Dragon designs

Prince (Garret) Designs

Rouge demon (Thane) Designs

Elf (Shin) Designs

Protagonist (Arian) designs.

Initial ideas

My idea is inspired by fantasy RPGs such as the old final fantasy games. However I wanted to change some of the stereotypes often seen in role playing games. I decided to have a female protagonist as it is rarely seen in games like this. For example a common plot line in these games is that there is a girl of substantial importance to plot who has magical powers (or gains them) or is a princess (or both) who for whatever reason (usually running away or being kidnapped or rescued) ends up travelling with the protagonist and his ragtag group of side characters. The protagonist can be anything from a mercenary, to a thief or even a normal farm boy who is chosen for a special mission.

For my main plot I want to follow that stereotype to a degree. However I am going to flip the main roles. The girl with magical powers will be the main character, who will end up kidnapping a prince. The basic plot line is as follows: The world the story is set in has been split into two halves. The upper classes live in an industrial society. In a large city that is cut off from the rest of the world. As a result of not caring much for the lower classes, the common people live in medieval style settlements, constantly plagued by magical creatures and monsters.

The upper classes do not believe in things like magic, or that any other races exist other than human as they have cut themselves off. The only ones who keep contact with the outside world and know the truth are the king and his advisors who keep minimal contact with the lower land to maintain rule. Other than that the inhabitants are forced to fend for themselves. Things have been going from bad to worse for them and many settlements are being wiped out by monsters, the elders of each remaining settlement meet up and send a small group up to the city to take the King's son hostage in order to make the King listen to what is happening to them.

I was inspired by RPGs such as Final Fantasy IX and Last Story. As the games story lines are very much fairytale like. I'm also inspired by games such as Infinite Undiscovery in which the male character is quite meek in personality (at the beginning) and the female character is the stronger one. Another inspiration is Resonance of Fate. In that game there is a divide in society as well as a steampunk or industrial feel to it. Though my idea only has one industrial setting.