Quinamarink
A kind of setting I like is the low-fantasy setting that occasionally suddenly becomes a high-fantasy setting
boo(f)
same
Quinamarink
the whole golden age arc of Berserk just being gritty politics and man murder, then the eclipse happens and hell opens up and demons are just the most real it's ever been
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Cradle....
Undertaker
was never REALLY low fantasy, but man does the power level ramp up
Quinamarink
Newtypes in UC being ambigious subtle empaths until Kamille comes along and the power of his dead friends makes his Gundam shit out psychic birds that drive people insane
Quinamarink
Cradle is just high fantasy
Quinamarink
honestly
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outside of like the first third of book 1
Undertaker
Elder Empire actually is much more This
Quinamarink
like you get established rules for how the world works, and they're restrictive
Quinamarink
but then the rules suddenly get broken
Quinamarink
and Judau gets so mad that he projects a psychic newtype kaiju
Undertaker
Also adjacent to this: F/SN
Quinamarink
or Shirou jumps from reinforcing one stick once per day to summoning 200 legendary swords out of thin air to fight god
Quinamarink
YES
Undertaker
At no point is F/SN low fantasy but
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Fate: "Here are the rules of the holy grail war"
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UBW: "Okay but what if we bent all those rules into pretzels"
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HF: "Okay but what IS a holy grail anyway?"
boo(f)
a subfolder to this i really like is the nebulously-post-apocalyptic fantasy setting that is low fantasy but pre-apocalypse was obviously high fantasy
skerple
I personally appreciate a high fantasy that's secretly sci-fi
skerple
or vice versa
Undertaker
also good