Extrication, or: Tricking Fate

[5] A Tragic Hero
[1] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[3] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[4] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[2] The Evil Sorceress

Captive princess sounds fun, like the movie Princess Arete. Trying to escape on our own could be a really fun problem solving quest.
 
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[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] A Tragic Hero
 
Captive princess sounds fun, like the movie Princess Arete. Trying to escape on our own could be a really fun problem solving quest.

While that would be one option, goal #2 is to keep yourself from being captured in the first place. This could mean fleeing the castle, cooperating with your stepfather until you can get rid of him, attempting an assassination, or something else entirely.

Goal #1, no matter the path chosen, is to survive. On a related note, I was sorely tempted to label the princess option "Endurance Mode."
 
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While that would be one option, goal #2 is to keep yourself from being captured in the first place. This could mean fleeing the castle, cooperating with your stepfather until you can get rid of him, attempting an assassination, or something else entirely.

Goal #1, no matter the path chosen, is to survive. On a related note, I was sorely tempted to label the princess option "Endurance Mode."

Hell, if that's what it is, why not?
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] A Tragic Hero
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[3] A Tragic Hero
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
 
[3] The Evil Sorceress
[1] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[2] A Tragic Hero
[5] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[3] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[4] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[5] A Tragic Hero
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] A Tragic Hero
 
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[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[3] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[4] A Tragic Hero
[5] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[4] A Tragic Hero
[5] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
 
[4] A Tragic Hero
[2] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[3] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[1] The Evil Sorceress
 
I'm of course going to vote for the ones with the coolest sounding magics and powers first because that's how I roll.
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[4] A Tragic Hero
[5] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[4] A Tragic Hero
[5] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] A Tragic Hero
[3] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
 
[1] The Evil Sorceress
[2] The Misunderstood Artifact Guardian
[3] A Soon-to-be-captive Princess
[4] The Sorcerer's Apprentice
[5] A Tragic Hero
 
Well some of the kids in Narnia were good kings and queens for a time as I recall. Also King Arthur of course.
I mean, not really a sorceror, more of a fighting guy with magic/spiritual artificats backing me up.

My adviser is a magic guy, yeah, but that's completly different.

Also, don't think the Narnia kids did magic either, think they were more the artifact type like me.

Are there any stories of good sorceress Queens? Or kings?
Not really, not off the top of my head.

Luckily, we are not the leader of the entire land, so I think we might be able to go the Merlin route. This won't work the current leader, it's way too likely that we will end up in the evil Visier position like Jaffar, but if we can figure out who the next leader of the land is, particularly if it's someone who seems unlikely to inherit to bot himself and the pupulance and really everyone but has some secret birthright that will let him claim the throne, we can probably take over the role as good and wise mentor for them like Merlin which will let us do pretty good.

Seems like our best bet to me.

Alternatively, even just a young and upcoming hero would work as a person we can mentor. The echo isn't nearly as strong, Merlin is the most famous magic person by 20 miles, but there are plenty of stories about a magic person mentoring young hero's. Unfortunately, they often die, like, super quickly, so I'm not actually sure if our chance of survival is that much better.

Celestia is super recent story wise and unlikely to have buit up enough of an echo to count, being a unicorn under the current belief system and the belief system in the land and time the story was made easily cancels out every negative thing about her, and being a goddess cancels out the magic thing as it is different with divinity.
 
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Are there any stories of good sorceress Queens? Or kings?

If, in real life, you can find a sufficiently popular cultural (folk?) tale, it probably exists as part of an Echo in this.

Examples: Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Cinderella, The Frog Prince(ss), Hansel and Gretel, etc. If different versions are popular in different countries (pretty much any of the stories compiled by The Brothers Grimm, for example), each individual version could be a subset of an Echo.

So: Yes, but a ridiculously small number of even slightly morally grey ones. For some reason, they often seem to be fairies, overthrown by evil sorcerers later on, or actually villains in disguise.

EDIT: Sorta-ninja'd. Celestia/MLP, while they have recently become popular IRL, are not Echoes.
 
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So should we go and put a sword in stone and say the person who can pull it out is the rightful king? That seems like a fairly good strategy. Merlin in some stories was the son of the devil and he did all right.
 
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