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Two men, two friends who leave the boring life of their old home and journey together. Both having no experience with the world at large or much knowledge of what to expect but both hoping that while on it they'll find what they feel they've been searching for. And of course on their journey they encounter much hilarity and untold dangers. XD
Starting with beautiful nymphs that bewilder them and leave them quite lost in the forest. After meeting interesting characters, new friends, and of course love interests. I have some more detailed ideas for it but this is just the basics for it. Just a simple fun story.
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I was thinking it would be interesting to figure out a fantasy world and create whatever characters we felt like with their own quests, having them happen to meet and see what might happen.
What my mind has come up with so far is just some simple things. Deciding on some main races to focus on: Vampires, Werewolves, Elves, Dwarves, Witches/Wizards, whatever else you might happen to think up. Have their world be their own with no humans. Each having their own home land in the different corners of their world and their own rules. Each race having strengths and weaknesses.
For the first time my mind has actually created a map for this land. Been trying to work on different regular personality traits for each race. It's a work in progress.
Dwarves:
- Very secretive
- Stubborn
- Kind Hearted mainly
- Big appetite with an even bigger alcohol tolerance
- Don't favor baths
- Strong hard race
- Good in close combat with heavy weapons
- Dwarves mainly stick to themselves
- It's rare to see one since they mainly stay up in the Eastern and Western mountains
- Act gruff but will always helped when asked
- Very prideful
Vampires:
- Some are better at controlling their blood lust than others
- Some are more open minded, while others are stuck more on the old ways
- The blood of some races tastes better than others. Dwarves tasting the worst, werewolves still not very tasty but better, Witches and Wizards very tasty, with Elves being the best based on how strong it makes the vampire feel from drinking it.
- Barely tolerate Werewolves
- Polite with Witches/Wizards and Elves (Though only the ones with good control of their blood lust are allowed in their cities/kingdoms.
- Vampires can walk in the sunlight but constant exposure to it will weaken them and make them very hungry to the point of being ravenous.
-Most live at the High Castle in the South.
Werewolves:
- Wolves have their own pack laws that they follow by
- A wolf can be banished if they commit a bad enough crime and are found guilty with a trial (This is why many lone wolves aren't trusted)
- On a full moon night their bodies are forced to change; they will want to be with their pack and they'll be extremely hungry
- Their sense of smell and hearing are the best of any race
- The likelihood of a male being born is 70% more likely than a female. Making females much more prized in any pack.
-The different packs usually found in the Southern forest.
Witches/Wizards:
- Always striving for more knowledge
- Studious and very opinionated
- While living across from each other they are kept separated in their studies and living(two separate towers), allowed to meet and mingle in the shared courtyard.
- Wear colors based on their rank/skill level
- While most young wizards and witches are fascinated by vampires and werewolves the oldest of them just look on them as being diseased and inferior.
Elves:
- Their movements are quick, precise, and graceful
- The elders of their race are very prudish
- Born with delicate features
- While many of the race have an inner strength they are still best with lighter weapons.
- Great at ranged combat
- Excellent hearing. Second only to Werewolves.
- While Elves have strong old magic in their blood they are only born with one special ability that grows in power as they age
-The elves usually keeping mostly to themselves in the Northern forests.
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A team of four archaeologists set off on an expedition to find a place that many believe is only a myth. When they manage to find their way there they find something that changes the world as they know it forever.
There was also suppose to be a rival team, more mercenary like and elite, that are looking for the same place.
The big original idea was this being just the first part of a two part story. With the thing they find at the end of the first being Pandora's box. The version of the story for it being that the first time it was opened it let loose what it had into the world but it also took something from the world as well. Magic. So this time when the box is opened at the very end it releases magic back into the world. The sequel taking place in a post apocalyptic future, where the there's a wasteland type world. Technology no longer a thing, few people left that even remember the stories of how the world used to be. Instead the future reverting back to a more western type of place with magic.
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After the sudden death of their parents two siblings are sold into the slave trade. The boy is bought for servitude, the girl as a gift. Both are taken far from each other and brought up in a very different world from the other. Going through life and the ups and downs it brings. Until eventually the two find each other again by accident many years later.
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In the not far off future the world is in ruins. One of mankind's biggest fears turned reality. Taking technology too far and building something that was given too much intelligence and has now turned against us.
