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Post by lee on Dec 30, 2020 21:51:14 GMT
There is a lot going on right now so I may have been hallucinating, but wasn't there a brief discussion somewhere about possible fantasy stories set Earth-1's past? I wasn't able to find it anywhere and am starting to doubt my sanity. (Okay, so my sanity is still in its original package, but I glance at it every so often.) I was curious to see if we had any idea where such stories could be set. If I have gone insane, please don't hesitate to let me know.
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Post by DocQuantum on Dec 30, 2020 21:54:46 GMT
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Post by lee on Dec 30, 2020 21:55:41 GMT
Okay, so I found the thread; I wasn't looking in the right folder. My question still stands,though. Any particular time period we want to set the stories in?
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Post by dans on Dec 30, 2020 23:20:59 GMT
Does a fantasy need a time frame?
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Post by redsycorax on Dec 31, 2020 2:27:04 GMT
Fantasy has subgenres, although an inordinate amount of it seems to be set in a neo-medieval setting (ie Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones). However, those two examples are vastly different from one another. Both fictional universes have dragons, but their context differs radically. Game of Thrones' Westeros is more authentically medieval, with abrogations of human rights, social hierarchies, epidemic disease, short lifespans and religious fanaticism, while Tolkien's Middle Earth and C.S.Lewis' Narnia are more idealised and magic-laden. More recently, due to new authors like Storm Constantine, China Mieville and Mary Gentle, fantasy settings have started to move elsewhere in time. Mieville's work is set on an alien world called New Crobuzon, inhabited by numerous co-existing sapient species. Gentle's work is set in an analogue to the European seventeenth century, but with greater gender equality and more magic, as is Constantines. Some alternate Earth fictions also have fantasy tropes- in Poul Anderson's Midsummer Tempest, for example, Faerie rulers Titania and Oberon, as well as Ariel and Caliban from Shakespeare's Tempest put in an appearance, given that it's set on an Earth where everything Shakespeare wrote was the literal historical truth. In Brian Aldiss' The Malacia Tapestry, everything is lush decadent eighteenth century Georgian English in tone, although in this timeline, the dinosaurs never became extinct seventy million years ago and humanity is even descended from them! In other urban fantasy novels, the setting is a version of the present day, except there are vampires, demons, werewolves and witches lurking in the darker corners of the city where angels fear to tread (but John Constantine doesn't!) So it depends on what you mwan by 'fantasy!'
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Post by johnreiter902 on Dec 31, 2020 13:50:51 GMT
The setting being suggested was Earth in the era just before the rise of recorded civilization. It could look similar to Middle Earth or Hyboria, though the geography would still be much the same as today.
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Post by lee on Jan 1, 2021 21:00:02 GMT
I am thinking about a fantasy story set on E-1 in "the days before the Great Deluge". That would allow for the addition of lands and kingdoms without worrying about affecting our current history.
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Post by starskyhutch76 on Jan 2, 2021 4:20:14 GMT
There are a lot of fantasy characters from DC that haven't been explored much, too. We've done a little with Warlord and Arion, but there's also Claw, Starfire, and such.
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