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Definitely Empire Strikes Back, then Return of the Jedi and last New Hope. Revenge of the Sith barely goes to the fourth place, but I just don't consider first 2 as SW movies, they were just awful. Who in their right mind put Phantom Menace as their favorite Star Wars movie!?
Watching Kimi To Boku 2, Zetman, Ozuma, Fate/Zero 2, Accel World, Sankarea, Medaka Box, Uchuu Kyoudai, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia and Queen's Blade Rebellion. Many of those seem pretty good shows based on one or two episodes that have come out, and been waiting forever for new season of Queen's Blade :) Really hoping Rebellion isn't the last one
Thanks a lot, glad to hear you liked it ;)
And yeah, pspkiller626, I would love to make a video game out of this some day. Some of the stuff I've thought, like the magic system and morality would fit nicely in a game. Next fall I'm hopefully starting in a video game college to start making my own games, so maybe there or after that.
And I'm actually not that familiar with Starcraft mythos so I'm not sure how much this resembles that. I've played SC, but never really got into the mythology.
Little bit about magic and alchemy:
The magic in this world is a bit different from other fantasy stuff(at least stuff that I'm familiar with), it's just not something that exists just because it's magic, they don't have to explain it. I told about the Rivers of Life and Death before, and those are big part of the magic. When humans and all living and lifeless beings create the energy that goes into the planet, they're connected to the planet, and humans also have internal energy, also called aether. They use this to produce magic, but they can't give it shape or attribute. This is when they use magic stones(they're like materia from Final Fantasy VII), that are like compressed River with different attributes. Humans take the energy from the planet and through them channel it to the stone to give it shape and attribute, like a fire that burns, or ice that freezes. They can also use many stones together to create something between, like fire that freezes and also poisons, or make fire stronger with wind that moves at the speed of light, or cause explosions with gas and fire magic, there are almost infinite amount of compinations. Magic stones cover everything on the planet, anything can be implemented on the stone and used with any other stone. Only limit to how much people can use those stones is how much their bodies can withstand the aether that comes from the planet through their bodies. These stones are also used in weapons, and those magic weapons can cut through magic and those are only way to defeat these things called elementals, which are like humans, but their bodies are made out of some type of magic stone. Elementals are born when magic stone gets into contact with human blood. Stone liquifies and goes into the blood stream and changing the whole body into a stone.
Alhcemy is a bit different also, and it's not like magic. I took some ideas from Fullmetal Alhcemist, like Edward Elric clapping hands and putting them to some surface to use alchemy, but that's about it. Alchemists are really few in this world, there's only about 10-20 people who can use alchemy. Alchemist means also anti-mage, they're people who aren't connected to the planet, they don't produce energy and give it to the planet and use that in magic. Alhcemists use an alchemy book that they can fuse into their right hand, or use it separately. Alchemist, unlike mage who takes the energy from inside the body, takes control of the energy outside of the body and and then molds it into anything they want. Think of it as like you're taking hold of a peace of clay and then molding it any way you want with your hands. Magic on the contrary would be like using some tools, like molds, to make it the shape of the elephant for example, it gives better outcome than making it yourself, but you don't have that much control how it will look in the end. But then, in the right hands, alchemy gives the best outcome, like a really good artist creating a clay statue, you can't make "true art" with a mold. They can control only the 5 basic elements, fire, water, earth, wind and aether. They also can't produce those themself, and they can't use magic stones. Alchemist can only use alchemy, if there is one of those 5 elements near them, and if some mage is using for example water magic, they can take control of that water, but if the mage is using water and, say, lighting together, alchemist can still only control the water. The fifth element, aether, also cannot be controlled that easily. Like wind and earth, aether is practically everywhere because it's the energy. Alchemist still can't take control of people or the planet, they can only control aether when other 4 elements are in the same place, and from that he can produce pure energy which lets alchemist create practically anything they want if there's just enough aether.
And yeah, pspkiller626, I would love to make a video game out of this some day. Some of the stuff I've thought, like the magic system and morality would fit nicely in a game. Next fall I'm hopefully starting in a video game college to start making my own games, so maybe there or after that.
And I'm actually not that familiar with Starcraft mythos so I'm not sure how much this resembles that. I've played SC, but never really got into the mythology.
