The Shadow Creature

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What happens if you forget your true name and so you don't know it anymore, but you also can't like tell to anybody? So you just kind of that's a great question. I guess I guess it's probably a deal where the true name is so intrinsically a part of you that you can never get it. You can never figure it out. Like yeah. There are there are wizards. He spends like a year in wizard school living in a tower with the master neighbor ivory tower. And at that point has confronted the shadow creature, which he already confronted once and put a spell on it that they would, you know, find each other again.

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.

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