It’s hard more than enough being barely above average, whenever your brothers include the deadliest swordsman from the realm, a saint, prodigies – and the greatest hero of the center Ages. But what if you haven’t noticed your Queen of Appreciate in years, and she’s imprisoned by a one-armed spiritual zealot and lethal librarians? Even worse, your only allies are vicious killers, with rather bad manners and outsized appetites. Who all want to murder your heroic brother.

The effect – in a world of pedantic misrule, feckless magic, and courage both dauntless and daunted – is usually either High Experience or an Identity Problems. Or both.