so cracky, and yet so AWESOME

[be_themoon]

Look, I am NOT EVEN SURE WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM.

Basically, imagine Hadrian's wall, only bigger, stronger, and more... magic-y. Like, centaurs and griffins and such on both sides. And there's the demi-gods, mostly just called the Small Gods, of which there are hundreds, but the most important one on the wall is The Lady of The Wall, who was a very real person some fifty or sixty years back. Something she did (I think somehow she used Old Magic to basically imbue the entire goddamn Wall with her spirit and magic and then died) made her into a Small God in the people's eyes, and they pray to her a lot.

I think basically this is an AU of Roman Britain, where all the world has all these crazy magical creatures. And as before, Rome came to a halt here at the Wall At the North, because - well, because. I'll explain it sometime. I don't even really have characters, except for a girl and perhaps her older brother (older by probably eight or nine years). He's a soldier on the Wall, and she lives on it with her mother, and look, I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

I even have an opening paragraph-ish thing. WEIRD.

"The Wall at the North stretched from one end of Britain to the other, from Wallsend-East to Wallsend-West. It was the separating line, the place that said 'here ends the Roman Empire.' Beyond the Wall were the Little Painted People, the Picts of the North, with their Old Magic and their wild eyes. Behind the Wall, protected by it, were the legions of Rome, their families, an entire people watching the darkness, half-expecting it to bring their doom. 

Behind the Wall, there was only New Magic, the magic of small tricks and parties. Beyond the Wall there was the Old Magic, magic that could swallow up whole legions and build hills of their bones. 

The Wall kept the line of their lives distinct, and the Lady of the Wall kept the Wall."

Comments

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

THAT IS A RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME IDEA.

IT PWNZ MY ORIGINAL FIC BY A MILLION. I AM IN AWE.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I REALLY DOUBT THIS, BECAUSE YOU ARE PRETTY MUCH AMAZING.

Also, this needs so much help to simply become, y'know, A PLOT instead of some random world-building idea (and I get those ALL. THE. TIME.). So we'll see how this turns out. But it is one of the coolest ideas I've come up with in.... yeah, forever. EVERRRR. So hopefully I'll be able to turn it into a plot!

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

REALLY? *is flattered* B-BUT. YOURS HAS SO MUCH BASIS IN REAL HISTORY, WHEREAS MINE IS KINDA.....STEREOTYPICAL FANTASY IN A MADE-UP WORLD. See for yourself (but you need to join to see original fic, though). Why yes, I am secretly plugging my fic.

And, all you really need for a plot is a conflict! WAIT. I HAS CONFLICT. GERMANIC TRIBES. FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE. Y/N?

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA. GERMANIC TRIBES. FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE. YESSSSS. That's what Keenan/Tiresius/Flynn is telling me too (because apparently he thinks I am STUPID, even though he is a figment of my imagination O.o).

Basis in real history, m'dear, only means I have that much less to make up. *devilish grin* It's a bit of an easy shortcut sometime (except for where I can be insanely detail oriented.... OHGODI'MGOINGTODIE I HATE DOING THAT MUCH RESEARCH).

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

AAAAAH. YOU KNOW WHAT THIS DID TO ME? THIS GAVE ME WIBBLE-WORTHY RANDOM BUNNIES ABOUT A ROMAN-EMPIRE-ISH WORLD TOO. EXCEPT THIS IS ABOUT THE FALL OF SAID WORLD. PLUS GERMANIC TRIBES, OF COURSE. I CAN'T DECIDE WHO THE "BAD GUYS" WILL BE. IF THERE WILL BE ANY. *confused* Hahahahaha, your characters aren't the only ones who are like that. Jedin, especially, likes to subtext. Too much. XD

Aaaaah, yes, 'tis a shortcut. BUT DETAILS ARE GOOD. (RESEARCH IS SOMETIMES FAIL THOUGH D:)