BenJepheneT
Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
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Exactly as the title says, I wanna find a fantasy series that pays absolutely no attention to its setting or mechanic. No backstory to the throne, no magical mechanics, no who-betrayed-who or any Chosen One sticking swords up dragons ass. Just a bare bone story of a protagonist in a story for story's sake, not to build a universe or a whole new DnD world but just to tell a story, albeit in a less advanced settings with elves and dwarves and whatnots.
It doesn't need to be completely bare of setting. I just need it to be like a smudge in the background. No need for a big, convoluted paragraph on how the queen cheated on the king (again) or the peace treaty between the wyverns and dragons for identity theft, just scantily mentioned would also be nice.
You know what, I'mma just cut to the chase here: give me a fantasy story that reads like it's written in a fantasy setting. Like the throne and the countries and the wars are common knowledge. Like how we, in the modern society, mention WWII in a story as just WWII and not as "It all began when this failed Jewish painter had a dream-".
(I realize I'm coming off as a bit entitled and snobby at this point so I'm just gonna make the point and say yes, I'm all of the above and then some. I'm just curious on whether there's actually such a guy who does a story in a fantasy setting and not a fantasy story.)
It doesn't need to be completely bare of setting. I just need it to be like a smudge in the background. No need for a big, convoluted paragraph on how the queen cheated on the king (again) or the peace treaty between the wyverns and dragons for identity theft, just scantily mentioned would also be nice.
You know what, I'mma just cut to the chase here: give me a fantasy story that reads like it's written in a fantasy setting. Like the throne and the countries and the wars are common knowledge. Like how we, in the modern society, mention WWII in a story as just WWII and not as "It all began when this failed Jewish painter had a dream-".
(I realize I'm coming off as a bit entitled and snobby at this point so I'm just gonna make the point and say yes, I'm all of the above and then some. I'm just curious on whether there's actually such a guy who does a story in a fantasy setting and not a fantasy story.)