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Prologue: Heroes
"Stories.
Stories. The essence of all life, the original source of all being, the tasty fruit of fantasy, sometimes sweet, sometimes sour ... "
Personally, I'm sick of them.
That's why I'm telling my story now.
The shop I worked in really didn't look good. The spiders felt particularly comfortable in the dark corners and developed completely new techniques of web construction, the shelf on which the healing potions and tomes were stacked was worn out and the beautiful wood was scratched, in every single corner something was piling up, regardless of whether it was books or armor , Glasses with pickled animals and things I prefer not to speak of now ...
This condition was probably due to the owner:
Me.
Still, I had a lot of customers. Mostly mercenaries, healers, robbers (who, strangely enough, all paid the set price, and without grumbling. Except for one, and he never did it again afterwards), and above all heroes and their companions.I can no longer count how many heroes have already sought advice from me, or even just stopped by on their journey to the freezing, barren north.
Or to the strange, dangerous East. There was seldom any mention of the south or the west. Most were either looking for an enemy who posed a great threat to their threatened people, after the mistress, mostly kidnapped princess slash fiancee slash sister,
or for random nuts.
Heroes can be divided into exactly five categories:
1. The optimist: In a good mood and reliably, he fights his way through the ranks of the enemy. At the beginning, usually very weakly, he overestimates himself and is not taken fully, but wins many friends and the love of his life on his journey. Even if his path becomes difficult, he only doubts at most once.
2. The idiot: Slips clumsily from one crisis to the next, has more doubts than type one, but resembles him in his development.3. The bad-tempered one: Becomes a hero involuntarily, usually has no desire to fulfill his task at the beginning, but a sweet maiden or a little brat soon touches his heart, which is closed to protect himself, and then fights his enemies with ardor
4. The Anti-Hero: Much like Type Three, but tired of his life. Very closed by a severe blow of fate, he usually follows his task reluctantly.
Or he wants to avenge the death of his beloved slash his people slash family slash the theft of strange nuts and pursues his enemy with bitter seriousness. Often dies tragically and is seldom weeped.
4.5. Even if I should, I'm not talking about female heroines here. For one simple reason: I just don't get it.
5. Me.
Stories. The essence of all life, the original source of all being, the tasty fruit of fantasy, sometimes sweet, sometimes sour ... "
Personally, I'm sick of them.
That's why I'm telling my story now.
The shop I worked in really didn't look good. The spiders felt particularly comfortable in the dark corners and developed completely new techniques of web construction, the shelf on which the healing potions and tomes were stacked was worn out and the beautiful wood was scratched, in every single corner something was piling up, regardless of whether it was books or armor , Glasses with pickled animals and things I prefer not to speak of now ...
This condition was probably due to the owner:
Me.
Still, I had a lot of customers. Mostly mercenaries, healers, robbers (who, strangely enough, all paid the set price, and without grumbling. Except for one, and he never did it again afterwards), and above all heroes and their companions.I can no longer count how many heroes have already sought advice from me, or even just stopped by on their journey to the freezing, barren north.
Or to the strange, dangerous East. There was seldom any mention of the south or the west. Most were either looking for an enemy who posed a great threat to their threatened people, after the mistress, mostly kidnapped princess slash fiancee slash sister,
or for random nuts.
Heroes can be divided into exactly five categories:
1. The optimist: In a good mood and reliably, he fights his way through the ranks of the enemy. At the beginning, usually very weakly, he overestimates himself and is not taken fully, but wins many friends and the love of his life on his journey. Even if his path becomes difficult, he only doubts at most once.
2. The idiot: Slips clumsily from one crisis to the next, has more doubts than type one, but resembles him in his development.3. The bad-tempered one: Becomes a hero involuntarily, usually has no desire to fulfill his task at the beginning, but a sweet maiden or a little brat soon touches his heart, which is closed to protect himself, and then fights his enemies with ardor
4. The Anti-Hero: Much like Type Three, but tired of his life. Very closed by a severe blow of fate, he usually follows his task reluctantly.
Or he wants to avenge the death of his beloved slash his people slash family slash the theft of strange nuts and pursues his enemy with bitter seriousness. Often dies tragically and is seldom weeped.
4.5. Even if I should, I'm not talking about female heroines here. For one simple reason: I just don't get it.
5. Me.