For every ten to twenty barbaric cretins presented as a threat in the works housed under the umbrella of The Genre Triad, readers, viewers and, in the case of video games, players, can fairly predictably count on there being a character who is presented as an example of in-world purity and light. This character represents the idealistic and healing, usually a soft-spoken individual who is pacifist, or who at least seeks to do the least harm possible in order to fix a situation.
Archetypes in Genre: The Unsullied
Archetypes in Genre: The Unsullied
Archetypes in Genre: The Unsullied
For every ten to twenty barbaric cretins presented as a threat in the works housed under the umbrella of The Genre Triad, readers, viewers and, in the case of video games, players, can fairly predictably count on there being a character who is presented as an example of in-world purity and light. This character represents the idealistic and healing, usually a soft-spoken individual who is pacifist, or who at least seeks to do the least harm possible in order to fix a situation.