2013-04-09, 10:18 AM
Just logging another idea.
What if Valad invented dreaming when he made the giants?
This has a few interesting things going for it. You have dreams in KF3. So that could be part of the series. Playing dream sequences would be fun. Dreams don't have to be the same as the way we dream. They can be more literal. Its a world of magic after all. That's why we make stories with magic.
But also, what if the sleeping giants are the dreams. So their brains or whatever make up the dreamscape.
This is interesting. And not just because you could meet giants in dreams, Twin Peaks anyone? But also because if the flood forces all of the giants out of hibernation in V then they wouldn't be able to know what the demons (edited: maybe we'll have to make a habit of distinguishing between Demons and demons and Dragons and dragons. Demons are especially confusing, but maybe that is for the best, since its an esoteric concept) are up to on the other continent(s). So they (the giants) wouldn't be able to tell the Elegrians they (the demons) are coming before VI. Which would explain why there is no preparation up to then.
This works by the way because giants can't sleep unless they are underground. Plus it takes them a while to get settled in. They'd get back to sleep just in time for VI so that dreams could come back as a feature.
Giants are never born (edited: maybe Valad made one each time he wanted a feature of the landscape; the larger the feature the larger the giant) so presumably they've been around for just about forever. So they could give you really interesting tidbits of ancient information. Handy to have something like that.
But maybe after the Dragon Tree started making monsters they began to experience nightmares. And that has made some of their memories (of dreams) and dreams sometimes unreliable. Their memories of the earliest days are best, the same way as a grown man you still dream about stuff you did as a kid more than anything else.
That could even be a way to visit events that took place before monsters appeared, since it wouldn't be worth making a game in those times. Not a conventional one anyway.
I think Valad should be pretty childish. So it would be like him to invent dreams. Just so he could do anything he wanted to in his dream worlds.
What if Valad invented dreaming when he made the giants?
This has a few interesting things going for it. You have dreams in KF3. So that could be part of the series. Playing dream sequences would be fun. Dreams don't have to be the same as the way we dream. They can be more literal. Its a world of magic after all. That's why we make stories with magic.
But also, what if the sleeping giants are the dreams. So their brains or whatever make up the dreamscape.
This is interesting. And not just because you could meet giants in dreams, Twin Peaks anyone? But also because if the flood forces all of the giants out of hibernation in V then they wouldn't be able to know what the demons (edited: maybe we'll have to make a habit of distinguishing between Demons and demons and Dragons and dragons. Demons are especially confusing, but maybe that is for the best, since its an esoteric concept) are up to on the other continent(s). So they (the giants) wouldn't be able to tell the Elegrians they (the demons) are coming before VI. Which would explain why there is no preparation up to then.
This works by the way because giants can't sleep unless they are underground. Plus it takes them a while to get settled in. They'd get back to sleep just in time for VI so that dreams could come back as a feature.
Giants are never born (edited: maybe Valad made one each time he wanted a feature of the landscape; the larger the feature the larger the giant) so presumably they've been around for just about forever. So they could give you really interesting tidbits of ancient information. Handy to have something like that.
But maybe after the Dragon Tree started making monsters they began to experience nightmares. And that has made some of their memories (of dreams) and dreams sometimes unreliable. Their memories of the earliest days are best, the same way as a grown man you still dream about stuff you did as a kid more than anything else.
That could even be a way to visit events that took place before monsters appeared, since it wouldn't be worth making a game in those times. Not a conventional one anyway.
I think Valad should be pretty childish. So it would be like him to invent dreams. Just so he could do anything he wanted to in his dream worlds.