A Quest that begins in a Tavern...

[bellatrys]

...with a female Paladin disguised as a man, sent by the ghost of Merlin the magician, meeting up with a halfling Thief, both of them competing to rescue a mixed-race Warrior, who is also a descendant of Hector and Andromache of Troy (their son Astyanax was secretly saved and hidden from the Greeks along with Hector's sword, which is an Augmented

Comments

[anna_wing]

I have always thought of OF as the Western version of Journey To The West. Absolutely perfect material to be a 184-episode wuxia serial!

Though if our hostess wanted to re-write it as a ten (twenty!)-volume, modern-language fantasy epic, I would enjoy it a lot more than any of the current offerings in that sub-genre, all of which seem to be high on gloom, grime, sexism, and the kind of worldbuilding that I can only describe as glumly pedestrian.

[sajia]

I second anna_wing's proposal.