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I'm contemplating writing about a character with good motivations whose actions would be considered evil. In short the story would be about a necromancer killing an entire nation so that he can bri...
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System
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2019-12-08T02:21:34Z (over 4 years ago)
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Borgel
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2019-12-08T02:21:34Z (over 4 years ago)
I'm contemplating writing about a character with good motivations whose actions would be considered evil. In short the story would be about a necromancer killing an entire nation so that he can bring order and peace. My problem is that while I can convey the logic of this, I have no clue how to write this without making him a pure force of evil or writing a fall-to-evil story. I can't think of any story where you get to follow the "good" guy and see his challenges; you always get the Mr Bond sit down at the end explaining why the bad guy is good. How would you go about writing a story about a man who has already fallen to "evil" but still portray him as a good guy without sugar coating his plans?
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System
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2012-05-04T10:04:06Z (almost 12 years ago)
Original score: 10