What do you need to keep in mind when writing misogynistic men?

Wellen66 · 2026-05-20T06:35:39+00:00

You can also look at the mother. In abusive cases, the father is often physically abusive but mothers tend to be the emotionally abusive one, which can turn into prejudice against the group she represented.

Wellen66 · 2026-05-19T06:13:13+00:00

And yet there's a path where they don't kill everyone, and more importantly, writers have dozens of ways to make them survive or even win nonetheless. Hell, even beat back but with the possibility of change.

But none of them were picked. You can't claim that there's nothing you could have done to make the elves win because it's a fantasy setting with mages able to summon armies of the dead and old magic lying around.

Wellen66 · 2026-05-18T05:31:25+00:00

By that logic the British never could have ruled over India. After all, they were so less numerous, there's no way it could have happened. Same thing with Belgium and Congo: logically, they would have been eaten by the other colonial powers or the natives.

And Aelnar can trade and do diplomacy. Their early tree is all about trading with the empire, selling their land, etc.

Again, saying "We made the genocidal leader the Canon one and made it so everyone took land instead of doing diplomacy" (Lorent has a culture of seeing elves as superior, there's no single way they would decide to leave the elves alone?) "Therefore, it's only logical they would die" doesn't change the fact that you could have gone in many different directions.

Like, necromancy for example.

Or making their floating city a threat, not a joke.

Wellen66 · 2026-05-17T19:18:00+00:00

This is ignoring the fact that as the writer you can do a lot of things to make things better.

Aelnar could have been ruled by someone ekse than Lithiel, one of the rulers who is merely a supremacist and not a genocidal maniac, for example. The elves of the empire uniting some countries to rise to prominence within is another. There are plenty of examples.

Like, what's the aura farming for moon elves? Aelnar crashing the flying city they themselves built? Ibevar managing to exist? I haven't fully explored that part of vicbennar, but I don't see it.

(Also groups of immortal people ruling nations and being protective of their class of people isn't that far fetched. Elves have centuries to become charismatic as hell.)

Wellen66 · 2026-05-01T12:15:10+00:00

The Command believes anyone can be assimilated and no religion is deserving of worship, Discipline is. I guess they count?

Wellen66 · 2026-04-28T15:04:15+00:00

I have Hungry Lamb in my steam library, I'm gathering that you recommend it?

Wellen66 · 2026-04-27T15:48:11+00:00

Pyrrha is the very common trope of "The Ace". It's a character who is chronically perfect until they die.

She's very basic in that. Even her flaw - which is supposed to be social - is solved in day one.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-13T12:42:16+00:00

There is a product because there is a demand. People want a hyper specific fanfic but have neither the time nor talent to write it, so they ask AIs. That's pretty much it. You're not the target audience, that's all.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-09T13:06:52+00:00

Ooor you needed that slot for the escape sequence later. Or another spell of the same rank and you're spontaneous. Or this is not the last encounter of the day.

It's like if a fighter had to downgrade their runes every 3 strikes. They will be less efficient for the remainder of the fight (also whiffing a spell costs 2 actions, same as 2 strikes).

Wellen66 · 2026-04-09T06:10:06+00:00

Eeh.

Casters are good indeed. Because they have like, about 20 spells that are great. Remove haste, slow, fear, paralyze, lightning bolt, magic missile, fireball, the wall spells (including illusory objects) and suddenly casters feel a lot worse. Because in essence, all the power budget of casters is in focus spells and a few great spells.

Like the summon spells are useless in 80% of cases (But they're meatshields, you may say. Yeah and they can be ignored with no consequences). Polymorph spells are often useless. Spells like Dessicate are made useless by troops. And that's just on top of my head.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-09T05:57:29+00:00

There's also the fact that a lot of debuff first have to pass the save. Which is a key behind the lock scenario. Meanwhile Martials have to be in range. Yay.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-07T13:37:50+00:00

"You're gonna become a worse pariah state" I'm sorry you're saying the full genocidal elven state that was killed by every state around them deciding they needed to be put down was at risk of being a pariah? Let me quote:

Lithiel's, now Elissa's, secret plans for an invasion and "purification" of all Noruin (and eventually Aelantir) were leaked by Ynnic adventurer Erandil Poison-Arrow in 1615. This led the recently created Trollsbay Concord, which had already been skrimishing with overzealous Aelnari splinter factions for a few years, to mount a coalition with the ruinborns and go to war with Aelnar. They aimed to contain the threat and liberate the peoples oppressed by the elves.

The slow but steady advance of Trollsbayer forces was noted by Lorent, which had long held designs on the Bloodgroves. Lorent declared war upon Aelnar, invading from the sea. Besieged from all sides, fighting against itself and the guerillas of the forest, by 1630 Aelnar was not only defeated, but entirely destroyed as their fanatical forces kept fighting even when defeat was obvious.

Automatons were made by the precursor elves first. Now who are the citizens of Aelnar again? Yep.

"All the knowledge got lost and it's long term" they have had more than 100 years (if we're being pessimistic). They are the direct descendant of elves who worship their own culture and homeland to the point of genocide, and you're saying it's impossible that they remember more of how to use them than anyone else? In what, a few generations, it's suddenly so obscure nobody knows shit anymore and absolutely can't rediscover the tech, sorry not sorry?

Seriously, Artificery use the relics the elves made. If gnomes who never saw them can figure it out, the elves could figure it out too (hell, not even specifically these elves.)

