All Comments on 'Her Old Self'

This story and Son of the Mountains seems to be just two small stories as part of a larger story. Hope to see more to fill in the details, like the big jump from the first story to this one.

I enjoyed it, as someone else said, a good bit between the two is left unsaid.

Having said that, while reading this, I thought of all the "Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser" stories by Fritz Leiber. Two wanderers finding adventure along the way.

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I've been found out! Yes, Olgen was definitely inspired by Fafhrd, and Fafhrd's story of leaving his homeland made me want to write about a barbarian learning something that culminated in him leaving home.

I had been reading Mongol history at the time I invented these characters, so I decided that a good opposite to tall, lively, hot-blooded Olgen would be cold-blooded horse archer who is ruthless and deadly but not in the slightest bit physically intimidating.

I love these two characters, but I've told the best stories I can with them. I don't think I'll ever use them again.