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Originally Posted by Nerwen
Also, why is it always wolves and dragons? Why is no fantasy protagonist ever mystically soul-bonded to a sheep? I ask you.
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Sheep are food.
People want to be bound to the hunters, not the prey.
Sheep are stupid, wolves and dragons are smart (well, every hunter has to be smarter than the prey...
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People worship the fierce animals.
What's mystical about sheep?
Sheep have no kind of loyalty except to the greens they much on.
I could go on for a while with this, but I'll stop here. There are peoples from fantasy novels that live off sheep and thus appreciate them more than just meat and wool, but they would not worship them or have some mystical ties with them. Sheep are too domestic, too tame, and too predictable to be mystical.
Though Erendis and Ancalime might not agree with me.