Post by Bannanachair on Jul 20, 2015 3:34:28 GMT -4
The Arcane Order of the Green Tower was created to be a literary tool to display the strength of the Hobgoblin Army. My first draft of Siege of Dorthol did not include the Green Tower at all, and it simply mentioned that the Hobgoblin army had destroyed several small towns and villages as it approached Dorthol. However, that seemed somewhat boring, and it didn't accurately display the strength of this army. Additionally, magic was something that I had mentioned as being rather rare in my first draft, but because it was high fantasy, I felt that I had to include some form of magic (even though I was planning on adding it later on in the series and had multiple magic systems planned out, I still felt that it should be included somewhere).
And so I killed two birds with one stone. I decided that if magic is currently rare, it might be really recent and that the Hobgoblins killed lots of Arcanists. So that means that the magic users must have (at least formerly) had some form of society, but I felt that "magic city" would be too powerful and should theoretically have conquered a lot more territory itself in an attempt to create a utopia. So I created the Green Tower, an almost monastery-like society where all the magic users of the region lived and spent most of their time, generally only using their magic for violence when it's in the defense of knowledge or other people and trying to avoid getting muddled in politics.
However, I figured that if there are that many powerful magic users, there must be some survivors. And so there were. And when, in (the original ROBLOX version of) Siege of Dorthol, I began laying out plans to make Harisor an important character in Duck's part of the narrative, I realized that I'd need to write up more on their society and whatnot. And so I did, and I decided it would make a nice mini-RP as well.
So there you have it - the Arcane Order of the Green Tower, one of the most influential factions in this part of the world and a 20-page RP on ROBLOX, was created to make some Hobgoblins look hard to kill. And that's why you should pay attention to every single tiny detail that I write, because if I take a liking for it, I may decide to expand upon it a lot.
And so I killed two birds with one stone. I decided that if magic is currently rare, it might be really recent and that the Hobgoblins killed lots of Arcanists. So that means that the magic users must have (at least formerly) had some form of society, but I felt that "magic city" would be too powerful and should theoretically have conquered a lot more territory itself in an attempt to create a utopia. So I created the Green Tower, an almost monastery-like society where all the magic users of the region lived and spent most of their time, generally only using their magic for violence when it's in the defense of knowledge or other people and trying to avoid getting muddled in politics.
However, I figured that if there are that many powerful magic users, there must be some survivors. And so there were. And when, in (the original ROBLOX version of) Siege of Dorthol, I began laying out plans to make Harisor an important character in Duck's part of the narrative, I realized that I'd need to write up more on their society and whatnot. And so I did, and I decided it would make a nice mini-RP as well.
So there you have it - the Arcane Order of the Green Tower, one of the most influential factions in this part of the world and a 20-page RP on ROBLOX, was created to make some Hobgoblins look hard to kill. And that's why you should pay attention to every single tiny detail that I write, because if I take a liking for it, I may decide to expand upon it a lot.
