From start to finish, the most wonderful thing about this story has been the way you splice the fantastic and the mundane: the dead dragon falling on the woodpile, the grandiose quest delayed by banal but very real things like snowstorms. And the final effect of all that is a very playful but very thoughtful look at what a hero really is. Your Dragonborn isn't a larger-than-life figure. He's an ordinary man caught up in larger-than-life events, and he's more heroic for it.
tl;dr This story is beautiful and thought-provoking and gives me warm fuzzies without ever once getting mushy. I'm going to be coming back to this one for a while.
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Re: A Peace Unexpected 6/6
Date: 2013-06-03 08:32 pm (UTC)From start to finish, the most wonderful thing about this story has been the way you splice the fantastic and the mundane: the dead dragon falling on the woodpile, the grandiose quest delayed by banal but very real things like snowstorms. And the final effect of all that is a very playful but very thoughtful look at what a hero really is. Your Dragonborn isn't a larger-than-life figure. He's an ordinary man caught up in larger-than-life events, and he's more heroic for it.
tl;dr This story is beautiful and thought-provoking and gives me warm fuzzies without ever once getting mushy. I'm going to be coming back to this one for a while.