Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy: Khalidor is probably in the top 10 of all time most-evil fictional empires. And that's before we are introduced to the concept of Krul in the third book. Krul are basically undead soldiers who become more powerful every time their numbers have grown by a factor of 13. When the first Khalidorian emperor calculated he would need almost 5 million corpses to discover the next level of Krul his reaction was "let's get started."
Seems like misuse to me. yes, Khalidor is one hell of a shithole, but they're the bad guys, and if they're THAT evil then that's one more reason to root for the good guys to kick their asses to the moon and back right? DIAA is not just a very dark setting, it's when the audience feels that whatever good guys there are have no hope of any meaningfull victory or when there are no good guys to root for in the first place. I never felt there was situation like that here, not the entry seems to describe enything like that.
- Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy: Khalidor is probably in the top 10 of all time most-evil fictional empires. And that's before we are introduced to the concept of Krul in the third book. Krul are basically undead soldiers who become more powerful every time their numbers have grown by a factor of 13. When the first Khalidorian emperor calculated he would need almost 5 million corpses to discover the next level of Krul his reaction was "let's get started."
Seems like misuse to me. yes, Khalidor is one hell of a shithole, but they're the bad guys, and if they're THAT evil then that's one more reason to root for the good guys to kick their asses to the moon and back right? DIAA is not just a very dark setting, it's when the audience feels that whatever good guys there are have no hope of any meaningfull victory or when there are no good guys to root for in the first place. I never felt there was situation like that here, not the entry seems to describe enything like that.