Courage stories, drawn as vertical-scroll comics.
Arthurian legend
A boy nobody is watching pulls a blade out of an anvil because his brother forgot one. The kingdom he is handed will take everything he builds.
The Iliad
Nine years into a war he was promised would make him immortal, the best fighter in the world is sulking in his tent. The insult was small. The cost will not be.
Albanian mythology: Muji (Songs of the Frontier Warriors)
A herdsman boy nurses two mountain-spirit infants back to health. They offer him a wish. He asks for strength.
Albanian mythology: Halili (Songs of the Frontier Warriors)
The younger brother. Faster, handsomer, quicker to laugh, and the one who rides out first.
Albanian mythology: Rozafa (foundation legend)
The castle walls fell every night until one wife agreed to be built into them, on one condition.
Albanian mythology: Gjergj Elez Alia (Songs of the Frontier Warriors)
Nine wounds, nine years in bed, one sister nursing him. Then the sea-monster asks for her.
