forum New Story- Brainstorming (Help?!)
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@garbage-owo

I've loved fantasy since forever, and in the past week I've come up with a new side project (webcomic). I'm a little bare on ideas, wanna help? The things I do know about it:

  • The title is "Forest"
  • It's high fantasy
  • The main character is a girl named Ash
  • The general summary is that on an alternate Earth, the Library of Alexandria (the source of all magical knowledge) was never destroyed and magic still exists. One of the top rules of magic is to never harm nature because that inspires wrath and destructive magic. Because of this, nature has sort of overtaken Earth and east and west America are completely covered in woodlands, forming a massive forests on both sides (hence the title). (Also, the story takes place in the much larger east forest…?) There are multiple separate races in the forest, like elves, druids, nymphs, etc, and Ash's race is fire-based and their section of the forest is Emberwood (land of the Emberwooden). The races are very secluded and don't communicate much, and only meet once a year for a nature-preservation ceremony where they do a ritual that preserves the forest.
  • I don't know where to go from here?!?!?! Idk, I'm thinking that something can sort of give Ash visions telling her to unite the forest because….reasons?!?!?!??! There's going to be lots of traveling and culture-experiencing
  • The only really solid character ideas I have are for an introverted, 7-foot-tall Druid-in-training Grootish tree boy and a smart lunar-based princess girl who is invisible during the day and visible during the night. I don't want too many characters to be part of the Main Team (TM), I think a good number wood be 5 people or 4 plus a mascot-pet-animal-thing
  • tl;dr: I NEED A PLOT?!?!?!?! AND CHARACTERS?! AND EVERYTHING?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

@Lavy-the-Nerdy-Sci-Fi-Birdy

Okay, first off, let me know when you publish, cuz this sounds great!
So plot-wise, I think maybe a reason the forests could unite is that there could be something foreign like a Savage Humanoid Race (I'm thinkin' something like dragons) that breath fire are setting the forests afire and Ash is part of an convoy of ambassadors and negotiators from the fire-based race going to parley with the dragons (cuz they have fire in common so yeh), and depending on whose territory they're crossing, they get attacked by a group from a race that they aren't on very good terms with and Ash gets separated and, by way of a couple of misadventures, eventually hooks up with the Main Team, and they all discover that there's a deeper conspiracy involved with the Savages and depending on some of the history, maybe the afore mentioned Humanoid Race are trying to revive an ancient entity that wants to lay the world to waste and they have to travel to different territories to find pieces of an artifact that will stop it and unite them to fight the Humanoid Race.
Hope this helps. Sorry it's so long-winded!