Timeline for What are some signs of a chosen one nebulous enough that they can be mistaken?
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:25 | comment | added | ArtickokeAndAnchovyPizzaMonica | Related, if you want to write a prophecy to confuse the "chosen one" | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 8:16 | comment | added | Dhara | Have you read "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? In a case of mistaken identity (swapped at birth), the chosen one is thought to be another person just because everyone "knows" it to be true. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 2:25 | comment | added | NomadMaker | The Robert Jordan books (The Wheel of Time) have this happen several times. The real chosen one is riding around the world being indecisive and not taking up the mantle, so the pattern keeps throwing up multiple alternatives, until he chooses to fulfill his destiny. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 1:58 | vote | accept | BumpoBiddleton | ||
| Sep 28, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1310685734110720005 | ||
| Sep 28, 2020 at 18:49 | answer | added | Abion47 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 17:39 | answer | added | Alexander | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 14:17 | comment | added | Jedediah | @Sciborg Actually this is a terrible question for Worldbuilding. People usually aren't hot on list questions there, and idea generation is strictly off-topic. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 13:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 28, 2020 at 11:58 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | You can take inspiration from real-world fantasies like the Dalai Lama or even Christianity! Obviously, there can never be a fool-proof test for the "chosen one". The theoretical and practical framework which has been established around the Buddhist "chosen ones" is perhaps particularly interesting because it is an official concept of being chosen and a series of tests to determine him, but it is (afaik) not clear from the onset. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 7:16 | comment | added | Polygnome | Look at Neville Longbottom vs. Harry Potter. Neville could have been the Chosen one - Until Voldemort decided to go after Harry instead of him. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 3:28 | answer | added | DWKraus | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 1:32 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 27, 2020 at 18:11 | answer | added | Sciborg | timeline score: 22 | |
| Sep 27, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | Sciborg | That's fair and I'm sorry if they treated you poorly there. There are several SE sites that I've also had negative experiences on, with users attacking me personally or avoiding my real question to frame challenge in aggressive ways, so I completely understand not wanting to visit certain sites. I will try to come up with a writing trope-oriented answer for you :) | |
| Sep 27, 2020 at 17:40 | comment | added | BumpoBiddleton | @Sciborg I see you're point, and I even considered it myself. (Though I generally try to avoid the worldbuilding site because I get a very restrictive and hostile vibe over there.) Ultimately I decided to put it here because the actual question in italics is about writing tropes, rather than worldbuilding. | |
| Sep 27, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | Sciborg | This might be more of a Worldbuilding SE question in my opinion, since it is asking for idea generation as opposed to writing generation. It may be migrated there to get better answers :) | |
| Sep 27, 2020 at 17:30 | history | asked | BumpoBiddleton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |