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Azigarath

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Hey, I noticed you are still alive, so I figured I would take a look at all your stories, starting with this one. It is quite old, so typed when we were all young, so I’ll understand if something is a bit off, we’ve all been there.

All your main characters are young adults. I have noticed that many stories, especially in the fantasy genre, almost always deal with young adults. Not that it is a problem, I myself use characters who begin the story as children. Why is it that female characters are always so short and males so tall? Female characters are often archers or mages. All your bios have the same backstory, and many have died their hair. Enyo Dike?

And then a story about evil destroying the world, what else is new?

The first sentence of the prologue makes no sense.

“he sees a little girl being bullied by two bandits.”
Seriously? A little girl bullied by two bandits? The village is full of life and watchful guards, yet no one but Dante notices this?

“the other bandit grins his teeth and swings his axe at Dante but he back flips and dodges the attack, he runs on the stone wall of a building and jumps off the wall and stabs the non wounded bandit in the chest.”
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“”Dante, are you alright?””

“”Yes Frederick, I'm fine. We should get back home.””

He was only pushed to the ground, and despite capable of doing backflips and running along walls, they ask him if he’s ok?

“Young Dante holds the man's hand and the man throws Young Dante onto a wall and begins to choke him. The blurry man laughs.”
Couldn’t the blurry man just choke Dante on the ground? The Blurry Man is a caricature, as are most of your other characters.

06-Jun-2013 22:08:25

Azigarath

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“Hours later, the sun rises marking the day of the ambush. Dante opens his eyes and sits up, he unlocks his door and opens his door and walks out and shuts the door behind him. Frederick and Stephanie see Dante and wave to him. Dante walks over, he pulls his chair out and sits down in his chair.”
I can kind of already assume many of these things. I don’t need to be told that a door needs to be unlocked, opened and then closed for a character to just walk through. For the last sentence, “Dante sat down” is good enough for me.

“They quickly get ready and burst their doors open and see that they got ambushed.”
So, twenty knights simply walk into an enemy castle? I suppose your heroes can do the same, seeing as there are no scouts, no-one on the battlements, no-one even looking through a window, and the castle doesn’t even have an outer and inner wall.

“The Knights move to the side and Iban walks towards the three with a smile on his face, he continues to clap as he walks.”
Why is Iban clapping? This makes him a villain for a cartoon more than anything else. When his name is spoken, he calls Dante a cur. Whenever people say my name, I’m not offended and start name-calling.

“”Take them to Lord Zamorak where their judgment will be casted.””

The Zamorak Knights listen and obey his command and tie Dante, Stephanie, and Frederick to 3 wooden logs and they take them to Zamorak's castle.”
What for? Couldn’t they just kill your heroes and move on? Why did they ambush a castle just to kidnap a few people? Tying someone against a log is unnecessary, seeing as there’s just more weight to carry.

Then the next chapter comes, and two gods randomly make their appearance amidst silly dialogue. The gods come alone, none of their followers are present, even though castles and 11,000 rebels were mentioned.

06-Jun-2013 22:08:42

Azigarath

Azigarath

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“he sees where Armadyl is shooting from and blockes the arrow with his left forearm”
blockes should be blocks. And it’d make more sense to side step and avoid the arrow rather than putting your forearm in the way.

Your villains smile too often.

“”W-What!?” Frederick shuddered”
Frederick shudders upon seeing his brother, which he assumes so from just a few words. This contradicts his bio.

“Alfred smirks and stares with happiness and joy at the sight of Frederick, shaken and shocked.”
This continues to contradict Frederick’s bio.

I don’t know what this “in-front” is. The dash does not need to be there.

“Zamorak opens a portal to escape”
Escape from what? His knights he summoned?

“Wind Wave at Iban, he jumps back and sees Saradomin's Wind Wave quickly moving towards him, he launches a Fire Wave at the incoming Wind Wave.”
They are in melee, yet have enough time to counter each other’s magic? They must use really slow magic.

“That was a strong blast Iban, your pretty strong”
your should be you’re.

Your villains grin and smirk too often as well.

There is no description of combat, and despite the presence of the summoned knights, they don’t seem to do anything.

“They both shake their heads up and down.”
His is the second time heads shake up and down, can’t you just say they nod? Otherwise, when I imagine their heads bobbing, it’s kinda silly.

“Stephanie shoots an arrow at the attacking Zamorak Knight, the arrow pierces though the knight's head and he falls on the ground.”
If she can do that, why did she not do so earlier? “You owe me” is a cliché.

“The wind blew passed Frederick and Alfred at 10 mph.”
I don’t care. Miscellaneous information should be left out.

“Dragon Longsword left at Frederick and aims for his head, Frederick quickly ducks”
If that’s the case, he did not swing very fast.

06-Jun-2013 22:09:08

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