Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20171102142934/@comment-25890179-20171215080717

Sorry your reply went unnoticed for two hours. I must not have checked on any wiki sites. So:

One story, if you're thinking of Fenric's arc as the second. Being forced to work for a foreign invader under pain of burning alive isn't really politicking.

But in all honesty, my planning for this story is pretty incomplete. Using the Grox as a jumping board was my way of saying "This guy isn't just a Xerox copy of Fenric" since he actually wants to defeat the Grox, not use them as a political platform to take a throne.

This guy got exiled from his home by evil corporations just a few years after after fighting a war against them and watching them kill his bride-to-be while he was a teenager. His overarching theme is that even he doesn't know what he wants to do. He's not sure if he wants to build up an army and return home, or just build a new life in Mirus.


 * Glacier was Neutral Good. He'd been tricked and manipulated all his life, and when he finally came into power he actually did a lot of good. Sure, he may have killed a lot of people, but probably less than "Good" characters like W'tze and Barda. It was his unshakable loyalty to his friends and their memories that led him to challenge Fenric, even though Fenric at the time was in the right to depose the ever more tyrannical Terror.


 * Fenric was definitely Lawful Evil. He had a strict honor code and thought it was his lawful right to take the Mendel throne, but he burned people who defied him, massacred entire clans, and had an ethnic-cleansing policy that would make Hilter stiff with envy. He died because a gnawing and jaded sense of self-loathing for his constant failures and deaths of friends and family pushed him to choose death in battle over running away again.


 * The new guy is probably the hardest character I've ever had to categorize. If I could make up one, I'd call him "Lawful Chaotic". I haven't had enough time to gauge his "evilness", but so far in my story planning, he's fought a war of defense against evil miners, united a warring land under his banner, flayed people alive, endorsed a lemur warlord who was killing his own pacifist people, sided with the Scythe of Glory and dissident Pseudopath to (unsuccessfully) topple the Pseudopath Empire, slaughtered and practically enslaved the lagorthenes (though who's to say they don't deserve it?), acquired the loyalty of a witch-cult that uses voodoo, saved an anti-Grox militia from death, rallied the last of Fenric's men together, reunited the Red Veil races, kept Fenric's daughter's suitors from murdering each other, smashed a Zarbanian fleet trying to stop his armada from crossing their territory, and accepted the endorsement of a corporation of former Blood Brothers that sells Bio-Morphlings as living weapons.

Sorry if this seems so long. One more question. On the topic of including Zarbania, how would you feel about it meeting a watered-down version of the German Empire's fate? What if it tries to challenge the new warlord's power, gets defeated, and then as reparation and part of the surrender deal the warlord takes a few of its colonies and protectorates/vassals? Surely they have some that you haven't developed?