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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Oct 28, 2014 14:17:21 GMT -5
Since I got sent to the dungeon I decided to write down my top ten fantasy world's. I will admit right out of the gate that this my list. Not what I think the best ones are but the ones I love most.
1) I know right out of the gate I am going to name one that most of you guys disagree with. But I am a huge Wheel of Time fan. And I love that world so much. I remember being just as excited for world of wheel of time as you guys are for the Game of Thrones one, but that was close to twenty years ago.
2) This one is going to date me because this world's glory days are all behind it. When I was a teen though I spent more time pretending I was in the world of Dragonlance then in reality.
3) Another one on here purely from the strength of its tabletop RPG, Shadowrun. I love this setting. It is in the future to, only place to fire a rocket launcher at a dragon.
4) Next one is probably the newest of my favorite worlds, the world of Avatar the last Airbender and Korra. I mean most of you know how amazing this place is. Beautiful, epic and thought provoking; I could spend hours, and probably have, pretending to be a bender.
5) Seventh Sea is a world no one but me will know. It was an RPG and I ran an epic three year long campaign there. It is a fantasy version of Europe and so detailed and interesting.
6) Any of you ever watch Gargoyles? It was a cartoon set in NYC about mythical gargoyles. It grew to be so much more. And had great characters. Including probably the best collection of cartoon villains ever created.
7) next up is Fables. This was a comic book series and I was a huge fan. There is a new video game set in this world. And it is also set in NYC.
8) Another comic book series is Hellblazer. This is more confusing because it has kind of been tangled into the DC universe but at times it was it's own world. It's all about a single wizard named John Constantine. It goes back to the eighties but I only stumbled into him recently. But it only took me line a weekend to read all of his series. He has a new TV series called Constantine that I am hoping doesn't suck.
9) a Song of Ice and Fire. Here you guys go. I am sure you guys don't need me to say anything about this.
10) Finally Stardust. I am not sure why but I love this world. It is probably the author of the book. Love my Neil Gaiman. Even though it is only one flick the world really pops.
Honorable mentions
DC and Marvel both have fantastical aspects to their worlds I enjoy. But didn't seem to fit.
Star Wars is a setting I consider to be fantasy even though every one else calls out Sci Fi. So I left it off.
Forgotten Realms and Dark Sun are two table top rpgs that I really wanted on but slid just under neath.
What do you guys think? And what are your lists? I am dying to know.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 14:34:29 GMT -5
1) Westeros, of course
2) Thedas, from the Dragon Age franchise
After that I can't put them in order but these are the worlds I love:
-There are so many takes on Arthurian legend so can I say Camelot as a generic term to encompass them all?
-Harry Potter world
-Temeraire world, i.e. the Napoleonic era with dragons
-Enroth, the fantasy world in the Might and Magic games (MMVI and upwards)
-Tamriel from the Elder Scrolls world
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Ok that's interesting half of mine are fantasy versions of our own world and the rest are mostly RPG worlds! I was tempted to put a few others on the list but realised I'd either not read all the books in the relevant series or had ended up disappointed in them for some reason. I'm sure there are more that have slipped my mind for the time being.
My honourable mention must got to the world of Redwall, as written by the late Brian Jacques. I loved those novels as an older child/teen.
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Post by The Gambler on Oct 28, 2014 14:39:23 GMT -5
God damn I forgot how good Gargoyles was! I'll throw up my list later, though I read pathetically little fantasy compared to the rest of you. Some great choices I never would have thought of in there Smith.
Though, how has Tolkien not made either list?
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Oct 28, 2014 14:46:24 GMT -5
You know Marie I really like Thedas as well but I am hoping they dig a little deeper in the next game. Thay world could be great.
It's funny but I realized how much of mine is more modern settings with magic. I wonder what that says about me.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 14:50:56 GMT -5
I am not a major Tolkien fan so I felt it would be improper to put him on my list. I respect what he did for fantasy and his world building is good but I can't call him a favourite author. The sets in the films are undeniably beautiful though. I haven't really felt the same sense of immersion in Middle Earth as I do in Westeros and some of the other places on my list. But then as I said, some of them are games, which kind of helps with immersion.
I need to reread the Fall of Arthur, I really loved Tolkien's poetry in that. But though I think he meant to connect the poem with Middle Earth, he didn't finish it so it kind of stands by itself. I don't know enough about Tolkien's work to fill in the gaps.
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Oct 28, 2014 14:51:10 GMT -5
I have to admit I weirdly backdoored Tolkien. I read ton of Tolkien Rip offs first so by the time I got to the original I already attached all those ideas to other world's. Mostly dungeons and dragons related.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 14:52:23 GMT -5
You know Marie I really like Thedas as well but I am hoping they dig a little deeper in the next game. Thay world could be great. It's funny but I realized how much of mine is more modern settings with magic. I wonder what that says about me. I hope they will, yes. I love Thedas. Less than a month now! Also, it says that you like the convenience of the modern world but would like a little magic in it too. That totally makes sense. |
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Post by The Black Dread on Oct 28, 2014 15:02:36 GMT -5
Stone by day... Warriors by night!
