
Trading in such camps would increase their profit, resulting in a small town growing around them. Since the game takes place over a hero’s lifetime, many things can change Molyneux gave an example of a trade camp that the player could either help or destroy. The world in Fable II is fully dynamic, interactive and mostly free roaming with no set quest path to take. Divorce with the player’s spouse can occur, and can be initiated by either the spouse or the player themselves. In Fable II, it is possible for the player’s character to get married, including same-sex marriage, and have children.


New features to the game included the opportunity to choose between playing as a male or female character, a fast-travel system, and a canine companion who can detect treasures and alert the player to nearby enemies. Players also can make decisions on how they act, affecting their characters’ morality and appearance as a result. Phaedrus' five books of fables are here presented in a translation to English prose by Henry Thomas Ridley.Alongside the main story, players can engage in several side quests and repeatable jobs to earn money and rewards, build up a property empire, and customise their character with various clothing items, hairstyles, tattoos and makeup.

Although many of his fables do depict animals or objects assuming speech, he also has many short stories about men, writing narratives that seem to the modern eye more like short tales than fables.ĭespite many other fables being attributed to Phaedrus, only five books are considered by scholarship to have been written by him. Even though the modern concept of fable is that it should have animals or inanimate objects as characters - an idea supported by the works of famous fabulists such as Aesop and La Fontaine - Phaedrus, the most important Latin fabulist, is innovative in his writing.

The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the "moral"), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Translated by Christopher Smart (1722 - 1771) and Henry Thomas Riley (1816 - 1878) Download cover art Download CD case insert The Fables of Phaedrus