Little bit about magic and alchemy:
The magic in this world is a bit different from other fantasy stuff(at least stuff that I'm familiar with), it's just not something that exists just because it's magic, they don't have to explain it. I told about the Rivers of Life and Death before, and those are big part of the magic. When humans and all living and lifeless beings create the energy that goes into the planet, they're connected to the planet, and humans also have internal energy, also called aether. They use this to produce magic, but they can't give it shape or attribute. This is when they use magic stones(they're like materia from Final Fantasy VII), that are like compressed River with different attributes. Humans take the energy from the planet and through them channel it to the stone to give it shape and attribute, like a fire that burns, or ice that freezes. They can also use many stones together to create something between, like fire that freezes and also poisons, or make fire stronger with wind that moves at the speed of light, or cause explosions with gas and fire magic, there are almost infinite amount of compinations. Magic stones cover everything on the planet, anything can be implemented on the stone and used with any other stone. Only limit to how much people can use those stones is how much their bodies can withstand the aether that comes from the planet through their bodies. These stones are also used in weapons, and those magic weapons can cut through magic and those are only way to defeat these things called elementals, which are like humans, but their bodies are made out of some type of magic stone. Elementals are born when magic stone gets into contact with human blood. Stone liquifies and goes into the blood stream and changing the whole body into a stone.
Alhcemy is a bit different also, and it's not like magic. I took some ideas from Fullmetal Alhcemist, like Edward Elric clapping hands and putting them to some surface to use alchemy, but that's about it. Alchemists are really few in this world, there's only about 10-20 people who can use alchemy. Alchemist means also anti-mage, they're people who aren't connected to the planet, they don't produce energy and give it to the planet and use that in magic. Alhcemists use an alchemy book that they can fuse into their right hand, or use it separately. Alchemist, unlike mage who takes the energy from inside the body, takes control of the energy outside of the body and and then molds it into anything they want. Think of it as like you're taking hold of a peace of clay and then molding it any way you want with your hands. Magic on the contrary would be like using some tools, like molds, to make it the shape of the elephant for example, it gives better outcome than making it yourself, but you don't have that much control how it will look in the end. But then, in the right hands, alchemy gives the best outcome, like a really good artist creating a clay statue, you can't make "true art" with a mold. They can control only the 5 basic elements, fire, water, earth, wind and aether. They also can't produce those themself, and they can't use magic stones. Alchemist can only use alchemy, if there is one of those 5 elements near them, and if some mage is using for example water magic, they can take control of that water, but if the mage is using water and, say, lighting together, alchemist can still only control the water. The fifth element, aether, also cannot be controlled that easily. Like wind and earth, aether is practically everywhere because it's the energy. Alchemist still can't take control of people or the planet, they can only control aether when other 4 elements are in the same place, and from that he can produce pure energy which lets alchemist create practically anything they want if there's just enough aether.
Hi everybody. First time posting here and just wanted to tell a bit about a story I've been writing for about over 3 years and get your opinion, does it sound good and so on. Here's a brief summary(I try to make it as brief as possible) :) It doesn't really have a name yet, just calling it the Story.
In the beginning of universe a being only known as the Perfect Being created the universe. All the stars, planets, moons and galaxies.
After this the Perfect Being created 100 Celestial Gods to keep the universe together. The Perfect Being gave these 100 Gods all of his wisdom he had at that time, and also all of his powers.
Then, on this one specific planet the Perfect Being created humans, 100 000 of them. This planet was only known as the First planet. Perfect Being didn't give humans eternal wisdom or unimaginable power, but he gave them skill to learn. Gods had what Perfect Being gave them, nothing more nothing less, but humans could learn from them, Gods could teach humans.
With the rest of the powers the Perfect Being had, he created the Creator that held rest of his powers. Perfect Being then vanished.
In the first few years of the First planet, Gods, humans and the Creator chose 3 humans to represent one of them. One was chosen by Gods, one by humans and one by the Creator and to those three they gave their own powers so that when planet went in a direction that no one liked, they would unite and create the Perfect Being once again to destroy the planet and create a new one, an Utopia to all living beings. Those three chosen ones were called the three Lights.
Something still went wrong, and those three Lights didn't wake up as planned. First Light, the one chosen by humans, woke up at the First planet, and that Light ended up destroying the whole planet and creating a new one.
The second planet came to be, and it was known as Grand Blue, a planet filled with nothing but water and people living in boats around the world. Something unexpected happened, and second Light was born here, and he ended up destroying that planet.
