Farm Boy: Difference between revisions

** Subverted with Tomjon, {{spoiler|apparent}} heir to Lancre and {{spoiler|supposed}} son of King Verence I. Given to a troupe of actors to raise (mostly because that's how these stories are supposed to go, but also so that, if this whole king thing doesn't work out, he'll at least learn a useful trade) he was raised to be his father's son. Turns out that if you raise a king as an actor, he'll mostly turn out to be an actor.

** Mort wasn't even much good at being a [[Farm Boy]], yet a stint as the [[Grim Reaper]]-In-Training left him in a position to become a Duke. {{spoiler|Not for very long, unfortunately.}}

** His ancestor David is possibly the [[Ur Example]], making this trope at least [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Played with in that instead being the last scion from a lost royal line, he is the founder of the lost royal line.

* [[Codex Alera|Tavi of Calderon]], an orphan raised by his aunt and uncle, [[The Call Put Me on Hold|powerless]] in a world where [[Everyone Is a Super]]. As he grows up, saves the world repeatedly, and generally attracts attention by [[Badass Normal|being very]] [[Crazy Awesome|awesome]], people begin to notice strange things about him. Such as how {{spoiler|the [[Obfuscating Stupidity|mentally disabled]] slave owned by his uncle looks rather like legendary swordsman Araris Valerian behind the coward's brand on his face, and is uncannily good with a sword. Or how Tavi just happens to look a ''lot'' like Princeps Gaius Septimus, who was <s>killed in battle</s> assassinated under cover of a battle near Tavi's home shortly before he was born. Or how First Lord Gaius Sextus, Septimus's father, put Tavi through the Academy as his personal aide. Or how his bodyguard when he ends up Captain of a Legion is a brilliant, scarred swordsman named Araris... Yeah, [[Meaningful Name|"Tavi"]] is [[Secret Legacy|short for]] "[[Rags to Royalty|Gaius]] Oc'''tavi'''an."}}