Post Script

Received wisdom – or, at least, prevailing narrative fashion – proposes that maintaining a consistent band of fellow adventurers is the best way to create a sense of team-based camaraderie and closeness in fiction. After all, where would Frodo be without Sam and Aragorn? Or Cloud without Barrett and Tifa? Or Shadowheart without Astarion and Gale? The fellowship of any band of adventurers would, tradition suggests, be undercut if the hero had to work with a rotating cast of party members. It’s one of many conventions overturned by in which the protagonist is supported