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While High Fantasy is more about the setting - the time period, the way the world works, the way the characters interact, with a focus on the more persona change within the characters, rather than the global conflict at large.Īs with every single series that received a lot of attention, it is going to attract people who trash it and call it 'overhyped', when most of them don't usually watch or prefer shows of similar genres to make a fair comparison. In short, Epic fantasy is more about the scale of the conflict, and the affects on the greater world at large. The villains are often very human, complex characters with real motivations to their supposed evil, rather than just being inanimate objects of evil Today's modern epic fantasies focus more on complex characters that are morally ambiguous, and situations that cannot exactly be cast as entirely black and white. But rather, in the spirit of the epic tradition, how significant is the change it marks on its world? How big is the scope of its conflict, and how significant the power of its eventual resolution?'Įpic Fantasy has also undergone changes since it was made popular (by Tolkien etc) 50 years ago. Ultimately, when we try to settle the question of what counts as epic fantasy, we shouldn’t ask how long the story is, or whether or not it describes heroes joined in massive battles. Their plots are often complex and multi-stranded, with a cast of thousands, a host of different narrators, and plot arc that can take years, if not generations It is the question of scale which makes the quality known as “world building” so important to epic fantasy. Epic fantasy novels must have a grand scale.

If an epic is a story about how a world changes, it has to be able to give a sense of the entire world in which it is set. Turning back to modern fantasy, it is easy to see why epic fantasy series become so long.

For better or worse, something is different at the end. In all of the traditional epics, the narrative of events takes place on what historians call “a world historical scale.” This means that deeds of the main actors, the struggles and journeys that the epics recount, have an effect on the very nature of the world. They help explain the nature of the world.įurther, they show how it changed. They describe a world in which the mysterious, the mythic, and the divine were made. They are massively long and complex, and although they do have heroes, battles and dramatic adventure, their role is more than merely to entertain. 'Epics are stories that stood as central pillars to the cultures that created them. stories are very long (500-1000 chapters) relies on many sub plots help advance the story features a good vs evil story (usually, but can be shades of gray in modern epic fantasy) magic a key part of plot/story/character abilities In summary, some main characteristics of Epic Fantasy stories are: It is imperative to understand what this story is trying to be, so you don't end up judging it for what it's not trying to be. First of all, this story is of the Epic Fantasy genre.

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