There he disrupted an argument, gave his message, and sat down at the long, nearly deserted tables to forage whatever was left of breakfast.

A small boy caught sight of the round-hulled ships with their billowing sails striped red and blue and green, picking their way among the tiny fishing boats in the distance, and ran up the coast from Tol to Akren, the house of Morgon, Prince of Hed. McKillip For Carol the first eleven chapters 1 Morgon of Hed met the High One's harpist one autumn day when the trade-ships docked at Tol for the season's exchange of goods. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1993.Ebook version: 2.0 The Riddlemaster of Hed Patricia A. Descension: Like-wise to Ascension, follows a character fall from power.įrom: Tobias, Ronald B.Ascension: Follows a character's rise to power.Vengeance: Your basic Revenge story, very character-driven.Wretched Excess: Story where the character is in a downward spiral from drugs, greed, depression, insanity, etc.Discovery: A story that unearths those skeletons in a character's Mysterious Past.Sacrifice: Revolves around a characters and their sacrifices, lethal or otherwise.Forbidden Love: Star-Crossed Lovers who spend most of the plot trying to be together despite the world trying to tear them apart.Love: Your basic Boy Meets Girl Romance Arc, with two characters falling in love as the main story.Maturation: A Coming of Age Story, where the a character matures physically, emotionally or spiritually.Transformation: A story revolving around an inner-change, rather than a physical one.Metamorphosis: A story revolving around a physical transformation of some kind, generally a true Metamorphosis is a one-way street.Temptation: The story revolves around whether or not to give into a temptation and the consequences, Pandora Box-like.Revolves around an underdog (maybe they are underprivileged, poor, disabled, etc.) who triumphs despite overwhelming odds. Underdog: A story where the Underdogs Never Lose.Rivalry: Character-oriented story based on the interactions of two opposing characters, The Hero and The Rival.The Riddle: Basic Mystery plot revolving around a Driving Question.Escape: A Great Escape plot, similar to the Rescue, except the captive rescues himself/herself.Rescue: A Rescue Arc as the main story, also very action oriented.Pursuit: The Chase plot, very action oriented.Adventure: A plot-driven story that focuses on reaching a series of goals.Quest: A character-driven story that has a hero go on a journey for something that changes him in some way.He contends there are twenty basic stories. What qualifies a plot as a Master Plot? Hard to say.

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