"A story, eh," the gleeman asked with mock reluctance, "about dragons and breakings and kings and armies, I bet? But I think you all know these stories already."
The audience gave the expected assurance that they would nevertheless very much like to hear the stories from him.
"How about, I tell you a story about the heroes of ages past?" he suggested. "Of great men and women who had great adventures in the age before the last, the Age of Heroes? The lost heroes who are even now waiting for the call to rise again in the last battle. It would be a shame if no one remembered them to recognize them when they come."
The children and youth gathered to hear him talk dismissed this possibility loudly.
"You think that you already know all about the heroes, but that I can tell the stories better. Well I could, but I can also tell you stories about heros you won't have heard before," the gleeman claimed. "I can tell you stories of heroes and battles and fantastic voyages of great loves that overcame all obstacles and great tragedies. I can tell you stories of heros that lived in ages even before the age of Heroes. Stories of Rina the Pink of who little is know for sure today except that she is said to have spoken to dragons or of the mage dark tailor, called synder by some who is said to have been an illegitimate child and who overcame monsters with his love of music.
"I can tell you stories of the heroes who came from the great eastern capital of the country of the sun wich some say stood in these lands before the Breaking. I can tell you stories of familiar heroes you have never heard before. Stories of Serena Moonfield before she adopted the mocking appellation of Bunny and made it her badge of honor, before she became famous and claimed her throne. I can tell you stories of Minako Goldenstern who would be her general and first knight and the other warriors of the Silvermoon-cycle."
The audience wholeheartedly agreed with any and all of those choices and some threw in some suggestions of their own.
"Tell us of Ran'ma, the two-faced shifter," some demanded while other wanted to hear stories of the exploits of Wolf the, sly thief, of the sub-rosa battles for the ebon-bride by the paladin of Abraxas or the saga of the unwanted prince of the woodelfs.
"What about the tale of Shinji Godslayer. Mind you," he warned, "it is not a tale that is always happy. After all it is the story of a boy who was the only one able to wield his cursed weapon of destruction and who in his madness almost destroyed the world while saving it. But there are also lighter parts in the quests that he and his companions Asuka the Red and Rei the Fair."
Preferences were shouted, but the gleeman had already made up his mind. He would tell them:
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