Lord of the Silver Crow

Speaking of the experience of writing this book, it is indeed hard to describe in one word.

In terms of setting, I said before, and everyone can see that the setting of this book is mostly the old case of Night Crow.

Therefore, to talk about this book, it is inevitable to talk about the night crow that has not been finished yet, which can be said to be a lifetime.

Shortly before writing about Night Crow, I was still a dm and kp, a transparent person playing in a circle.

I remember that before I wrote about Night Crow, I watched Master Gu.

At that time, I thought, can the operation of synthesizing Gu be used in the dnd profession?

Thus, Night Crow's "core breakthrough" system, which is to use other occupations as materials to synthesize new occupations, is here.

At that time, I also set up a lot of synthetic career routes, but...in the end, I only used less than two.

Moreover, it is divided into the game zone because I originally planned to write virtual reality online games.

Later, because I felt like writing data or something, because I was not good at it, I turned to another world of games.

Not to mention the element of "crow". The pseudonym of "South African giant" is due to some popular terms at the time-

"Black face", "non-chief" and the like.

Crow, black, luck, death, prophecy...

When I originally wrote Night Crow, I was going to include all these images.

As a result, everyone knows that when the first world is written in the multi-world, because the space is too long, I feel that I can't finish the multi-world that I want to write, so I quickly change the world.

After that, I wrote more and more uncomfortable, and now it has become a lifetime (I feel quite sorry to those book friends)

And he was not reconciled.

After all, to be honest, because many of the settings of glory have not been written out, in the other worlds of Night Crow, I have incorporated a lot of settings of glory and continue to write.

In a sense, the whole book is still writing glory...

But it's only in a certain sense. It collapses and collapses, and I can't dispute it.

After that, I wrote about the Tsar's single-player infinite stream fan, so he relaxed.

However...accidents happened continuously, and the book couldn't go on.

Finally, after looking at the Night Crow, he took out the old case and annulment of the Night Crow, and planned to write a story after the Night Crow's Glory World.

At that time, it was not right. When I was writing Night Crow, Mystery opened the book, and then Mystery became a big hit. At that time, I felt that Night Crow's core breakthrough system could be directly embedded in the Mysterious Sequence Path system by modifying it.

Moreover, when I saw it at the time, I immediately knew what material was used in the secret.

After all, as a dm of dnd, it is always inevitable to come into contact with a lot of discussions about mythological prototypes.

As a coc's kp, when setting up when running a group, you always need to check the relevant historical background, and I am very familiar with folklore and the like.

And things like "Tarot cards" are even more familiar.

After all, my mythological enlightenment is animations such as Sakura, Yu-Gi-Oh, and movies such as Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I have seen too many Tarot cards, Kabbalah, Mithraism and Gnosticism.

As for the mythology and mysticism of the Middle East, I am too familiar with it.

Compared to imagination, history, mythology, and folklore are the easiest materials for creators to find.

Moreover, by comparing the common points, it is easy to find some common elements of myths from all over the world. There are more myths I have seen, and it is easy to set up a set of mythological systems using those natural landscapes and the humanistic elements of primitive society.

When writing about the night crow, because of the "crow", I looked for myths related to the crow everywhere as material.

What is the crow demon of Solomon’s little book, the white crow of Apollo, the informant crow of Athena, the double crow of Odin, the three-legged golden crow of the celestial dynasty, the neon Yata crow, the raven of Mithraism what.

In Europe, the image of the crow is somewhat related to the image of "information", "disclosure", and "surveillance".

The world view prototype set by the Night Crow itself is a mixture of Nordic mythology + Celtic mythology + Greek mythology + Egyptian mythology and some Mediterranean niche myths, and I have mixed in some dnd-style mythological elements.

The more you look at various myth-related and religious-related histories, you will find that there are many versions of them.

There are even a lot of special versions of the Chinese dynasty born after being misinterpreted on the Internet.

Well, I couldn't tell the difference at the time, so they all mixed together and set the worldview.

Now, even if you ask me what some mythological prototypes are, I don't necessarily remember them, and I can't answer them unless I read the draft.

The glorious world of Night Crow is the setting of "Nordic World Tree + Egyptian Tree of Life + Greek Sacred Tree".

I don't need to say more about the world tree of Nordic mythology, it is now used in various works.

The tree of life in Egypt may be relatively rare. When most people hear about Egypt, they may think of sun gods, pyramids, and sphinxes, but they may not be familiar with the specific relationship between funeral culture and the tree of life.

But I am more familiar.

In the version I have seen, the tree of life often appears in the image of a goddess, and plays an important role in the resurrection of the dead, even as a core symbol.

Even in the ancient Egyptian writing, the word "shelter" is related to the shade of the "tree".

