In fact, those who follow my Bilibili account Shenwu Liuliu should know that the birth of this book was a complete accident.
After finishing the ending of the last book, I planned to play "Tears of the Kingdom" until August, then Baldur's Gate 3 until September, and finally "Starry Sky".
By the way, the previous book "Space Flight Manual" seems to have only 600,000 words, but in fact, all the foreshadowing that can be written and included has been written. It is a complete fairy tale of farsightedness.
Let’s talk about this book. In fact, I wrote this book because the night I finished my last book, I wanted to find a traditional, sword-and-magic book, preferably like "Dragonlance Chronicles" and "Dragonlance Legend" translated by Zhu Xueheng. Let’s take a look at the book.
After looking at the results, in the end I had no choice but to read "The Amber Sword".
But I’ve seen The Amber Sword too many times. I’m probably more familiar with it than the protagonist Brando, where to find rings and what monsters to fight. The same situation also occurs in old books such as "The Story of the Wizard" by Soth and "The Ghost" by Milk Bear (also known as "Marrying a Sister as a Wife").
And in the new works, there are systems that assign tasks everywhere. The golden finger is so powerful that you can gain power by signing in after hanging up. It’s not that I look down on these, I know these are also well written, but it’s not realistic for someone who is looking for a copy of “Dragonlance Legend” to read these.
So that day, the more I read, the angrier I became. Then I threw my phone away in anger, got up from the bed and wrote it myself.
I spent forty minutes coloring the first chapter of the book, and then threw it to the editor.
Of these forty minutes, twenty were spent checking the monster manual and selecting modules.
When I wrote the first chapter, I had no idea that there were so many scenes behind the mentioned palace archmage. At that time, I just wanted to hear through the protagonist that the archmage only thought about his teacher, which would highlight his teacher's awesomeness.
At this time, I didn’t even know that the Kusanian Empire was an electorate country like the HRE.
I simply wanted to write an introductory paragraph that is familiar to people who run a group - this is a term that refers to when running a group, the DM (that is, the host in the script killing) makes up a story to focus the players' characters. Come together.
Therefore, in the tavern, a mage with an extraordinary background accepted a mission to meet his client and teammates.
It was such a simple beginning, and it was painted out in no time.
Of course, since I was the one writing the story, a silver-haired girl appeared in the first chapter. Originally, I wanted to put on braids and glasses, but the princess’s intelligence didn’t seem to match this image. So let’s wait until later.
After writing this beginning, I continued to read the old book, and fell asleep while reading it.
Unexpectedly, I passed the beginning when I woke up.
In fact, after I woke up, I no longer wanted to write. What's the matter? Tears of the Kingdom is coming out soon. Who is going to start a book at this time, are you stupid?
However, the editor had already finished the manuscript and was desperately urging me to write a few more chapters, so I had no choice but to create this story.
In fact, looking back now, you will find many traces that changed the direction of the story. I don’t really have an outline. The princess’s second brother Bruce was initially cast as a villain, so I portrayed him as a villain.
At the beginning, I really planned to write about seizing the direct descendants.
Mark becoming a mole only started in Chapter 5. From the beginning, he was a good guy. After Mark turned out to be the mole, I originally planned that he would be the nail planted by Tang. I still thought so when I was writing the underground chapter. But in the end, I thought, it seems that there is a BOSS battle missing, so it’s you. mark.
This kind of temporary thinking will definitely have loopholes. So I could only use a few hasty words to tell him everything about Mark’s background check.
A loophole is a loophole, and the effect is great!
There is also a loophole, which is to use the scroll to resurrect Erwin. This is when I wrote that Bruce promised to use the resurrection scroll to exchange dragon magic with the protagonist, and then I suddenly remembered whether it was possible to resurrect Erwin and ask for information. After discovering this, I quickly made a bunch of patches.
