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mastergraywolfGreg Wiseman is the MAN for making the "Gargoyles" series. I go to Section 8 once in a while just to check out new frappin' material. The more I read "Ask Greg", the more impressed I get. I didn't know that he spent so much time on that series, so much time on creating the chars. Plus he added both historic and mythical details that connect within the series.
King Arthur, MacBeth, World War II, Odin, Moray of Scotland. It's all homage, real or myth. It's all impressive.
So I'm inspired by the man..I'd like to make my own garg fic. Something with both the real and made-up elements.
On Thursday I spent a bunch of time looking up Canadian history. I-just-wouldn't-STOP! Along the way I looked up Michigan historyDetroit to be specific, and I looked up a slight bit on Scandinavian history (a few clans and the first American Viking settlement in North America. Somewhere in NewFoundland/Vinland?).
This has been an old idea, perhaps three years old or more? The descendents of the Detroit gargs would live in Canadian mountains, and were allies to the Algonkin I think? Or maybe they were clans allied with both the Algonkin and Irouqios (and the French and the British respectively). Pardon my spelling. Still trying to figure it out. The idea's all too enthralling to drop.
Not sure when the Norse/Scandinavian idea came from. Introducing Inuit Gargoyles would be its own story and not related to Michigan. Plus the North american Vikings did not last very long. NewFoundland is apart of Canada, but it's WAAAAAAY up there.
I'm thinking about locating the setting in Quebec, around the 17th Century. Samuel De. Champlain makes an appearence. One of hisfictional travellers might meet up with the gargs?
Heheh, I'm still iffy with my geography though. It was real interesting in how I kept mixing up the provinces, and then getting upset when I realized there were counties (??) within the provinces. Like, "which one's Quebec again? Wait, isn't that Ontario? Ontario's not a city. Erm, yeh that's a province. Where's Montreal?" Lol, I so wondered where Montreal was too. And the Ottawa river? I kept lookin through the maps. Luckily I got a outline for me to remember.
I think Montreal is a bit too far from the Laurentides Mountains? @_@; I'm trying to put the gargs there. Err, how close is Quebec City?
Like I said, still working on it.
QUESTIONS: Judging by Greg's "gargoyles bible" (on S8), there were gargs across every corner of the world. They evolved and breathed air much like dinos did, and humans now. The stone hibernation thing is natural, and a mage long before Magnus' time casted a spell upon the whole race so that the garg's clothes could turn to stone as well. Apparently after the Wyvern Massacre, many humans sought out gargs during the day (while stone) and destroyed them. They nearly became extinct.
Would my Canadian Gargs become nearly killed during the British/French war? How would people see them at the start? The Natives and the British/French? Hmm, I'm sure the British would know quite a bit about them. There's even descendents in the London Clan; France was apart of the Roman Empire, and one of the men of Caesar Augustus's court was the mage who did that spell I mentioned earlier.
The Natives? Probably as god-like.
King Arthur, MacBeth, World War II, Odin, Moray of Scotland. It's all homage, real or myth. It's all impressive.
So I'm inspired by the man..I'd like to make my own garg fic. Something with both the real and made-up elements.
On Thursday I spent a bunch of time looking up Canadian history. I-just-wouldn't-STOP! Along the way I looked up Michigan history
This has been an old idea, perhaps three years old or more? The descendents of the Detroit gargs would live in Canadian mountains, and were allies to the Algonkin I think? Or maybe they were clans allied with both the Algonkin and Irouqios (and the French and the British respectively). Pardon my spelling. Still trying to figure it out. The idea's all too enthralling to drop.
Not sure when the Norse/Scandinavian idea came from. Introducing Inuit Gargoyles would be its own story and not related to Michigan. Plus the North american Vikings did not last very long. NewFoundland is apart of Canada, but it's WAAAAAAY up there.
I'm thinking about locating the setting in Quebec, around the 17th Century. Samuel De. Champlain makes an appearence. One of his
Heheh, I'm still iffy with my geography though. It was real interesting in how I kept mixing up the provinces, and then getting upset when I realized there were counties (??) within the provinces. Like, "which one's Quebec again? Wait, isn't that Ontario? Ontario's not a city. Erm, yeh that's a province. Where's Montreal?" Lol, I so wondered where Montreal was too. And the Ottawa river? I kept lookin through the maps. Luckily I got a outline for me to remember.
I think Montreal is a bit too far from the Laurentides Mountains? @_@; I'm trying to put the gargs there. Err, how close is Quebec City?
Like I said, still working on it.
QUESTIONS: Judging by Greg's "gargoyles bible" (on S8), there were gargs across every corner of the world. They evolved and breathed air much like dinos did, and humans now. The stone hibernation thing is natural, and a mage long before Magnus' time casted a spell upon the whole race so that the garg's clothes could turn to stone as well. Apparently after the Wyvern Massacre, many humans sought out gargs during the day (while stone) and destroyed them. They nearly became extinct.
Would my Canadian Gargs become nearly killed during the British/French war? How would people see them at the start? The Natives and the British/French? Hmm, I'm sure the British would know quite a bit about them. There's even descendents in the London Clan; France was apart of the Roman Empire, and one of the men of Caesar Augustus's court was the mage who did that spell I mentioned earlier.
The Natives? Probably as god-like.