The third planet was then created, and at first it was just called the Third planet, and this is where the last Light, one chosen by Gods, woke up.
So that's it, the setting for the whole story. Majority of the story happens on the Third planet, because that's where all three Lights are gathered.
Whole story is cut in about 5-7 parts and together they cover all the planets, a lot more happens on first and second planets than just "One of the Lights wakes up, then destroys planet and creates new one" so they're also important. I haven't really decided how many stories I'm going to write so that it covers everything I want, at least those three planets, all the characters and what happens after and before everything. At least three of those stories cover stories of three Lights, then one tells about a mysterious man that was with second Light at the Grand Blue, and one tells story of the main "villain", and then couple others covering other important parts of the story, like a great war between humans and Gods in the year 0099 at the Third planet and what really happened at the start of the universe and what happened before that, because the Perfect Being isn't the oldest being there so what led to the creation of universe.
This whole story doesn't actually happen in any different dimension or something like that, because this actually happens before the creation of Earth. After the Third planet, if it gets destroyed, Earth will be created in its place. Earth is different from the other planets, because they let evolution mold the planet how it wants and humans get to evolve and discover things in their own time and not like previous planets where humans just woke up at the beginning year 0, knowing basic skills and Gods teaching them rest.
This story doesn't really have traditional heroes or villains, that's why quotes on the "villain" earlier :) There are no bad guys just because they are bad guys. It's more like let everyone pick their sides and decide on villain, not just slap eye patch and evil mustache and say he's villain just because. Everything is presented more like as a personal view of right and wrong. Maybe a good example would be, if a robber robbed a store, took bunch of money. And yeah, of course you say it's wrong. But what if the robber doesn't believe that, he doesn't do that because he's evil, he does that because he needs the money and don't have other means to get it, so he robs a store. Still, he would be a bad guy for us, but I bet he thinks what he's doing is right. That's the basic idea of "heroes" and "villains" in my story, everybody does what they see as right, they don't have to care what others think, because nothing and no one can take that feeling, that they're doing the right thing, away from them. They can try to turn each other to their way of thinking, and only if the robber himself thinks what he's doing is wrong, then it truly is wrong, because not even the person doing it thinks its right.
I'm actually wanting to do some kind of game book of this, not a role playing game though, but more like just direct story how you want it, because then reader would have a say if what the character does is right for you, because that's what it's all about, picking your villain and hero from their ideas of right and wrong. Who do you want to side with, the "good" people who protect their nation, or those who would do anything for their family, or those who can't understand the way humans think and not caring anything about them. Humans don't really care if couple hundred cows die, or thousand or something like that, and that's the way with some of the beings in this universe, like Gods. So what if couple hundred or thousand humans die? They are above humans in both wisdom and strength, so they don't, and they can't, put themself to their place, and so can't humans put themself to cows place. (I'm not trying to force some animal rights or humans are bad thing here if that's what you're thinking, just an example :D)
Gods still don't kill them, because they need humans. Gods get their energy from the planet that humans inhabit. All living and lifeless things on the planet are molded from energy, and they also produce it automatically. That energy that they produce goes into the planet, and inside the planet are two kind of like rivers, River of Life and River of Death, where all life basically began and returns, Perfect Being didn't just create them from nothing (where he got the "energy" is a whole different story). Gods then take the energy from these Rivers and move it to Plains of Gods through a huge tower called the Stairs of Eden that reaches from the planet to where Gods live.
So, if you read this far, I would love to know your opinion of this "brief" summary :D There's still hell of a lot stuff in this world including magic, magic stones, alchemy, servants of Gods and lots of other things, so if people seem interested in this, I would love to tell more of the planets, characters etc.
In the beginning of universe a being only known as the Perfect Being created the universe. All the stars, planets, moons and galaxies.
After this the Perfect Being created 100 Celestial Gods to keep the universe together. The Perfect Being gave these 100 Gods all of his wisdom he had at that time, and also all of his powers.
Then, on this one specific planet the Perfect Being created humans, 100 000 of them. This planet was only known as the First planet. Perfect Being didn't give humans eternal wisdom or unimaginable power, but he gave them skill to learn. Gods had what Perfect Being gave them, nothing more nothing less, but humans could learn from them, Gods could teach humans.
With the rest of the powers the Perfect Being had, he created the Creator that held rest of his powers. Perfect Being then vanished.
