[The Anachronist] Character Seed

[senko]

Just an idea that came to me a time traveller who seeks to inspire the imagination and debate. So they gather various advanced technology break it and then leave bits and pieces in the past e.g. part of a weapon in an annex on the tomb of Tutankhamen, frames of glasses on a dinosaur, fragments of an spaceship scattered across the tarpits of a world, various looted bits of alien races on the site of a major battle to make it look like the army's were fighting something demonic/alien (depending on society views). Never enough to actually use to rebuild it till your nearly advanced enough to create it anyway but enough to make the person discovering it wonder at the possibility of something more. Furhter enhanced by writing books and records to support it e.g. a legend of an immortal warrior guarding something important for scholars to debunk then sliding millenia old armour in good condition but worn that matches the descriptions of the warriors armour and dates to the right time period under the floor boards of a house about to be knocked down so it's "discovered".

[grinch]

I like it. Some disgruntled yet extremely passionate academic who merely wants to reignite people’s love in history and the possibility of something more. Just has a rather bizarre method to go about doing it that’s all.

Feel like this could open up several other storytelling potentials as well. Say for instance, there’s been a sudden flood of time machine or temporal machinery hitting the markets on various planets in abundance. Just where is it all coming from? Would certainly act as an explanation for how someone so ordinary managed to get their hands on it.

[greyhame]

Sounds like a far more extreme version of the Monk - or possibly, someone who believes that he didn't go far enough.

[senko]

I don't think so though its been a long time since I saw his episodes. The monk if I remember right was trying to fix history to his views this one is just trying to encourage imagination not actually change anything. They don't care if the only person they reach is a young child giggling over their broken zentronic beam detector or causes an entire civilization to reach for the stars. All that matters is someone is inspired. There are similarities true but like I said they take care what they leave is only able to be used to inspire your not going to have someone in 18th century England picking up a vortex manipulator and ensuring the British Empire never falls by assasinating those responsible to give an example.

[grinch]

Dec 19, 2021 11:45:40 GMT senko said:

I don't think so though its been a long time since I saw his episodes. The monk if I remember right was trying to fix history to his views this one is just trying to encourage imagination not actually change anything. They don't care if the only person they reach is a young child giggling over their broken zentronic beam detector or causes an entire civilization to reach for the stars. All that matters is someone is inspired. There are similarities true but like I said they take care what they leave is only able to be used to inspire your not going to have someone in 18th century England picking up a vortex manipulator and ensuring the British Empire never falls by assasinating those responsible to give an example.

Yeah, I can’t see the Anachronist character going so far as to try to nuke an impending Viking fleet of warships with an atomic cannon.

[senko]

Dec 19, 2021 12:21:47 GMT grinch said:

Dec 19, 2021 11:45:40 GMT senko said:

I don't think so though its been a long time since I saw his episodes. The monk if I remember right was trying to fix history to his views this one is just trying to encourage imagination not actually change anything. They don't care if the only person they reach is a young child giggling over their broken zentronic beam detector or causes an entire civilization to reach for the stars. All that matters is someone is inspired. There are similarities true but like I said they take care what they leave is only able to be used to inspire your not going to have someone in 18th century England picking up a vortex manipulator and ensuring the British Empire never falls by assasinating those responsible to give an example.

Yeah, I can’t see the Anachronist character going so far as to try to nuke an impending Viking fleet of warships with an atomic cannon.

Not the way I picture them no but they might wait till the Viking's left the bury a couple of "modern" swords so they look normal and even function that way until you examine them with science and realize they're high carbon steel not the iron they should be even though all the evidence shows them as "coming" from this invasion. Thus supporting tales of Damascus steel being a lost art "Where did those amazing swords found at the site of the battle of Badenburg come from? They were used by vikings, look like middle eastern scimitars and would require modern technology to come close to replicating."