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CarlManvers2019

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Whether it be Low, High, Dark, Epic or even Historical Fantasy. All are welcome.

Mostly so long as they’re in text

First comes to mind

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Son of the Black Sword

Son of the Black Sword is an Epic Fantasy by Larry Correia. In the fantasy world of Lok, religion has been replaced by a brutally oppressive caste system, maintained by a widespread bureaucracy and upheld by the militant Protectors, most notably …
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Larry Correia’s Son of The Black Sword series

It’s three volumes now and I have a good feeling that it will last much longer and may possibly have a few volumes set in the distant past or in-relation to what other continents exist

In this world, on the Continent known as Lok, religion has been banned and people are divided into a Caste System composed of The First Caste, The Warrior Caste, The Worker Caste and lastly the hated Casteless

This world lacks much travel or knowledge of its surroundings due to the near unstoppable Demons whom even with the strange and mysterious “Ancestor Blades” such as the protagonist Ashok Vadal’s Angruvadal are hard to kill

Ashok is a man of focus and unshakeable principles, but when he finds out some truths, his worldview is shaken and yet he decides to continue serving The Law and over time realizes more things about the world all while still having some sort of devotion to The Law.

And he is VERY Badass
 
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Gates of Empire by Robert E. Howard

Let's just say even till now I still find it both funny and awesome how a fat drunk keeps on running away from his liege lord only to face increasingly dangerous odds and fight through them and even be noted with respect by the enemy

Real good read
 
The Chronicles of Narnia never seems to get love nowadays. They're legit great reads, and they're short too. The books actually respect your time by only being 200 pages long - easily readable in an evening - rather than a gargantuan 1,200+ book monstrosity with bloat. My favorite books were 3 The Horse and His Boy, 6 The Silver Chair, and 7 The Last Battle. The other books have more exciting events going on like wars and adventures, but I liked the spiritual focus of 3, 6, and 7.
 
Anybody here ever read Karl Edward Wagner's Kane?

It's a series about a guy called Kane, who was amongst the very first humans created by a "Mad God" and may have been involved in said "Mad God" abandoning humanity in a fit of rage right before cursing Kane to be immortal and essentially grow lonely and forgotten again and again

With that said, Kane's a fucking asshole who spends much time being a bandit or pirate, whenever he isn't backstabbing someone to become a conqueror in his most recent plot for power

All of his actions are mostly to pass the time, though there are at times some hints of slight "niceness" from him or even ability to have genuine friends and admiration for others

Unfortunately, Karl Edward Wagner's dead and well given its genre of Sword&Sorcery, I doubt we'd have seen much of an end to this guys' immortal life or much major changes
 
Dark Agnes or Sword Woman by Robert E. Howard

A Historical Fantasy story about Agnes De Chastillon, a girl who’s the daughter of a bastard of a noble, who’s also quite the bastard himself

She escapes an unwanted marriage that’s likely to prematurely age her and result in her rape by her “fiancee” by stabbing the fuck out of him before answering her true calling to become an adventurer

Unfortunately REH didn’t write more of her before he died
 
The Belgarion(Belgariad and Mallereon) series was pretty good from what I recall of it. As were the Sparhawk(Elenium and Tamuli). Especially interesting is how they deal with magic, and the side-effects it has. Ie, in one scene they conjure up a large storm, but the world works on cause and effect; creating the storm in one part of the world, creates a large drought in another(I think it was a drought. Basically, if you drop a bunch of water in one area, it had to take that water from somewhere, ergo, that area is going to lose its water). It's a rather interesting take as often magic is seen as well, magic. Doesn't conform to physics or natural order. In this though, magic is treated much differently, causality mostly.

Oh, and I rather enjoyed the Earthsea novels. Granted, they're a bit dry at time, and the style of how it's written is... somewhat a bit to get used to. It's been awhile since I've read them, but they're pretty interesting from what I recall.
 
SuperS4 said:
The Belgarion(Belgariad and Mallereon) series was pretty good from what I recall of it. As were the Sparhawk(Elenium and Tamuli).
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Those where my first no young adult fantasy novels. Overall I like them but while it was a major theme the second part of both series felt like they where repeating a lot of the plot points of the first series.

