Doesn’t make him less loathsome to read though — Antiheroes, in fantasy fiction, can be entertaining to read (e.g. Michael Moorcock’s Elric, Fritz Lieber’s Fafrhd and the Gray Mouser). In the case of Stephen R. Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant, it’s not the case. If the writer used the Greek myth of the seer Cassandra, it explains a bit, but these…