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This month’s theme is Charisma and in addition to checking out some charismatic heroes—and some villains!—I’m exploring whether charisma is necessary to the making of a Fantasy hero.<\/p>\n
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Aragorn: A charismatic hero — you betcha!<\/p><\/div>\n
Here’s a snippet to get you started:<\/p>\n
“Charisma—from glamour and the swashbuckling bravura that inspires others to emulate the hero\u2019s behavior, through to allure and the ability to charm people to a cause—undoubtedly help us to cheer for a protagonist and engage with their \u2018path of trials\u2019…The question remains, though, whether charisma is necessary to a Fantasy hero.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n To read more, click on:<\/p>\n The Crows in “Shadow & Bone” — antiheroes but equally charismatic!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know, how can it be August already?! But it is—which means that on Monday 1, US EST, I posted Instalment #6 of the What Makes A Hero series on Supernatural Underground. This month’s theme is Charisma and in addition to checking out some charismatic heroes—and some villains!—I’m exploring whether charisma is necessary to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40469,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions\/40469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What Makes A Hero #6 — Charisma<\/a><\/h2>\n
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