So what I thought so far for my story is in a world different from ours there is land known as Yahridge that holds the power of alchemy and uses weapons that can transform. The leader of the land is Hamark who is said to be the one to discover alchemy by doing business with parallel worlds (but parallel worlds are unknown to his world only certain people a part of government know). There is a war going on with Yahridge and a neighboring nation that they once owned the land of Yahridge but Hamark came along and rallid up the people producing a successful revolution. Hamark needed something from his past self which with the power to go to parallel worlds he also discovered how to travel back in time. With what he had stolen from his past self Hamark learns that what he has would help in stopping the war by commiting genocide and that he would take over that land, subjegate the people as he is pissed at the enemy nation for such bad treatment towards his country. Hamarks wife Susuan learns of this and tries to warn people but she is almost killed by Hamark for comitting treason. Susuan goes into hiding and uses the same technology to create a necklace that would be able to travel to the past. She goes back to Hamark when he was a younger lad and gives him the chance to retrieve back what was stolen from him. He agrees. So I wanted to do an ending similar to Bioshock infinite by taking the component of it where past Hamark is killed and so all other Hamarks that would turn into genocide killers from parallel worlds would never exist. But the problem is idk what the item could be? Im not even sure if I want the item to be a person or an object which brings up the problem of what could this mcguffin be? An idea I had was to go along with the alchemy theme that what he was looking for was the philosopher stone although it would go by a different name to add a plot twist to it. I thought of the philosopher stone would actualy be a person no longer human. But when I thought about that it would be plagerism to Infinite that Booker is escorting a woman who is basically a god. The idea of older Hamark having the stone wouldnt be able to work also as he would have already commited genocide by the time younger hamark goes there so the story wouldnt matter as I want the first part of the ending to go Older Hamark does reach his goal but for reasons the souls of the dead are brought back into the people and Old Hamark is killed. How could I make my ending work?
