Tale of the Weary

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A story by Murky Muse created purely for the funny. Found here.

Come now and listen to the Muse sing. Sing a song of tattered travelers, heroic and crude. A huntsman with a curse, a knightly prince, a sorceress who may not be sane, and a dragon who would prefer to eat them all; this is their tale, the Tale of the Weary.

An Affectionate Parody on the Heroic Fantasy genre. The story follows four characters seeking the cure to a curse.

• Forest, a huntsman with a curse. Can be either The Hero or The Lancer depending on point of view.
• Prince Carloman Leopold Michael of Mercia, The Knighted and Titled Protector of the Peoples.
• Mist, a gifted sorceress who is also very unique.
• Pyrrhus, a dragon who is only helping the group because his grandfather told him to.

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Tropes:

• Blind Seer: Played with- Sibyl is deaf.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Carloman
• Distressed Damsel: subverted- the damsel had stolen from the dragon.
• The Fair Folk
• Fourth Wall Observer: Sibyl and Mist
• Fractured Fairy Tale
• Functional Magic
• Narrator: The writer acts as an narrator.
  • Interactive Narrator: Only with Mist.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Forest
• Shout Out: From Homer to Firefly
• Shrouded in Myth: Mist
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: The dragons can shift into a human form.
• You All Meet in An Inn: At least Carloman and Forest do. Mist also made an cameo, but didn't officially meet them until later.