Looking for Authors: Dark Fantasy Chain Story

[magbeam]

Greetings my dear comrades Author's Hangout! I figure this is the right place for this...

I haven't written anything for the Lit website, but I have been a long-time browser of it and a while back I finally joined up. Since then I still haven't posted anything to the main Lit site, but I have participated in a number of forum roleplays. All the ones I did are in my sig. Most of them are pretty good, or at least my parts are, without trying to toot my own horn. If you're looking them over to get a sense of how I write I particularly would recommend Call of Cthulhu, Jarhead, The Eagle Falls, American Gods or Madame Guillotine.

Way back in July I got an idea for a new group roleplay, centered around a sort of dark high fantasy concept. Middle-Earth where Sauron wins although I really don't want it to be a Lord of the Rings/World of Warcraft/Harry Potter clone. More than anything, I saw it as something more like Ian Edginton's comic "Kingdom of the Wicked", or Harry Turtledove's story "After the Last Elf is Dead", assuming anyone else has ever heard of those. I got a few people interested and got pretty far in doing an intro post. Then those people drifted off and I moved on to other projects.

However, it came to me that maybe this would work better as a group writing project than a roleplay. There are a definitely a number of writers whose pages I frequent and/or who frequent the forum that I would be interested in working with, while most of my main Lit-roleplay partners I don't think would find this up their alley. Plus, this would be the gateway to me finally getting something up on Lit, heheh. So I've decided to step a bit out of my comfort zone and post this here.

If people are interested, I will definitely post more information on what I had in mind, and if not, then I should probably just stop now anyways...

 

[Darkniciad]

Give us a bit more of an idea about the setting, and perhaps a few central characters you have in mind. I'm currently committed to a chain already, but I never know when something might spark me enough to keep up with another. At the very least, I can pop in with ideas here and there in the thread. That's how I started out with the Laresa chain, even though I ended up diving in as an author on that one in the end.

 

[magbeam]

Like I said, I never got very far, but the general idea was that the intro post would detail the final battle in the Dark Lord's* campaign to rule the world, detailing how he crushed all of the principalities and empires of the world one by one and joining them into his Kingdom of the Wicked, corrupting their defenders to serve as his minions. The main ones would be the War Chief, the former warlord of the Ancient Empire and now commander of the Dark Lord's armies, and the Night Herald, the former High Priestess, angelic/chaste type being, now a succubus-type creature and the Lord's mistress.

It would take place a generation later, when the last resistance to the Dark Lord's rule has long been stamped out and the dark days of freedom are a distant memory. My ideas of where to take it from there were to include a young peasant lady who starts to realize that the lord's propaganda everyone's indoctrinated with isn't the truth, a romantic band of do-gooders starting to form to try and challenge when no one else still does, the viceroy of the province and his trying to contain it, palace intrigue in the court of the Dark Lord, or better yet, all of the above. I have a vague idea of where I wanted the plot to go but that was about it.

*Keep in mind that for the most part these are just placeholder names