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***Earniel*** · 06-19-2006, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Entwife_Oak

My son made up somthing similar to that called Avions with great white wings. They live on a planet of ice and they have blue hair.

avion... the French word for air plane.

Fitting.

Although ice and wings is not a combination you see a lot.

me9996 · 07-13-2006, 12:03 PM

One thing: I made up two kinds of shape shifters for my pretend worlds...

Greater Shapeshifters:
Can shape shift into anything they're imagenation and streangth allows (even multibul objects) and often have clouds of unused parts of them (in a very fine mist) and they are redictulusly hard to kill.
They also can use a matirail that they can make into almost anything.

Lesser shapeshifters:
In physioligy alot like Greater Shapeshifters but they can only shapeshift into verdabrates and are bound by the forms they take. (if they get hungery they eat like their forms, if they get killed they die like their forms)
The difference between Lesser and Greater Shapeshifters is mostly mentle.

Curubethion · 07-29-2006, 01:54 AM

Has anyone ever made races an integral part of the plot?

Huorn · 07-31-2006, 03:28 PM

My son was about 12 when he made up the Avions. I doubt he knows the word means airplane in French!

Cerubethion, Yes, to your question. I am writing a book called the Green and the Grey. Race is very integral to the plot. One race is considered a slave race while dominant races lord over them. As the plot unfolds the reader discovers this 'Green' race is oppressed because the dominant races are afraid of their intellect and their ideas.

Curubethion · 07-31-2006, 04:45 PM

Cool! I love things like that. Unfortunately, I have yet to implement them...

***Earniel*** · 08-01-2006, 04:18 AM

As soon as your races have different abilities or have wars and alliances, I gather they're indeed already an important part of the plot.

Elfmaster XK · 08-04-2006, 12:56 PM

I've made up a few, mainly just my own names for certain types of faerie, elf etc but I like to use old folklore type creatures.

One of my favourites is the Spriggan. She isn't central to my story, but she is very important. A Spriggan is traditionally a dangerous faerie from the West Country (Ie Devon/Cornwall area). They were said to guard buried treasure, lead travellers into dangeours places, and were generally stunted and ugly.

Knockers were Cornish mine spirits, who knocked at the richest lodes in the mine, and though mostly benevolent, could turn nasty if neglected.

Quite a few fun things in English folklore.

I also used the Draug/dreugh/draugr. A Scandinavian sea creature that can bring down ships or drown people.

Huorn · 09-05-2006, 08:59 PM

In the novel I am currently writing I use the Leviathan. I discribe the creature as being like a Kronosaur which is somewhat like a crocodile, but it had fins instead of legs. It spews fire.

07-29-2006, 01:54 AM	#43
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Has anyone ever made races an integral part of the plot? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

07-31-2006, 03:28 PM	#44
Huorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Fangorn's Treeherd Posts: 393	My son was about 12 when he made up the Avions. I doubt he knows the word means airplane in French! Cerubethion, Yes, to your question. I am writing a book called the Green and the Grey. Race is very integral to the plot. One race is considered a slave race while dominant races lord over them. As the plot unfolds the reader discovers this 'Green' race is oppressed because the dominant races are afraid of their intellect and their ideas. __________________ Silver Valley Oak As for me and my house we will serve the LORD Just call me Oakie Last edited by Huorn : 07-31-2006 at 03:32 PM.

07-31-2006, 04:45 PM	#45
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Cool! I love things like that. Unfortunately, I have yet to implement them... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

08-01-2006, 04:18 AM	#46
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	As soon as your races have different abilities or have wars and alliances, I gather they're indeed already an important part of the plot. __________________ We are not things.

08-04-2006, 12:56 PM	#47
Elfmaster XK Possessive Villain Fancier Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: On my ship, riding the waves YARR! Posts: 2,008	I've made up a few, mainly just my own names for certain types of faerie, elf etc but I like to use old folklore type creatures. One of my favourites is the Spriggan. She isn't central to my story, but she is very important. A Spriggan is traditionally a dangerous faerie from the West Country (Ie Devon/Cornwall area). They were said to guard buried treasure, lead travellers into dangeours places, and were generally stunted and ugly. Knockers were Cornish mine spirits, who knocked at the richest lodes in the mine, and though mostly benevolent, could turn nasty if neglected. Quite a few fun things in English folklore. I also used the Draug/dreugh/draugr. A Scandinavian sea creature that can bring down ships or drown people. __________________ My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly - my friends. XK

09-05-2006, 08:59 PM	#48
Huorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Fangorn's Treeherd Posts: 393	In the novel I am currently writing I use the Leviathan. I discribe the creature as being like a Kronosaur which is somewhat like a crocodile, but it had fins instead of legs. It spews fire. __________________ Silver Valley Oak As for me and my house we will serve the LORD Just call me Oakie