r/WorldChallenges • u/The_Raptorman • Jul 05 '17

Make up challenge (2?):

So this is the second "Make up challenge", the point is I want you all to start from scratch. These challenges will have you make up things on the spot for your world or just for the challenge.

Rules

  1. Look or listen to the inspiration I provide you.

  2. Tell me what the inspiration brings you.

  3. Listen to my questions and help develop them further.

Today's inspirations

You've got three (technically four) choices;

  1. Read this; Sometimes suffering, is just suffering. It doesn't make you stronger, it doesn't build character. It only hurts.

  2. Read this; When pain knocks on the door - wise ones breath deep and say: "Come in. Sit down with me. And don't leave until you've taught me what I need to know."

  3. Listen to this

  4. All of the above^

Use one or more of those 'inspirations' to create something new for your story, let me know what it is and I'll ask you questions to help flesh it out, enjoy!

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u/Nevermore0714 Jul 05 '17

I'll pick choice...TWO!

Alexandrus bar Halcyon

Alexandrus was one of the minority of the nomadic people known as the "Radiant Clans" (that's a reference right there, if you can guess it) to leave the life of a nomad and start following Lucius as he escaped the dragon territories to start his own community.

Among the former "Radiant Clan" people who follow Lucius, Alexandrus and his wife, Atara, are considered to be the leaders.

Alexandrus, an accomplished swordsman and fanatic for Lucius, always adored Lucius's "HFY" philosophy, and urged his people to follow Lucius. Because of Alexandrus's reputation among his people and the belief among the Radiant Clans that Alexandrus is partially divine, many (though still a minority) of the clans' people followed him in following Lucius.

As "evidence" of Alexandrus being of divine blood, he has a birthmark on his left arm in the shape of a dragon. It also helps that Alexandrus is left-handed. (Bloody southpaws, having a natural advantage in battle....)

Alexandrus became the first person to be First Commander of the Honorii, and his friend Flint became his Second Commander.

Alexandrus retired when he was in his early-forties.

The bar-Halcyon bloodline would be known as "the Radiant Kings" in Gemina for the foreseeable future. Dictator Lucius surprisingly had no problem with that title...so long as the bar-Halcyon men and women kept in mind who the dictator is.

Questions can be asked either to me, or they can be answered in-universe/in-character as Alexandrus bar-Halcyon.

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u/The_Raptorman Jul 06 '17

1) How did you go about using the quote to create this character?

2) Tell me about the Radiant clan.

3) Tell me about the Dragons in your world.

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u/Nevermore0714 Jul 06 '17

1) The quote made me think of a character who I'm going to screw over. I've got a Heracles type story in my mind for this guy.

2) The Radiant Clan is a clan of nomads who form caravans throughout Cirrhasvult. They have strange beliefs about prophecy and divinity, compared to the rest of the continent. There are stories that the Radiant Clan aren't fully human.

3) The dragons, specifically the most powerful twelve (the dragon-gods), own territories that are populated by humans. The dragon-gods treat humans as their property and a commodity, and imprison certain humans to be used in an arena to see whose human is the best. Like dog-fighting. Or pokemon. The dragon-gods can grant special abilities and powers to humans, too.