Chapter 135 Work Explanation

Incompleteness - Human Weapon - One of the Ways to Read In October 1997, it first began to be serialized on the Korean Hitel website.Afterwards, many people started browsing the creative serial section (sentia1) of Hitel website just to see it.It even happened that some people who used Korean Chollian, Nownuri and other online membership services joined the Hitel online membership service just to watch. Such a great charm has fascinated many Internet users.What is the reason why so many people call themselves "I am the zombie", and wait until the early morning with their eyes open and sleepless? (Annotation: The author of the Dragon Race posts the content of the day's writing on the Internet in the middle of the night every day) From those high school students who are about to take the academic ability test to the teachers who teach students, what is the reason for the fanaticism of men, women and children?

The greatest strength of the The setting of the game is quite unique, not only unique, but also philosophical, deeply running through the whole theme.Few works can fully develop the theme of "the relationship between self and others" in it.This is actually because fantasy novels have the advantage of being able to put non-human races into the setting. However, in other fantasy novels, the differences between humans and other races (elves, dwarves, goblins, orcs, etc.) are generally stated only in appearance. It has become one with the event and the theme consciousness. For the time being, let's break away from our familiar daily life of seeing people and being watched.Please use your imagination and think of those races that cannot understand humans and are not understood by humans.

In this fantasy world, human beings are not always correct and noble beings chosen by gods.On the contrary, human beings are incomplete life forms that can only sway restlessly between Urbinne (order) and Hoganes (chaos). There are many races in this world that are better than humans.The elves will not experience poor communication. They can achieve coordination with all things and resonate with them. They are a rational race.The dwarves are bold architects and excellent inventors, they will not cheat, they are a race that embraces the earth and lives.Fairies are a race that can travel through all dimensions.Dragons, on the other hand, can survive independently for thousands of years and pursue integrity within themselves. They are magical races.Among these distinctive races, what advantages can human beings exhibit?

Humans wander between good and evil, and are a race that must exist in relationship. The phrase "I am not singular" appears several times in the novel, which briefly presents the theme awareness of this novel. Human beings live in relationships and exist as a complex of relationships.Therefore, human beings cannot be singular.No matter who you are, you exist as the child of the parents who gave birth to you, you exist as the friend of your friend, and you exist as the parent of your child. Those who can exist as three, four, ten, or thousands of people according to the people they know and the relationship with each other are human beings.Moreover, human beings have strong fecundity, a strong desire to preserve the race, and a knowledge inheritance system.Therefore, although human beings are a limited race that lives a short life, they are closer to an immortal race than dragons that have lived for thousands of years.

In addition, human beings are quite shameless (according to the author, the name of the hero "Xiu Qi" is the abbreviation of shameless), and they look at everything from the perspective of human beings.Human beings "humanize" things, and there is a brief quote in it that symbolizes this relationship: "If an elf looks up at a star, it will become starlight; if a human being looks up at a star, he will create a constellation".Human beings look at everything around them from a "human" point of view, and even this simple fact is hard for humans to imagine unless it is seen in the novels humans read.

Well, let's think about another possibility from this fantasy world.For the human race, which is incomplete but still pursues completeness, if there is a possibility to achieve "completeness", how will history change?In it, human beings are portrayed as an autocratic race. In order to maintain their own self-discipline, they give up the pursuit of integrity, and even destroy the integrity of other races.However, only one race, the dragon, has not lost its integrity.So, can human beings communicate with complete life forms? In this world, it can be done.Like a dictionary that connects one word with another, like a prayer that connects humans and gods, the Dragon Soul Envoy is an excellent life form that has the aptitude to connect incomplete humans and complete dragons.The moment the dragon soul envoy connects with the dragon, he will lose the meaning of being a human being, and he is an unfortunate human being.Because, just like after a couple gets married.It is not necessary to mention the declaration of marriage in everything. After humans and dragons are connected through the Dragon Soul Envoy, the Dragon Soul Envoy has nothing but symbolism.Just as human beings desire to become gods and communicate with gods in a certain way, the fact that they can communicate is a symbol of the clergyman, similarly, the Dragon Soul Envoy is a symbol of the fact that humans and "complete life forms" can communicate .

