My setting is a low fantasy where magic is rare, where wars are won by swords and not by magic and where
dragons, woolly rhinoceroses, giants, serpents and other creatures exist in one setting.
I was willing to suspend disbelief for dragons (two-legged winged dragons, not four-legged winged dragons), so I included them.
Not only was I willing to suspend disbelief for such physically impossible creature (mostly because of fire-breathing) but I also had a strong urge to include them in my setting
because dragons are the coolest and most beatiful fictional creatures in my opinion.
I have revenants, revenants are corporeal undead and their decomposition varies from individual to individual,
they can be slightly decomposed like vampires or very decomposed like zombies, but they are not mindless and
slaves to a so-called "necromancer".
Skeletons do not have bones, there is no muscles or tissue, they have no organs. I am against the idea that
somehow a "necromancer" performs magic and that the skeleton just happens to move on its own.
I like skeletons, it is a cool idea, but its terribly unrealistic, its 10 times more unrealistic than dragons.
Suspension of Disbelief in Sci Fi and Fantasy | I Am Your Target Demographic
One thing is certain, animated skeletons can not be explained without magic.
My idea of explaining animated skeletons:
The purpose of animated skeletons is to be minions for the army of revenants, the skeletons are slaves to the
revenants in the same way that wights from Game of Thrones are slaves to the White Walkers.
The revenant is a "puppeteer", while the skeleton is a "puppet". The revenant raises a human skeleton from the
ground by using telekinesis.
The skeleton should be able to attack and use a sword and a shield.
A human can defeat a skeleton by sufficiently dismembering him.
If a human kills a revenant "puppeteer" before he dismembers a skeleton, the skeleton will fall on the ground
and return to a inanimate state.
Please note that the skeleton is in no way "alive", skeletons are just bones and "empty shells" moved by
telekinetic magic.
Even with all my attempts to rationalize this I find it very hard to suspend my disbelief, I find it hard to
grasp how a bunch of bones can be coordinated by a wizard to move, attack or do anything.
Does anyone have a better magical explanation?
dragons, woolly rhinoceroses, giants, serpents and other creatures exist in one setting.
I was willing to suspend disbelief for dragons (two-legged winged dragons, not four-legged winged dragons), so I included them.
Not only was I willing to suspend disbelief for such physically impossible creature (mostly because of fire-breathing) but I also had a strong urge to include them in my setting
because dragons are the coolest and most beatiful fictional creatures in my opinion.
I have revenants, revenants are corporeal undead and their decomposition varies from individual to individual,
they can be slightly decomposed like vampires or very decomposed like zombies, but they are not mindless and
slaves to a so-called "necromancer".
Skeletons do not have bones, there is no muscles or tissue, they have no organs. I am against the idea that
somehow a "necromancer" performs magic and that the skeleton just happens to move on its own.
I like skeletons, it is a cool idea, but its terribly unrealistic, its 10 times more unrealistic than dragons.
Suspension of Disbelief in Sci Fi and Fantasy | I Am Your Target Demographic
One thing is certain, animated skeletons can not be explained without magic.
My idea of explaining animated skeletons:
The purpose of animated skeletons is to be minions for the army of revenants, the skeletons are slaves to the
revenants in the same way that wights from Game of Thrones are slaves to the White Walkers.
The revenant is a "puppeteer", while the skeleton is a "puppet". The revenant raises a human skeleton from the
ground by using telekinesis.
The skeleton should be able to attack and use a sword and a shield.
A human can defeat a skeleton by sufficiently dismembering him.
If a human kills a revenant "puppeteer" before he dismembers a skeleton, the skeleton will fall on the ground
and return to a inanimate state.
Please note that the skeleton is in no way "alive", skeletons are just bones and "empty shells" moved by
telekinetic magic.
Even with all my attempts to rationalize this I find it very hard to suspend my disbelief, I find it hard to
grasp how a bunch of bones can be coordinated by a wizard to move, attack or do anything.
Does anyone have a better magical explanation?
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