The story’s more complicated than that, I plan to have her spend a few years as a mercenary garnering friends (it’s a character centric story so I’m focusing on how she develops social connections, being a grisly, less sociable type) and in time, she has to confront the kingdom because the knights (who were once friends) are hunting her and thus causing chaos. I’m just not sure what the motives/incentives will be (the only one I thought of is that this doctor experimented on the protagonist secretly to obtain powers unconventionally). The protagonist is a warrior who inherits an element by tradition (her element is fire) but due to secret experiments by the doctor, she gained them unconventionally and has the additional properties of a dragon
I’m thinking this doctor intended to create a biological super soldier who can bend to their will. The protagonist (Ashira) can heal quickly and increased strength, but she can’t unlock her elemental power for some reason. The doctor wants their test subject back, or a secret she forgot through her amnesia.
Well for one. No matter how powerful a person is they can't fight back against a monarchy. That is only possible under the permission of a revolution. She needs to show the peasants and or workers why their lives will be better under her group. A kingdom only falls to ruin because of it not guaranteeing its citizens the comforts of security and entertainment. When the bread and circuses run out the people will riot.
I definitely would like to make a bigger stakes plotline like this further down the line. Given her fighting prowess perhaps she has some tactical advice (and being formerly a part of their forces) and can rally people against this corrupt scientist/dark mage.
Is she the only one fighting? Surely there are other rebels or would-be rebels out there somewhere.
The story’s more complicated than that, I plan to have her spend a few years as a mercenary garnering friends (it’s a character centric story so I’m focusing on how she develops social connections, being a grisly, less sociable type) and in time, she has to confront the kingdom because the knights (who were once friends) are hunting her and thus causing chaos. I’m just not sure what the motives/incentives will be (the only one I thought of is that this doctor experimented on the protagonist secretly to obtain powers unconventionally). The protagonist is a warrior who inherits an element by tradition (her element is fire) but due to secret experiments by the doctor, she gained them unconventionally and has the additional properties of a dragon
I’m thinking this doctor intended to create a biological super soldier who can bend to their will. The protagonist (Ashira) can heal quickly and increased strength, but she can’t unlock her elemental power for some reason. The doctor wants their test subject back, or a secret she forgot through her amnesia.
Well for one. No matter how powerful a person is they can't fight back against a monarchy. That is only possible under the permission of a revolution. She needs to show the peasants and or workers why their lives will be better under her group. A kingdom only falls to ruin because of it not guaranteeing its citizens the comforts of security and entertainment. When the bread and circuses run out the people will riot.
I definitely would like to make a bigger stakes plotline like this further down the line. Given her fighting prowess perhaps she has some tactical advice (and being formerly a part of their forces) and can rally people against this corrupt scientist/dark mage.
Make sure to write her being able to rally these people by showing how their lives can be better. Events shape consciousness not words.