In many adventure or fantasy stories (books, movies or other media) it's often children who play the main characters and the heroes. I understand that a story which is aimed at a young audience will use young heroes so the audience can relate to them. The same happens with war stories of (usually) male soldiers which of course needs to appeal to an older audience.
But let's head back to the story for the young(er) audience in which children play the hero/main characters. I might be over-thinking it all, or I'm completely missing the point, but why can't the adults be responsible for vanquishing the evil and saving the world? The adults are usually stronger, wiser and bear stronger magic and arms.
What kind of reasons could, for example, a medieval story (or other stories) have that "this" specific group of children are the ones who need to save the world by defeating the evil powers, and not the stronger adults?
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