![]() ![]() Except that the hero of the classic Western isn’t a part of society he comes in from the outside, remains outside normal society throughout the story, and at the end, leaves again. But I think this is more of a paradigm for male heroes, reaching straight back to very old fashioned ideas of heroism. I appreciate all these qualities in a female lead, too, don’t get me wrong. This is the kind of male lead I most appreciate. So, Aristide Couerveur, from Champion of the Rose and (more) from Bones of the Fair.Īristide Couerveur has got it all: moral resolution, commitment to duty, competence, intelligence, self-possession, emotional discipline, generosity of spirit. So I wound up focusing in this post more on the male lead characters, and that turned into thoughts on the heroic tradition in fantasy and AKH’s interpretation of that tradition. But it was definitely Aristide Couerveur who captured my eye and attention and heart most strongly in the Darest duology. These posts going up for AKH Week contain quite a few references to AKH’s female protagonists, which, yes. So, the other half of my post, this time with a quite different emphasis, as you see. ![]()
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