Speaking of this, one thing is clear, that is, it is not simply a list of some interesting events.On the contrary, this novel answers such heavy questions as the eternal subjects of human beings—integrity and incompleteness, communication with others, ways of self-existence, etc., according to the author's own division of labor.And in this novel, the author gives a simple but cold answer to these questions: it is impossible to communicate with others.While we deal with the mistakes made by practicing communication, we try to guess what the other party means.Humans "are not singular".Human beings exist in memory and being remembered, in the hope and time accumulated by themselves.As seen in the "Eternal Forest", humans do not have a unified archetype.It seems that human beings can only hope that there will be the kind of integrity represented by dragons in the afterlife world.Humanity has been looking up to this integrity and striving to achieve it.However, incomplete humanity and wholeness cannot coexist in the same world.If it is in the same world, integrity will be affected by human beings and degenerate, and human beings will despair of their own incompleteness.Therefore, in this novel, the last thing to be built is the human kingdom after all.In this light, the novel may also be a sad and clever dissection of the power of human incompleteness.However, human beings who are incomplete and have a strong tendency to self-analysis may not be able to do anything anymore.Instead, we must be content with having "clever analysis."

If we only talk about the theme of this novel, and only use the above few words to state it, it can be said that it is an incomplete and random summary of this six-volume novel.In fact, the charm of the movie is not limited to this (if it is only limited to this, then it is not enough to make countless people crazy about it during six months). First, it has style.There is almost no precedent for Korean fantasy novels written in the first person, and there are some secrets that will not lose the tension in the thick weight of 13,000 pages.First of all the humor can be mentioned.The prominent and sometimes obscene colloquial style in the novel, and the sudden jokes sometimes made by the protagonists in urgent situations, actually play the role of refreshing agent to relieve tension.

But using these alone, it is difficult to maintain a sense of tension.In the novel, in addition to humor, there are also some proverbs mixed in. These proverbs will remind people of the well-regulated and archaic tone of previous European literature in the Middle Ages.The farewell words of the elves and the greetings of the priests are typical. "May there always be sunshine in your ears, until the sun goes down/May you return as if parting, with a smile always on your face." .” These elegant sentences, as well as the occasional irony or enthusiasm mixed in, are one of the forces that attract readers.

The structure of the characters is also unique.In fantasy novels, generally a group of people form a team and travel together.In this novel, too, this tradition is faithfully followed.The members of the team include Warrior Shansen, Gisien and Wenchai, Archer and the leader of the group Carl Hetant, Iluli and Yavnai who play the role of Magician. Germany, Priest (Priest) Adeline and Gerente, equivalent to bard (Bard) Xiu Qi, thief (Thief) Nelia.Such a six-member team is a fairly typical role assignment in terms of fantasy games. (Poorlunch Note: In fact, Karl should also be regarded as a bard - pursuing stories and understanding history, this is the characteristic of bard. It's just because Iluli is an archer and mage, and generally doesn't shoot arrows, so long-range attacks fall on Karl It's on his head—he is a "student" after all, and he can also be regarded as Xiu Qi's teacher, so he is just a bard who has practiced archery.)

