To this day, I still play Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings. I like to create little scenarios when I play that, like back stories. It's almost like playing Dungeons and Dragons with myself.
I always like ones that have unexpected punchlines. Things that I wasn't expecting, and the surprise of it always makes me laugh.
A man walks into a bar with a small piece of asphalt under his arm and says to the bartender, "I'll have a beer, and one for the road!"
"Charlie Marlow: The observant, philosophical seaman who commands a steamship and exposes the grim reality of colonial exploitation." Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia
Its a character troupe of the a character who has false ideals before getting first hand experience and seeing how evil the system...
Yeah, I didn't put too much thought behind the name. I just really liked it because I have a deep love of Irish mythology. I was trying to pick a name that was easy to read in English and not just straight Gallic, but still had some ties to Celtic myth.
Yeah, I definitely want to try to position it more as: he's the main character in Heart of Darkness, where he has a vision before the war. His experience in the war has changed his entire perspective. When he gets out, there is this propaganda push for retelling the story of how the war went...
Hey everyone,
I’m John, and this is the working title of my dark epic fantasy novel: The King’s Two Sons.
I’ve been tinkering with this story for a while now, but lately I’ve really been diving deep into the worldbuilding side of things. I’m building out the history, geography, politics...