In fact, those who follow my Bilibili account Shenwu Liuliu should know that the birth of this book was a complete accident.
After finishing the ending of the last book, I planned to play "Tears of the Kingdom" until August, then Baldur's Gate 3 until September, and finally "Starry Sky".
By the way, the previous book "Space Flight Manual" seems to have only 600,000 words, but in fact it has written all the foreshadowings that can be written and included. It is a complete fairy tale of farsightedness.
Talking about this book. In fact, I wrote this book because the night I finished the last book, I wanted to find a traditional one with swords and magic, preferably like "Dragonlance Chronicles" translated by Zhu Xueheng.
Let's take a look at books like "Legend of Dragonlance".
After looking at the results, I finally had no choice but to read "The Amber Sword".
But I have watched The Amber Sword too many times. Where to find the ring and what monsters to fight in the beginning, I may be more familiar with it than the protagonist Brando. The same situation also happened in Sous's "Mage Story", Milk Bear
"The Ghost" (also known as "Marry a Sister as a Wife") and other old books.
And in the new works, there are systems that assign tasks everywhere, gold fingers that are incredibly powerful, and you can gain power by hanging up and signing in. It’s not that I look down on these, I know that these are also well written, but you let a Ben
It’s not very realistic for people who are looking for a copy of Dragonlance Legend to read this.
So that day, the more I read, the angrier I became. Then I threw my phone away in anger, got up from the bed and wrote it myself.
It took me forty minutes to color the first chapter of this book, and then I sent it to the editor.
Of these forty minutes, twenty were spent checking the monster manual and selecting modules.
When I wrote the first chapter, I had no idea that there were so many scenes behind the mentioned palace archmage. At that time, I just wanted to hear through the protagonist that the archmage only thought about his teacher, to highlight his teacher's awesomeness.
At this time, I didn't even know that the Kosanian Empire was an electorate country like the HRE.
I simply wanted to write an introductory paragraph that is familiar to people running a group - this is a term that refers to the DM (the host in the script killing) making up a story when running a group to focus the characters of the players.
Come together.
So, in the tavern, a mage with an extraordinary background accepted a mission to meet his client and teammates.
It's such a simple beginning, and it's painted out in no time.
Of course, since I am the one who wrote the story, a silver-haired girl appeared in the first chapter. Originally, I wanted to put on braids and glasses, but the princess’s intelligence didn’t seem to match this image. So I’ll talk about it later.
After writing this beginning, I continued to read the old book, and fell asleep while reading it.
Unexpectedly, I passed the beginning when I woke up.
In fact, after I woke up, I no longer wanted to write. What's the matter? Tears of the Kingdom will be released soon. Who is going to start a book at this time, are you stupid?
However, the editor had already finished the manuscript and was desperately urging me to write a few more chapters, so I had no choice but to create this story.
In fact, looking back now, you will find many traces of changing the direction of the story. I really don’t have an outline. The princess’s second brother, Bruce, was originally a villain, so I created it as a villain.
At first, I really planned to write about seizing the direct descendant.
Mark became a mole, which only started in Chapter 5. He was a good person at first. After Mark became a mole, I originally planned that he would be a nail planted by Tang. I still felt this way until I wrote the underground chapter.
I thought about it, but in the end I thought, it seems that there is a BOSS battle missing, so it’s you, Mark.
This kind of temporary idea will definitely have loopholes. So I can only use a few hasty words to carry out Mark's background check and so on.
A loophole is a loophole, and the effect is great!
There is also a loophole, which is to use the scroll to resurrect Erwin. This is when I wrote that Bruce promised to use the resurrection scroll to exchange dragon magic with the protagonist, and then I suddenly remembered whether it was possible to resurrect Erwin and asked for information. I found out.
After understanding this, I quickly made a bunch of patches.
