Theme

No one can survive by never relying on other people.

Story Summary:

Dherick is a Squire, training under the foremost knight of his Kingdom. When checking out a bandit issue, Dherick’s mentor is killed, and Dherick falls under a curse. He leaves his kingdom and manages to get the famous Wizard, Havelpov, to train him in magic so that he can break the curse himself. During his travels with Havelpov, he learns magic, becomes more mature, and starts to realize that he might not have to be the only person to break his curse and stop the Wizard who cast it on him. The Wizard who cast the curse is also using forbidden magic to control the various leaders around the Kingdom, and in neighboring Kingdoms. In the end, Dherick becomes a leader who learns to depend on his friends and allies, as well as a powerful Wizard and Knight.

Plot (I know you said 1-3 Sentences, but I’ve been working on this story for a while, and have it pretty fleshed out)

The Premise: Dherick and his mentor, Sir Eqor, are knights of the kingdom, trusted by the King and Princess to take care of an SOS. It is clear that Dherick and the Princess are very close. Havelpov is introduced as a well trusted friend of the King, and a skilled sell-sword, hired to take care of the dragon near the Kingdom’s capital.

The Cast: The Heros: Dherick, a squire of the Kingdom and Havelpov, a Sell-Staff of renown, who is close to the king. The Villian: Introduced through controlling a Baron who Dherick and Eqor deal with and oppose. He also shows up as a cloaked figure who curses Dherick in the first episode.

The Catalyst: Dherick is cursed, and returns to the castle half dead. Havelpov, having just defeated a dragon for the King, is hired to heal Dherick. He explains that he cannot. The only way to break the curse is the destroy the Curse-Binder. Dherick hears this, and realizes he needs magic to do that. He pushes himself to follow Havelpov to beg for his mentorship. Havelpov at first says no, but then changes his mind when Dherick threatens to go to Thizwer, a Wizarding Community Havelpov has a sour history with.

The Training Sequence: Dherick needs to learn magic. He is physically strong and has extensive sword training, which failed him the first time he fought the villain. He also needs to mature, because at first, he feels he needs to defeat the villain alone. Through his journey, he learns magic, and creates a style that melds magic and sword play together, and he matures, learning to depend on Havelpov as more then just a mentor, and the friends he makes along the way.

Havelpov also grows through training Dherick. His journey is mostly a mental one. Despite having friends, Havelpov always holds people at arm’s length. Through training Dherick, he learns to trust people and let them in.

The Hurdles: The first obstacle is Dherick and Havelpov learning to trust each other as more then just teacher and apprentice. They butt heads at first, don’t tell each other all the information they need to make informed decisions, and find it hard to let the other in. Through their time together, they grow closer, and open up to each other. This is really shown in the second season, when Dherick finally goes into detail about what happened the night he was cursed, and Havelpov explains the history he has with Thizwer.

Other obstacles are the different issues and mysteries they are hired to solve as Sell-Staffs, and in the second season, they meet the Regent of a neighboring Kingdom who is being controlled by the main villain. They are instrumental in defeating him and helping the prince of that Kingdom.

In the third and fourth seasons, Dherick struggles with his curse. It grows stronger, to the point where he fights against the pain it causes, and has to push himself to continue. Dherick is also separated from Havelpov, and Havelpov tries to find him, only to be taken by slavers from a neighboring kingdom.

Both Dherick and Havelpov face failure head on. They try to figure out why they failed, and how they can succeed next time. Needing to break his curse pushes Dherick to continue. At first, simply surviving the day pushed Havelpov on, but as he grows closer to Dherick, helping him becomes his motivation.

The Failure: The ultimate failure is Dherick failing to break the curse, and falling to it. He finds out what the curse actually does in the latter half of the third season, but actually experiences it at the climax of the series. This happens because he withdraws from the people around him as his curse grows, instead of letting Havelpov and his friends help him.

The Lesson: After falling to the curse, Dherick tries to fight his way back. When he hears Havelpov and his friends calling to him, it makes him realize that he shouldn’t have withdrawn from them, and he should have relied on them for help. This lets him fight the curse’s effects long enough to help his friends defeat the villain, which breaks the curse.

The Climax: This happens alongside the failure and the lesson, but it’s when Dherick, Havelpov, and their friends go to face the main Villain to break Dherick’s curse, and to free the kingdom, because the Villain has taken over Dherick’s Kingdom. On the way there is when Dherick’s curse fully takes effect, causing his body to fall under the villain’s control, and his mind to shut down, essentially. Dherick goes to the Villain’s side, and fights his friends. Thanks to Havelpov and his friends’ efforts to reach his mind, Dherick is able to wake up, and fight against the curse, allowing him and his friends, together, to defeat the villain.

The Denouement Some time later. Dherick has the title of Wizard Knight, and is the General of his Kingdom’s forces, and the Champion and Prince Consort of the Princess/soon-to-be Queen. He is seen fighting alongside his men, relying on them instead of rushing in to do the fight himself. The King of the neighboring Kingdom that Dherick and Havelpov helped in season two come to see the Princess’s coronation. Havelpov is there, having traded in the title of Sell-Staff for Court Wizard, and one of their other friends come, representing Thizwer, and explaining that it’s changed for the better under her leadership.