Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.
R. A. SalvatoreI've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R. A. SalvatoreTo view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy
R. A. SalvatoreHow many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
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