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<blockquote data-quote="Woas" data-source="post: 4176493" data-attributes="member: 16317"><p>So one cliche, that isn't just fantasy but sort of universal is the "Old dude that sees the future and predicts the end of times". Brainstorming some ideas, I gave this old cliche a turn around and came out with:</p><p></p><p>Just as how the Old Dude predicted. a huge age-ending monster descends to the earth and starts to do it's job. For hundred of years people the monster will be the result of everyones living in agony as the monster torments and punishes them or so the prophecy goes. But wait! The monster doesn't kill everything on the planet and restart humanity, in fact it hardly does much at all before it is slain! Yes, the Eater of Time is killed by a mass effort from some combined humanoid opposition. But the prophecy is fulfilled none the less, because its not the original monster that does the deed, its this new organization that just destroyed it and fills the power vacuum left behind. So now this organization (maybe a very powerful religious order or military force) with all its might decides something like that should never happen and plunges the "known world" into a hundred years of torment and punishment as it stamps out all heretics, non-believers and naysayers by the sword!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Woas, post: 4176493, member: 16317"] So one cliche, that isn't just fantasy but sort of universal is the "Old dude that sees the future and predicts the end of times". Brainstorming some ideas, I gave this old cliche a turn around and came out with: Just as how the Old Dude predicted. a huge age-ending monster descends to the earth and starts to do it's job. For hundred of years people the monster will be the result of everyones living in agony as the monster torments and punishes them or so the prophecy goes. But wait! The monster doesn't kill everything on the planet and restart humanity, in fact it hardly does much at all before it is slain! Yes, the Eater of Time is killed by a mass effort from some combined humanoid opposition. But the prophecy is fulfilled none the less, because its not the original monster that does the deed, its this new organization that just destroyed it and fills the power vacuum left behind. So now this organization (maybe a very powerful religious order or military force) with all its might decides something like that should never happen and plunges the "known world" into a hundred years of torment and punishment as it stamps out all heretics, non-believers and naysayers by the sword! [/QUOTE]
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