500 years later...

Fake Vencar

Fake Vencar

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After days of boredom i've thought of an exciting thread. Imagine you are a farmer outside Krondor 500 years after the Riftwar. Which characters in the Riftwar/Serpentwar etc. would be old legends like King Arthur and so on.

I'll start: Prince Arutha being the obvious choice in the Kingdom
 
Amos Trask, if only for his reluctance to die from random stomach wounds...
 
Jimmy the Hand, the boy thief who rose to become Duke, and along the way saved the world a few times. Add a legend about him being reborn when he's most needed, and you have the arthurian legend right there.
 
How about Roo Avery. Richer than the Crown and has his own book as a source. Surely they would all look up to him.
 
Talon read a book about him in Silver Hawk, and thought it was all a bunch of lies.
 
How about Nakor. I know he is not really part of the Kingdom, but he always turns up around the place in dire needs: the Far Coast sacking, Serpentwar etc.
 
Have to agree on James - my alltime fav character. He started out as the 'lowest of the low' and became Duke. Would be a very appealing ''Horatio Alger' story for the masses. As would the story of Roo, for many of the same resons. Both would be very appealing to the commoners.
 
erik von darkmoor would probobaly be known a bit... he was a hero of the serpent war and lied for a long time (cause nakor gave him that potion) and he probobly does some cool stuff in the book aftr into a dark realm
 
Probably only Jimmy and Aruther - it takes an awful lot to become a legend.

Roo and Erik would be known about y the educated minority and possibly Eric in a military sense, otherwise can't see them being Legends.

Trask however is a distinct possibilty as Trenchard the PirateAlthough people would probably know the name and little else. Calis and Tomas both could have been but both took a back seat and were not known by the general populace. Pug and Macros obviously would as well, Macros was already a legend and Pug was better known and a legend already by Tal's time. Otherwise can't really see any one else making it, although there would be some footnotes to history, e.g. Dash and James regarded by historians.
 
Calis - not only my favourite character (so bias hehe), but he also lead the expedition to Novindus with a rag tag bunch and also had that thing with the lifestone which I really cannot remember.

- Gee what an argument I make for him. I really need to re-read the books and refresh my memory.
 
Unfortunatly I don't think that many of the general public, i.e. the people who make legends, heard of Calis or really realised what he achieved, although I admit he is definatly - in my opinion - worthy of legendary status! He was too unasuming and out of the public eye on his missions, although amongst soldiers and especially amongst the Crimson Eagles if they're still around he will probably be a legend in the Kingdom.
 
Everything Calis did was in top secret: i don't think the story about the lifestone will leak out to the farmers anytime soon. Arutha conDoin already has evidence that he is a legend. When Arutha, son of James, got killed in SOABC, Dash says: 'only one Arutha of Krondor will be remembered in history'. Isn't this proof? Or maybe not knowing me! :D
 
ish.....

Yeah it is Arutha is a legend and will remain one - the people of Krondor practically worshipped him.
 
Fake Vencar said:
Everything Calis did was in top secret: i don't think the story about the lifestone will leak out to the farmers anytime soon. Arutha conDoin already has evidence that he is a legend. When Arutha, son of James, got killed in SOABC, Dash says: 'only one Arutha of Krondor will be remembered in history'. Isn't this proof? Or maybe not knowing me! :D
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i don't remember that bit???
 
I felt sorry for Arutha, son of James. He was always in the shadow of the real Arutha. His death also shocked me.
 
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