I am incredibly interested in this. I'm happy to throw ideas around too.
For the Wilde were you looking for truly evil? You could have weird creatures with human faces and extra appendages. Twisted things, driven mad with the pain of their deformity. Some cunning, some raving, destructive animals. No two would have to look alike, which leaves more room for imagination, and makes it so the enemy could have unknown abilities.
Also, the front page something about magic. Will that still be involved, or is this going to be mainly tech-y?
VERY good questions, sorry about the late reply.
As far as 'evil' goes, i'm not a fan. I don't believe in concepts like 'good' and 'evil' rigidly. I've always seen it as differing viewpoints on what is right and what is wrong. I've enver heard of anyone waking up in the morning and saying "How shall I be EEEEVIL today?"
at least not outside of bad Saturday morning cartoons.
So no, the Wilde aren't "evil", but they are Ravenous, savage and monstrous to behold.
what you said about "weird creatures with human faces and extra appendages. Twisted things, driven mad with the pain of their deformity. Some cunning, some raving, destructive animals. No two would have to look alike" is absolutely perfect and EXACTLY the kind of thing I was looking for. :)
Their whole deal is that they only seem to have ONE authoritative individual across the entirety of the species, an elusive creature called the Alpha lord, never seen. There's ALSO the major factor of how they came to exist.... but that would be telling.
And Magic is something I want to make tricky and dangerous, so much so that only the truly gifted or the truly insane can successfully utilize it. And it wouldn't be stuff like a fireball from the tip of a wand, but spells that make the blood of an enemy boil in their veins, that oxidizes their bones and bends their sanity over a table before doing something unfortunate to it.
So yes, Magic IS something that's in play, but in this world you'd need to be crazy to try it.
