Character: Wysteria Submission: The Adventures of Brave Ivanhoe, which is a collection of three parabolic stories (out of apparently dozens) featuring an affable errant knight type figure named Ivanhoe. Vibe is very Don Quixote meets The Pilgrim's Progress, in that everything detail is explicitly lending to some kind of religious and/or moral allegory but Ivanhoe has a kind of folksy appeal.
In the first story, Brave Ivanhoe comes across two feuding brothers—Cowardice and Spite—in a wood. Ivanhoe takes it upon himself to broker a treaty between them. But when consulting with each party, he's instead convinced by each brother to act as their substitute in the duel and finds himself dueling...himself until exhausted.
In the second story, Brave Ivanhoe is caught in a storm and takes shelter in a cave. Inside the cave is a pond in which there lives a talking fish. Ivanhoe tries to convince the fish that it can live a better life in a river if it will only jump into his waterskin and let him take it there after the storm has cleared. The fish, who has only ever known its dark pond where it lives alone off the sustenance of some magic algae, refuses to believe there are such things as rivers or seas because he's never seen them. Eventually, the storm passes and Brave Ivanhoe has to give up and leave the cave without the fish.
In the third story, Brave Ivanhoe—who has become penniless by this means or that—discovers the carriage of a wealthy woman stranded in the road. The axle has broken and her four beautiful horses have all run off into the woods. If he returns them to her, she promises to reward him generously. Brave Ivanhoe pursues the horses, but each time he catches one it tells him a sob story about how terrible their mistress is and soft hearted Ivanhoe agrees to be merciful and release them even though it means he may starve. When the last horse has been released, he returns to the wealthy woman's carriage and offers to pull it himself. At this point, the woman reveals herself to be the witch Adda (—"A very common figure in Kalvadan folklore," Wysteria explains), who was each horse in disguise. To reward Brave Ivanhoe for his kindness, she nurses the various hurts he suffered while trying to catch the horses and gifts to him a magic apple that can be eaten down to the core and then overnight becomes a whole apple again.
Notes: Wysteria doesn't write this down, claiming to be terrible at storytelling, but she will recount the story verbally to Bastien. She is, in fact, a terrible storyteller, so he'll have to salvage the good parts.
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Submission: The Adventures of Brave Ivanhoe, which is a collection of three parabolic stories (out of apparently dozens) featuring an affable errant knight type figure named Ivanhoe. Vibe is very Don Quixote meets The Pilgrim's Progress, in that everything detail is explicitly lending to some kind of religious and/or moral allegory but Ivanhoe has a kind of folksy appeal.
In the first story, Brave Ivanhoe comes across two feuding brothers—Cowardice and Spite—in a wood. Ivanhoe takes it upon himself to broker a treaty between them. But when consulting with each party, he's instead convinced by each brother to act as their substitute in the duel and finds himself dueling...himself until exhausted.
In the second story, Brave Ivanhoe is caught in a storm and takes shelter in a cave. Inside the cave is a pond in which there lives a talking fish. Ivanhoe tries to convince the fish that it can live a better life in a river if it will only jump into his waterskin and let him take it there after the storm has cleared. The fish, who has only ever known its dark pond where it lives alone off the sustenance of some magic algae, refuses to believe there are such things as rivers or seas because he's never seen them. Eventually, the storm passes and Brave Ivanhoe has to give up and leave the cave without the fish.
In the third story, Brave Ivanhoe—who has become penniless by this means or that—discovers the carriage of a wealthy woman stranded in the road. The axle has broken and her four beautiful horses have all run off into the woods. If he returns them to her, she promises to reward him generously. Brave Ivanhoe pursues the horses, but each time he catches one it tells him a sob story about how terrible their mistress is and soft hearted Ivanhoe agrees to be merciful and release them even though it means he may starve. When the last horse has been released, he returns to the wealthy woman's carriage and offers to pull it himself. At this point, the woman reveals herself to be the witch Adda (—"A very common figure in Kalvadan folklore," Wysteria explains), who was each horse in disguise. To reward Brave Ivanhoe for his kindness, she nurses the various hurts he suffered while trying to catch the horses and gifts to him a magic apple that can be eaten down to the core and then overnight becomes a whole apple again.
Notes: Wysteria doesn't write this down, claiming to be terrible at storytelling, but she will recount the story verbally to Bastien. She is, in fact, a terrible storyteller, so he'll have to salvage the good parts.