Re: Adding some element of fantasy in my novel without introducing "magic"?
Think The Lord of the Rings. There's actually remarkably little actual magic involved in it, yet it's probably the most seminal work of fantasy in history.
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Oh, now I see what you're going at. I can always have the artifacts be claimed to have one purpose, but leave their actual purpose unknown or implied to be nothing at all. Seeing as how the antagonist...
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You needn't ever confirm whether the artifacts do what people think they do, is what I'm saying. You don't have to say they actually do something - or that they do nothing. Leave it up in the air. Of...
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The idea that the artifacts are merely symbolic in nature as opposed to actual doomsday devices is something that sounds pretty good, but I already established what each of the artifacts do, and to be...
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Remember: The important thing is whether people in the story _believe_ something is magic, not whether it is actually magic. What you're looking at is what people call "dark fantasy" or "low fantasy",...
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They actually do have their own reasons, although they don't conflict with the MC's enough for there to be a problem. The artifacts are parts of creating the ideal human being, and there are three:...
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What are the artifacts? Those seem like the real way to get some magic into it without going off your storyline, too. And the perspective thing could work if each of the MC's friends has a different...
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I always think that telling part of the story from another, perhaps oddball, perspective is a good way to increase the depth and "mythology." Would this work? Even from an animal or child's...
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My story takes place in the late 19th century, mostly urban settings. The MC and his friends are looking for the three artifacts that the evil Illuminati-like organization are also planning on taking....
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