In the first few years of the First planet, Gods, humans and the Creator chose 3 humans to represent one of them. One was chosen by Gods, one by humans and one by the Creator and to those three they gave their own powers so that when planet went in a direction that no one liked, they would unite and create the Perfect Being once again to destroy the planet and create a new one, an Utopia to all living beings. Those three chosen ones were called the three Lights.
Something still went wrong, and those three Lights didn't wake up as planned. First Light, the one chosen by humans, woke up at the First planet, and that Light ended up destroying the whole planet and creating a new one.
The second planet came to be, and it was known as Grand Blue, a planet filled with nothing but water and people living in boats around the world. Something unexpected happened, and second Light was born here, and he ended up destroying that planet.
The third planet was then created, and at first it was just called the Third planet, and this is where the last Light, one chosen by Gods, woke up.
So that's it, the setting for the whole story. Majority of the story happens on the Third planet, because that's where all three Lights are gathered.
Whole story is cut in about 5-7 parts and together they cover all the planets, a lot more happens on first and second planets than just "One of the Lights wakes up, then destroys planet and creates new one" so they're also important. I haven't really decided how many stories I'm going to write so that it covers everything I want, at least those three planets, all the characters and what happens after and before everything. At least three of those stories cover stories of three Lights, then one tells about a mysterious man that was with second Light at the Grand Blue, and one tells story of the main "villain", and then couple others covering other important parts of the story, like a great war between humans and Gods in the year 0099 at the Third planet and what really happened at the start of the universe and what happened before that, because the Perfect Being isn't the oldest being there so what led to the creation of universe.
This whole story doesn't actually happen in any different dimension or something like that, because this actually happens before the creation of Earth. After the Third planet, if it gets destroyed, Earth will be created in its place. Earth is different from the other planets, because they let evolution mold the planet how it wants and humans get to evolve and discover things in their own time and not like previous planets where humans just woke up at the beginning year 0, knowing basic skills and Gods teaching them rest.
This story doesn't really have traditional heroes or villains, that's why quotes on the "villain" earlier :) There are no bad guys just because they are bad guys. It's more like let everyone pick their sides and decide on villain, not just slap eye patch and evil mustache and say he's villain just because. Everything is presented more like as a personal view of right and wrong. Maybe a good example would be, if a robber robbed a store, took bunch of money. And yeah, of course you say it's wrong. But what if the robber doesn't believe that, he doesn't do that because he's evil, he does that because he needs the money and don't have other means to get it, so he robs a store. Still, he would be a bad guy for us, but I bet he thinks what he's doing is right. That's the basic idea of "heroes" and "villains" in my story, everybody does what they see as right, they don't have to care what others think, because nothing and no one can take that feeling, that they're doing the right thing, away from them. They can try to turn each other to their way of thinking, and only if the robber himself thinks what he's doing is wrong, then it truly is wrong, because not even the person doing it thinks its right.
I'm actually wanting to do some kind of game book of this, not a role playing game though, but more like just direct story how you want it, because then reader would have a say if what the character does is right for you, because that's what it's all about, picking your villain and hero from their ideas of right and wrong. Who do you want to side with, the "good" people who protect their nation, or those who would do anything for their family, or those who can't understand the way humans think and not caring anything about them. Humans don't really care if couple hundred cows die, or thousand or something like that, and that's the way with some of the beings in this universe, like Gods. So what if couple hundred or thousand humans die? They are above humans in both wisdom and strength, so they don't, and they can't, put themself to their place, and so can't humans put themself to cows place. (I'm not trying to force some animal rights or humans are bad thing here if that's what you're thinking, just an example :D)
Gods still don't kill them, because they need humans. Gods get their energy from the planet that humans inhabit. All living and lifeless things on the planet are molded from energy, and they also produce it automatically. That energy that they produce goes into the planet, and inside the planet are two kind of like rivers, River of Life and River of Death, where all life basically began and returns, Perfect Being didn't just create them from nothing (where he got the "energy" is a whole different story). Gods then take the energy from these Rivers and move it to Plains of Gods through a huge tower called the Stairs of Eden that reaches from the planet to where Gods live.
So, if you read this far, I would love to know your opinion of this "brief" summary :D There's still hell of a lot stuff in this world including magic, magic stones, alchemy, servants of Gods and lots of other things, so if people seem interested in this, I would love to tell more of the planets, characters etc.