Emphyrio Q4. The Characters

clash_bowley

There are many major characters in Emphyrio besides Ghyl. His father Amiante, his friend Floriel, Nion, Shanne the lordling, and others. Were they interesting on their own, or only tools to enable and manipulate?

Apocryphal

I did mostly think they were interesting enough. Some, like Floriel and Nion, felt like they had lives outside of the plot. A few others, like Ghyl's first girlfriend who blows his costume later, really only seemed like plot elements. Others, like the second and noble love interest, was present in the book but seemed to avoid all attempts to be drawn into a plot. But Ghyl, his father and friends, and the various guild members, all seemed fairly well drawn and more complex than the plot strictly required.

RichardAbbott

I enjoyed the various characters while reading the book but realised that they had made vey little impression on me afterwards, so I would need to look them up again to remember who's who (other than the protagonist and his father, who did leave me with enough that I can still place them).

kcaryths

I didn't think the characters were useful as much more than tools to push the plot along and to flesh out the setting a bit more.

BarnerCobblewood

I thought the characters (all of them) were let down by the plot, especially the ending. They deserved better. Again that might have been on purpose to make a point, but if so it was so subtle that the point was not made.