>Fantasy novel >Setting is another world/universe where

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>>9470782
>Fantasy novel
>All races are humanoid

>Sci-fi novel
>Humanity is the chosen race

>fantasy novel
>it's actually yet another post-modern piece of trash

>>9470782
>SciFi novel
>Jesus didn't visit every other alien planet

>fantasy novel
>hero is the chosen one
I know it's cliche to even point out this cliche but fantasy writers are STILL doing it.

>>9470816
>want to make a story
>write it about some peasant that gets killed in the first chapter
Yeah real smart

>it's a meta story where the chosen one talks down to a random guy but random guy saves the world instead of the chosen one

>>9470829
The problem is that authors think they have to explicitly state that the MC is "special" in some way or another. There's no suspense when you know good always triumphs in the end.

>>9470782
>Fantasy novel in made-up world
>it's written in English

>>9470857
>not writing every single novel in a different conlang with a 80k word vocabulary prepared in advance

>>9470782

is Church of X based on a simplistic strawman characterization of real religion?