Im rewriting the opening to my book again. Called Strangeworld, its a Terry Pratchett-esque epic fairy-tale which parodies elements of the genre. Most of the humour in the story comes from the fact that none of its principal characters (a thief, a wizard and a knight) quite match their archetypes. Comments, anyone? *** Some days you just can’t find decent heroes. Every so often, someone comes along who clearly has no business trying to save the world. Doesn’t meet the qualifications. Isn’t made of the right ‘stuff.’ He or she will set off with a swagger and a smile, to win a kingdom or slay a dragon… and ninety-nine per cent of the time the maverick is never heard of again. Should have stayed at home. Occasionally, an unlikely figure bucks the trend. But this is rare. Such things happen only once in a green moon, and those are rather less common than blue ones. For every Everyman who has left on a quest and come back rich and famous, there are thousands buried and forgotten. Yet even these exceptions don’t do all the work themselves. Almost always there is some fellow traveller with them, who does a better job of fitting the mould. Very rarely do you find that all the adventurers in a tale are as hopelessly unsuited for heroism as each other. That, however, is the story I am about to tell you. In the world of Terúvial there once lived a band of slightly honourable brigands. They called themselves the Brotherhood of Thieves, and thievery was their trade. An excellent trade it was too, at least for the people doing the trading. There was no better way to make money at someone else’s expense without having to do any real work yourself. Other than being a banker, obviously. But as everyone knows, thats just a more sophisticated form of robbery. Today, the Brotherhood were going to steal a princess.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:56:02 +0000
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