Hello, Mares and Gentlecolts!
I came here, to hear some opinions about an idea for a future fanfic... Yeah, I already say it on the title. So, I´ll try my best to describe all in a orderly way.
General Sinopsis: The title of the fic will be "The Hire of Starswirl" or "El Heredero de Starswirls" in spanish, that is my main language. The idea concists that the main character being a non magical race actually discovers how to do magic and becomes a mage, and after some incidents discovers that a great evil is threatening Equestria.
Narration: I want to give it a more medieval epic quest narration like "Lord of the Rings" because the story itself seems like one of those stories.
Bases: I base the adventure in a game called "MerchantRPG" which it has not a story, so I can make some interesting changes to it to make more enjoyable the quest. In these game, you a Merchant contract heroes to go in quests to give you materials to sell and make equipment, so being the main character a Mage would be part of a 6 member party for those quests. During the adventure, the party will encounter other races (Goblins, Murloks, Gnolls and the most important part, Undead Creatures).
Enemies: As I said in Bases, the party will find those enemies that sooner or later some of them will become allies. But some of them are different, for example in the game are Epic Bosses that are like final Zone Bosses (Queen Maexna, Basamus, Ares (not the olympic god) and others which are week bosses (Kraken, Leviathan, Magnotaurus, Kirin,etc). The first ones will be just a danger the party needs to fight to make peace and allience the races in the world while the second ones are more like a special task (for example, we know for the series that Kirins are a pacific race but the Kirin in "MerchantRPG" is a more bigger and aggresive version of them. Something similar happens with the Magnotaurus, a Minotaur who is feared by his own species for being huge and a being without mercy, which causes a dispute with the race of Gnolls.)
Main Villain: The Undead Creatures are not able to be deterred because they serves to an Evil Master, who is Grogar, Father of Monsters, Corrupter of Corpses, user of the Magic Cowbell and being bearear of the Altus Necrus title. I dicided that Grogar will be an excellent villain, seeing that in the TV series both Tirek and Queen Chrysalis are afraid of him (make two of the more dangerous villains get scared of his presence is something to emphasize). But I can´t decide his motivation, world domination will be cliche so some ideas I´m having right now are this= (resurrect a forgotten Kingdom (Tambelon) to have revenge of the ones who destroyed his nation, jailing or control Death itself to make everyone inmortal (childhood trauma) or be a lunatic goat necromancer who wants to show everyone the beauty of Death provoking a massive masacre/genoside.
Secundary Characters: Some of the characters I will put in the story are Zecora and various OCs. Zecora is the first profesor who teaches the main character and guides him into the magic arts, Starswirls will be another teacher but in an advanced level of magic being a comic relief in some scenes (he is dead at the moment of the story because the idea surge when it was not yet known that he was trapped in a relic.). Some of the OCs will be for races of the fanfic world, like a pony with thin ears like elfs or even a race similar to the Argonians of Skyrim (I forgot to tell that the fic will be one were every character have an anthro body). This argonians will be a important part of the story, a family of those, will take care of the main character. The leader of the family is a Merchant and every member of it has it´s job (Blacksmith, Armorsmith, Woodworker, Clothworker, Alchemist, Jeweler, Enchanter and Scribe (this are the jobs you have in the game to make equipment)). I want to add another job which will be Bartender, that job will be learned by one of the members that is a real close friend of the main character who over time becomes his love interest.
I think is all I have! I wanted to talk about the subtrama of the fic but is pretty late here in Argentina so for now, that´s all folks!
I looking forward for your opinions about it!