Quote:Heh, what it really reminds me of is the Malazan series by Steve Erikson. Where the Evil Empire that wants to Conquer The World(TM) happens to be the good guys, inasmuch as there are good guys. Roman-style army, tribal auxiliaries, mage cadre, allies in the form of summoned demons, immortal dust zombies, and the requisite chitinous-armored-soldiers that fly on giant insects. They're the good guys because the bad guys are really truly atrociously evil, and well...
It's supposed to be Dark Fantasy, most of the way through, with a few bits of morbid humor here and there ... and, umm, you definitely wouldn't like ep19 where Rival Necromancer Girl raises what was left of the Party after ep3 and sends them to lead _her_ undead horde against Scribe-guy's, then ...
There'd be a definite military tint to the whole thing, with huge epic battles between mostly the demons and the undead led by Scribe-guy, with a side orded of misc skirmishes and maybe a short filler mini-arc where Scribe guy sees the benifits of having a companion who can come back after getting turned to dust ...
Lots of vaguely and not so vaguely disturbing powers displayed by both Scribe-guy and his cohorts (your basic undead/necro magic and skill set from various miniature battle games, magic, and rpgs) and the demons (mostly mind-bending, general psionics, and some elemental stuff as well as being majorly weird and alien at times).
"Oh, no doubt the Malazans have thought up countless justifications for
their wars of expansion. It's well known that Seven Cities was a rat's
nest of feuds and civil wars, leaving most of the population suffering and
miserable and starving under the heels of fat warlords and corrupt
priest-kings. And that, with the Malazan conquest, the thugs ended up
spiked to the city walls or on the run. And the wilder tribes no longer
sweep down out of the hills to deliver mayhem on their more civilized kin.
And the tyranny of the priesthoods was shattered, putting an end to human
sacrifice and extortion. And of course the merchants have never been
richer, or safer on the roads. So, all in all, this land is ripe for
rebellion."