Master Characters

45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters offers heroic and villainous sub-types of 8 female and 8 male archetypes, along with 4 Friend archetypes, 6 Rival archetypes, and 3 Symbol archetypes. The author connects each of the main archetypes to a figure from Greek or Egyptian myth, and describes in depth the characteristics of that archetype: what they care about, what they fear, what motivates them, and how other characters see them. She then shows how to tweak the character, take it a bit too far, and craft a villainous version.

This page will serve as the index for at least three pages (one for the Heroes, one for the Heroines, and one for the other archetypes).

Compare Heroes and Heroines.