![]() Xykon is completely and wholly unapologetically Evil, but more to the point, he’s kind of a dick. Burlew says about it: “Writing a story centered around your main antagonist is sort of difficult, because you risk “devillainifying” them. Start of Darkness is an unbelievably good book, and a more or less contained story. (If you haven’t read the Order of the Stick, well, here’s #1. If you haven’t already, please read Start of Darkness, the “villains” prequel of The Order of the Stick. So if I can make even one person think about how we treat people of other races (or religions, or creeds, or what have you) by using the analogy of Redcloak, then it will have been time well spent on my part.” Fantasy literature is ONLY worthwhile for what it can tell us about the real world everything else is petty escapism. ![]() ![]() If you are going to dismiss any themes or subtext present in any fantasy story as simply not applying to our world because that world has dragons and ours doesn’t, then you have largely missed the point of literature as a whole, and are likely rather poorer for it. “No fiction is meaningful if its lessons cannot be applied to the world that we, real actual humans, live in.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |