Consider the old NES game "Godslayer: Sonata of a Distant Sky", known in the English translation as "Crystalis".
At the beginning of this game, there is a village. It isn't particularly close to anywhere of note, and to casual observation it seems small and unremarkable. There are only three things which make it in any particular way noteworthy.
As can be learned by anyone who cares to investigate, not far from the village is the dwelling-place of a hermit who is one of the world's four great wise men.
As is known to only a few, most of whom dwell in the village itself, the village elder has in his possession an artifact of ancient times: the powerful weapon known as the Sword of Wind.
As is known to no one at all prior to the start of the game, in the village's metaphorical backyard is a hidden, sealed, forgotten cave in which is a stasis chamber from a long-ago technological age.
The name of this village? Leaf. Or in the original Japanese, Konoha.
(I'm reasonably positive that if I were to check, the term translated as "wise men" would be "sennin", which is nowadays more commonly translated as "sage".)
The potential for an interesting fusion here - likely with a plotline wildly divergent from that of both sources - is amazing.
At the beginning of this game, there is a village. It isn't particularly close to anywhere of note, and to casual observation it seems small and unremarkable. There are only three things which make it in any particular way noteworthy.
As can be learned by anyone who cares to investigate, not far from the village is the dwelling-place of a hermit who is one of the world's four great wise men.
As is known to only a few, most of whom dwell in the village itself, the village elder has in his possession an artifact of ancient times: the powerful weapon known as the Sword of Wind.
As is known to no one at all prior to the start of the game, in the village's metaphorical backyard is a hidden, sealed, forgotten cave in which is a stasis chamber from a long-ago technological age.
The name of this village? Leaf. Or in the original Japanese, Konoha.
(I'm reasonably positive that if I were to check, the term translated as "wise men" would be "sennin", which is nowadays more commonly translated as "sage".)
The potential for an interesting fusion here - likely with a plotline wildly divergent from that of both sources - is amazing.