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Cathy replied to the topic Your Type of Fantasy in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 11 months ago
SOMEONE HATH SUMMONED ME!!!!
Lol, what are we doing? Ohmygosh, your profile pic is gorgeous @devastate-lasting!!!
*skims over everything in ten seconds*
Ooooh! This looks fun, so many interesting ideas @everybody!!!
Ok, uh, hi I guess XD. My WIP is a psychological high fantasy thriller that involves accurate mental illnesses, daemon fighting, puzzle quests, excessive sarcasm, quirkiness and just plain insanity :P!
Honestly I just make up crazy stuff whenever I want like upsidedown rain (pulls out of the earth to the clouds instead of the other way around) and then be like “oh look, I can add symbolism!” (everything “reaching for the sky/meaning/heaven”) and boom plot problem (upsidedown rain makes for dry soil). So, uh, yeah totally high-fantasy XD. Pretty much every chapter has something weird like that 😛
The more “important” (blah blah) setting aspects involve like this really super long war that’s been going on and on and everybody’s on their last leg from it but nobody’s surrendering and then this necromancer with his creepy secret guilds and experimentation coming to take over. It’s in a world were some people are born with special abilities–called gifteds, or ability-borns, then aberrants which is a rascal slur–used to be like Old Testament prophets and saints and all that and would guide the people kinda separate from political power had a lot of religious responsibility but then–they say–the power got to their heads and they started to abuse their powers and there was this huge rebellion and now gifteds are a hated minority group. (In fact they’re so rare the running medieval conspiracy-theorist gag is that they never existed, but only conspiracy-theorists think that 😉 )
But with the loss of the gifteds their religion also was outlawed and the people turned away and there’s a struggle to fill that void where there was a lot of cultural power and check on other powers. And then there’s embittered ability-borns (gifted has the religious connotation; ability-born denotes the powers one was simply born with) formed secret guilds to take back power or just avenge themselves needlessly.
Oh and there’s also a plague *LOL…no seriously XD*












