MrCreativeMight
Dreamer
Hello, hello, helloooo.
This is my second post on the forum. My first post was in May, so it really has been awhile since I've posted here. This is a follow-up on my fantasy video game which I talked about in my first post.
Anyways, here's the situation:
Between my first post and this new one, I've been doing/figuring out more things for my fantasy video game. Recently, I've decided to scrap my original plot where the four protagonists are sent on a quest where they must slay ancient monsters awakened by a mercenary organization. Now, I have a new plot, and a new synopsis, but I need help trying to rebuild my synopsis after deciding on my new plot. There are some things I've managed to come up with, and other things which I am actually stumped on and need help with explaining (since I'm still new to fantasy writing).
Here is what I've managed to come up with so far for the currently W.I.P synopsis:
It is the year 1025. The Kainyth Kingdom is ruled by King Vernrik Kainyth IV who has one daughter, the teenage Princess Sylanna Kainyth. One night, a mercenary organization (no name yet) raids the Kainyth Kingdom in the hunt for Princess Kainyth whom they kidnap as they believe her to be the key to immortality.
The next day, King Kainyth IV appoints the four protagonists consisting of Klane, a male yeti berserker; Aleen, a female cabbit warrior; Shizuke, a male kitsune mage; and Rava, a teenage dragoness to go on the mission to rescue his daughter, having been considered and previously congratulated for past actions. The four leave the Kainyth Kingdom on the mission to rescue Princess Kainyth from the mercenary organization while the kingdom is under protection by guards.
At one point in the conflict, an army of demons is accidentally unleashed by the mercenary organization, and attacks both factions, making it harder for the four protagonists to fight their way to the princess. The protagonists manage to fight their way to the mercenary organization’s leader, only to find that it’s too late, and he has used the princess and a captured eye orb (also no name yet) to unknowingly unleash the imprisoned demon Mogoth instead of achieving immortality. Mogoth kills the leader, but he is defeated by the protagonists. Having defeated the mercenary organization, demons, and Mogoth, the protagonists and Princess Kainyth return to the Kainyth Kingdom victorious.
That’s what I have so far for the synopsis of my video game. There are still a few things that need explaining which I am stumped on and need help/answers/explanations:
Thank you, and I can't wait to hear some answers. Also, I am happy to be posting here on this forum again.
This is my second post on the forum. My first post was in May, so it really has been awhile since I've posted here. This is a follow-up on my fantasy video game which I talked about in my first post.
Anyways, here's the situation:
Between my first post and this new one, I've been doing/figuring out more things for my fantasy video game. Recently, I've decided to scrap my original plot where the four protagonists are sent on a quest where they must slay ancient monsters awakened by a mercenary organization. Now, I have a new plot, and a new synopsis, but I need help trying to rebuild my synopsis after deciding on my new plot. There are some things I've managed to come up with, and other things which I am actually stumped on and need help with explaining (since I'm still new to fantasy writing).
Here is what I've managed to come up with so far for the currently W.I.P synopsis:
It is the year 1025. The Kainyth Kingdom is ruled by King Vernrik Kainyth IV who has one daughter, the teenage Princess Sylanna Kainyth. One night, a mercenary organization (no name yet) raids the Kainyth Kingdom in the hunt for Princess Kainyth whom they kidnap as they believe her to be the key to immortality.
The next day, King Kainyth IV appoints the four protagonists consisting of Klane, a male yeti berserker; Aleen, a female cabbit warrior; Shizuke, a male kitsune mage; and Rava, a teenage dragoness to go on the mission to rescue his daughter, having been considered and previously congratulated for past actions. The four leave the Kainyth Kingdom on the mission to rescue Princess Kainyth from the mercenary organization while the kingdom is under protection by guards.
At one point in the conflict, an army of demons is accidentally unleashed by the mercenary organization, and attacks both factions, making it harder for the four protagonists to fight their way to the princess. The protagonists manage to fight their way to the mercenary organization’s leader, only to find that it’s too late, and he has used the princess and a captured eye orb (also no name yet) to unknowingly unleash the imprisoned demon Mogoth instead of achieving immortality. Mogoth kills the leader, but he is defeated by the protagonists. Having defeated the mercenary organization, demons, and Mogoth, the protagonists and Princess Kainyth return to the Kainyth Kingdom victorious.
That’s what I have so far for the synopsis of my video game. There are still a few things that need explaining which I am stumped on and need help/answers/explanations:
- Why would the mercenary organization believe that Princess Kainyth is the key to immortality? It's like they believe that immortality is achievable, there is a place to achieve immortality, and that Princess Kainyth along with the eye orb they captured is the key to immortality. What convinced the leader and the rest of the organization to believe this?
- Even though Princess Kainyth and the eye orb were not the keys to immortality, but the keys to unleashing Mogoth, how are they the keys to unleashing Mogoth? What's so special about them? I would compare this to the trope of capturing someone or stealing something because it's the key to something, but I'm not gonna compare instances of this trope in movies for the sake of not alienating those who haven't seen those movies. Also, I’m not gonna go in depth as to why I added an eye orb in my story/game, although the capturing of this eye orb triggered other eye orbs to assist the protagonists in their quest (setting the gameplay mechanic where various eye orbs can be found in certain levels, and they can be picked up, and give players temporary power-ups).
- How could the mercenary organization have accidentally unleashed the army of demons? Could there have been a place where the demons were contained, and the mercenary organization accidentally discovered and released them? Or, could they have accidentally triggered a portal to the underworld somewhere, and the demons came out? If the demons were all contained in a place in the world, why were they contained alive instead of killed by whoever/whatever (like a god maybe) imprisoned them? (Maybe this god doesn't like killing, but would rather have mortals kill the demons?) Even if the portal was a thing, and Mogoth was imprisoned in the real world, why would he be there instead of in the underworld?
- Why did King Kainyth IV appoint the protagonists instead of having his own men (army) go after the princess? I thought this was explained before when I was into my previous plot, but now I think there needs to be a different reason for why the king selected the protagonists instead of his men.
- Where else do the protagonists go in the quest? They would travel from the Kainyth Kingdom to wherever Mogoth eventually gets unleashed, but what other places would they go through? Maybe it includes where the demon army is unleashed.
Thank you, and I can't wait to hear some answers. Also, I am happy to be posting here on this forum again.