One whole good sized nation vs an Intellgent Kaiju: Who is the most troublesome enemy

Disliker of the mary sue · 01-13-2015, 06:01 PM

A character idea I had on the back burner for a long time was the idea of a Bard who ditched his wife who was a powerful individual to go on adventures. The two different ideas I had for the ex wife was either, a beloved queen of a good sized nation that doing well economically, or a giant fire-breathing dragon that had the power to destroy nations. In both cases the character was not aware of their status until after he was married (the dragon disguising itself as a human during the courtship.). The idea would they would be pissedor some reason, whether it personal feeling being broken or the bard did something like steal a valuable treasure on his escape, so the Bard would have a very powerful enemy and would have to keep a low profile.

Hm so I was discussing this idea with a friend and mentioned I considered a dragon since well it could in theory be less trouble then an entire country. My ideas being that a country could create political pressure on the country lands my bard is hiding in, as in "Give me this individual in chains or else our trade agreement is over." But then my friend pointed out a intelligent dragon that was powerful enough to basically destroy nations could do the same. "give me back my husband in chains or I will burn your entire country to the ground."

I don;t know anyone has any opinions on this, Is their things a country as can do to make things miserable for a high priody target that a super powerful individual could not? Would one really be a worse enemy to have then the other or are they kind of the same level of bad?

01-13-2015, 06:01 PM	#1
Disliker of the mary sue Join Date: Dec 2012	One whole good sized nation vs an Intellgent Kaiju: Who is the most troublesome enemy A character idea I had on the back burner for a long time was the idea of a Bard who ditched his wife who was a powerful individual to go on adventures. The two different ideas I had for the ex wife was either, a beloved queen of a good sized nation that doing well economically, or a giant fire-breathing dragon that had the power to destroy nations. In both cases the character was not aware of their status until after he was married (the dragon disguising itself as a human during the courtship.). The idea would they would be pissedor some reason, whether it personal feeling being broken or the bard did something like steal a valuable treasure on his escape, so the Bard would have a very powerful enemy and would have to keep a low profile. Hm so I was discussing this idea with a friend and mentioned I considered a dragon since well it could in theory be less trouble then an entire country. My ideas being that a country could create political pressure on the country lands my bard is hiding in, as in "Give me this individual in chains or else our trade agreement is over." But then my friend pointed out a intelligent dragon that was powerful enough to basically destroy nations could do the same. "give me back my husband in chains or I will burn your entire country to the ground." I don;t know anyone has any opinions on this, Is their things a country as can do to make things miserable for a high priody target that a super powerful individual could not? Would one really be a worse enemy to have then the other or are they kind of the same level of bad?