The Buried Giant story
The story is set in a time of decline after the rule of the great peace maker King Arthur. There is a mist that, for good or bad, makes people forget things such as their hatred for each other and former enemies live peacefully side by side. An elderly couple gets caught up in a quest that centers on the slaying of a dragon that is the cause of the mist.
12 total · 9 choice · 2 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coming to terms with one's own death | choice | Axl and especially Beatrice, Gawain to an extent. |
| coping with aging | choice | Axl, Beatrice, Gawain, Querig, various others |
| hate begets hate | choice | Saxons and Britons in vendetta |
| healing after social upheaval | choice | basically a post-holocaust situation |
| old-age love | choice | Axl and Beatrice |
| reasons for war | choice | circle of hate |
| remembrance | choice | everyone was struggling to remember things they thought important from their pasts |
| the horrors of war | choice | fields of bones etc |
| the nature of memory | choice | hate and love and all sorts of things are in there |
| vendetta | major | The land was tattered and war-torn because of the perpetual feud between the Saxons and Britons. |