Well I’m craving something in this genre but I’m a bit overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. So many titles and yet I’m not sure what to read. Maybe you can help?

I’m looking for something in a high fantasy setting. I’m not too keen on heavy politics and war driven plots (though, I can read that ). What really gets me is interesting characters, good action and magical creatures.

I’ve loved anything Discworld and I’ve also enjoyed the First Law books by Abercrombie.

I’m finding that Tolkien, Sanderson and George RR Martin appear on every fantasy list I come across, so if you do recommend something I’d appreciate it be something other than that.

    • Steris@ghostbloods.org
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      9 months ago

      @hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca @Mothra@mander.xyz Yes! I recently started it and I was floored by all the Cosmere-ish stuff in the first few chapters, down to names and everything.

      Also my brother used to name his video game characters Haplo, so there are core memories involved here.

      Incredibly, no one on 17thShard or the Cosmere reddits seem to know this series, but I do not think the similarities are coincidences, given Brandon’s first unpublished book being essentially a Dragonlance story.

      I paused Death Gate Cycle to catch up on shorter backlog stuff (and yet another Sanderson book), but I’ll have to prioritize finishing it now that I saw this thread ❤️

      • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’ve always felt like the magic systems and cultures of the Patryns and Sartans were deserving of their own expanded universe. I was desperate to learn more about them and was sad that they were only ever in that one series.

        I remember the versions I read had a sort of encyclopedia at the back of every book in the series dealing with some aspect of another of the world and I devoured those obsessively