I like to remind people often that LOTR took a decade or something for it to catch on in the West. And now it's a scared, milked cow.
Believe it or not, we're pretty special compared to how things used to go (where authors literally died before their work got noticed and acclaimed; and here we...
not only is my MC weak--but there's five of them. All of them powerless in life in some shape or form during a time in history where fantasy has become reality. It's more about them growing UP during all this versus growing powerful.
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