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I've been doing way too much thinking lately as is the usual and I had the realisation that ancient, powerful beings are pretty great. Especially the ones where the older they get the more powerful they become. So, naturally, I was like 'How can I put this in my stories?"
(beware of long rambling. if you read all this and contributed, you're a helpful person and i appreciate that)
I have this character who sort of starts off as one of the two protagonists but turns out to be the big bad at the end. She's a 105-year-old 6'5" battle-scarred hybrid so we're off to a good start. Because she's a hybrid, she's incredibly fast, strong and powerful but is also very much not mentally stable.
Her kind can live for a verrry long time so I was wondering if maybe I should make her slightly older…maybe by a millennium or so…
I'm not just considering this for aesthetics but I think it would help cool down the hybrids' insane stats. Hybrids aren't natural and their creation came from spite, anguish and anger so they turned out a little dodgy. Their brains aren't developed right and they're very unstable. They pretty much have chronic pain and bad headaches. They can't feel emotion and by their mid-twenties, they usually completely lose it and end up dying. …I don't know where I was going with this but some hybrids push past all this though rarely
Anyway, this character could have had all this time to become that strong and powerful.
Her motivation comes from her desire to obliterate an entire race of people. You see, hybrids don't feel emotion but they'd still, say…want to kill someone who was talking shit. It's also amplified by their inability to reason correctly so to her it's a completely reasonable way to deal with her problems. But would it take that long for her to set her plan?
Originally, she escaped her captors and set about learning to survive in the world, joined the Druids (a secret society type group of shady people who train highly skilled warriors known as rogues), stayed with them for a long time and even became a mentor, after she had the skills she needed to fight she set off to find herself an army which was easier said than done (why would anyone follow the orders of a hybrid or a rogue), found a troubled child who happened to be very gifted magically, mentored him and taught him that he was better than everyone else, sort of backfired in the end, imprisonment, escape, find another person. Okay I gave up at the end but the kid-now-adult put a mind-block on her so her magic use was restricted so she needed to find someone more powerful than her ex-apprentice to kill him and restore her magic.
My thoughts are, Mara (the character I'm talking about) finds a way to extend Bron's (her apprentice) lifespan and they slowly work they're way up the social ladder so Bron can take control (he's human by the way) with an army but he finds out about Mara's whole manipulative-ness, gets angry, uses mind magic to trap her (Mara's greatest weakness is most forms of mind magic), she escapes etc etc. This works because Mara is very patient and has a thing for making immaculate plans.
I dunno. I'll have to think about it more but I'd appreciate people's input…if you made it this far
