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Amadeus's answer is great if your goal is story-driven-story. IF however, you're working with something more experimental, I think the nested allegories can work, just like a musical leitmotif for one character can also have a musical phrase that echoes the adventure theme.

Margaret Atwood does great work with this. In The Robber Bride, one of the characters is a history professor, and she figures out historical battles by using seeds and spices on a topographical map, and they also are reflecting her antagonism with other characters. One of the characters changes her identity to suit the other ones (for good or ill), so there's all sorts of complexity going on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robber_Bride

In The Blind Assassin, the story takes place over different time lines, and in one time line there's a story about a pair of lovers, one telling the story of the "blind assassin" (an explicitly invented story within the story), and there are echoes of the lovers' relationship within that as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Assassin
In general, look to poets-who-are-also-novelists (or vice versa) to get a sense of these possibilities. But I look forward to whatever you come up with!

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