I did prefer Sparhawk(Elenium and Tamuli). The main cast felt a bit less like standard stereotypes you see in Belgarion(Belgariad and Mallereon)


While geared more to kids it is a seris that got me into reading was Enchanted Forest Chronicles. They took the trope of a helplessness princess and turned it on its head before it was cool. They are funny and has surprising plot twists that make them enjoyable to read even for adults.
 
The Inheritance Cycle is a good series for those who want a good example of how not to write a fantasy novel. Don't get me wrong it's not hilariously cringe awful, but when a book spawns a website of critics devoted to ripping it to pieces you know it's worth tearing apart and reading just once.
 
CarlManvers2019 said:
Mythology is all religious, I consider the Bible to be fantasy with elements of truth
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That's a monstrously incorrect take. I say that as someone who isn't particularly a fan of taking scripture as divine, rather than divinely inspired. The Old Testament is one part political propaganda of the ancient Jewish chiefs and later kings, one part a stone age people documenting the evolution of their belief system. One part history text and if you're religious all godly.

New Testament is cut from the same cloth. It's more like the Prince meets The Last kingdom or something along those lines.
 
The Mandarin said:
That's a monstrously incorrect take. I say that as someone who isn't particularly a fan of taking scripture as divine, rather than divinely inspired. The Old Testament is one part political propaganda of the ancient Jewish chiefs and later kings, one part a stone age people documenting the evolution of their belief system. One part history text and if you're religious all godly.

New Testament is cut from the same cloth. It's more like the Prince meets The Last kingdom or something along those lines.
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Fair

Though, you're kinda right about the political propaganda part, many of those figures probably existed but what happened was less fantastic

The Garden of Eden? May have been inspired by a Canaanite version
 
I enjoyed David Gemmells books, especially the Drenai series and the Lion of Macedon/Dark Prince duology.

Also a shout out for Eddings series mentioned above, the standalone Redemption of Althalus was decent but I couldn't get into the Elder God's series.
 
I myself have read and really enjoyed "The Blade Itself" of the First Law trilogy, written by the mighty Joe Abercrombie. This is a fantasy world populated nearly entirely by arseholes (more than a few of them are semi-evil), and you will love them. My favourite fucking character is actually a crippled Inquisitor of all people.

Fallout-Man101 said:
Don't get me wrong it's not hilariously cringe awful, but when a book spawns a website of critics devoted to ripping it to pieces you know it's worth tearing apart and reading just once.
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What is this sacred and consecrated ground you speak of? Link me, my brother.
 
Argent said:
Those where my first no young adult fantasy novels. Overall I like them but while it was a major theme the second part of both series felt like they where repeating a lot of the plot points of the first series.

I did prefer Sparhawk(Elenium and Tamuli). The main cast felt a bit less like standard stereotypes you see in Belgarion(Belgariad and Mallereon)


While geared more to kids it is a seris that got me into reading was Enchanted Forest Chronicles. They took the trope of a helplessness princess and turned it on its head before it was cool. They are funny and has surprising plot twists that make them enjoyable to read even for adults.
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When does Belgarath and Polgara take place in this Belgarion series?
 
CarlManvers2019 said:
When does Belgarath and Polgara take place in this Belgarion series?
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They are prequels about how the characters beame the wizards they are.

I think Polgara is one of the stronger parts of the series and both books really flesh out the characters that while major parts have little development outside of their mentor roles in the main series.
 
I know it's not a book

But does the Black Moon Chronicles count?

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Black Moon Chronicles (Comic Book) - TV Tropes

The Black Moon Chronicles (French: Chroniques de la Lune Noire) is an epic Dark Fantasy comic series by French author François Marcela-Froideval and illustrated by Olivier Ledroit, who is better known by English speakers for his work on …
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The series is Heavy Metal, so it gets pretty fucking ridiculous, especially in-scale....like how the fuck are there so many people moving around and how is there remotely enough food to supply all these armies

The protagonist also more-or-less has everything going for him....so can get pretty boring
 
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