hows this work for bad guys

[beccaelizabeth]

Been thinking on epic fantasy stuff:

Two kingdoms having a big fight, two sets of mountains with a plain between that has basically turned into a really big battlefield.
When battles start out there the dead rise and fight.
Each side blames the other for summoning them, but really it's just that they remember the fighting and get up to join in.

It's not some big horde of mindless enemy, it's the way after a fight has been going on long enough it's never just this one fight here and now, it's the echoes of what their great grandparents did to yours.





Discovering the truth about them undead armies and how to make them lie down again be the big plot, so if I were going to write this then this be big spoilers, but with my track record, I just bounce the idea out to see if it works.

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[baronjanus]

Thing that interests me: when the fight's over, would the dead return to rest, or would there be a million new soldiers looking to return home and become a part of the economy and have their homes and loved ones?

[beccaelizabeth]

and suddenly that's more interesting than my existing plot...

[baronjanus]

And suddenly, I realise it's Steve's story, times a million.

[beccaelizabeth]

true

[baronjanus]

Dropping from eternal peace directly into a new fight, and once the adrenaline of that is over, where is his life now? He had a date, and he doesn't know computers, etc. Except if you get layers of many soldiers from all eras, you also get really, really ancient ones.

....And that's before you even start on the possibly-too-realistic-for-epic-fantasy angle of the old and dormant viruses they're carrying.

[beccaelizabeth]

Was going to make comment about Highlander but I see your icon already did :)

[baronjanus]

It's my highlander AND due south icon! *grin*