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Post by Horas on Oct 28, 2014 15:37:58 GMT -5
Books: Westeros by GRRM, the setting of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the setting of the Sandman also by Gaiman (the core concepts of these two are close enough that this feels like cheating, but what can I say, they are both great), the world of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
Movies: Middle Earth (blasphemy I know, but this is on my list by strength of PJ's movies, not Tolkien's books).
Video Games: Lordran from Dark Souls, Termina from Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Mythology: All real-world mythology. Mythology is so fucking cool.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 15:45:11 GMT -5
Hmm I need to read more Sandman, I loved the stories I did read.
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Oct 28, 2014 15:56:31 GMT -5
Sandman is awesome. I did consider him Horas. He is really cool. And I love his sister Death. He would have been like eleven or twelve on my list.
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Oct 28, 2014 15:57:46 GMT -5
I also just noticed I wrote world's not worlds for the title. How fucking embarrassing.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 16:05:00 GMT -5
I fixed it for you. I'm embarrassed that I didn't notice. I usually do notice typos other than my own.
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Post by Horas on Oct 28, 2014 16:08:21 GMT -5
Death is great. Uh. The Sandman character, that is, not like, the concept. I thought Stardust was an interesting choice on your list, Smith, as that is probably my least favorite thing of Gaiman's I have read.
Also I found Thedas... okay? I got the first Dragon Age game on sale and I mostly enjoyed it, but nothing about the setting really got its hooks in me. It seemed kind of paint by numbers with a "dark" twist, with the dark part mostly being that every creature in its world is filled with gallons and gallons of pressurized blood that kept getting on my character. I do remember thinking the Qunari were interesting and different.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 16:13:18 GMT -5
I love Thedas. it's flawed in the way it treats mages and elves and the casteless dwarves of Orzammar, but prejudice is realistic (though of course regrettable). I enjoyed the different races and cultures and even the Andrastian religion and I'm intrigued by the places that haven't appeared in the games yet. Having said that, the games are better than the novels - I read 2 of them and the style is a little clunky. Thedas isn't as deep as Westeros, of course, but I think there's something there. The Battle of Ostagar cut scenes still almost makes me cry and I've seen it at least 8 times.
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Oct 28, 2014 16:14:09 GMT -5
I have never read the book. I am only talking about the movie. And I really love that movie. So freaking good. And the world really popped for me.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 16:18:38 GMT -5
I liked the Stardust film better than the book, but in all fairness I saw the film first. Had I read the book first, I would almost certainly have thought the film changed too much. I do love the film. It was a fun world but I feel that I don't know it well enough.
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Post by Horas on Oct 28, 2014 16:23:54 GMT -5
I will have to check it out at some time, I have never seen it. When I wrote my list it struck me that fantasy movies are generally kind of weirdly shitty. Like other "genre" stuff seems to thrive on the big screen -- I can think of a bunch of really good sci fi or westerns, but the only fantasy movies I can think of that are good are the LOTR ones. So it will be cool to see another example of one.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 16:25:52 GMT -5
It's very different to the book, so bear that in mind.
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Post by The Gambler on Oct 28, 2014 17:25:55 GMT -5
I feel less embarrassed that I LOVE the Stardust movie now. Haven't read the book either, but Smith summed it up well by saying something about the world and style in the film just pops. I would love the idea of sequels in that world.
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 17:37:48 GMT -5
Why would you be embarrassed about it?
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Post by Erik on Oct 28, 2014 17:42:56 GMT -5
I haven't read anything set in it in years, but Forgotten Realms still holds a special place in my heart as a holdover from high school. Sometimes, you just want a ridiculously-high-magic setting that's chock full of cliches.
Also, The Four Corners, the setting for the Kingkiller Chronicle. Hasn't been as fleshed out as many of the others thanks to only having two novels, a novella, and a short story set in it thus far, but I really enjoy Patrick Rothfuss's writing and world design.
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Post by The Gambler on Oct 28, 2014 18:34:05 GMT -5
Why would you be embarrassed about it? The gf claims it's a movie for girls haha |
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Post by Vhagar on Oct 28, 2014 19:05:06 GMT -5
Why would you be embarrassed about it? The gf claims it's a movie for girls haha Not the reason I thought you'd give but ok. I'm wondering why she thinks that though. |
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Post by The Gambler on Oct 28, 2014 19:15:29 GMT -5
It is a bit of a fantasy rom com when you think about it, just with more sword fights and magic.
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all alone and also really bored 
Hopefully going to kickstart the festival too