How To Write Henchmen

The role of henchmen in your story is to provide support for your main villain or Antagonist. They are the soldiers that attack the Protagonist and provide obstacles for the Protagonist to overcome on their quest.

The problem with henchmen is that if youre writing a hero who is intended to be morally pure, you cant have them just slaughter the henchmen. Ill be talking about the different ways of writing henchmen for different styles of story.

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