Lute breathed in the sweet aroma of roasting meat that permeated the campsite and felt his stomach grumble painfully. Discomfort was just another enemy to best, and the priest of Kord felt he needed a victory this night.
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I was reminded of something important, when it comes to the tradition of storytelling. Some stories deserve retelling, even those seemingly told to death. Some stories are so uniquely powerful, they enter the realm of what we might call myth. And myth, in the way that I have come to define it, is a story that profoundly succeeds at capturing the spirit of its time and place, so that we might later be possessed by it.
Read MoreBut there is another kind of experience inherent in storytelling, fundamental to being human.
It is the experience of imagining, of transportation into worlds of wonder, of exploration and immersion.
It is being swept of your feet, or discovering you can fly - whatever your preference.
It is the young girl who imagines a rainbow-feathered parrot on her shoulder, and a big, black captain's hat on her head, sailing towards a chest of shining gold.
And no genre can quite compete with fantasy in this regard. Ne genre is quite so inclusive.
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