this
includes
people.
too
many
fantasy stories
only
t.\Je
characters are pe<)p],e.
Palace gaards,
particular, come
badly; nobody seems to
tr.ink twice
cutting
the tb..roruts cf
a
few
guards;nen.
Soldiers
h.ave
it aiJ::;ost as
bad. They
this
tendency
to
to
the
last
man.
side
will tun
nm--
or at 111.anage
an
orderly
retreat.
Dying,
even
a
glorious
cause,
is
not
popular
ordinary soldiers.
palace gua:rds can
have wives and
children
and worry
about
putting
toad
on
the
table, and
fewer
who throw
the:nselves
jnto
field of fue
Fourth:
Everything
other
than
the basic human
motivations will
vary,
depending on the
cultural
setting
The
basic
numan
e2notions should
stay
the
sa.rr;e,
but
not
how
they
are
shaped.
/iller
characters grew
i11
a fantasy
world,
different from
your
cwn.
Whatever
a person
grew
with, that
is what will seem
na1=!l
to him or
her.
If
someone
grew
conjuring
demons
Thursday
mc,rning,
then he will not
be
amazed by
seeing
demons
practice
magic;
it
seem
perfectly
normal
to
him,
at
lea. t
on
Thlrrsdays.
People
vary draStically according
to their native
cultor,e; !lllyone who
traveled
exte:::sively knc)WS
i3at The pec,ple in
±antasy ncrvels,
therefore,
should
not think
and act
ordinary
twentieth-century
Ame:icans
somehow push
sudden
force
another world
of course.
are
twentieth-century
i\mericans
with
sudden
force
another world).
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