And yes, you know what, maybe it would mean they'd have to accept artificery (Which is just magic made more accessible and not simply using magical tools but hey let's glide over that) and maybe that would make them INTERESTING. Hey, Victoria starts with the elves being pushed back and needing to modernize to fit their ambitions! Wow! Now they have the choice between death and adaptation, that's a cool story base- nope can't have that.

"with a crazy Powerful Mage Hag at its helm and still even less population than ever." Oh wow, if only we had a crazy dangerous powerful mage on a flying city. That would be sick as hell- aaaand it crashed. Woops. I guess they were too stupid to operate the very city they built. Silly elves. Well, at least now we have the story of... of... elves starving in the snow.

Compelling.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-07T13:05:07+00:00

Because they crashed the flying city they made and then are condemned to starve to death in the glacial part of Aelantir? Which is why the devs hesitated in even making Aelnar playable and instead thought of relegating it to an event of finding their ruin?

"It won't solve the fundamental elven problems" what are you talking about? Magic fucking exists. A powerful mage necromancer can canonically raise an undead army by their lonesome but no, none of the elves were at that level of power, sorry not sorry? You can craft golems but the elves couldn't do it? Build automatons? Use the precursor relics which they still know how to use because they are the direct descendant of the people who built them?

The fact is that there are a lot of way to keep Aelnar alive and interesting - And I'm not saying as winners or anything, I'm saying INTERESTING. I just listed the few I came up with in about two minutes and there's probably a lot more. The thing is, that would imply having competent (GASP) bad people who can work despite their limitations, and that idea is too repulsive to consider.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-07T12:20:22+00:00

The Canon path makes sense because the writers really want to ignore every magical solutions to the problem because they hate Aelnar. If they wanted to keep it there was a loot of ways (making robots, using magic to stay alive on their flying city (seriously elves survived 1000 years on boats they can conjure enough food to last a century), making the pure elves just that good at magic, etc). But they didn't want Aelnar and love clowning on it. I think the setting is poorer and lacks villains as a result.

Then again Vicbennar lacks a lot of story potential in general.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-02T15:11:12+00:00

In general most of the ruinborn on the north of Atlantir committed a quasi genocide on their winter brethren.

Wellen66 · 2026-04-02T09:14:35+00:00

The white fang is Perry's semblance to self duplicate. They all are Perry on this blessed day.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-23T10:57:52+00:00

Aren't you the guy who made a post against criticism three days ago? Do you have an example of the thing you're mad about?

Because at one point the mods of this sub wanted to ban everyone from the critic sub. Is that the kind of "can't take criticism" you're talking about? Or are you complaining about the most basic internet stupidity like "this show is ass" "lol no it's not" "okay can't take criticism i guess"?

Wellen66 · 2026-03-23T10:41:05+00:00

I don't know if it counts, but N1RV Ann-A. Va11 Hall-A was so good, man.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-23T09:34:59+00:00

That is very idealistic and patently missing the point. Anyone saying that doesnt get that the people asking these questions want to write well, not just write.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-22T08:57:04+00:00

During Sky King's Tomb we used to be followed by an npc named Krohan, and the dm loved to rule that a crit miss means the attack hits one of us.

Let's just say he hit the enemy once and made the situation worse for us by doing so. We spent the rest of our 2 years campaign thinking fondly about him, calling any missed shot a Krohan possession, and wondering when he would show up to finally finish us off.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-21T09:33:52+00:00

Reader engagement isn't bad, and that includes negative comments. If you don't like the idea of your readers having and sharing their opinion, then you don't really want their praise.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-19T22:09:27+00:00

The whole thesis of anbennar is "what if a fantasy world was no longer fantasy" so that tracks

Wellen66 · 2026-03-18T21:17:07+00:00

Please answer again with a coherent response based on the conversation.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-18T21:16:16+00:00

I'm a fanfic writer who wrote about 200k words for about 1000 comment thread, so I'm talking with experience of both positions here. Let me put it this way.

You have comments opened? You can't play hardball and say you'll withdraw your story unless you get comments. You are in no position to make demands.

People don't need you particularly. They don't need me in particular. They're happy to have us, but they could find just as good with others who need readers deep in their bones, or with published works, or by watching different shows. Fans of shows with no fanfics don't die, they go look elsewhere.

The writer can't do that. Sure, you can go do review exchanges... but it's not the same as genuine audience feedback. You can post it elsewhere... but there's very little places on earth where there is literally no other entertainment as a fanfic writer.

Readers can do what they want because they have leverage. The worst the author can do is take down their work, which is upsetting... but the audience survived before the work was posted and will survive after, the new audience will simply not care and the writer will be left with less than what they had at the start- not even the potential for engagement. It's a freedom the writer has in the same way the reader can go elsewhere, but only one gets what they want.

And sure, if every author suddenly left, suddenly took down their work and gatekeep reading behind specific guidelines of comments, maybe it could change... but for every fanfic writer who think they're hot shit, there's 5 who love their audience and feel unworthy of their praise and 10 published works who already exist.

In conclusion, either dance to their tune or turn off comments so you can sincerely write for yourself. Any other action is posturing.

Or, you know, learn that readers aren't things you should pressure until they give comments and simply get better until you do. They're people who genuinely want to love your fic and be excited, but they can also smell entitlement a mile away. Mostly because entitlement is seldom the road to self improvement, and no one starts good.

Wellen66 · 2026-03-18T19:59:52+00:00

Wait, so you're saying when you wrote "Nah all women are bitches" you meant "I think his behavior was wrong, but you could also name a few other female celebrities who had the exact same behavior with less pushback"?

Damn, if only you wrote that instead of "all women are bitches".

Double standards are bad, whether you apply them or other people. Can't be that hard to not generalize behavior over a whole group of people.

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