As a big fan of writing and reading, I love stuff that makes me think. Morally grey areas are good, but for me, I prefer actions that can be considered bad but with good intentions.
One of my favorite examples of this is in the book The Stolen Throne, where a character convinces the future king to kill the love of his life because it was discovered that she was a spy that was sent to spy on them, but then actually fell in love with the king to be, and decided to abandoned that path.
Oh man, that sounds pretty sick, it's like the lord of light prophecy in the GOT books, where the only way to produce a powerful sword he had to tempter it in the chest of the love of his life.
I'll be sure to check that book out man!
Yeah, I heard some good advice before, that when creating antagonists try to make them have a reason for their actions and make it so that they see themselves as the good guys in a way, otherwise they kind of come across as cartoon characters.
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TST is actually a prequel to Dragon Age Origins and shows how the Fereldans kicked the orlesians out.
And yea, making antigonists have a reason for their actions make the character(s) all the more interesting! I love books that make me question whether the antigonist actually had a valid point/reason for what they're doing!
Oh, no way, that's pretty sick, I love Dragon Age, I haven't read any of the novels of the series, but, thinking about it, they are the perfect series to have an expanded universe of content.
Yeah, it's like Star Wars where you can argue that the empire is kind of the good guy for maintaining order, I know in the EU they really do some nasty stuff, but, in the films, they're just trying to maintain order and peace. Sure they blew up a planet, but, they thought they were harboring political schemers and spies haha
The books are really worth the read. The Stolen Throne goes over how Maric and Loghain overthrow the orelesians. And The Calling follows Duncan, a group of grey Wardens, and Maric as they search for why the Grey Wardens are hearing the calling (IIRC). The Architech also makes an appearance in it!