomes, pixies, fairies or such, take your pick. Let say that this race is basically non-confrontational and upon encountering Man millennia ago saw how aggressive and warlike he was and avoided him, knowing that they were at a disadvantage, (survival of the fittest and all that). At first this was easy to do. It was a big planet and sparsely populated. But as Mans population grew and spread they saw that it was just a matter of time until they were discovered and dominated or enslaved or wiped out or whatever. Lets say that they went under ground where they built their cities and lived for thousands of years until mans technology advanced to the point where they feared discovery again. Having nowhere else to go they decided upon a different course of action. Lets say that World War one and World War two were brought about through the manipulations of this race in an effort to reduce our numbers or lead us to self destruction. Since this is fantasy I suppose we need some magic, so lets say this race is able to take human form and walk among us. Suppose Hitler was one of them. Lets say that after all of this there is a faction within this race that decides that this is the wrong course to take and decides to reveal themselves to the Humans. Think of all the wacky hijinks that would ensue from the conflict with the others of their race that wanted to bring about an even bigger war. Perhaps nuclear. What if they did make contact with a group of Humans, take your pick as to which group or how many, and brought them into the drama. You could do all kinds of things with this and take any number of directions. Perhaps by the time its all over man has learned to live a more peaceful life and has been taught some “magic”, so he doesn’t need to rely upon technology so much. And the Elves, Gnomes or whatever are able to live among us in peace.
And they all lived happily ever after till the end of their days.
Here’s another…
Ever see a mentally disturbed person walking down the street talking to themself. What if they really were talking to someone. Perhaps they are all around us but only they can see them. I think someone could do a lot with that. Not “The Sixth Sense”, but a whole other reality just on the edge of our perception.
There are endless possibilities here. Let your imagination run wild.
P.S. If I ever see one of these stories in the future, I’ll expect a royalty check from you! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]