Mindfire
Istari
Well, thousands of years of wallowing in bitterness and spite tends to do that to you.
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Orcs: Foundation or Cliche
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Zero Angel
Dark Lord
...wish I woulda' thought of that!
Do what to yourself? Give yourself cookies?
Mindfire
Istari
Zero Angel
Dark Lord
Ahh, I see.
I think they need the Disney channel so they can see that we can really all just get along like the Fox and the Hound
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Mindfire
Istari
Ahh, I see.
I think they need the Disney channel so they can see that we can really all just get along like the Fox and the Hound
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Somehow I don't see that working.
Zero Angel
Dark Lord
To be honest, I've never been all that interested in orcs. They seem so bland and boring. If I really need a race of all-evil minions in my book (I don't), I'll make my own. Orcs might be getting a little cliched now, but it's not the fact it's cliched that's the problem. The problem is that orcs have less an impact as other original creatures and produce less 'wonder' than they used to - right now when you see an orc, you don't go 'Wow!' Orcs are just part of the generic fantasy package.
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FatCat
Scribal Lord
Zero Angel
Dark Lord
...it can be...
Going with the "evil orc" topic, do you guys typically have an alignment set for your dragons? e.g. metal ones are good and chromatic ones are bad, etc.
My dragons are neutral; this is almost outright stated in the novel. They are neither against the good guys nor the bad guys (as far as you can call either of them that; I prefer to keep things grey and gray) and simply work on their own. They work above morals, and the only real way to make an enemy of them is to kill one of their own. And they're the Eastern kind, making storms and rain - I've always liked them better than the 'create fire everywhere and kill everything' dragons.