My royal princess* would never inherit the throne. She could, technically, but there are too many cousins (some even biological children of the queen, not that it really matters) and she's a sort of an intermediary between her people and the elf-like lot.
* We all have one, don't we? :) Even if she'll never live outside our imaginations because we're too lazy to write the damn story...
Same here. I wish there'd be more morally ambigous heroes. Not evil but... I don't know, sensible? Flawed? Heroes who really get what "for the greater good" means and would sacrifice one village if it'd save the country. It's a shame that so few authors are willing to risk it: nine times out of ten there's a "surprising" third option that saves both the village and the country.
Actually, now that I think about it, various manga series do it a lot better than novels. To mention few, there's Saiyuki and the Sanzo-ikkou, and Naruto's ninjas aren't exactly the shining examples of high morality either. Fullmetal Alchemist has plenty of flawed heroes, and PetShop of Horrors is a whole category of its own. From novels, all I can think off the top of my head are Robin Hobb's Farseer & Tawny Man trilogies, and Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's Death Gate Cycle.
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* We all have one, don't we? :) Even if she'll never live outside our imaginations because we're too lazy to write the damn story...
Same here. I wish there'd be more morally ambigous heroes. Not evil but... I don't know, sensible? Flawed? Heroes who really get what "for the greater good" means and would sacrifice one village if it'd save the country. It's a shame that so few authors are willing to risk it: nine times out of ten there's a "surprising" third option that saves both the village and the country.
Actually, now that I think about it, various manga series do it a lot better than novels. To mention few, there's Saiyuki and the Sanzo-ikkou, and Naruto's ninjas aren't exactly the shining examples of high morality either. Fullmetal Alchemist has plenty of flawed heroes, and PetShop of Horrors is a whole category of its own. From novels, all I can think off the top of my head are Robin Hobb's Farseer & Tawny Man trilogies, and Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's Death Gate Cycle.