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GrudaAplam t1_j6f13gf wrote

Well, doesn't it make sense to start the events of the plot just before the super powerful race/clan/faction of beings makes its move to take over everything? That's the whole point, right? That's where the action, the conflict, the tension arises.

If the super powerful race/clan/faction of beings made its move to take over everything earlier then you'd have to start the events of the plot earlier.

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JonathanCue OP t1_j6f3b9d wrote

Not necessarily. Depending on how long your secret world has existed, there is a thousand years worth of time for different factions/clans/races to act. It would be super unrealistic if those within it only had the idea to take over the world at the back end of those thousand years.

Think of the societies we have now in our world. It doesn't exactly take long for them to go to war over land or plunder. What makes *this* faction, which is by necessity so MUCH more powerful than everyone else, different in that regard? What motivation do they have to STAY secret?

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