Chapter 256 A bigger scene than The Lord of the Rings
"It's true that it's a meticulous work that took thirty years to create, and this is completely creating a world."
Su Shichen spent two days reading all the eleven books, Outsiders series that Ke De had published. He couldn't help but admire that the Outsiders Continent created by Ke De used eleven books to construct. Of course, if the last book "The Outsiders. The True Outsiders" was added, it would be twelve books, wonderful, truly wonderful works!
The story of the Outsider series is about the story of two Americans and one British traveling to a place called Outsider mainland. It can be said that there are three protagonists, twelve books, each of which uses the length of four books to describe.
These three people became generals of the human empire, high priests of the dwarves, elders of the blood elves, and three different lines, depicted from three races, and a total of twelve books interpret the "outsider continent" from various aspects.
From the war between the empires on this "outsider continent", the development of historical beliefs on the continent to the customs and characteristics of each race are clearly and reasonably written.
To be precise, there are some scary details and reasonable things, which is completely worth creating in thirty years. Although Su Shichen has no good impression of Ke De, he is really shocked by the "outsider continent" he built.
"The Lord of the Rings" is actually the sequel to "The Hobbit", but this sequel is more famous than the novel "The Hobbit". "The Lord of the Rings" is known as the founder of modern orthodox fantasy novels. It has been translated and called more than 60 languages. There are other glorys, so I won't write much about it.
But there is one thing that the poet Auden calls "there has never been an author who has created such a fine and illusory world and fictional history." "The Lord of Rings" is famous for its grand scenes. Su Shichen made the Zhongzhou continent created by Tolkien in "The Lord of Rings" even worse than the outside world continent created by Kod in "The Outsider Series".
Yes, the Lord of the Rings, which has been praised by countless people on the earth, is really not as good as the "Alien Series". Su Shichen now has some doubts about the list of [his world]. Such a worldview is only fourth? (It has been confirmed that it can rise from fifth to fourth, so although it has not surpassed it, it has been called fourth in some newspapers and magazines.)
Is there any problem with the selection of that list? The world like this is only fourth in the Outsider Continent, and how terrifying the world constructed by the top three is.
Su Shichen felt such a great sense of oppression for the first time. It seemed that the Western fantasy novels in this world were particularly developed, far exceeding the Earth in his previous life.
What books should I use to fight? "The Lord of the Rings" can be called the best fantasy novel constructed in the background world in my previous life. What else can I compare to? "The Song of Ice and Fire", known as the epic fantasy, constructed an epic world, but it is the same as "The Lord of the Rings", and it cannot be suppressed... Su Shichen, who was unable to think about it, felt a little headache and looked confused.
"Brother Chu is his last work, and he must have done his best and was expected by Chinese fans and Asian fans; then Kede's "Real Outsider" is said to have to throw out the world setting with the greatest background view. Before European and American fans have come out, they have warm expectations. Well, they have lost a lot in terms of attention. Brother Chu and Kede's books may have started writing, but now I have overturned my previous preparations and lost another here."
I felt a vibration in my pocket. I touched it. It was a phone that vibrated. I took it out and saw that the three missed calls were all called by Chu Xing.
Called back and said, "Hey, Brother Chu, I'm sorry, I was thinking about things just now, so I didn't hear it. Is there anything?"
"Are you thinking about the confrontation between fantasy novels?" Chu Xing got upright.
"Well, I just watched "The Outsider Series" and it was quite shocking for me, so I was ready to reconceive my novel."
"Well, "The Outsider Series" can indeed be said to be one of the most successful fantasy novels in the world view." Chu Xing changed his tone, "I read the news a few days ago. No matter how hard you work on the background, it is impossible to write a book that surpasses the Outsider Series in a short time, so you must not use your weaknesses to challenge others' strengths because of a moment of impulse." Ke De's previous words did mean to despise Su Shichen, so Chu Xing was afraid that he would be impulsive and acted unwisely.
"I know, Brother Chu, don't worry, I'm not that kind of reckless person."
"By the way, Brother Chu's fantasy novel also won the Hugo Award, and now it has also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Brother Chu, who are you ranked in the [His World] list?"
"It's a fantasy novel series of me, which describes the continent of Niast, ranking 37th in [his world]. I originally focused on characters and plots, and the portrayal of the world is much weaker."
[His World] This list is indeed of great value. The novels written in the Niast continent can be regarded as the representative work and highest level of Chu Xing’s fantasy novels, but even in this case, they still haven’t even entered the top thirty.
Ke De is fourth and Chu Xing is thirty-seven. This does not mean how big the gap between Chu Xing and Ke De is. [His World] is a world constructed in the selection novel, not the plot. If it is based on comprehensive strength, Chu Xing and Ke De are of the same level.
"I have a suggestion." Chu Xing suddenly said.
"What suggestions? Brother Chu, please tell me."
"The "Baohuang Series" is very successful in combining Chinese classical fairy tales, but I also watched it. In fact, Brother Chen, you did not specify the description of the background of the prehistoric world. You use characters and stories to support the entire prehistoric world..." Chu Xing did not say it too clearly, but clicked to the point.
