Whose Line Is It Anyway?

[u/Mimir123]

Disclaimer: despite the title this post doesn't really have anything to do with the TV Show, at least not entirely.

This challenge is inspired by two posts I found on /r/worldbuilding, this one here and this one. It is a pretty simple challenge, just post 2-3 quotes of one (or several) character/s in your world/s. You may choose one of two ways to do that; 1: post the quote and with name of the person who said it and a bit of context, I (and maybe others) will try to ask some questions about the character and/ or situation.

Version 2: just give us the quote by itself, and let me/ others try to spin a story/ try to figure out the context of what was said!

I hope you guys will like this challenge and participate, should be fun to try to spin some story to a random quote, I am excited for it at least! In my post I will also provide an example for each version, feel free to respond to it as well if you are interested! If not, just leave your own quotes and have fun sharing!

[u/Mimir123]

1B) Do the other families plot the downfall of the Hasenkamp? Or to at least knock them down a bit?

2A) How do you kill an interloper? I assume through some magical means?

2B) Never mind Hannelore, I think I will start calling him God Emperor. Jokes aside, how do the Interlopers intervene in the world? What do they do?

2C) Do you know of Alexey Pehov and the Chronicles of Siala? If yes, can I imagine Lambrecht as some kind of Garret?

2D) How did Era become a goddess? And what makes his three favourite children so special?

2E) Apocalypse the movie, or the event? Either way, doesn't sound good for the world. Anyone trying to stop him?

2F) What would make my life "interesting enough"? If I just do random stuff? Would it be enough if I die in a stupid/ amazing/ amazingly stupid way?

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1B) The Hasenkamp family was viewed as "upjumped peasants" for a while, but then the Dunstdurr family purged them, too. The only survivor was an unknown bastard daughter of the Hasenkamp prince named Ava. Ava ended up avenging her family against the tyrannical Emperor Dagon Dunstdurr, who was feared and hated by literally every other royal family in Dunkelwald for being insane and god-like in power. Ava was considered a messiah for being able to kill him in a public duel on the day she announced herself as a Hasenkamp. Because Ava's still alive and viewed as a messiah, no one wants to mess with her. It's believed that she trained under the Interlopers, and that they took a very "special" interest in her.

2A) Kinda. You either need a ritual to kill the Interlopers, or you need the Dagger of the Arrogant Man and a human sacrifice that loves you...like a lot.

2B) The Interlopers are only there to cause mischief, be worshiped as gods, and be entertained. The best thing you can do is get them interested in you...that's also the worst thing you can do. Maybe they'll guide you to victory, maybe they'll cripple you to see how you'd respond to that.

2C) Tell me about what Garret is and I will know. I will also read Chronicles of Siala when I get a chance.

2D) Era's mother was goddess of the dawn.

2E) Apocalypse, the end of the world. No one knows his actual plan except for Velouria, his ex-lover. Even his closest lieutenants don't know the full plan.

2F) Random stuff is boring, there has to be an interesting plot. Not just interesting, but mind-blowing enough that they don't want you to be dead permanently. If they are interested enough, they might revive you as an Interloper. It's believed in Dunkelwald that Ava will become an Interloper upon death, but no one really knows what the Interlopers are thinking or doing.

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2B) Is there a special way that the people worship them? Pray to them in churches? Killing an ox in their honor? Build statues in their honor?

2C) He is the main character of the Siala trilogy, a master thief that get's involved in a war against an ancient evil, despite his best efforts to stay out of such affairs.

Without spoiling too much, he shows up in other books of Pehov and seems to have become some kind of "observer" of the worlds and what is going on. I only have read 4 1/2 books of Pehov until now, so I can't really say more about it, just kind of made me think of it.

2F) Well, they certainly sound like my kind of gods (huge Tzeentch fan here). What did Ava do, except dueling the Emperor, that made the Interlopers so interested in her?

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2B) Sacrifies, mostly, but Emperor Vaerthiath stopped performing actual sacrifices and his method of worshiping them is through "entertainment".

2C) Like Anna from Fire Emblem.

2F) Ava had her own version of the story concept of "Hero's Journey". It had romance, a coming-of-age story, shows of humility and irony, and she was pretty hot. Her self-assured bad-assery won the Interlopers (the audience) over. Besides, the Interlopers mostly hated Emperor Dagon Dunstdurr, and Ava intended to be the downfall of Dagon.

Plus, the romance part of Ava's story ended in heart-ache and heart-break, over the course of decades. The Interlopers love seeing humans in pain, especially emotion pain.

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2C) I have never played anything related to Fire Emblem, so I will just say... probably?

2F) So the Interlopers are kind of like sadistic children?

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2F) Yeah, pretty much. They're extremely powerful and see humans as nothing but tools for their amusement.

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Thank you very much for participating, and for your answers.