After reading this version, I learned about the importance of trees in Egyptian culture, and I was thinking about one thing. Is the resurrection of the dead in ancient Egypt related to the "rebirth" of trees after they die?

(Minke imagination without real evidence, don’t take it seriously)

The "sacred tree" in Greek mythology is another kind. It does not refer to specific trees, but different gods have corresponding tree species as sacred trees.

Every **** has a corresponding sacred tree, and because of the concept of "world tree", I had the idea of ​​"tree world" at that time.

Yes, my initial "Mirror World" setting was "Tree World".

The change from "tree world" to "mirror world" is actually because of another author.

Before I wrote the book, the author retreated.

At that time, he sent out his setting in the book friends group.

I remember his setting at the time was "The world is a gem", "At what stage will everyone condense a gem", "The world reflected by the gem is the mirror world".

At that time, he said that these settings were derived from the inner alchemy core, Zifu Xianting and "Shenjing".

I went to study it at that time.

In the early years of the Internet, there were many elements of folk worship and burning incense, especially combining the elements of Jiang Ziya's lantern club head.

The incense gods and ancestor gods of the small temples and shrines, as well as the official system of the feudal dynasty.

The phenomenon of social culture is clearly reflected in mythology.

In the early days of the Internet, the immortals of the East were written about incense and gods, and the purple palace fairy garden was condensed in the mind and body.

And then what little world, it will become a blessed world of its own.

Later, I didn't know that the ghost made a change of skin, changed this set of things into the Western **** system, and then became a **** and came out.

Didn't the early web articles have some novels, the gods of the East and the gods of the West follow the "belief system", and will they condense some "cores" in their minds?

And those who believe in gods also have settings such as "the domain of the gods" and domains.

The result of my research at the time was this, but it was not too detailed, and there might be many mistakes and omissions, such as not only Taoism, but also Buddhist elements, etc. I couldn't do more specific research.

But I didn't think too much, so I combined these with my "tree world".

The "Mirror World", the wizard, came out.

I don’t need to say more about the source of the wizards. The group of druids in northern Europe who worshipped them was later classified as enemies by a certain religious religion.

The struggle between religious beliefs.

As for the concept of wizards...

For a long time, the protagonists, villains, and all kinds of people in online articles are all kind of exquisite egoism, and I will inevitably be affected.

I think sorcerers should be like this.

According to my observation, what many readers say when they dislike this exquisite egoism is not because they think it is wrong, but because...

There are too many, and the disgust caused by aesthetic fatigue, I hope to see different (shanging hands).

Simply put, some people are disgusted just because they have formed a "routine" and are "anti-routine" under aesthetic fatigue.

It's not that they think there is something wrong with this value.

Of course, because of this opportunity, some people start to think about exquisite egoism, and thus stand on the opposite side.

The reason is also related to changes in the social atmosphere.

I did not come from a formal school in the field of social and religious studies. The study of social phenomena also used things that have appeared in myths and legends as an opportunity to give me ideas in this area.

On the one hand, the aesthetics of online texts are formed by social influence, and on the other hand, they will adversely affect society.

Older book friends should remember the underworld novels and popular movies at the time, as well as the underworld chaos in the 1990s and early 21st century.

Humanities and humanities, web culture is also a part of the humanities, will be affected by society, but also affect society.

The two are intertwined....

Ah, digress.

Talking about it.

The wizard system of Night Crows, "inscriptions" and "runes", are derived from the life runes of Nordic mythology.

There is...

In the early days of the Internet, there were often operations such as programmer magic programming, and the wizard in my settings was the same.

It's not even just a wizard, the settings related to "programming" directly affect the entire world view.

After all, it is a game alien.

Before changing to Game Alien World, the initial setting was the game world.

The "rules of the world" are the program framework, and different worlds are different operating systems. Under different operating systems, a software cannot be used universally.

After changing to the game Alien World, I did not cancel this setting, but kept it.

And, because the setting of "Wizard" is that kind of mad scientist.

At that time, influenced by Cthulhu and various sci-fi works, I also had many ideas about "high-dimensional" and "low-dimensional".

The ascension-related settings in Night Crow are not perfect, but they are almost the same.

The "coordinate system" setting in Silver Crow is inherited from the setting in Night Crow.

Different dimensions correspond to different coordinate axes.

When I went to investigate at that time, I found two theories.

One is multidimensional on a complete spatial scale.

The other is a misunderstanding who doesn't know how to spread it after a few hands.

One to three dimensions are space, the fourth dimension is time, the fifth dimension is temperature, and what is the sixth dimension...

Both theories inspired me at the time.

I was thinking about one thing at the time.

What does a world made up entirely of time look like?