Fortunately, in order to have fun playing Tears of the Kingdom, I suppressed the urge to publish it as soon as I finished writing it. This time I saved the manuscript! In the past, I would not make major changes to the published chapters, I could only make mistakes, and the results would be worse and worse.
The further I went, the more it became like a mountain of shitty code in some games. In the end, I was exhausted and had no choice but to give up.
This time it was really because I had a lot of manuscripts saved for Tears of the Kingdom, so I was able to go back and revise them. I am personally very grateful to Nintendo. In order to be able to play other games that I am looking forward to when they are released, I decided to
Always save manuscripts.
This way you can go back and change it again if you find something wrong.
Let's talk about Erwin.
Originally, this resurrection scroll was intended to be used by the protagonist and his team as a safety net. I also thought that when the protagonist tears up the scroll and resurrects the princess in the future, it will allow him to understand the true meaning of love.
It's a pity that there is currently no way for the protagonist to understand the true meaning of love.
There is also the photo frame. My original idea was that this photo frame was the orphanage where Erwin was a child. The protagonist found the orphanage, learned about the process of his leaving the orphanage, and then followed his path to finally find the cult.
It was when I was writing about the torture of the resurrected Erwin that I suddenly had a sudden thought: Hey, it seems to be more direct. The orphanage is a false memory caused by the restriction, and it is actually the headquarters of the cult!
I'm leaving this idea here now. When I actually go to the sect headquarters in the future, everyone can come back and compare what good ideas I have.
For me, writing a book this time is so exciting. I can write wherever I think of it, and because I have a saved manuscript, I can go back and add some foreshadowing.
There are too many things that have been temporarily changed like this. For example, the Emperor was originally a very pure villain, and it was over after killing him, but in the end he was given a trial, and there was also a "The Rains of Castamere" incidentally.
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This "Blood Banquet" was also an impromptu idea. The main reason was that the DLC of Crusader Kings 3 was updated, and Blood Wedding and Blood Banquet were released.
The final trial of the king was not originally planned, but was crammed in at the last moment when I was writing it.
Of course, not every inspiration can be retained until the end. For example, when I wrote about the untouchables being escorted to the execution ground, I didn’t know why I had a brain twitch, so I wrote him singing "I will beat you with a steel whip" and released it regularly.
. I looked back later and thought, what the hell, so I deleted it.
I posted it before I posted it, so I'm probably getting scolded already.
All in all, the fact that I was able to finish this volume with such a degree of completion is really a blessing from the God of Inspiration - and the credit of "Tears of the Kingdom" for forcing me to save the manuscript. Thank you, Link, thank you, Nintendo.
As for those cold-humorous jokes, well, that’s mainly because I’m a very humorous person. Basically, all my works have this element.
After writing this, I looked back and realized that this was nothing. Other people’s epilogues in their volumes had all kinds of high-level stuff, but mine looked like a record of brain teasers.
But there is nothing I can do about it. What creative concepts and intentions others talk about are those they have. I don’t have them. I really just wrote them wherever I thought, and I wrote them randomly.
There is no hope that such a random thing will achieve any results. And you see, I have already written about Western fantasy, and this category is extremely cool.
I started writing Western fantasy. If I wanted to be popular, I had to go into the game category and follow the path of Amber Flow.
But I don’t want those data-based and systematic things.
So you can see the results now. I don’t know how I got into Sanjiang. I’m terrible at following this book, and it’s the kind that no matter how much I add to my collection, I just won’t add it to my collection.
Who can write a Western fantasy if you want to figure out the results?
The editing of this book was very smooth at the time, without any suggestions for revision. I held a glimmer of hope and asked: "Is this book particularly good?"
The editor chuckled: "You've already written about DND, so I don't have to give you any advice. If you really want to give me advice, I would advise you not to write about this subject."
But I wrote it anyway.
My original intention was to write a serious Western fantasy like "Dragonlance Chronicles" and "Dragonlance Legend". Of course, due to personal preference, there may be a bit of Japanese style like "Rhodes Island War".
