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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 4847508" data-attributes="member: 6318">From what I've read online, most of the people who think/thought so are/were under the impression that Ed chose to write novels about Elminster, and openly uses him as something of an alter ego. Those things are what definitely isn't true.They think he's Ed's favourite character. While that can't be proved, he's said many times that he's not, it doesn't seem to be an idea shared by anyone who's worked with him, and I've never seen even a detailed argument made to the contrary in hundreds of these threads. As I say, the vaguer feeling that El is Mary Sueish is a matter of personal impressions. Mine is that very few people would have got that one if not for this meme that has a life of its own separate from the books.I've never expected to change the mind of people fixed in some of these ideas, just to encourage people who haven't made their mind up not to believe them blindly (as some unquestionably have) and instead to look for themselves.</blockquote>