I don't know why being the ignorant American that I am, but for one reason or another we don't have a Diskworld topic. Just about one for everything else pulse a half dozen more for Worm, but not a one for the late Sir Pratchett beloved setting. I suppose it's time to see that fixed.
So to start things off I am hoping some more knowledgeable fans of the franchise could help me with an idea I have bouncing around my hear.
Just fair warning it's a Destiny crossover. I've included a bit of a primer for thous not familiar with the video game below.
Granny Weatherwax is resurrected as a Guardian. Of course this being the Disk, and Granny being well... Granny this gets interesting (I suppose it would be in the Agatean sense of the word?). With her Ghost first rezeing her while she was out "burrowing." ("She was dead! I swear! No respiration, no heart beat, no Brain activity!") Granny suddenly finds herself back in body with this chattily little metal eye ball ( I've never been able to think of a clever reference for the physical description of Ghosts.) Except it's not quite the way she left it. For one thing all her frown lines are gone. (On account of her Ghost doing a full body restoration like so much antique furniture on a home improvement show)
A part of me thinks the logical point is a bit after "The Shepherd's Crown." Just for the easy plot of Granny dealing with a world that kept going after her.
But I haven't read any Tiffany Aching books, and I'm only on "Witches Abroad" in the Witches series. I mean I've the read the TV-Tropes pages, but their is knowing the bends in the road, and then there is seeing and navigating them yourself.
The part of it that got traction in my head right now was this mental image of Granny being perturbed becuse after she was revived for the first time she looks 19-ish now, and people are not treating her with the respect that a Witch of her... experience... is due. Bad enough when all she had were some frown lines and sunken cheeks to work with. Now half the critters in the woods are looking at her like they expect her to brake out in song, or some such nonsense.
I don't really see the necessity of bringing the grater Destiny universe into the story. The machinations of Hive Gods, or Ahamkara wishes would just get in the way of Esmerelda and her Ghost in a very familiar but at the same time very different and strange world.
So thoughts? Comments? ....Why do you have that wooden cross and nails?
So to start things off I am hoping some more knowledgeable fans of the franchise could help me with an idea I have bouncing around my hear.
Just fair warning it's a Destiny crossover. I've included a bit of a primer for thous not familiar with the video game below.
Granny Weatherwax is resurrected as a Guardian. Of course this being the Disk, and Granny being well... Granny this gets interesting (I suppose it would be in the Agatean sense of the word?). With her Ghost first rezeing her while she was out "burrowing." ("She was dead! I swear! No respiration, no heart beat, no Brain activity!") Granny suddenly finds herself back in body with this chattily little metal eye ball ( I've never been able to think of a clever reference for the physical description of Ghosts.) Except it's not quite the way she left it. For one thing all her frown lines are gone. (On account of her Ghost doing a full body restoration like so much antique furniture on a home improvement show)
A part of me thinks the logical point is a bit after "The Shepherd's Crown." Just for the easy plot of Granny dealing with a world that kept going after her.
But I haven't read any Tiffany Aching books, and I'm only on "Witches Abroad" in the Witches series. I mean I've the read the TV-Tropes pages, but their is knowing the bends in the road, and then there is seeing and navigating them yourself.
The part of it that got traction in my head right now was this mental image of Granny being perturbed becuse after she was revived for the first time she looks 19-ish now, and people are not treating her with the respect that a Witch of her... experience... is due. Bad enough when all she had were some frown lines and sunken cheeks to work with. Now half the critters in the woods are looking at her like they expect her to brake out in song, or some such nonsense.
I don't really see the necessity of bringing the grater Destiny universe into the story. The machinations of Hive Gods, or Ahamkara wishes would just get in the way of Esmerelda and her Ghost in a very familiar but at the same time very different and strange world.
So thoughts? Comments? ....Why do you have that wooden cross and nails?
Almost all of the relevant back story can be summed up in 5 minutes with these two cutscene.
The Traveler is a God like being who's way of saying hello to humanity was to help terraform the parts of the inner solar system that we (Humanity) weren't living on at the time. Good times ensued. But capital "E" Evil came and ruined everything.
Well almost. The Traveler either having taken a shine to humanity, or tiered of running threw down with "The Darkness". Were still around, so it looks like the Traveler won the first round. Of course it's now apparently catatonic for the trouble, but before it did the godly equivalent of passing out punch drunk it made what we call Ghosts.
Ghost are fragments of the Traveler, who set out to find their Guardian. The only thing the Ghost knows about their Guardian is that their already dead. (You, the player, for instance were a pile of rotted bones.) They( the Ghost) then goes about helping their Guardian in what ever whys they can. Be that hacking computers, deciphering (space) magic runes, playing Tricorder, making fresh ammunition in the filed, being your (Space) smart phone, Et cetera, and Et cetera.
Most importantly of all though a ghost can heal a Guardian from just about any injury, and if they can't then they can just resurrect them again.
It's one of the things I like about Destiny is that a lot of the game is translated on a one=one bases in the lore.
... And in game maniacs like respawning or PvP matchmaking.
Now the rule is that Guardians after their first revived will not have any memory of their past life. The know how to walk, talk, read, wright, fight, and so on, but they have no personal memories. Sometimes, if their lucky, they'll have an ID or something similar. So in some crossovers you need a excuses/ justification for a character to know who they were in their first life. Hence why I brought up Granny's borrowing.
The Traveler is a God like being who's way of saying hello to humanity was to help terraform the parts of the inner solar system that we (Humanity) weren't living on at the time. Good times ensued. But capital "E" Evil came and ruined everything.
Well almost. The Traveler either having taken a shine to humanity, or tiered of running threw down with "The Darkness". Were still around, so it looks like the Traveler won the first round. Of course it's now apparently catatonic for the trouble, but before it did the godly equivalent of passing out punch drunk it made what we call Ghosts.
Ghost are fragments of the Traveler, who set out to find their Guardian. The only thing the Ghost knows about their Guardian is that their already dead. (You, the player, for instance were a pile of rotted bones.) They( the Ghost) then goes about helping their Guardian in what ever whys they can. Be that hacking computers, deciphering (space) magic runes, playing Tricorder, making fresh ammunition in the filed, being your (Space) smart phone, Et cetera, and Et cetera.
Most importantly of all though a ghost can heal a Guardian from just about any injury, and if they can't then they can just resurrect them again.
It's one of the things I like about Destiny is that a lot of the game is translated on a one=one bases in the lore.
... And in game maniacs like respawning or PvP matchmaking.
Now the rule is that Guardians after their first revived will not have any memory of their past life. The know how to walk, talk, read, wright, fight, and so on, but they have no personal memories. Sometimes, if their lucky, they'll have an ID or something similar. So in some crossovers you need a excuses/ justification for a character to know who they were in their first life. Hence why I brought up Granny's borrowing.
