u/Tasty-Property-9971

Main idea: imagine a fantasy character that uses a changing combination of powers based on attributes from historical figures. Who would you want to see represented and why would they add something interesting? I wanted to ask real historians 🧐 instead of AI 🤖 for inspiration

I am currently working on developing my own story. The magic/power system is based on the fact that the world is inside of a dream, with the characters becoming "lucid." Thus your experiences, understanding of the world, interpretation of the self, and how both interact, plays directly into how your power over the dream manifests.

There is one immortal character that has been alive for at least a million years. He copes with the fact that the world is not "real" by taking personas and living different lives, forced to forget some past lives to make space for new memories. He is going to be a morally dubious, carefree, and manipulative villain taking control of humanity as a king for fun, that the hero is forced to stay allied with for a time.

He will play an important role in the story as a representative of history, his past lives are found intertwined into everything and the readers need to feel invested in them. By using artifacts from history, he can unlock memories from past lives that allow him to regain abilities from them by changing his understanding of world and self. How he combines different lives to solve problems, from combat or other, is the interest.

Please give me ideas for historical figures that could make this interesting and why! Also give me an artifact related to them and feel free to suggest how it could synergize with other powers. The historical figures can be of any gender, but should be an adult or close. Who do you want to see mentioned in a story? Get creative, or mention someone and let others or me come up with ideas.

Context notes:
I am inspired by a Korean novel called "The Academy’s Undercover Professor" with a similar character that used fictional personas such as Van Helsing or Arsène Lupin.

The setting will involve battles that are on a "superhuman" scale, like super heroes or anime, but as a scientific person myself the world is grounded in its own logic.

Feel free to ask me questions!

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I have been working on my own story for a few years and sometimes use my voice to bring it to life. Thought this passage turned out well and would love some feedback if you have time to listen! (1:36 min).

Context to understand:

Solfrid is a character who embodies the "strongest" archetype similar to Gojo. He turns himself into the actual sun because he’s him, but is dead now. This passage is about the Female Lead, who is a leader for humanity despite her feelings that she does not measure up to champions of the past like Solfrid. Nevertheless, her people follow her without hesitation because there is something about her that they believe in. She thus carries a special nickname, which this passage is about.

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Note: "find" should have been "notice", but it still works

Text passage:

Solfrid was like the Sun, who gifted us with the brightest day. But in the darkest night, there is only one star we find to guide us through the abyss.

Polaris, is not a special star. But to all that look up in the night sky long enough, they will notice, that all the stars in the universe revolve around it alone.

Is it by coincidence or fate, that this star must not let itself dizzy feeling the world spin about it? If only for a blink of God’s eye, history for us.

She does not know it, but humanity will find its way home guided by the light…

…of The North Star