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Literally The Black Company
There's a battle involving wizard gods (basically) and it's horrifying
Edit: man the introduction is amazing too. "Here's the world we live in. There are endless portents of doom everywhere you look. Stop looking." I fuckin LOVE IT
Friend, I came here to say just this.
Siege of the Tower by the White Rose and it's just absolute nightmare fuel. Man and Woman slaughtering one another by day only gives way to wizards trying to find the most creative ways to slaughter them all by night.
It's been like 15+ years since I read em and I just found my copy of the trilogy let's gooooo
Absolutely had DnD characters based on the drum-playing shaman illusionists
Edit: ooh I've been looking for a good book to read to my wife at bedtime, this will be up there with Ursula K Le Guin's stories
I think the absolute best thing they did was the slow reveal of the true history of the Company.
You've gotta love it. Even going back to the very beginning where he chekov's guns us with a certain Company relic that only comes into play like... IRL 16 years later.
It probably wasn't planned like that from the very beginning but he made it all so very believable.
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the standard?
That I do
I had the pleasure of reading them for the first time maybe two years ago. I think I crushed a book a week.
I definitely based my most recent warlock/rogue off of Raven and I have no shame. I think I owe the books a re-read. Maybe then I'll be off to dread empire and Malazan.
Oh man. The drip feed of lore in that series is amazing
Ehhhhhh.... I'm getting more Wizard of Aus vibes....