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littlemanpoet · 06-12-2002, 09:48 AM

I think The Jewel of Battle and The Wolf's Claw are the two best and least derivative titles amongst your choices.

These easiest way to falter from one's destiny is that it suddenly becomes much more difficult to go straight, and the hero takes a slightly easier way; conversely, the hero could have an easy way to go, perhaps too easy, and out of pride takes a harder way and gets into all kinds of difficulty he didn't need. Or a the hero lapses into a forbidden (or warned against) pleasure and pays the according consequences. Question: what is your hero's (most likely) flaw? That is probably the best key to the kind of faltering he does.

06-12-2002, 09:48 AM	#16
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I think The Jewel of Battle and The Wolf's Claw are the two best and least derivative titles amongst your choices. These easiest way to falter from one's destiny is that it suddenly becomes much more difficult to go straight, and the hero takes a slightly easier way; conversely, the hero could have an easy way to go, perhaps too easy, and out of pride takes a harder way and gets into all kinds of difficulty he didn't need. Or a the hero lapses into a forbidden (or warned against) pleasure and pays the according consequences. Question: what is your hero's (most likely) flaw? That is probably the best key to the kind of faltering he does.