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SamQUest has been a good quest, and there isn't much more to say.
So far everything has been expected, similar to what we saw before. There is nothing wrong with that: narratives need to be enjoyable, not some sort of situationist manifestation. The problem is: what are we suppose to talk about?
If, however, you allow me to speculate, there are plenty of elements that can develop in interesting and memorable ways, and I'm sure you will have opportunities to try different ideas if you want.
Starting with the protagonist: Sam doesn't have one simple and easy to get behind objective, but his goals are easy to sympathy with. He want to be accepted, he want to find a place he can belong to, that is a problem everyone can understand and work very well for the path of exploration this quest is current in. Later that can become a problem, but by then you can give more direct motives. (example: in Journey Quest Demesi was aimless until he got involved with Tav fight.)
we don't know a lot about him, and that leave a lot of room for development. For now many of the unknowns are doubts and mysteries in the narrative, which is good to create interest from the reader. We should naturally learn about Sam as he interact with others.
As far as we can tell Sam is a normal person. He doesn't have questionable morals, he seem mostly sane, he have reasonable desires and fears... in other words, he doesn't need uncommon explanations to how he become the way he is. I'm not saying that because it would be better if he was crazy, but the way he is the is little reason to question how he become the person he is.
The mysterious elements around him are: the mask and stone, magical objects that can't really be explained because they're magical; his isolation at the beginning, suggesting he was ostracized or lost someone; and the need to cover his face, the most curious characteristic that could have many different reasons.
The wolf mask isn't just a disguise, it is a replacements for his face. Why is that? Maybe he considered himself ugly or he suffered some form of disfiguration, making him fear rejection from others. Maybe his face is know for some reason, making the new identity a way to live as someone else. Maybe it's a problem of identity, he doesn't feel like his face represent who he is so he try something else in the hope that this will feel more genuine.
Of course Sam isn't the only one we don't know very well. The kobolds living isolated in a dangerous place bring many questions as well as the despairing and the current signs of violence. There are plenty of mysterious elements to speculate the same way I did with Sam, but if we don't have reason to believe they are guiding us to something different than what we normally expect there is little motivation to point them out.
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