But Su Shichen understood that this is true in "The Prehistoric Series". Although there are so many comments that Su Shichen constructed a prehistoric world, there is no excessive description of Su Shichen. There is no such thing as Tolkien or Kod, who depicts the illusory world bit by bit into a real world.
However, the world constructed by Su Shichen's character plot gives people the feeling that the world of prehistoric world is still very exciting. Go to the online literature circle to see how many novels there are, you can tell how successful the world of prehistoric world is.
"Brother Chen, you have a very deep foundation in portraying the characters in the plot. The great catastrophe of heaven and earth in the prehistoric world or the fascinating tomb robbery of ghost blowing lights, you can go in this direction this time."
"Thank you, Brother Chu, I will definitely think about it."
"Haha, come on, win this year's Hugo Award for Best Feature!" Chu Xing encouraged him on the phone.
After hanging up, the phone call came down, the confused look on Su Shichen's face completely disappeared.
Yes, he has no time now to complete the construction of a world in thirty years like Kod.
"Which character is used to drive the world, which fantasy novel has the most heroic characters?" After thinking for a long time, I didn't expect the right one. I knocked my head, why should I limit my thinking to the novel field?
His previous confrontation with the original residence was not an adapted movie. He opened up his mind a little bit, including animation, movies, novels, TV series, and even games, as long as it is suitable.
This kind of large-scale search has made my thinking broader, but I still couldn't find a suitable one for a while.
"By the way, I should think about it differently. If we talk about heroes in Western fantasy, what is the first thing I think of?" Su Shichen asked himself a question, and then a name came to his mind - Demigod Naozu!
With the emergence of the name Demigod Ner's Aozu, a game called World of Warcraft was reflected in Su Shichen's mind.
The inspiration suddenly surged out in his mind, and one by one appeared in his mind—
The second commander of the Burning Legion, the darkest Ereda warlock in the world, is known as the Polluter Archmond!
Known as the largest rebellion in the entire history, the most powerful warrior in the Pantheon, and the founder of the Burning Legion, Dark Titan Sagelas!
Pull out the magic sword Frost's sadness and eventually become the leader of the Scourge Legion!!
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Su Shichen was excited, and then kept improving the concept in his mind, Warcraft, the most popular real-time strategy game in the world in his previous life. This game can be said to be a very prominent concept of "hero".
The game is very fun, but the huge background of this game is even more exciting. The undead, panda, elves, demons, blood elves, dwarfs, goblins, ogres, etc., are all overwhelming races, which are common in Western fantasy novels.
The unusual Kadore, Delaney, Naga, and Sartre races are more lively than the controversy between the hundreds of schools of thought in the spring and autumn.
It is not just a war of races, but also a Burning Legion and the Scourge. It can be said that the background of Warcraft has simply written a template for this Western fantasy. Just like the martial arts novel written by Jin Yong, people who can jump out of Jin Yong's martial arts and write it can be called a master. Jin Yong's martial arts can be said to be a template for martial arts. It is definitely a good idea to turn Warcraft into a Western fantasy template for this world.
Su Shichen didn't believe that novels like World of Warcraft could not suppress the outsiders. Su Shichen was very excited when he thought of this idea. He immediately turned on the computer and prepared to start writing, but he didn't type a word for a long time.
Well, the background of Warcraft is too huge. As mentioned above, both Alsace and Sargeras can completely become the protagonists of a novel. The story behind each hero is very large, and they have independent events and independent personalities, which leads to Su Shichen who has no idea where to start.
"Huhu--" He exclaimed twice, "I want to calm down, I want to calm down, take it slowly, I remember there are thirteen official novels in the background of Warcraft."
Searching in his mind is indeed as he remembers. Warcraft does have thirteen official novels, of course, strictly speaking, it should be eleven, and two are fan novels.
"The Official History of World of Warcraft", "A Brief History of World of Warcraft", "The Well of Eternity", "The Age of Dragons"...
"These eleven official novels of Warcraft can be used as reference." Su Shichen is preparing to combine novels and games to create a series of novels.
Kod spent thirty years to create the Outsider Continent, which is indeed difficult to surpass in a short period of time, but how many people constructed the background of World of Warcraft.
The background of Warcraft is naturally impossible to write down everything in time like the "Baohuang Series". Even if you only rewrite those wars, it will take almost seven or eight books to describe it.
Su Shichen thought of a trick, took the perspective of one of the heroes, wrote it like a biography of characters, omitted some unimportant parts, and climaxed directly, using four or five related hero biographies to support a book.
You can completely believe that this "Warcraft Series" can shock the world. This series can completely exceed the number of "The Outsider Series". Think about it, even if the heroic deeds of five Warcraft are combined into a book, it is too simple to find dozens or even hundreds of heroes worth writing in the entire background story of Warcraft.
Well, the ranking number one in later generations [His World] was called "a fantasy novel series that can never be surpassed - "World of Warcraft Series" by the New York Times. So Su Shichen made it so tinkering.
Of course this is a later story. The most important thing is, which heroes should be selected to start with the first pioneering work of this series?
This is a question...
Ps: Well, when it comes to Western fantasy with huge background, the first thing the kitten thinks of is the monster... By the way, I spent a while watching the armored warrior with my sister today, and then the kitten's three views collapsed and it was disgusting for a long time. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
Chapter completed!