Isekai And/Or ISOT Ideas, Discussions And Recommendations Thread

CarlManvers2019

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As the title says, this is a thread for anyone who has any Isekai and/or ISOT stuff they'd like to share.

Though, gotta say, I'd say that ISOT's kinda require more work than Isekai because presumably entire areas alongside buildings, resources, technology, forces, populations would be brought along and possible politics and/or economic activity may ensue
 

BF110C4

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It is when you move part of a civilization into another without warning, for example sending a modern american city to 200 years to the past or moving them to a classic D&D fantasy world. The focus is how they adapt their society into a new paradigm, like getting raw materials for their industry or learning how to defend against a medieval army with only their police and volunteers.

The Isekai genre is very similar but there you move only a few persons at the same time, the largest I have seen is a full high school to the Sendoku era. They are focused on how the protagonist changes the setting, or at least how the protagonist tries to survive in it. Done well is a very interesting thought exercise, done wrong the authors usually gave the protagonist too much power or knowledge making him far too OP (a risk shared with virtually every other genre).
 

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I've had an interesting idea for reconstructing the Isekai, specifically the reincarnation sub-genre.

Rather than the character(s) gaining memories from their past life do to something happening in the past life or between life and death, they instead gain them because of some action they undertook specifically to unlock the memories of their past life.

The specific idea I had is for a scholarly sect in a Xianxia type setting to practice a cultivation technique to unlocks the memories successive past lives as they practice the technique. Typically they'd unlock memories of a life as a dirt farmer or a cat, but rarely the cultivator retrieves memories of a past life as a cultivator, celestial beast, or human from another world with knowledge about alien sciences or magics.
 

CarlManvers2019

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The problem is that promoting other websites on AH is probably fairly terminal.

That’s frankly understandable, though at some point the four sister sites will have to acknowledge their younger bastard brother whom they cast out, even if only in sneers

Speaking of ISOT’s, got an idea, the Kingdom of The North+The Wall+Beyond-The-Wall(Minus The Lands of Always Winter+The White Walkers+Wights) from ASOIAF replaces or somehow combines with North America sometime before European Explorers arrive and right before Robert enters The North

Optionally “space” is manipulated to actually make it so they are connected without terrible effects on the planet

Seeing an entire continents worth that’s not real cold, the Northern Lords try talking to Ned about trying to conquer it while the Wildlings amass to enter. The fact that they are now more-or-less the most advanced civilization on the continent makes things somewhat easier.

What happens when European Explorers discover the presence of these primitive-r in comparison to them pseudo-Empire?
 

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I'm already posting an ISOT here... And I understand they are very welcome.


I love ISOT stories. I have an idea of one that has Mars and the Belt from Expanse being ISOT'd to Stargate Sol. Fun times ahead.
 
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That’s frankly understandable, though at some point the four sister sites will have to acknowledge their younger bastard brother whom they cast out, even if only in sneers

Speaking of ISOT’s, got an idea, the Kingdom of The North+The Wall+Beyond-The-Wall(Minus The Lands of Always Winter+The White Walkers+Wights) from ASOIAF replaces or somehow combines with North America sometime before European Explorers arrive and right before Robert enters The North

Optionally “space” is manipulated to actually make it so they are connected without terrible effects on the planet

Seeing an entire continents worth that’s not real cold, the Northern Lords try talking to Ned about trying to conquer it while the Wildlings amass to enter. The fact that they are now more-or-less the most advanced civilization on the continent makes things somewhat easier.

What happens when European Explorers discover the presence of these primitive-r in comparison to them pseudo-Empire?


The Vikings found out just how much of a fight it was to impose their will on the "Skraelings", the Northmen would also be unpleasantly surprised.
 

CarlManvers2019

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The Vikings found out just how much of a fight it was to impose their will on the "Skraelings", the Northmen would also be unpleasantly surprised.

And they already have a hard time dealing with Wildlings who are Stone-to-Bronze Age with the occasional Iron Weapon that they looted or traded for

I expect “colonies” as well as attempts as diplomacy and trade being made. Maybe even some Native Americans becoming “Lords” and having their children “Fostered” past The Neck

How would the Native American tribes feel about Northern Religion? It’s barely got any myths or practices, just strange trees with faces on them. I wouldn’t be surprised by occasional attempts at fusing beliefs
 
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How would the Native American tribes feel about Northern Religion? It’s barely got any myths or practices, just strange trees with faces on them. I wouldn’t be surprised by occasional attempts at fusing beliefs

I often think the religion of the Old Gods as practiced is something of a stripped down, cautious form that the practitioners learned over time to avoid being seen as uncivilised to the rest of the Seven Kingdoms.
 

CarlManvers2019

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I often think the religion of the Old Gods as practiced is something of a stripped down, cautious form that the practitioners learned over time to avoid being seen as uncivilised to the rest of the Seven Kingdoms.

I think there may have once been times when they hung body parts on them as well as human sacrifice

Say, what do you think Ned would do if they try making him King In The North when even with all the other Kingdoms+Crownlands gone, Robert is still Ned’s friend

And there’s also them wanting to do conquest on people unprovoked
 

CarlManvers2019

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Isekai Idea: A Barbarian Hero from a Robert E. Howard-esque setting, who combines both a Berserker Rage and a Keen Intellect is transported to modern day Earth and has to adapt to a world where he finds himself forced to adapt to the relative-in-comparison peacefulness, the presence of new weapons and technologies superior to even the strongest and most advanced iron age civilizations and new enemies like organised crime

Yearning for adventure, he tries to adapt to this new world, wearing modern clothes and trying modern weapons and gadgets with varying degrees of success

And decides to explore this new world, not through a plane and while also carrying loads of swords, knives, maces, axes etc on his person

Along the way antagonists from his home, like the Chaos-esque entities and their worshippers arrive on Earth and cause trouble which he deals with
 

BF110C4

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Isekai Idea: A Barbarian Hero from a Robert E. Howard-esque setting, who combines both a Berserker Rage and a Keen Intellect is transported to modern day Earth and has to adapt to a world where he finds himself forced to adapt to the relative-in-comparison peacefulness, the presence of new weapons and technologies superior to even the strongest and most advanced iron age civilizations and new enemies like organised crime

Yearning for adventure, he tries to adapt to this new world, wearing modern clothes and trying modern weapons and gadgets with varying degrees of success

And decides to explore this new world, not through a plane and while also carrying loads of swords, knives, maces, axes etc on his person

Along the way antagonists from his home, like the Chaos-esque entities and their worshippers arrive on Earth and cause trouble which he deals with
Good idea, it avoids one of the most common mistakes of an Isekai, the abuse of knowledge of history, culture and modern science over a less developed world. Plus adapting on the modern world can bring either comedy or drama depending on the actions taken.

Just be careful about the way authorities deal with him, because openly carrying a medieval arsenal is a good way of getting arrested while on the other hand if his enemies can open a portal anywhere on the world he will need resources to even reach the battlefield, especially if its not in the same country he arrives.
 

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