Fortunately, in order to have fun playing Tears of the Kingdom, I suppressed the urge to publish it after I finished writing it this time. This time I saved the manuscript! In the past, I would not make major changes to the chapters that had already been released. I could only make mistakes, and the results would go further and further away. In the end, it was like a mountain of code in some games that was hard to come back from. In the end, I was exhausted and had no choice but to give up.
This time it was really because I had a lot of manuscripts saved for Tears of the Kingdom, so I was able to go back and revise them. I personally am very grateful to Nintendo. In order to have fun playing other games I'm looking forward to when they come out, I decided to keep saving them.
This way you can go back and change it again if you find something wrong.
Back to Erwin.
Originally, this resurrection scroll was intended to be used by the protagonist and his team as a safety net. I also thought that when the protagonist tears up the scroll and resurrects the princess in the future, he will understand the true meaning of love.
It's a pity that there is currently no way for the protagonist to understand the true meaning of love.
There is also the photo frame. My original idea was that this photo frame was the orphanage where Erwin was a child. The protagonist found the orphanage, learned about the process of his leaving the orphanage, and then followed his path to finally find the Order.
It was when I was writing about the torture of the resurrected Erwin that I suddenly had a sudden thought: Hey, it seems to be more direct. The orphanage is a false memory caused by the restriction, and it is actually the headquarters of the cult!
I will leave this idea here now. When I actually go to the sect headquarters in the future, everyone can come back and compare what good ideas I have.
For me, writing a book this time is so exciting. I can write wherever I think of it. Because I have a saved manuscript, I can go back and make foreshadowing for the future.
There are too many things that have been temporarily changed like this, like the Emperor, who was originally a very pure villain, and it was over after killing him, but in the end he was given a trial, and there was also a "The Rains of Castamere" .
This "Blood Banquet" was also an impromptu idea. The main reason was that Crusader Kings 3 updated the DLC, which included Blood Wedding and Blood Banquet.
The final trial of the king was not originally planned and was crammed in at the last moment when I was writing it.
Of course, not every inspiration can be retained until the end. For example, when I wrote about the untouchables being escorted to the execution ground, I didn’t know why I had a brain twitch, so I wrote him singing "I will beat you with a steel whip in my hand" and released it regularly. . I looked back later and thought, what the hell, so I deleted it.
It had already been posted before, so I was probably scolded already.
All in all, the fact that I was able to finish this volume with such a degree of completion is really a blessing from the God of inspiration—and the credit of "Tears of the Kingdom" forcing me to save the manuscript. Thank you, Link, thank you, Nintendo.
As for those cold-humorous jokes, well, it’s mainly because I’m a very humorous person. All of my works basically have this element.
As I was writing this, I looked back and realized that this was nothing. Other people's postscripts are all about high-end stuff, but mine looks like a record of brainteasers.
But there’s nothing we can do about it. Whatever creative ideas and intentions people talk about, that’s all they have. I didn't. I really just wrote it wherever I thought, really randomly.
There was no hope of achieving any results from such a random writing. And you see, I have already written about Western fantasy, and this category is extremely cool.
I wrote Western fantasy at the starting point. If I wanted to be popular, I had to go to the game category and follow the path of Amber Flow.
But I don’t want those data-based and systematic things.
So you can see the results now. I don’t know how I got into Sanjiang. I’m terrible at following this book, and it’s the kind of book that no matter how much I add to my collection, I just won’t add to it.
Who can write a Western fantasy if you want to figure it out?
The editing of this book was very smooth at the time, and no revision suggestions were mentioned. I held a glimmer of hope and asked: "Is this book particularly good?"
The editor chuckled: "You've already written about DND, so I don't have to give you any advice. If you really want to give me advice, I would advise you not to write about this subject."
But I wrote it anyway.
My original intention was to write a serious Western fantasy like "Dragonlance Chronicles" and "Dragonlance Legend". Of course, because of personal preference, there may be a little bit of Japanese style like "Rhode Island War". Fantasy elements.
