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Epic Fantasy Is Really About the Meaning of Life

Epic fantasy has long been consideredof  the  knight.
escapist literature and something that
adolescent's read to pass the time. It bringsThere are no dragons to slay, there are no
to mind muscle-bound heroes who fight dragonsmore knights, and there are no princesses to
and rescue princesses. But Epic fantasy isrescue. How do these stories of heroic quests
really much more than that. It is about theapply  to  you  today?
search  to  find  meaning  in  our  lives.
Each character in these stories is given a
Since the beginning of time mankind has madetask of a seemingly impossible nature. And
up epic fantasy stories in the form of mythseach character has to find his way through a
to reflect his role in the universe. Theworld wrought with dangers, difficulties and
oldest piece of written work is the Epic ofobstacles. The parallel here is obvious and
Gilgamesh. It was inscribed on stone tabletswe all travel a similar road to that of
a thousand years before the Iliad was writtenGilgamesh and Jason but this isn't the real
and it is in the genre of epic fantasy. Sincereason why epic fantasy is so relevant to our
this piece was written many more havelives. This kind of conflict and searching is
followed.found in just about every piece of fiction
and in every medium. The secret to why epic
We are all familiar with the story of Jasonfantasy rises above all the others is hidden
and the Golden Fleece, or the story of Kingwithin  each  story  itself.
Arthur and the Holy Grail. We are also all
familiar with the quest of Bilbo Baggins. WhyJoseph Campbell, in his book The Hero With a
have these stories and others like themThousand Faces, outlined the twelve steps
survived for so long? Why are they so fullythat each hero must take on his personal
engraved in our psyche as a race? Is itjourney to realizing his quest. One critical
because they are fun stories? It is true thatearly step that must be made is the meeting
they are good stories and grand adventureswith the mentor. The mentor himself has
but they also convey a deeper meaning abouttraveled his own personal journey, learned
what it is to be human. And this search for amany lessons along the way and he imparts
deeper meaning has been with humans since thethis wisdom on our hero. Our hero learns some
beginning  of  time.valuable lessons from someone who has been
there and done that. This is exactly what
The ancient Greeks created myths thatepic fantasy does for you. It works as a
revolved around heroes facing the wrath of amentor.
variety of gods. This helped them to
understand their place in the world and itIn a beautiful sense of folding in on itself
applied meaning to their lives relative tothe hero of an epic fantasy story becomes a
the world they lived in. In medieval timesmentor to you. You travel along with the hero
humanity changed. The Renaissance broughtand you learn the lessons that he learns. You
with it a new understanding of the world welearn the value of trust or the danger of
live in. And that new understanding broughtgreed. And most importantly you learn the
new questions. No longer were we subject tovalue of persisting in your personal quest
the whims of a variety of gods. We, asand following your heart because in the end
people, gained a new control of our own livesyou  see  the  reward.
and we came to the realization that it wasn't
gods that controlled us but it was us whoRead the stories of the epic fantasy hero and
controlled ourselves. This made us looklisten to the lessons that he can teach you.
inward. It caused us to seek out the thingsMaybe there are no more Dragons and no more
within ourselves that made us like the olddamsels in distress but you are in the middle
gods. This new outlook was reflected in theof an epic quest called your life and you
epic fantasy myths of the times. Heroesmust follow this quest to the end. This quest
looked inside themselves. They took greatis the search to find the meaning in your
strides in making themselves better people.life and epic fantasy is the mentor that will
They believed that there was a right way tohelp you find it.
be and this belief is epitomized by the code



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