Recent content by Roughdragon

I have been thinking about this, and the fact that many stories revolve around a main character who is magically given a crazy amount of power out of the blue annoys me a bit. I can understand why stories have this, however; It's much faster, and can fit into a shorter timeframe. I'm currently...

Like sitting down before you write and thinking to yourself: "Okay, I want people to read this story."

Because I remember mine, and it was... so bad. The level of cringe it gives me when I read through it from time to time is painful. But in a way, it's a good kind of pain, because it shows me how far I've progressed as a writer. And yes, it was a fanfiction. And yes, I am still embarrassed to...

That is what I'm trying to do with this society. Essentially, when I get around to writing a story, one of the characters will be a descendant of one of these warriors, and would be driven to discover the history of his people.

The island the Vangardians had completely taken over is about the size of Rhode Island. Also, their style of war is inspired by Hoplite strategies. Basically, they got into a large formation and steamrolled their way through the less advanced societies on their island.

I did forget to mention this, but the society-- let's call them Vangardians-- are obsessively xenophobic. The denizens of their island include high fantasy societies such as orcs and elves, and the Vangardians believe that using the perceived lesser races for anything in their society-- even...

I'm asking this because as I was worldbuilding, I thought it might be a clever idea to have a seemingly unstoppable military-focused society fall due to their lack of agriculture. Basically, they had become so used to taking supplies from others that they had no idea how to farm. After they had...

Thank you for the advice; In this case, she feels guilty simply because of the act of killing someone and watching them die. At that moment, she realizes that she had taken the life of someone else, and she wonders if she could have done anything different that could have injured him instead of...

Yeah, I understand the point about the second chapter, and I've already adjusted the scene to make her more of a good-natured character, in google docs, at least.

Thank you for the replies. To elaborate on the setting of the story, it is based in a late medieval time period when firearms are beginning to be introduced. The main character is a village girl who was burned as a witch, but was resurrected due to a particular mark on her hand. My goal for the...

I'm trying to write a scene where a character is attacked by a scavenger after her village is burned down, and she kills him in self defense. However, as he lay dying, she starts to feel guilt and sympathy towards the dying assailant, and stays by his side until he dies. My question is...

Good point, I guess you can make an argument that it's just the lowest place they've found so far.

Just as the title says, how do you prefer to name places of interest? There seems to be, at least to me, two ways of doing this, and I could definitely be wrong. The first is to give a strange sounding name such as, for example, Djinkaard or Vernonwell. The other way, the one I prefer to...

I suppose people can be inclined to use different elements depending on what emotion they are feeling at the moment. For example: Anger = Fire, Sadness = Water, Apathy = Ice, Excitement = Lightning. Of course, not all magic users know all of the elements, and the elements and emotions would be...

Magic could be used for non-combat applications, of course, but the purpose of magic, and why it had been studied for so long and so intensely, was mostly for the combative edge it gave armies. And as for the second question, yes, the magic varies depending on the person casting it, since the...