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I'm in the same boat. :)
He's not the central character, but one of the main characters in Howard Andrew Jones' Plague of Shadows is this guy.
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He's also in the sequel, which is due out... next month I think?
Yup! Drelm (the half-orc) is a main point-of-view character in Stalking the Beast!
There is a half orc named Tiberio in Robin Laws' The Worldwound Gambit. Tiberio is one of the more sympathetic characters in the story.
Note: The Worldwound Gambit is writen in the Present Tense, which threw a lot of folks off. Some readers didn't like it. I thought that it added to the tension of the story.
The rest of the Pathfinder Tales are written in Past Tense.
-Aaron
I had a lot of fun with Drelm in Stalking the Beast, and when I'm having fun I like to think it translates into fun for the reader. He's a guy who strives had to do the right thing. He's simple but he's not a dummy, and he's definitely not a goomba.
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There is a half orc named Tiberio in Robin Laws' The Worldwound Gambit. Tiberio is one of the more sympathetic characters in the story.
Note: The Worldwound Gambit is writen in the Present Tense, which threw a lot of folks off. Some readers didn't like it. I thought that it added to the tension of the story.
The rest of the Pathfinder Tales are written in Past Tense.
-Aaron
It actually mildly enrages me that people can be so blinkered.
The first-person, present-tense choice was a clear decision upon which the narrative structure relies. That readers can't look beyond what they're used to is really silly. Loads of great books exploit their perspective and tense for dramatic effect.
Worldwound Gambit is a fine novel. I would place it just behind Plague of Shadows and The Radovan/Varian novels as one of the best of the Pathfinder Tales.
He's also in the sequel, which is due out... next month I think?
I love it when grammar flaws make funny little meaning changes. Hopefully Enlight Bystand will be doing some thinking during October.
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It actually mildly enrages me that people can be so blinkered.
The first-person, present-tense choice was a clear decision upon which the narrative structure relies. That readers can't look beyond what they're used to is really silly. Loads of great books exploit their perspective and tense for dramatic effect.
Worldwound Gambit is a fine novel. I would place it just behind Plague of Shadows and The Radovan/Varian novels as one of the best of the Pathfinder Tales.
No argument from me. I enjoyed Worldwound Gambit enough to read it twice (thus far). Honestly, it took me about a chapter and a half to get my head in the book, but once I was there, I really enjoyed the Present Tense writing.
When you are reading past tense, there is a sense that you know the person "talking" survives. Otherwise, how could they be "telling" you the story? With the present tense there was a tension where I had no idea if anyone would make it out alive!
-Aaron
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It actually mildly enrages me that people can be so blinkered.
The first-person, present-tense choice was a clear decision upon which the narrative structure relies. That readers can't look beyond what they're used to is really silly. Loads of great books exploit their perspective and tense for dramatic effect.
Worldwound Gambit is a fine novel. I would place it just behind Plague of Shadows and The Radovan/Varian novels as one of the best of the Pathfinder Tales.
No argument from me. I enjoyed Worldwound Gambit enough to read it twice (thus far). Honestly, it took me about a chapter and a half to get my head in the book, but once I was there, I really enjoyed the Present Tense writing.
When you are reading past tense, there is a sense that you know the person "talking" survives. Otherwise, how could they be "telling" you the story? With the present tense there was a tension where I had no idea if anyone would make it out alive!
-Aaron
I think that's quite modern. A lot of old novels in the past tense are third person (and a lot of classic fantasy novels, like LotR and Conan).