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Old 02-16-2012, 02:15 PM   #61
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Thankfully I usually have no difficulty suspending disbelief regarding age and such, although admittedly there is a limit. Probably around 15-16 or so, as Katsunami said. However, it might be worth bearing in mind that a kid of 16, or for that sake 12, of today, is nothing like a kid of the same age would have been a few hundred years ago - and fantasy books tend in general to be set in societies roughly equivalent to our late Middle Ages or the Renaissance. At that time in the real world, a 14 year old would have been considered more or less a grown man and would have been physically far more capable than the average adult is today.

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You could start out with a good protagonist that starts out weak, then turns evil, and starts to slowly rise in power and try to squash his previous good friends.
Now there's a book I'd like to read!
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