Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.
~ Michelle Paver
Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...
Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. He cheated! He used fire!No, he won fairly enough!
So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight. Renn sucked in her breath. You've go to try.
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.