A Training Exercise
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It seems my first post is going to be fanfiction. I'm okay with this. It's set in the universe of rising indie authorMikhail J Clive. His Masks of Steel universe, specifically. It's a delightful universe with a richly fleshed out history and many thrilling characters. I'm eager to see what he does with it.
This story involves one of the more involved fight scenes I've ever written. Hope I did it and the characters justice. It's important to challenge characters and I ran with the premise of putting Tyras, the steppe lion war hero, into a situation that his fellows underestimated the severity of. War torn countries plagued with supply chain raids, trying to recover, and a man mad with revenge.
Masks of Steel can be found here. If you liked this, you'll love the source material.Masks Of Steel | Royal Road
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- Status
- Completed
- Year
- 2024
- Author
- DanielWatts
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- 4.8/ 5.0
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- 1
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- 481
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- WuldenRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5When I say impressive emulation let me clarify what I am talking about.
What Danielwatts has managed to do here is something I have not seen from fanfiction yet (I have not read much so forgive me there).
Daniel has managed to emulate Mikhail's story telling in such a way I had to do a double take a few times to make sure I was actually reading Daniel's work. The fan fiction was so clear and well connected that it could feasibly have been entered into Mikhail's personal lore bible with (potentially) seemless addition.
It is such an impressive thing to see someone replicate someone else's artistry with words and concepts that they manage to create what amounts to a "powerful addition" to the lore and world of the original creator.
Most fan fictions I have read, either create new characters or create new "perspective interpretations" of the story in a "How I want to tell it" sort of way. Daniel makes a story here in a way that would be believably crafted from the original authors own works.
That, to me, is impressive as heck man.
I feel bad for shilling another author's work in this Review, but seriously... Take some time to look through "Masks of Steel" by Tyras Mikhail. Once you have done this (even if it is just 10 chapters deep) come back, and read Daniel's piece.
This is awesome. Well done. It expands concepts of the world in a believably connected way. The creative liberties, don't really feel out of place, nor do they feel like they are creative liberties. It is just really well done.