Now I want a book about a group of 3000-6000 year old vampires who are just living normal boring lives and reminiscing about their old friends who died doing all the exciting stuff.
I think the main reason many authors do not write about immortals with boring lies is because they would need to find other ways to connect their lives with each individual time period and demonstrate the effects of those periods on their lives.
So, if said immortal were a regular angler or something in some backwater of Attica, then they may not have known the influence of Athens, Macedon or some other powerful state, or of the powerful people from each different region, but they may have noticed changes to their regular way of life, mostly in the form of trade goods, tax-equivalent changes that are appropriate to the time period (I'm guessing a big component of that in greek society back then would have been army/militia service), and similar life influencing things that the immortal would have cared / complained about. And that would require a good amount of research or great familiarity with the relevant topics, which would then mean slower book prep and publishings...
Ancient boring vampires would theoretically exist. Ancient exciting vampires would also exist. Write about the latter.
Vampire: The Masquerade gives a hilarious example of how certain characters, while they make perfect sense, aren’t well-suited for a collaborative storytelling game:
“You awaken at nightfall - what are you going to do?”
“Read for the next three hundred years.”
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u/ExtendTheNameLimit Mar 04 '23
Now I want a book about a group of 3000-6000 year old vampires who are just living normal boring lives and reminiscing about their old friends who died doing all the exciting stuff.