8.1 Overview

While characters are static in some tales, most stories tell us about the development of the protagonists. The characters achieve their life’s passion, they have epiphanies, they grow up or grow old, they acquire abilities and use them for good or bad, and at the end of the story the main characters are not the same people that they were at the beginning.

There are three larger categories of change that your character can go through. They are personality, seeds, and abilities, and each of them is explained in its own section below.