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Questionable Questing

Xicree
Xicree
Eh... I'd prefer a Noble with some amount of power getting to see the future and 'wake up' from it...
Bonus points if they'd become Forsaken through the 'future'.
d.fish
d.fish
what, clarify?
Xicree
Xicree
For the '1 year before the Horde' idea.
Xicree
Xicree
I like the idea of someone who both has to protect people from the incoming tide AND has some very intimate first hand knowledge and understanding of the Horde at the helm.
d.fish
d.fish
I didn't say they can't be both minor noble and demigod? After all, it's just a quirk of spiritual genetics to become a newborn Odyn-lite with undefined domains/powers?
d.fish
d.fish
I'm just saying that can be an ingame explanation for faster than normal growth without making it a shitty isekai. But I think an isekai is fine too.
d.fish
d.fish
But it makes little sense to just wake up with prophetic dreams of the Horde and have any remote sympathies for what atrocities it commits?
Xicree
Xicree
It does make sense if you were someone knee deep in the culture of the horde. You get to have an MC dealing with the dissonance of both having been inside and seeing the Horde as people... and having to defend their life and people against the 'barbarian monsters' that they now actually understand... and 5o some extent care about.

A much better potential story than 'fuck these guys!'
Xicree
Xicree
Since some of the forsaken basically just became members 9f the horde and immersed themselves in its cross culture... its completely possible for said person to like the People of the horde and hate the leadership/direction it took.
Xicree
Xicree
Beyond that you could use the Bronze Dragons as a plot device here for how and why the dream happened.
d.fish
d.fish
You could only get that if you have someone isekai with a fantasy barbarian fetish or an outright Horde player isekai. Like, anything that gets you knee deep in the culture of the horde makes you see the hypocrisy within. Like, I'm not trying to naysay this, but without the Horde, the entire planet wouldn't have been shit, yeah?
d.fish
d.fish
No, using the Bronze Dragons as a plot device is silly because they aren't nearly that powerful. It circles around to then them being a force for evil rather than good if they could foresee things like the Pantheon's deaths and not do anything about it; or the failure at the Shifting Sands; or Deathwing's tantrum; etc. etc. We could have a better story than that.
d.fish
d.fish
Yes, you can have a story where the MC sympathizes with the murderers of their family and still love their family, but... that's a worse story, not a better one. You'd have to tell that whole tale of why the MC is sympathizing the killers, and that bogs storytelling down too much to maintain any hook.
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