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Plot Summary of A Forgotten Legend
"A group of people who had telepathic powers and has a spiritual being as a friend and protector is the main idea in the story.The people with the telepathic powers are called the Guardians. What happens is that a dreaded ghost called the Obonia follows a high ranking Guardian back home, its intent to destroy all of the Guardians and take control of the galaxy as much as it can. The warning about the destruction comes just in time, and the Guardians are forced to supress using their telepathic powers or risk being detected by the Obonia and get killed. The spiritual beings also sleep in a everlasting sleep until millions of years later a young boy with ashonishing powerful telepathic skills retrives the spiritual beings and works together to destroy the Obonia and restore order to the galaxy and bring the honored Guardians back to life. about in the middle, there is some romance when the boyfalls in love with a girl and eventually marries her."
Mary D'Angelo, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of A Forgotten Legend
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Mental/magical powers focus Yes
magical powers: - clash between evenly matched magical power(s) (fantasy)
Training/Apprent. Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - explorer
Age: - a kid
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - can talk to animals - telekinesis - mind reading - mind control - can see into the future - super strength - can read emotions - healing
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Adversary
Identity: - magical being
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - can change shapes - fire/thunder/weather cntrl - telekinesis - mind control - super strength - teleportation - can cast all sorts of spells - is very quick
Eccentric: Yes - wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Desert - Water - Mountains - Forests - Space, need spacesuit
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - a space station
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - inhabited by friendly aliens - big overbuilt futuristic city
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - mostly dialog
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