About Ogres, Sharks and "Evil" Twins
Where my inspiration came from
My first thoughts after reading the brief wandered to vampires, werewolves and changelings and I noticed certain elements of these stories I quickly decided to not use in my world building. I wanted to write my species without shapeshifting or evil intent but decided to keep paranoia, life drain and brood parasitism as my main building blocks of the twinborn. I thought what if inhabitants and intruders were virtually identical?
I liked the idea of intrauterine adelphophagy(great word by the way) since a saw a documentation about sand tiger sharks and even though even though sentient and power amplifying adelphophagy is as much myth in the Whisperworld as in real life it stuck as core inspiration.
I noticed in the middle of creating the twinborn, that I had read this idea of a creature eating his own twin to gain superhuman strength and size in T. S. Orgel's "Orks vs. Zwerge" - to my knowledge the books weren't published outside of Germany - and decided to honor this inspiration by calling my adelphophages ogres, just as they are called in T. S. Orgels books. This coincidentally fit my description of a giant, man-eating beast, which is like literally the definition of an ogre.
It is quite possible that the Older and the Younger Sister are loosely inspired by Brandon Sanderson's Ruin and Preservation and their twisted cooperation to create humanity, even though it eventually became quite independent.
The High Order believes that while they consume their siblings soul they in turn supply them with spirit and mind and thus are a central part of spindlesylph society. But this would be morally easy. Inreality the reality of this world the twinborn are parasites and while not aware are solely harmful to their host. They take half of a persons life and a lot of his comfort without his consent for their own advantage. On the other hand is it not a decision they made themselfs and none of the harm they cause is done with evil intent or knowledge of their effect on their loved ones.
The High Orders slogan is of course borrowed from Thanos himself. Ironically the High Order tries to keep half of all sentient life from being killed.
I liked the idea of intrauterine adelphophagy(great word by the way) since a saw a documentation about sand tiger sharks and even though even though sentient and power amplifying adelphophagy is as much myth in the Whisperworld as in real life it stuck as core inspiration.
I noticed in the middle of creating the twinborn, that I had read this idea of a creature eating his own twin to gain superhuman strength and size in T. S. Orgel's "Orks vs. Zwerge" - to my knowledge the books weren't published outside of Germany - and decided to honor this inspiration by calling my adelphophages ogres, just as they are called in T. S. Orgels books. This coincidentally fit my description of a giant, man-eating beast, which is like literally the definition of an ogre.
It is quite possible that the Older and the Younger Sister are loosely inspired by Brandon Sanderson's Ruin and Preservation and their twisted cooperation to create humanity, even though it eventually became quite independent.
The High Order believes that while they consume their siblings soul they in turn supply them with spirit and mind and thus are a central part of spindlesylph society. But this would be morally easy. In
The High Orders slogan is of course borrowed from Thanos himself. Ironically the High Order tries to keep half of all sentient life from being killed.
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