dorchadas: (Crystalis Tower Fall)
dorchadas ([personal profile] dorchadas) wrote2019-12-19 01:34 pm

Welcome to flags, the AMV

This is the song I found while I was cleaning yesterday and have listened to at least thirty times today:


The thing is, there's a set of lyrics that go:
From the old world's demise
See our empire rise
But which I cannot help but hear as
From the old world's demise
See our vampire eyes
And it's reminding me of the Flight of the Phoenix game that [personal profile] schoolpsychnerd ran based on a setting I came up with where the main premise was that after a thousand years of rule by the vampiric Nobility, the humans rose up in a rebellion called the Dawn War and threw down the vampires. And because of a millennium of literally bloodsucking, inhuman aristocratic rule, the very concept of birthright and bloodline granting privileges was irrevocably corrupted such that all the nations built after the rebellion were democracies. Accusing someone of aristocratic leanings was tantamount to accusing them of being a vampire-Dominated sleeper agent.

We were very careful in-game to always remember that the word "Noble" itself meant "vampire."

The whole thing was a great counterpoint to the usual chosen one/born-to-power hero narratives in a lot of fantasy. I've always wanted to go back to that setting but haven't had the chance, and now I'm really busy. But maybe someday.
omnipotent: (I'm everything you need)

[personal profile] omnipotent 2019-12-19 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The premise of that game sounds fun....even if I do like vampires and don’t want them to be demonized THAT much. But vampires are used to being demonized.