Okay...this explains it.
Explains...well, at least most of the bullshit of the Internet that's not covered neatly by the G.I.F.T., at any rate.
And on a more pleasant note, Kippurbird of Eragon Sporkings said the following: "One of these days, I'm going to create a culture that finds the 'dark' good and the 'light' evil." So...here's my take on that ( Read more... )
And on a more pleasant note, Kippurbird of Eragon Sporkings said the following: "One of these days, I'm going to create a culture that finds the 'dark' good and the 'light' evil." So...here's my take on that ( Read more... )
When I was in Germany I read a couple of books by a German author who was more in love with setting than plot, and spent an awful lot of time lovingly detailing characters and stuff that largely had no impact on the plot at large... although on the other hand, the characters were the biggest idiots I've ever come across in a book and the plot was rather strained. (I was typing those commentaries on a German keyboard where the Z and Y are on opposite places from where I'm used to and I couldn't be arsed to correct it everytime I made the same mistake, hence the weird spelling.)
In that story, the once lush world was turned into mostly desert because the Sun God killed the three queen Goddesses and took over heaven, which made the sun increase in size and sizzle everything. Ten thousand years later, the majority of humankind worships the sun. However, there are those who don't and they are regarded as a subclass and suspected of being vampires etc. People who don't worship the Sun God can ONLY come out at night, because the sun's rays would literally kill them instantly. Sun God is watching you. If somebody worshipping the sun happened to go out at night or even just stand by a window looking out into the night, though, they would start to think and question the way the world was, because then the mind control thing would lift or something, I guess. The heroes' business was to resurrect the Goddesses so they could kick the Sun God's butt back into submission. Not that they had to do anything but hide out whenever the sun rose, because the villains were too busy fighting each other to care.
It was moronically put together, but there were some good ideas.
The sequel was better, but there were still facepalm moments. Like in the first chapter, when the evil dragon villain reveals his plan to his henchmen. The henchmen are three "basilisk" (who knew basilisks were tentacle monsters?) kings, and several paragraphs have been spent lovingly detailing how horribly evil they are. The dialogue went down like this:
Dragon: "The Snake Dragon Queen, mother of the universe, will feel my wrath! She loves humankind most of all, but she hates basilisks! Therefore, you will mate with humans and produce a people of half-human, half-basilisks. That'll show her!"
Basilisk king: "But Master, where will we find human women who will want to mate with us?"
Dragon: "Don't worry, I've found a few that'll do it if we pay them."
yeah okay
Also, late in that story, the heroes desperately needed to speak with the dead to call them to battle. The world was at stake. One of the heroes happened to have knowledge of necromancy, which he offered to use.
But nooo, necromancy is EVIL! We can't use that! What'll we do?
Oh! There's this sole survival from a battlefield, who swore that he would find a way to avenge his comrades even if it kills him!
... sooo they told him to tell the dead they needed to get in gear, and then killed him.
It was... interesting.
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A. Lee Martinez, on the other hand, rocks my socks.
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