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Kinderwar: Fantasy
Aug. 4th, 2009 09:07 amThe kinderwar that year was feroicious; the little ones had found a new leader and were actually using tactics that might--granted, over centuries--let them win.
"Remind me to get the name of that one," Mosby panted, his back to the wall. "I want him to be on my side once the kinder are brought in. Assuming he lives, and right now I half want to kill him myself." The dragons surroudning them outside belched fireballs over the walls into the common area. "Make that more than half."
"Be strong. Six more months and then they'll have to pull back to keep from freezing--"
Inspiration: Patricia C. Wrede's fantasy worldbuilding questions about magic (http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions-magic-and-magicians/): "Does becoming a magician require some rite of passage (investing one’s power in an object, being chosen by the gods, constructing or being given a permanent link to the source of power) or does it just happen naturally, as a gradual result of much study or as a part of growing up?"
Potential: High, I guess. I think it could be an interesting setting, but I'm not sure what the story would be.
Notes: The standard is for people to gain their magic around adolescence. What if instead that was when people lost their magic and had to become civilized? How would that affect the already fraught power dynamic between adults and children? What if they separated?
"Remind me to get the name of that one," Mosby panted, his back to the wall. "I want him to be on my side once the kinder are brought in. Assuming he lives, and right now I half want to kill him myself." The dragons surroudning them outside belched fireballs over the walls into the common area. "Make that more than half."
"Be strong. Six more months and then they'll have to pull back to keep from freezing--"
Inspiration: Patricia C. Wrede's fantasy worldbuilding questions about magic (http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions-magic-and-magicians/): "Does becoming a magician require some rite of passage (investing one’s power in an object, being chosen by the gods, constructing or being given a permanent link to the source of power) or does it just happen naturally, as a gradual result of much study or as a part of growing up?"
Potential: High, I guess. I think it could be an interesting setting, but I'm not sure what the story would be.
Notes: The standard is for people to gain their magic around adolescence. What if instead that was when people lost their magic and had to become civilized? How would that affect the already fraught power dynamic between adults and children? What if they separated?
