anthorn
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Ok, Merry Christmas first of all.
I'm having difficulty with one of my major plot factors. There is a group known as the Guardians who originally fought against the End-Lords. They defeated them in a battle which saw magic destroyed and allowing the world to progress in technology, because without magic people are forced to invent.
I'm stuck with what they do with their main reason for existing being gone. I've got them struggling for relevancy within this new world. They rent themselves out as bodyguards to the very rich and wealthy and act sort of like UN in that they only get involved in wars when there is the risk of genocide or some similar incident, and otherwise remain outside of politics. They also, on occasion, venture out to execute someone who has been found to have the blood of an End-Lord, even though magic no longer exists and it's pretty much exploited by some people to get rid of enemies or rivals.
So I guess they would sort of be like the magical police in a way.
But I'm struggling to get them involved in the actual story. They appear for the first book but near enough vanish by the second and third, despite there being reason for them to be around. Their reputation is damaged by them being led into an illegal war. They're kind of just there and not there, which is bad because two of the main cast used to be and are a Guardian. They surround a village because they think a child has been born which will herald magic's return, and then get involved in a fight with a rebel group and then nothing. They hunt down a group but fail to capture which murders an entire royal family and then nothing.
They then get slaughtered by the big bad of the outline and then obviously nothing.
I tried factoring in how to make them relevant or more relevant and ended up with something like Final Fantasy 10, where they lied to the world and had a group of people every 10 or 20 years travelling to a city where they get murdered while the Guardians tell everyone they saved the world, eventually leading to them being found out and disbanded/hunted down in time for the big bad to get about without any worries. Right now, I'm, like I don't want to do this either as the characters all seem too close to FFX except no one is dead all along.
I'm having difficulty with one of my major plot factors. There is a group known as the Guardians who originally fought against the End-Lords. They defeated them in a battle which saw magic destroyed and allowing the world to progress in technology, because without magic people are forced to invent.
I'm stuck with what they do with their main reason for existing being gone. I've got them struggling for relevancy within this new world. They rent themselves out as bodyguards to the very rich and wealthy and act sort of like UN in that they only get involved in wars when there is the risk of genocide or some similar incident, and otherwise remain outside of politics. They also, on occasion, venture out to execute someone who has been found to have the blood of an End-Lord, even though magic no longer exists and it's pretty much exploited by some people to get rid of enemies or rivals.
So I guess they would sort of be like the magical police in a way.
But I'm struggling to get them involved in the actual story. They appear for the first book but near enough vanish by the second and third, despite there being reason for them to be around. Their reputation is damaged by them being led into an illegal war. They're kind of just there and not there, which is bad because two of the main cast used to be and are a Guardian. They surround a village because they think a child has been born which will herald magic's return, and then get involved in a fight with a rebel group and then nothing. They hunt down a group but fail to capture which murders an entire royal family and then nothing.
They then get slaughtered by the big bad of the outline and then obviously nothing.
I tried factoring in how to make them relevant or more relevant and ended up with something like Final Fantasy 10, where they lied to the world and had a group of people every 10 or 20 years travelling to a city where they get murdered while the Guardians tell everyone they saved the world, eventually leading to them being found out and disbanded/hunted down in time for the big bad to get about without any worries. Right now, I'm, like I don't want to do this either as the characters all seem too close to FFX except no one is dead all along.