chaos and episodic
Aug. 19th, 2022 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliEvery now and again, there's a fight. Out of nowhere and leading to nothing.
Because there isn't an Evil Overlord. There are various magics, which can be seized on. Villains can appear at any time by exploiting them. Even those lacking the studiousness or intelligence to be a wizard may persuade one to give them magical powers, or (more freely yet) find something enchanted and use it.
Which one hero will explain to another while observing that certain evil knowledge escaping so widely that they can not contain is not so evil as it may appear; what the evil wizards found is there to be found, and they could only delay it. Thus there is no final victory, only degrees of success.
BUT this means that I have to put various battles of randomness about. And probably various conversations about whether events have connections, and if one interruption or another was intentional. And all this while allowing the story to evolve in an elegant structure.
(It does have the advantage of allowing time to pass. At least seven years' worth.)
Because there isn't an Evil Overlord. There are various magics, which can be seized on. Villains can appear at any time by exploiting them. Even those lacking the studiousness or intelligence to be a wizard may persuade one to give them magical powers, or (more freely yet) find something enchanted and use it.
Which one hero will explain to another while observing that certain evil knowledge escaping so widely that they can not contain is not so evil as it may appear; what the evil wizards found is there to be found, and they could only delay it. Thus there is no final victory, only degrees of success.
BUT this means that I have to put various battles of randomness about. And probably various conversations about whether events have connections, and if one interruption or another was intentional. And all this while allowing the story to evolve in an elegant structure.
(It does have the advantage of allowing time to pass. At least seven years' worth.)