What's your view of the hero?
I was reading about Fighting Fantasy books lately, I loved them growing up and probably owe learning to read to the genre, anyway, I bought some of the horror and weird fiction varies of the series second hand lately and was reading what the authors themselves had thought about writing them.
There's one of them Prisoners of the Abyss which features a strange cosmic horror in which people are stole away and imprisoned in a sort of phantom zone. The main author of this book had planned to conclude it with you releasing the prisoners, liberating them but forfeiting your life in the process. He described in the interview about how the other main writer in the series objected, he suggested that when the hero triumphs they get the gold and treasure and maybe get made king or something. In the end they compromised, the hero's life was forfeit but the got God like powers in return.
He described how he wanted to take the novels in a "eastern" direction, I'm not sure if it was middle eastern or oriental but it was clear that he saw heroes as self-sacrificing.
What's your view of the hero? Does it resemble one or the other view or is it something different altogether.
I was reading about Fighting Fantasy books lately, I loved them growing up and probably owe learning to read to the genre, anyway, I bought some of the horror and weird fiction varies of the series second hand lately and was reading what the authors themselves had thought about writing them.
There's one of them Prisoners of the Abyss which features a strange cosmic horror in which people are stole away and imprisoned in a sort of phantom zone. The main author of this book had planned to conclude it with you releasing the prisoners, liberating them but forfeiting your life in the process. He described in the interview about how the other main writer in the series objected, he suggested that when the hero triumphs they get the gold and treasure and maybe get made king or something. In the end they compromised, the hero's life was forfeit but the got God like powers in return.
He described how he wanted to take the novels in a "eastern" direction, I'm not sure if it was middle eastern or oriental but it was clear that he saw heroes as self-sacrificing.
What's your view of the hero? Does it resemble one or the other view or is it something different altogether.