The point of success is that it can have this kind of typical, and at the same time, it can also give each character a unique charm.There are no other characters like Shan Sen in it.The combination of Ghisien-Duanya Sword-Thunder Guard formed Ghisien's personality that could not be explained only by the deposed prince.The taciturn and calm Wen Chai, he was originally close to the role of a villain.However, the author portrays him as a bad guy, just because he is a member of different cultural circles and different countries, and he is portrayed as a charismatic warrior.As for Xiu Qi who talks a lot, Nelia who has a strong self-esteem, Iluli, Adeline and Athelhand who are set to be of a different race from us, needless to say, they also have their own characteristics . The events encountered by these people are also very unique in their charm.The most impressive is "Eternal Forest".The author uses an event to describe the philosophical concept of "the split of the original self", and connects it to the setting. The author's ability can be said to have reached a climax in the "Eternal Forest". peak.And it will also replicate the implication of the ancient legend of blame—human beings feel confused about their own truth, and hate those who are the same as themselves—the metaphor that human beings are two sides of one body, and present it vividly.Also, the villagers of Hetante, who can be called "mountain country bumpkins", were surprised and admired when they saw civilization and other worlds. For example, they described the street lamps as "lampposts", and they made a fuss when they saw the sea in the Principality of Yis , with this kind of interest, happily presented in front of readers (if we see the appearance of Mars or Venus with our own eyes, it should also present the appearance of a "mountain country bumpkin"). There is another brilliant and terrible metaphor in it that cannot be ignored.It is God's Landing where "even the power of gods is used as a weapon for human beings".Such a place would expose all buildings to the sun inhumanely, and cause humans to die of endless diseases. This scene is actually not unfamiliar to us.Because the earth after the destruction of the ozone layer and the earth after the nuclear war that scientists have been describing are not far from this.Human beings who subvert the order of God and use it as a weapon are endangered by this weapon. This is the same in the world of fantasy and in the world of humans.The same is true for the tragedies caused by the Byzos Kingdom, the Harshtel family, and the Shuriji family. In places with wealth, unequal power, and ambitions, they can happen anywhere in another form.The fantasy world is actually a place where human problems are reflected in a slightly different context. Human beings are incomplete, and things created by human beings cannot be complete. There are also disadvantages.Although its large and exquisite design and beautiful internal structure can accommodate its shortcomings, it is undeniable that there are shortcomings.First of all, it is the problem of monotonous time points.This may be a shortcoming that inevitably occurs when first-person novels are to pull out so much weight.The author seems to be aware of this, so in the second half, in the scenes recalled or relayed to others, the time points of partial pruning are used to overcome this problem.However, in the twelve-volume novel, the narration of the pruning time points is less than one volume in total, so it is still difficult to help overcome the monotonous impression. Here, the inevitable problem is that Xiu Qi's role will become too important. Especially in the second half, Xiu Qi almost played the role of "the man who solved it".In this case, the self-contradictions that a seventeen-year-old boy must have, and the incompatibility with the real society, almost never appear.In the human kingdom at that time, heroes and myths had become powerless, but when they began to become powerless, Xiu Qi did heroic deeds instead. The very coincidental encounters and the endless kindness of the characters on the stage will also surprise readers.Because, no matter how similar the walking route is, Xiu Qi and his party can meet the elf Iluli as many as three times in one day, but they have not encountered any other elves during the long journey (could the elves have gone to another world? gone?).Also, among so many characters on stage, the only one who can be called a villain is the Marquis of Harshtel, and even the Marquis of Harshtel has his own reasons to become a villain. Judging from these points Come on, I can't help but wonder if it's because the author is a human being and can't describe the communication method between harmonious elves, so I made a convenient way, and I'm also curious if the so-called "human beings are incomplete" is stated in the article The concept of "has led to the beautification of human beings. Human beings must have a certain degree of evil and villains in their race, so human beings are an "incomplete but complete" race, isn't it?Then in the fantasy world, if human beings want to survive as human beings, the despicableness and hateful malice of human beings should be described without filtering, right? Although this is a small shortcoming, the names of the characters and the magic names belong to the English system, which is typical and named in this way.However, the world of "Oriental fantasy novels" and even "Korean fantasy novels" is a world that has been constantly explored by fantasy fans or fantasy creators.I hope that the author can create works that can cover those worlds in the future. It is indeed a masterpiece.The author publishes as much as two hundred pages of manuscript paper a day, and continues to serialize it within six months. Even if the author's energetic writing ability enough to become an Internet legend is not mentioned, it can be called a masterpiece.Even including its shortcomings, it is a masterpiece.Because it discusses the relationship between the integrity and the incompleteness of human beings, and reveals the different answers in the detailed structure.After reading it, we will notice that the last race is still in the unknown world, and we will also look forward to how the author's new works will set up and explain clearly the relationship between that race and humans.This is because in "Dragon Race), the author has enthusiastically explored the relationship between human beings and non-human races, myths and legends, and facts.In , fantasy is not escapism these days.In , fantasy has emerged as a form of fiction related to the connection between metaphysics and reality, and it is a new and elegant form of fiction. To what extent will this new form of fiction germinate?We should be able to wait and see. (Song Kyung-ah/Korean novelist)