Mariner Software Contour for Windows - Manual (Page 15)

The Four Archetypes
There are six archetypes that real-life people live by: Innocent, Orphan, Magician, Wanderer, Martyr and Warrior.
The theory is that people make certain choices about how to live their lives and how to respond to various issues
based on their defining archetype.
Contour utilizes four out of the six archetypes -- Orphan, Wanderer, Warrior, and Martyr. Understanding how the
protagonist moves through them during the course of a story will bring the writer extremely close to a character-
driven script. The four archetypes and where they fall within the three act structure are charted graphically be-
low.
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