If I put this in the wrong thread im sorry
Anyway I have a question
Is it better to do an act of revenge alone or together with a team
I planning to write a short story (one chapter long ) about an elf that's gonna get revenge on the vampire because they killed her entire family and race.
Is it better for her to wipe the vampires with the chosen heroes of the world or alone
What do you mean better? What kind of story do you want to write? Because there is an industrial werehouse worth of wiggle room.
I'd first address the matter of scale of the problem. Here are some suggestions.
1) leave the race alone. Any enemy that can holocaust an entire species is not something a singular entity could realistically enough handle. So your story will end up more silly than anything. Especially with the length of the story you intend to write.
Make it more modest. Some vampire/group of vampires killed an elven family, so mc goes Punisher Blade on them.
2) is the enemy a single vampire or an organisation? Because if it's an entire race, 1) would apply and if it's latter, depending on scale of organisation and taking your story length into account 1) would apply also.
How about this: a vampire organisation of considerable but not overwhelming size killed an elven family, so mc goes Punisher Blade on them.
But since we have established the scale of enemy and damage, we can now imagine the scale of the story. There is no need to write an expansive large world with several races and continentd and countries. Make it a city. A metropolice or a town.
But given this scale, we can now work with the setting:
why did the vampires kill the elves?
a) Was it a spontanious crime of very hungry ferals? Maybe something done by 1 vampire? Then your mc will find allies in law enforcement, adventurers etc.
b) Was it a planned crime of an organised group?
Then why did they target your mc family? Maybe it was motivated by the influence the family had. Elves are traditionally portrait as wise and long-living species, so maybe there was some very long time political feud.
Maybe other circumstances where mc family had considerable influence.
Then there will be allies to mc from former supporters of mc family.
Maybe it was done by an invading army headed by the vampires that destroyed the forest where the family lived and mc family was collateral.
Then there is again a tonne of wiggle room.
Maybe the elves were the evil ones.
Etc etc