Fantasy elements.
So far, it seems that this goal has been achieved quite well.
The first volume has ended in a way that I am quite satisfied with. The protagonist team went down the river, preparing to pursue the clues they finally obtained. The cat people set off in the opposite direction to find their own tribe.
The catman left the team to pave the way for the elf archers to join later. How come there are no elf archers in a fantasy story? However, her leaving the team also became nutrients for the protagonist's growth, but this idiot immediately began to do quantitative analysis.
My idea for the protagonist team is this: everyone has their own irreplaceability, so there can be no duplicate occupations.
Then try to diversify the races as much as possible. So you see there is some overlap between cats and werewolves. They are both characters with animal ears, and one is enough. In the future, if there are ghost suckers or undines, there will only be one.
I hope that everyone has distinctive enough characteristics, so Marika gave up the possibility of becoming a drow elf ranger and lost her animal companion Guenhwyvar. In the future, Mr. Cui may appear as a rescuer in some plots.
Well, I don’t know, there’s no outline after all.
I originally planned to let Legolas appear as the elf, but according to the rules of the starting point, if the original characters of The Lord of the Rings join in, this book will be defined as a fan of The Lord of the Rings. So you will probably see a character like Legolas.
Such a sassy elf sister.
Then the dwarf bard, the halfling - the halfling didn't think about anything. After all, there was already a rogue, there was no need to add a snitch.
Of course, there are paladins. How can a fantasy story be without paladins? It’s also fun to see how the paladins are fooled into teaming up with the drow. Although I haven’t figured out how to trick them yet.
In the future, we will probably follow the rhythm of adding a new character to each volume.
However, since I don’t have an outline, I might mess around.
There are also farming elements.
In fact, I personally like the kingdom system in "The Kingmaker". Although it is poorly done, I feel like I have really become the king of a country in a fantasy world.
I also quite like the fortress system in Pillars of Eternity.
But this book is generally an adventure story. The protagonist is moving throughout the whole process, from one place to another. So this farming may be realized by operating a ship or an airship or something.
I don’t know exactly how to add it, I might just add it tomorrow as soon as I slap my head on it.
As for the next plan for this book, that’s all. I really don’t have an outline and I don’t know what to talk about.
Oh, by the way, there are still some certain things. For example, the protagonist will get the ogre power glove later, or will he only recognize him? Why add this? One is "Dragon" by Li Yongdao (not Jiangnan), which I liked very much when I was in junior high school.
That), so pay tribute.
Second, the mage. The ultimate dream of a mage is to fight hand to hand. The protagonist cannot cast Tansen Transformation yet, so give him Ogre Power Gloves and let him slash with a two-handed sword.
Let me tell you the truth, my kind of brainstorming creation can easily go astray, and I will not be able to get back from it in the future. There is also the possibility of becoming an eunuch.
That's why I listed it at this location.
Except for the clues about the church, I left no so-called "buttons" at all. For every reader, the first volume is a relatively complete story, and there should be no suspense left.
So if you are worried about eunuchs, you don’t have to continue watching it, or you can wait until I finish it and read the reviews before deciding whether to watch it or not.
If you are still willing to continue reading, then today (June 8, 2023) at 20:05 pm, welcome back, our journey will continue.
In order to let everyone quickly enter the plot of the second volume, I will prepare ten updates at 20:05 tonight, and these ten updates will include the first small climax of the second volume.
Later, as usual, it’s eight in the morning and eight in the evening. There are too many games this year. For example, on July 14th, there will be “Iron Alliance 3” that I have been looking forward to for a long time.
I want to play every game for several days without sleep and food, so I have to save the manuscript. My output is about three chapters a day. If I save one chapter and publish two chapters, I can free up time for gaming.
Of course, sometimes there are particularly intriguing plot points left, so I will post an extra chapter as appropriate to prevent you from falling asleep with worries.