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Main Character
Topic Started: Aug 23 2006, 05:48 PM (6,558 Views)
Sentynel
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Nothing But The Rain

Nathaniel hardly grew up with Lovelace... he met him a couple of times and that was about it.
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Higher Spirit
No to mention had him spanked by a imp.
Shame of the Super Son
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Sentynel
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Nothing But The Rain

Quite. Hardly the sort of person he's going to want to be like.
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Yet John Mandrake is almost exactly like Lovelace.
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According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead.
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Sentynel
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He's like every powerful magician. He didn't set out to become like Lovelace, he set out to better the other government magicians.
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Sakhr-Al-Jinni
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He was a noble man, on the quest for justice.
Guess thats why he died! :lol:
One magician demanded i show him the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
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John Mandrake was far from noble. Only Nat was noble.
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More to the point, John was like every ambitious magician. Regardless, the Lovelace-Mandrake similarities *were* intentional.
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More to the point, John was like every ambitious magician. Regardless, the Lovelace-Mandrake similarities *were* intentional.



im supposing you used *were* because both of 'em are dead?
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No, because Nathaniel beat John Mandrake at the end, and because Stroud is not currently writing his character.
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According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead.
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In the author's opinion Barti is the main character, but I've always felt that even though I don't like Nat, that he was who the story was about.
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Amulet of Samarkand, the main character was Nat
Golems Eye: Kitty
Ptolemy's gate: Bart
or at least that's how I see it...
Run, run as fast as you can...
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1: Nathaniel, Bartimaeus.
2. Nathaniel, Bartimaeus, Kitty.
3. Nathaniel, Bartimaeus, Kitty. (maybe a bit of Ptolemy, too.)
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Eh, idk bout Ptolemy in PG. Yes, his name's in the title, but in reality the flashbacks are explaining more about why Bartimaeus cared for Ptolemy so much... I see it as a plot tool more than a main character.
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Book 1: The main characters were Nat and Bart, but the character Stroud focused on more was Nat.

Book 2: The main characters were Nat, Bart and Kitty, Stroud focused on Kitty more than the other two.

Book 3: The main characters were Nat, Bart and Kitty, but Bart was the character Stroud focused on in this book.
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