So far, it seems that this goal has been achieved fairly well.
The first volume has ended in a way that I am quite satisfied with. The protagonist team went down the river, preparing to pursue the clues that were finally obtained. The cat people set out in the opposite direction to find their own tribe.
The catman's departure is to pave the way for the elf archers to join later. In a fantasy story, why are there no elf archers? However, her departure from the team also became the nutrient for the protagonist's growth, but this idiot immediately began to do quantitative analysis.
My idea for the protagonist team is this: everyone has their own irreplaceability, so there can be no repeated occupations.
And try to be as racially diverse as possible. So you see there is some overlap between cats and werewolves. They are both characters with animal ears. One of them is enough. In the future, if there is a spirit sucker or undine, there will only be one.
I wanted everyone to have distinct enough characteristics, so Malika gave up on the possibility of becoming a drow ranger, and lost her animal companion Guenhwyvar. In the future, Cui Sanye may be asked to appear as a rescuer in some plots. I don't know. After all, there is no outline.
I was originally going to let Legolas appear as an elf, but according to the rules of the starting point, if the original characters of The Lord of the Rings join in, this book will be defined as a fanfic of The Lord of the Rings. So you will probably see an elf sister who is as sassy as Legolas.
Then the dwarf bard, the halfling - the halfling didn't think about anything. After all, there was already a rogue, there was no need to add a snitch.
Of course, there are paladins. How can a fantasy story be without paladins? It's also fun to see how the paladin is fooled into teaming up with the drow. Although I haven't figured out how to cheat yet.
In the future, we will probably follow the rhythm of adding a new character to each volume.
However, since I don’t have an outline, I might mess around.
There are also farming elements.
In fact, I personally like the kingdom system in "The Kingmaker". Although it is poorly done, I feel like I have really become the king of a country in a fantasy world.
I also quite like the fortress system in Pillars of Eternity.
But this book is generally an adventure story, and the protagonist is moving throughout, from one place to another. So this farming may be achieved by operating a ship or an airship or something.
I don’t know exactly how to add it, I might just add it tomorrow as soon as I slap my head on it.
As for the next plan for this book, that’s all. I really don’t have an outline and I don’t know what to talk about.
Oh, by the way, there are still some certain things. For example, the protagonist will get the ogre power glove later, or will he only recognize his kind? Why add this? One is that I liked Li Yongdao's "Dragon" (not Jiangnan) when I was in junior high school. That), so pay tribute.
Second, the mage. The ultimate dream of a mage is to go up and fight melee. The protagonist can’t use the Tanson Transformation Technique yet, so give him the Ogre Power Gloves and let him slash with a two-handed sword.
Let me tell you the truth, my kind of brain-based creation can easily go astray, and I will not be able to get back from it in the future. There is also the possibility of becoming an eunuch.
That's why I listed it at this location.
Except for the clues about the church, I left no so-called "buttons" at all. For every reader, the first volume is a relatively complete story, and there should be no suspense left.
So if you are worried about eunuchs, you don’t have to continue watching it, or you can wait until I finish it and read the reviews before deciding whether to watch it or not.
If you are still willing to continue reading, then today (June 8, 2023) at 20:05 pm, welcome back, our journey continues.
In order to let everyone quickly enter the plot of the second volume, I will prepare ten updates at 20:05 tonight, and these ten updates will include the first small climax of the second volume.
Later, it will be from 8 in the morning to 8 in the evening as usual. There are too many games this year. For example, on July 14th, there will be "Iron Alliance 3" which I have been looking forward to for a long time.
I want to spend a few days forgetting food and sleep every time, so I have to save the manuscript. My output is about three chapters a day. If I save one chapter and publish two, I can free up time for gaming.
Of course, sometimes there are particularly intriguing plot points, and I will post an extra chapter as appropriate to prevent you from falling asleep with worries.
that's all.
