: Re: How do I make my supporting POV interesting, altough he is not important in the story? I have one POV character who is not too important to the story. He is an Elf soldier who keeps a important

Two main options:

Make him part of the main story. Then he will, necessarily, be important/interesting.
Don't make him part of the main story. Then he doesn't have to be important/interesting.

Based on the examples I'm seeing, it appears to me that #2 is quite viable. As the main narrator it's can be valuable for his tone/voice to be neutral/authoritative, rather than that he is necessarily an interesting character.

Examples:

Ishmael in Moby Dick
The unnamed narrator (assumed to be the author himself) in Slaughterhouse Five
And just to add a different kind of example, each of the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) are told by a narrator that hardly references himself in the story at all. Their role in the story being told just isn't that important.

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