I'm still in the very early stages of my WIP, but I just wanted some thoughts and opinions on a few things.
In a nutshell, the story takes place in a world created by six gods/goddesses - one goddess, known as the Mother Goddess, created the foundation of the world, while the other five gods (each of them representing a different element) helped create life and are each the creator of a specific region of the world. So for example, the god of water created the giant sea as well as the island nations located on the sea, and he created the people who live there. Basically there are five different continents/regions in this world.
But over time, a seventh god emerged - an "evil" god - to balance out the forces of good vs. evil in the world. The "evil" god went to war with the other six gods/goddesses who created the world, and as a result the world suffered mass destruction and chaos, and as a result of the battle, all the gods were sealed away in another realm/dimension and were unable to inhabit the physical world anymore.
The WIP story takes place thousands of years later. A prophecy had foretold that each of the six gods, as well as the "evil" god, would create one final "descendant" to inhabit the earth and help finish the battle that had taken place in the beginning of time. The story will follow the lives of these seven descendants. So essentially, there are going to be six heroes and one villain in the story.
My question is - first of all, what do you think of the plotline? Obviously it is just a very rough skeleton of a plot at this point but do you think the idea is at all interesting or unique?
And my second question is - since the six heroes pretty much all have equal importance to fighting the villain, I was hoping to essentially have six POV characters, each of them residing in a different region of the world and having their own lives/stories, but they would eventually meet up to fight the bad guy. I was even considering the villain to be a POV character as well, so we can see the story unfold from their point of view as well. Do you think this would result in too many storylines going on at once, especially considering the storylines would be happening exclusively in different areas of the world?
Thanks in advance for the input!
In a nutshell, the story takes place in a world created by six gods/goddesses - one goddess, known as the Mother Goddess, created the foundation of the world, while the other five gods (each of them representing a different element) helped create life and are each the creator of a specific region of the world. So for example, the god of water created the giant sea as well as the island nations located on the sea, and he created the people who live there. Basically there are five different continents/regions in this world.
But over time, a seventh god emerged - an "evil" god - to balance out the forces of good vs. evil in the world. The "evil" god went to war with the other six gods/goddesses who created the world, and as a result the world suffered mass destruction and chaos, and as a result of the battle, all the gods were sealed away in another realm/dimension and were unable to inhabit the physical world anymore.
The WIP story takes place thousands of years later. A prophecy had foretold that each of the six gods, as well as the "evil" god, would create one final "descendant" to inhabit the earth and help finish the battle that had taken place in the beginning of time. The story will follow the lives of these seven descendants. So essentially, there are going to be six heroes and one villain in the story.
My question is - first of all, what do you think of the plotline? Obviously it is just a very rough skeleton of a plot at this point but do you think the idea is at all interesting or unique?
And my second question is - since the six heroes pretty much all have equal importance to fighting the villain, I was hoping to essentially have six POV characters, each of them residing in a different region of the world and having their own lives/stories, but they would eventually meet up to fight the bad guy. I was even considering the villain to be a POV character as well, so we can see the story unfold from their point of view as well. Do you think this would result in too many storylines going on at once, especially considering the storylines would be happening exclusively in different areas of the world?
Thanks in advance for the input!