Tome of the Lost Heroes
Scope
The motivation behind building Tome of the Lost Heroes
We are creating this world because we love world-building and creating complex stories that we want to sell at some point. The other reason for creating this world is that we found the ending or the overarching story of World of Warcraft to be unsatisfying and want to bring a sense of closure to the world but in different ways. In this sense, this world is fan fiction but being spun in a way that we can be published legally so a lot of characters will have new names, new personalities, and new motives with new characters.
The goal of the project
Eventually I would love to turn this into a watercolor comic so that it feels fanatical and feel like a color adventure. Keeping the media in mind romance and spiritual aspect could be fun to explore. I also want to explore life. death, and mortals. Such as can a corrupted or broken soul be redeemed and what qualifies to be undead.
Tome of the Lost Heroes's Unique Selling point
A point of the story is souls whether they are shattered, undead, or passed on.
Theme
Genre
Unlike some of the other stories that we have been working on the magic system will be soft with some general rules so that everything stays balanced. Some of the threats are from space and will add some horror elements which could be fun since horror is not a genre that we write that much and cosmic horror gives license to create some strange creatures.
For tech, it will just be filling in where magic fails to allow more problem solving and critical thinking of the characters instead of using magic for everything. However, the tech will be limited to steampunk in some areas while others can have more or less tech depending on the race and the tech that has achieved.
Lastly, the world's story is being told through adventures some of those being the characters' relationships with each other. The main vein being tragedy after all its called the Tome of the Lost Heroes there will be sadness and other heavy themes.
Reader Experience
The mood that I want for the world is NobleDark which will allow moments and places of wonder and places that are horrible. To unpack Noble means that a character's sacrifice will have lasting effects and that the world will have places of wonder. A Dark world is not the best of places to live so there will corruption, pollution and the like in the world. The main reason why we are going with dark is because of the cycle of war that is taking place in the world that alone should make it a pretty tough place to live.
There should be a sense of wonder in most places as a lot of characters will be traveling through the world discovering new things.
Reader Tone
NobleDark
Recurring Themes
Death that happens a lot.
Character Agency
The main and some secondary characters will have a lot of agency in how the world is impacted.