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Ghondor
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When I used 'twitching', I meant it more like he was just sort of flailing weakly in death. 'Twitching' obviously isn't the strongest word there, but you could 'twitch' in shock from having such a wound. It wouldn't really be the more medical term of 'twitch', but eh.

I have nothing, in particular, wrong with you criticizing the combat, just as long as you know I had absolutely zero intention of it being realistic in any way. It was more of a just 'read it' and not over-think too much. To answer one of you questions about why the demons didn't just swarm Torva, it was sort of because they were all afraid of the sword, and didn't want to go anywhere near him. Practically speaking, if it were a real situation, he'd probably just be swarmed. Torva also wore armor, but nothing full-body. I realize I didn't exactly explain what kind of armor he had. It was just a beaten up, old chest plate and helmet. Most of his head/neck and arms and legs would have been armorless. The village would have only had to arm themselves, too. All the different men in the entire 'army' all came from different villages, so it wasn't like Torva's village had to steam roll out a ton of gear for everyone. I should have mentioned something along the lines of all the men being armored differently in rag-tag equipment, versus the uniformly and heavily armored demons or something. I suppose I never did explain that the defenders were all in crappy, heavily used and reused armor.

Also, the mages were able to see above the demons, because they were up on hills, over-seeing the whole battle.

06-Apr-2013 03:38:57 - Last edited on 06-Apr-2013 03:47:39 by Ghondor

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Very reasonable, thank-you for taking the time to explain those few things, about how you wished the story to be and about my questions. Well, I think I'll shut up now. XD

Until next time somewhere, I suppose.

06-Apr-2013 03:57:37 - Last edited on 06-Apr-2013 03:57:59 by Azigarath

Pupppy II

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Amazing story I have to say! :)

I liked how it has the perfect mix of details and actual facts happening... some threads here go too long to say too little, so much that I rarely do finish reading them; but yours kept my attention from start to end (:

just one curious question, though, why call Nex a reptile? The way I see her she is more like a mix of demon, vampyre and icyene :P

Thanks for writing this, now I can't wait for Pernix' and Virtus' stories lol c:


~pupppy

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Ghondor
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Pupppy II said :
just one curious question, though, why call Nex a reptile? The way I see her she is more like a mix of demon, vampyre and icyene :P

Thanks for writing this, now I can't wait for Pernix' and Virtus' stories lol c:


~pupppy


Just found this thread out of curiosity if there was any other responses to it.

Anyways, Nex is sort of a bunch of stuff, like you said. To me, at least, she looks like part of her is covered in scales, plus her reptilian looking face/head.

I don't believe I called her a reptile, I think (If I remember correctly) all I said was her face was reptilian, but I dunno. I see her as sort of an annoying, scaly thing.

Anywaysanyways, I was going to do Pernix next, but I might end up writing Virtus (I've been side-tracked lately as I just got a job for a local paper writing different articles and stuff, so I haven't been able to pen my ep1x rs fanfixz)

I may even plan an 'after math' story after the first three are done.

Also, just to somewhat respond to the old debate that was going on here, I never recalled to mention this, but a main point of the story was Torva believing his purpose was to protect the village and fight to defend it, and once it was gone (even though he was saddend greatly by it), he realized he no longer enjoyed battle or life, and that it wasn't so much his love for his village/it's people that caused him to be so steadfast, but rather it was the fact he just wanted a reason to battle, hence why he follows Nex when she freely offers him 'purpose', but he kills the Icyene and saradominsts when they attempt to force him to side with them.

He joins the very people who caused all of his problems so he could continue having a reason to fight. That was the big 'subtle' point of the story.

28-Apr-2013 14:27:55

Ghondor
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Anyways Also P.S. In Addition:

To reply to one of the many poor and inapplicable points that one guy raised (I shouldn't respond to any of them because too many of them are flat out incorrect but this was a rather important one that I just never replied to)

The reason Torva's wife is always concealed by her hair is because who she was has been 'lost to time', sort of. Same thing with the Blacksmith being in the smokey, dark forge room, or Torva's army just being a mass of indistinguishable men. None of them were meant to be described in detail, but rather, their personalities and actual looks were obscured in different ways.

28-Apr-2013 14:32:25

Ghondor
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Abyssal Eyes said :
I just read every single post of your story and enjoyed every bit of it. This is very well-written for a character not in-game to have a small backstory and I have to say, you completely blew my mind! I'm not sure what else to say but I really love your story and writing. :)


I just saw this thread got another post, uguu.

Anyways, thanks for reading and everything. I was working on a story for Pernix and Virtus but got caught up in real life/other projects and also the fact this story got little attention (most of it being from two guys; one who gave a ton of poor/wrong criticisms and the other who demanded I listen to the incorrect criticisms or else I was just some jerk who was a bad writer and would never be good or whatever), so the general deadness of the Stories forums sort of turned me off from putting time into making anything else.

16-Jul-2013 07:52:42

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