To protect what was left of humanity in the U.S. a huge complex underground bunker was built to host survivors. Once in nothing could get in but nothing could get out either. Some decided they'd rather risk life on the outside then be sealed in to such a place. Facing the mechanical horrors that terrorize their old home. In decades the A.I.s have been unable to get into the bunker until now.
The main character was adopted in by the man who created the bunker. He knows all its inner workings but made the decision to leave. Being one of the only ones to find a way out. Creating a band out of the survivors he found above ground to take out any and all A.I.s. Upon finding out that the bunker has been invaded he returns to his old home with his crew.
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Over 60 years ago a program was started. Up in the mountains, away from prying eyes, scientists started studies to try and enhance human abilities. Their first tests were on willing participants, but later they focused their tests on newborns. All subjects given a personal number, remembered by a chip inserted into their left shoulder. Making sure that if any managed to escape the scientists could easily locate them and send out a team to return them.
They have classes for these subjects. Going from pre-K to High school level. Regular school subjects but also classes for testing their skills. When the facility comes under attack though only the strongest survive to escape out into the wilderness of the mountains where a whole new fight begins in a world the subjects know little about except from books.
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You have good mages working for and alongside the royals, having their own elite team and force that the royals keep funded for the protection that they bring. Then you got the dark mages who are trying to break through and conquer such lands for themselves to rule, and work to destroy the good. Maybe the good mages work more as a team with appointed leaders for each place that they have to call their own and the dark mages are commanded by the one who holds the most power, which considering how often another tries to take that role shows how much allegiance they have towards each other even as they begrudgingly do usually as they're told.
Roles for the good mages: Mage barracks/lodgings/school, maybe five or more interspersed over the area/land in different places. A head leader for each one. Protectors/warriors and healers that stay at the places and the ones that get hired by royals and the wealthy. Staffed scouts/trackers, messengers and spies.
Roles for the bad mages: Similar to the good mages. Have the warriors and healers close to their leader. Give them some messengers and lots of spies. Trackers who try to find mage children before the light mages do to take them and turn them to their side.
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A Sorceress casts a spell on a prince to take one her image and her his so that she can avenge her mother who was burned at the stake for being a witch by his father. Her plan to kill the King and make it look like the Prince did it to make him an outlaw and outcast as she has been most of her life. The Prince now stuck looking like the Sorceress must try to make it to his Kingdom to stop her before she can complete the deed. In the day he may look like her but at night he's able to appear as himself but that only helps so much when you have plenty of enemies either way. I was thinking he'd come across a witch in training who while unable to break the spell put on him would take up the mission to help him. Though she might be torn since being a witch herself she may agree with the Sorceresses plan to kill the King who is known for killing witches. The prince himself skeptical that there is such a thing as a good witch but of course over time it will be proven to him that magic can be used for good.
-They'd likely start off with some differences, considering he'd think it was her duty to help him and that she should feel so lucky just to be able to do so and of course for her helping him protect a man who'd see someone like her killed for no other reason than possessing magic. They're going to have many differences.
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What happens when a king never takes an official wife to produce a proper heir? Give the throne over to one of his bastard children? Even if his children have never been officially recognized as his everyone at the castle knows who they are. Allowed to live on the castle grounds but working as regular staff. The day has come though that the king is on his death bed leaving his children to wonder just what he'll choose to do.
As it turns out the king has already made his choice. Choosing not one of his own children but a prince of no relation. His reasons are his own for doing so and now it has left not only the children wondering but everyone, what new changes might come of this choice? With things so tense and unstable this new chosen heir will not only have to worry about assassins but some of the more disgruntled children of the king as well.
What I have so far: Some of the king's children are more eager to get to that throne than others. Days before his death the king has his bastard children come to his death bed. Giving them each promotions of sorts and telling them his plan. None are exactly happy with it. So far I picture two sons that have the same mother. One is a soldier in his father's army and the other is a stable hand. They are promoted to a general and stable master. His daughter from a different mother has been working as a maid in the castle. For her keen eye she is given the task of watching out for the prince. Keeping an eye out for any assassins coming his way. It's not a task she particularly likes but since it's her father's dying wish all of his children agree to do as he asks.
I also picture a ball being hosted not too long after the prince arrives. Hosted by his advisers in the hopes of finding him a proper queen.
Scene Idea Added 8/15
I picture a masquerade ballroom scene happening. Where one of the guests is an assassin.
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This idea involves a character I'd made from a previous story. Though his backstory isn't needed to make this an interesting tale.
