Why is it always a thousand years? Why not Five-hundred-and-fifty-seven?
Thousand year rules and prophesied ones rule the day where fantasy's concerned. As such, making your novel stand out from the pack is going to be difficult, regardless of how well it may end up being written.
Also, I know we all like to write troubled characters, but not everyone living in a slum is a social outcast fighting inner demons.
Anyway, that's all I can say at this point. An outline is only the beginning, after all.
