We take a look at the mythical inspiration behind the magical weapons that appear in Veronica Roth's YA fantasy novel, Chosen Ones.
What do you do after you’ve saved the world? Sloane Andrews, protagonist of Veronica Roth’s ‘Chosen Ones’ still doesn’t know. Ten years ago, Sloane was one of five chosen children, each picked because they each fulfilled the requirements of the prophesised ‘chosen one.’ Together, the five fought and defeated the Dark One, a magical being spreading death and destruction across the world.
Unlike the Dark One, Sloane and the other ‘chosen ones’ are not magical, and they have no defences against the Dark One’s terrifying ability to strip the life out of everything around him in a technique called the Drain. To fight him, therefore, the Chosen posit that, if magic can exist now, then it may have done so in the past, the Chosen tracked down a series of historical magical objects that they used to defeat the Dark One. Roth pulled these items from genuine myths and legends from European Folklore.
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