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A kind of setting I like is the low-fantasy setting that occasionally suddenly becomes a high-fantasy setting
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same
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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....
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was never REALLY low fantasy, but man does the power level ramp up
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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
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Cradle is just high fantasy
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honestly
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outside of like the first third of book 1
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Elder Empire actually is much more This
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like you get established rules for how the world works, and they're restrictive
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but then the rules suddenly get broken
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and Judau gets so mad that he projects a psychic newtype kaiju
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Also adjacent to this: F/SN
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or Shirou jumps from reinforcing one stick once per day to summoning 200 legendary swords out of thin air to fight god
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YES
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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?"
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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
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I personally appreciate a high fantasy that's secretly sci-fi
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or vice versa
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also good