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'''45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters''' offers heroic and villainous sub-types of 8 female and 8 male archetypes, along with 4 Friend archetypes, 6 Rival archetypes, and 3 Symbol archetypes. The author connects each of the main archetypes to a figure from Greek or Egyptian myth, and describes in depth the characteristics of that archetype: what they care about, what they fear, what motivates them, and how other characters see them. She then shows how to tweak the character, take it a bit too far, and craft a villainous version.
''[[45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters]]'' by Victoria Lynn Schmidt offers heroic and villainous sub-types of eight female and eight male archetypes, along with 4 Friend archetypes, 6 Rival archetypes, and 3 Symbol archetypes. The author connects each of the main archetypes to a figure from Greek or Egyptian myth, and describes in depth the characteristics of that archetype: what they care about, what they fear, what motivates them, and how other characters see them. She then shows how to tweak the character, take it a bit too far, and craft a villainous version.


Archetypes covered:
This page will serve as the index for at least three pages (one for the Heroes, one for the Heroines, and one for the other archetypes).
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* [[45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters/Heroes|Heroes]]
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* [[45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters/Heroines|Heroines]]
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* [[45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters/Support Characters|Support Characters]]


Compare [[Heroes and Heroines]].
Compare [[Heroes and Heroines]].

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== Notes ==
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*I have the book here, but I don't understand it as much as I would like to understand it; therefore, my summary is a little suspect, but I don't think I'll stray too far from the basic idea. Once I understand it better, I'll check these pages, clarify the concepts, and remove this notice.
*Since these characters overlap to some degree with [[The Enneagram|Enneagram]] types and the [[Heroes and Heroines]] archetypes, I'll note whenever these ties are particularly clear.
*As I said on the [[Heroes and Heroines]] page, I'm still trying to understand the world of copyright infringement; I hope I haven't gone too far in my summary, but to do much less than this would make the summary of little use on a site like TV Tropes. I'm pretty sure I'm within my rights to explain all the archetypes and relate them to the tropes on this site.
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*[[Master Characters/Heroes|Heroes]]
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*[[Master Characters/Heroines|Heroines]]
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*[[Master Characters/Support Characters|Support Characters]]
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'''''45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters''''' by Victoria Lynn Schmidt; published by Writer's Digest Books (www.writersdigest.com), 2007.
*ISBN 1-58297-069-6
*ISBN 978-1-58297-069-1


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Revision as of 20:43, 6 February 2020

45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters by Victoria Lynn Schmidt offers heroic and villainous sub-types of eight female and eight male archetypes, along with 4 Friend archetypes, 6 Rival archetypes, and 3 Symbol archetypes. The author connects each of the main archetypes to a figure from Greek or Egyptian myth, and describes in depth the characteristics of that archetype: what they care about, what they fear, what motivates them, and how other characters see them. She then shows how to tweak the character, take it a bit too far, and craft a villainous version.

Archetypes covered:

Compare Heroes and Heroines.

Tropes used in 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters include:
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