War is hell.
War is hell.
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I'm a fan of the Forgotten Realms/D&D type of magic users where the long-lived races like elves see humans as reckless, bordering on insane, for how quickly they race through learning and understanding magic. An elf might take a decade to fully understand a single spell before she wants to use it regularly, a human will race through ALL her learning in 3 years.
And because humans are humans, they just might spend decades pushing a specific magic type or spell to its absolute limits, in a way that elves would never even think of because it's just outright insane.
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Fucking epic. Thanks for sharing!
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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
Oh man. The drip feed of lore in that series is amazing
Ehhhhhh.... I'm getting more Wizard of Aus vibes....