My man is quite the traveler. Unable to settle down just yet till he sees more of the world. It's on one of his adventures that he happens to be on the outskirts of a kingdom that has just been taken over by its neighbors. Finding a hiding princess who had a night ago escaped with her mother but the Queen had been found and taken back to the captured castle. The traveler promising to help her now has to figure out just how he's going to do that. Just a few nights into his planning though bandits happen upon their camp, lead by a woman. Thinking on his feet the traveler promises the bandits gold from the castle if they help him with his plan.
Just as kingdoms fight over things so do bandits. While the traveler and the bandit queen are getting closer one of her ex lovers comes into the picture to create more problems. Or could it actually be luck in disguise? Some parts yes, some parts no. While the traveler sees this new bandit group as more people who might help them take back the castle, one of the young bandits in this new camp starts falling for the princess and it's all too possible that she might just be having some feelings for him as well.
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In a small western town crime is running rampant. To make matters worse one of the biggest outlaws has decided to pay a visit to the town and no one really knows why. Least of all the Sheriff who's deputy was murdered by the fiend. His best friend, murdered in cold blood. Yet life forces people to move on. The Sheriff might not be happy about his old friend being replaced but currently he needs all the help he can get. So when a new deputy arrives just as the most wanted outlaw strikes again it'll be up to the two of them to try and rid the small western town of crime. Even if it means trusting an outlaw who has secrets of her own, and bringing along the only survivor of the latest massacre who's hellbent on revenge for her family.
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What do you do when your older sister summons a demon and works with him towards flooding the world with more of his kind? You run of course.
Managing to escape the torture of her older sister a young witch is just trying to survive while being on the run when she meets a demon hunter with some magic of his own.
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When a senior trip turns into a disaster the remaining teens of a plane crash must try to survive up in the snow covered mountains. Can they work together to stay alive until help arrives? Or will they let their differences and past destroy those that are left?
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1. In a kingdom where elves are treated as property, their magic suppressed by specially made collars; Two orphans, a half breed and a full blood elf become friends as children. Wanting more from life the full blood leaves, wanting his friend to go with him but fearing travel she stays behind. After he leaves she gets caught stealing. Instead of being sentenced to death though the king gives her a pardon and instead has her stay as a playmate to his children. As the years pass the half breed elf grows close to the royal children, particularly the prince. One day though her old friend returns and brings an army with him. Conquering the castle but not before the half elf manages to help the prince and princess escape. But where do her loyalties really lie?
2. In medieval times orphans don't stand much of a chance of making anything of themselves. If they manage to live long at all. Yet two boys work to beat the odds. One wanting more though. Wanting to leave the kingdom they'd been born in to search for greater things. Fearing things will only be worse for them if they leave his friend stays behind. Once his friend is gone though the other boy is caught stealing. Instead of being sentenced to death the king instead has him turned into the prince's whipping boy. Though it takes some time the prince and the orphan eventually become close friends.
In the meantime his old friend manages to make friends as well. Making a name for himself. Building up an army. Until eventually he becomes so confident in what he's doing that he starts having his followers refer to him as their king. Returning to his old home to take it over for himself. Killing the king but his old friend from the past managing to help the royal children escape before he can end them too.
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In a land where some a born with special abilities a queen chooses to rule her kingdom with just her voice alone. Being gifted with the ability to convince people to do her bidding she put herself into the queen position. Enslaving any other people with magical abilities that her guards manage to find for her.
In this kingdom run by fear the people further away from the castle only really hear rumors about what's going on. Having only the local guards of different towns to worry about who thankfully haven't been brainwashed by the queen. (Yet)
Here a con artist has cheated his way to his winnings one too many times. A female guard now hot on his trail unbeknownst to him. Though it seems some unforeseen luck is on his side when a child comes asking him of all people for help. Finding out the child can read minds is just the start of an adventure that could change the kingdom for the better and possibly help the rebels who look to dethrone the queen. Or once and for all give the queen the full control she's been looking for.
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In a world of magic some classes consider themselves superior. Wizards and witches in particular have always had big heads and thought themselves important. Even having their own school to practice their craft. Using books and words to conduct their spells. Seeing Warlocks and Enchantresses who are able to use magic without words as barbaric and not nearly as knowledgeable. They're looked down upon and not really trusted even by regular humans. Young ones being told stories of not looking them in the eyes lest they bewitch you.
