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[quote=Rosver;3237]Tom becoming evil? Hmmm… Might be interesting.[/quote]
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It requires passion as well as perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms–that man would not have achieved the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that, a man must be a leader, and more than a leader, he must be a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that resolve of heart which can brave even the failing of all hopes. This is necessary right now, otherwise we shall fail to attain that which it is possible to achieve today. Only he who is certain not to destroy himself in the process should hear the call of politics; he must endure even though he finds the world too stupid or too petty for that which he would offer. In the face of that he must have the resolve to say ‘and yet,’—for only then does he hear the ‘call’ of politics.
–Max Weber, Politik als Beruf (1919)
[img=http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/max-weber-1917.jpg]Max Weber[/img]
[quote=Rosver]Tom becoming evil?[/quote]
[quote=Mikey]Only he who is certain not to destroy himself in the process should hear the call of politics; he must endure even though he finds the world too stupid or too petty for that which he would offer.[/quote]
[quote=Rosver]I don’t get what that is about…[/quote]
Riffing on your idea of Tom turning evil, I presented a scenario through which this could be possible.
To expand on the Max Weber quote a bit, Tom now has his capital city up and running, and if I had to guess, is going to populate it next, with a motley crew of miscreants and the dregs of demon society. You know, the kind of people who are too preoccupied with building things to properly fight for power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5l498Vp3zA
The problem with meeting this many people to provide them with leadership is that you start seeing the weaknesses in human, and demon, nature. That’s what Max was talking about. It’s easy to draw apart from the people you wish to lead. To start considering people as means to an end, and worse, an end separate from those people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVxMB6w8PU
To retain your respect of the people after meeting them is heroic, that’s what Max is speaking of. Not all main characters in fantasy novels have that kind of heroism in them.
[quote=Dirk Flamberge;3208]Mikey, what is Gilán about? and could you please link me Gilán or Scott Duff’s Site? thanks bud.[/quote]
It’s around 1800 pages on non-Monomyth urban fantasy, nonstandard coming of age where a 17 year old kid discovers brotherhood, parenthood and war, along with accidentally inventing and creating his own magical kingdom, Gilán.
[quote=Iume;3185]I’m getting withdrawals here.[/quote]
There are too many writers all hung up on Aristotle’s conception of tragedy (good people get fucked, let’s all revel in the sadness) compared to Tizzy’s more Hegelian approach of pitting “good” against “good” and their inability to share points of view being the tragedy.
But let me quote myself from another forum: Astlan (J. Langland), Fimbulwinter (E. William Brown), Portals of Infinity (John Van Stry) and Gilán (Scott Duff)
Your partner’s grandfather was Janusz Bardach?
I’m probably a decade younger than you, and my grandfathers fought on the two opposing sides, one in the US Navy in Pacific, the other on Finland’s border with the Soviet Union. Both armies achieved their ultimate strategic aims, one to protect against Axis aggression, the other to protect Finland’s independence from the SU.
One of them had me promise never to fight in a war.
http://www.amazon.com/Chopper-Eric-Bana/dp/B00005QBZA is the Australian counterpart of Bronson.
[quote=The Author Guy;3125]People today have it too easy.[/quote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kgj4LWBmM&list=PLC24831172DD326DD
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[quote=Tizzy;3108]which are the prime mythological languages that this is translated to?[/quote]
Well, duh. The primary mythical media markets were Sphinxlish, Unicornian (Happy) and Simplified Harpish at the time.The Unicornian (Blue) translation was the only one serialized and later published as a compilation by the Magical Locks and Traps Monthly magazine.
Unfortunately they used their magazine press for that run, which meant that all the non-black color on the cover started fading fairly quickly.
Apropos mythical media markets, who owns the mechandising rights for the Tommus – Talarius fight, and are they going to go after the Oorstemoths for its balling?
Surely Tizzy has already hocked the toy license to Deneb?
[quote=Tizzy;3117]I see it was based on a radio program.[/quote]
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Harrys-Game-Complete/dp/B001KNAHEK
[quote]Surely Tizzy has already hocked the toy license to Deneb?[/quote]
Upon re-reading, I see you did the copyright lawyer bit already in book 2.
Of the cultural references, I had to google Inspector 12 in book 1, not having those commercials in Europe, and the Civilization tech tree references in book 2 might have been lost.
So what happens when someone inevitably tries to bind Rupert? Surely he’s been bright enough to give the school an alias?
Let’s say he’s a demigod, will a binding automatically be the other way, letting Rupert channel mana from the binder?
One of the few non-credible plot points of book 2 is that Tom doesn’t spend that much time worrying about Lenamare appropriating his new demon army through their link, which he had already seen and affected once, unlike other demons around him, he clearly believed. Even after he himself worked quite a bit through links.
Sure, if “someone” is mentally controlling him, then it’s credible. Otherwise, not so much.
Then again, Lenamare stated that he did have some unnamed first, second and third reich demons. Perhaps one of them might be “named” Tisdale, and that link might not be quite as one-directional as Lenamare believes it to be?
[quote=Tizzy;3090]Once Tom had the Rod of Tommus, I’m pretty sure Lenamare was a lesser concern; if Lenamare tried again (remember Lenamare doesn’t know about the D’Orcs or Mount Doom, and even if/when he finds out, he won’t automatically assume Tom is in charge of Doom, unless Damien tells him) Tom would be able to use the Rod of Tommus and the Power of Doom to turn the tables.[/quote]
I can’t remember the text of book 2 conveying quite as self-assured a picture of Tom at that point, but I’ll get back to this when I’m re-reading that part.
Where does Tommus keep his Rod? In his pants?
