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<blockquote data-quote="Sir Knight" data-source="post: 6183341" data-attributes="member: 6701846">Ah, help with starting a story?&nbsp; There was one thing in your opening post I thought needed addressing:That &quot;misunderstood&quot; bit could be&nbsp; the root of a conflict, or at minimum something that needs more&nbsp; explanation.&nbsp; Do you mean &quot;misunderstood&quot; in the sense of &quot;people get&nbsp; the wrong impression of the beings, and may even hate them&quot;?&nbsp; Or just&nbsp; that &quot;people think the Mae'ti are too weird to try to understand&quot;?Your&nbsp; description is that they are peaceful, try to understand others (they&nbsp; even &quot;find other races to be peculiar&quot; and react with curiosity), and&nbsp; seem almost passive.&nbsp; It appears that everyone can get along just fine&nbsp; with these quiet little atheists.&nbsp; Hence, an internal conflict in your description.But&nbsp; compelling stories are often character-driven, and if &quot;misunderstood&quot;&nbsp; was just a throwaway line, you might be able to go back to it and grow&nbsp; something much bigger.&nbsp; Find a group of people who conflict&nbsp; on a societal level with the Mae'ti.&nbsp; Create a land conflict, a political blunder, or just some greedy individuals trying to exploit or kick out these &quot;peculiar&quot; Mae'ti.&nbsp; Or even&nbsp; better: religion is obviously a point here, and everyone loves a good&nbsp; holy war.&nbsp; Bring violence to the Mae'ti and they'll fight back, right?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sir Knight, post: 6183341, member: 6701846"] Ah, help with starting a story? There was one thing in your opening post I thought needed addressing: That "misunderstood" bit could be the root of a conflict, or at minimum something that needs more explanation. Do you mean "misunderstood" in the sense of "people get the wrong impression of the beings, and may even hate them"? Or just that "people think the Mae'ti are too weird to try to understand"? Your description is that they are peaceful, try to understand others (they even "find other races to be peculiar" and react with curiosity), and seem almost passive. It appears that everyone can get along just fine with these quiet little atheists. Hence, an internal conflict in your description. But compelling stories are often character-driven, and if "misunderstood" was just a throwaway line, you might be able to go back to it and grow something much bigger. Find a group of people who conflict on a societal level with the Mae'ti. Create a land conflict, a political blunder, or just some greedy individuals trying to exploit or kick out these "peculiar" Mae'ti. Or even better: religion is obviously a point here, and everyone loves a good holy war. Bring violence to the Mae'ti and they'll fight back, right? [/QUOTE]

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