Paging Luke Skywalker
25th August 2021
Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.
Lord knows I have my issues with the guy, but The Smartest Genius in the History of the World (and the “Game” guys in general) have done yeoman’s work on what they call the “gamma,” aka the Secret King. This is the humble farmboy who is of course the rightful heir to the kingdom, who has powers far beyond mortal ken — the standard-issue protagonist of what I-forget-who called GEFP, Generic Extruded Fantasy Product. Luke Skywalker, basically, but even more secret, even more powerful, and much, much whinier.