Nightfall said:
Uhm yeah. Thanks Trick. Really didn't mean "What do you think of Metaplotting/Megaplots." I meant "Is there one in the Scarred Lands? And mind outlining it."
Just you know, thought we'd see if you and I are on the right page on that level...
I am sorry I wasn't clear before hand on that note. That was my bad.
Fair enough.
Anyway, do I think there's one in the Scarred Lands?
I'm not so sure right now, actually. Other than the Dead Gods trilogy, I haven't seen much of a story arc going on in the setting. Plenty of story hooks one could go with, no problem. But they seem to be set up and detailed, then let be. Explanations, history, secrets...all that's come out, but I don't recall seeing much of it necessarily resolved.
However, the Scarred Lands is produced by Sword and Sorcery Studios, who are linked to White Wolf, who made the World of Darkness, which had plenty of metaplot, and many of the writers from one write for the other. So I certainly wouldn't be surprised by any metaplot. I wish I could recall the comment, but I swear I heard something that hinted at a possible underlying plot and story arc in the setting.
Then again, as has been said before, there's a decent amount of fan input that's gone into the setting. When there's an element like that, it means that the setting will be fairly loose and open, which also means to my mind that it has the potential to go just about anywhere - meaning something planned out like a metaplot isn't necessarily likely. Which reminds me of the comment I was thinking of! Joe had mentioned that the Scarred Lands, while it has certainly added things in which weren't initially planned for it, and become a fairly organic thing, it isn't just completely a hodge-podge setting that's being produced with no forethought. Or something like that. Which doesn't necessarily mean metaplot.
Ahhh...lessee...if the Scarred Lands does have a metaplot, however, I'm tempted to say it will eventually lead up to the Divine Truce being broken in some way, in one way or another, with at least one titan-resurrection somewhere along the way - likely someone such as Gulaben or Lethene, who are arguably the easiest to free, being that they're really only imprisoned, as opposed to imprisoned
and chopped up into teeny little bits. Perhaps this is just my bias showing through, but I'd say Enkili lied about Mesos taking his power, and he was either in cahoots with Hedrada or Mesos. Neither of which anyone would suspect, Hedrada being Enkili's polar opposite, and being that Enkili's lie ended up in Mesos destruction. If not that, or possibly on top of that, then I'd say Vangal's act of mercy towards Lethene was so that he would have a titan he could sic on the world at a later date, using the ensuing chaos to wreak bloody carnage upon the world.
That's all a bit general, I know, but I hardly have an insider information into the matter. Hopefully, if anymore metaplot is done, it's done in such a way as to not destroy the integrity of parts of the setting.