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Most high fantasy storylines are told from the viewpoint of one main hero.

Often, much of the plot revolves around his heritage or mysterious nature.

In many novels the hero is an orphan or unusual sibling, often with an extraordinary talent for magic or combat.

He begins the story young, if not an actual child.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

In other works he is a completely developed individual with his own character and spirit — David Eddings ' Sparhawk of The Elenium and The Tamuli.

High fantasy is not by any means limited to a male protagonist, as seen in such works as Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion Cecelia Dart-Thornton's Ashalind and P. C.

Hodgell's Jame, though a man is perhaps more common.