Wizards and witches always striving to learn more in the hopes of succeeding to the title of Sorcerer/Sorceress one day. Even with their similar attitudes towards Warlocks and Enchantresses not even Wizards and Witches are able to get along very well. Both usually being a bit too opinionated for their own good. Yet with murders happening with clear magic influence being at the center of them these magic users will be forced together to try and uncover what's going on and to try and prove that their people aren't involved in it.
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When three young sisters(newborn, 2, 7) are abandoned in an ancient forest their fates are forever changed.
The oldest is taken in by Autumn Fae royalty. Trained in the ways of the hunt and murder. Becoming a personal assassin to the Fae King.
The middle sister is taken by the Kender (https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Kender_... )
Becoming a skilled thief.
While the youngest is taken by the nymphs. Learning their ancient language and learning to in-tune herself to the earth around her.
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Long time friends two women try to survive what the world has become now that it has turned into utter chaos. (similar to a Mad Max type of world)
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Those in a small dusty hopeless town are hoping to make their way to California. To get there though the party will need some protection from the threats that are said to be out there. Three men agree to the task.
One an ex sheriff who failed his last town and is now just looking for a way to redeem himself.
A priest who in his younger days was a well known gunslinger but after a traumatic event turned to god. Now though it may seem his old talents are needed once again.
Last a drifter who has just come into the little town. He holds many secrets close but it's clear he's a perfect shot with a gun. Agreeing to help the people in their voyage.
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A slave ship sinks leaving few survivors to fight through the wilderness in the hopes of finding safety and freedom. The main cast consisting of:
Female A: Is a white high class lady who is engaged to the man who's running this slave trade business. Until boarding the ship she's never actually met him since it was an arranged marriage. He's picking her up along his route home. She survives the sinking of the ship, but because she has no skill in swimming if saved by one of the slaves that escapes as well. Sees blacks as inferior because of her upbringing. Her perspective will be challenged on the journey.
Male A: This male slave does what he can to help others. doing his best to help as many as he can make it to shore. He becomes the leader of the little group and does his best to keep all of them alive.
Female B: A slave who doesn't trust easy and hates whites. Finds herself falling for Male A. Both her and Male B think Female A should of been left behind.
Male B: A slave who would much rather be his own leader. Even if he is a little bit younger than Male A. Wants to impress Female B.
Finding salvation wont be easy. Learning to work together will be the hardest part. What will happen though once they learn that they weren't actually the only ones to survive?
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Please, if you are reading this your help is needed! We are in a race to find what was long ago lost. A gem of untold power. My father found it once. He did the hard but right thing in making sure it stayed lost. What he shouldn't have done was keep the map of his journey. Now others that would misuse such power are after it. After finding what they couldn't I have personally destroyed the map but that wont stop them. My brother and I will need as much help as we can get if we have any hope of stopping them from claiming so much power. If you are brave and willing join us. My name is Lienna and my brother is Zhuan, we have made camp in the Hollow Wood but can only risk staying for a few more days. If you're late fear not we will be leaving behind a message for those that seek it there.
Note: In this magical world people are born with abilities. The more they are mastered the better the user can wield them, and the stronger they will be with them. Though the more strength that is put behind an ability will drain more energy from the user.
Abilities:
Invisibility- Only lasts five minutes
Portal Creation- Takes practically all the energy a user has
Magical Constructs ( http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Ma... ) Depending on how long it's used for it can deplete quite a lot of energy
Shapeshifting- Can last for up to an hour
Telepathic Communication- Speaking into someone's mind and connecting a line between people so they can send a message back but not being able to read their thoughts/memories. Depending on distance this could take a good amount of energy.
With power comes great temptation to take what you want and what you feel you deserve. Some give in to that temptation. It's up to others to keep the balance. Which side will you be on?
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Four years ago an invading army struck a flourishing kingdom. Slaughtering and pillaging all that they came across. Leaving before the kingdom's army, who was visiting a neighboring kingdom, returned home. In this magical kingdom not all who die easily pass over. Some ghosts are stuck. Those who died that night in the castle are still stuck there, and some have even been given new duties.
Muse A is one such ghost. She is now one of the caretakers of the ancient artifact room. Very few still alive know of the existence of the room. Yet all ghosts know of it. Which is why Muse A is so surprised when one of her lively cousins bursts in being lead by his dead sister, looking for an artifact that can take him back in time to the night of the raid. Wanting the crown that was lost that night so he can claim the throne. Knowing his intentions aren't pure Muse A tries to stop him. Resulting in them both falling back into time and into the bodies of their old selves to relive that night and possibly change the future.
