Recent content by Peregrine

I told, that I gave up on undead, so undead do not matter now, and of course I also think that the existence of undead is a magical thing. To me a dragon is not magic, they are not made of magic, its a two-legged winged reptile that has the ability to breathe fire. I include only biologically...

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That looks like a oversimplified viewpoint of what fantasy is or is not (through scientific explanation). I cringe when people treat magic like science.

I can not believe that somebody on this forum actually said that my "medieval" world with dragons, dwarfs and unicorns is science fiction. You can't be that ignorant.

How can you be so sure that there are no fantasy elements, did you even read the first page? And did you even read the text on the third page where I said "I included unicorns, dragons, cockatrices and wargs?" Creatures such as dragons and unicorns are fantasy elements. Magic is just one of...

I think I believe something along the lines of this: “A novel set in a world with invented history, invented people, invented countries, and so on can be fantasy. It doesn’t have to be alternative history (particularly if it’s not closely based on an Earth country), and it doesn’t have to be...

The fictional creatures are not always identical to the mythology I draw inspiration from. Sometimes I subvert them. For examples, unicorns are not always white and the horn of a unicorn looks more like the horn of a one-horned rhinoceros horn than like a narwhal's horn.

I will remove the undead. I just can not digest the idea of undead. Others have said some novels such as Swordspoint who seem to have no magic or barely magic at all. A fantasy can exist without magic, even if the reader has expectations that if its fantasy, it must have magic in it. So...

Why do I need a reason for every single creature such as a dragon? If I like it, I use it. The undead may serve the purpose of a common and demonized enemy similarly to the orcs.

Orcs are magic to me as much as undead.

When you saw the word lich you immediately thought a undead magician. Well its not, a lich does not have to be a magician. The lich is not a magician, he is just a king who is immortal, that is why he is a lich. He does not even have a phylactery, what you might imagine him to have. I...

When you saw the word lich you immediately thought a undead magician. Well its not, a lich does not have to be a magician. The lich is not a magician, he is just a king who is immortal, that is why he is a lich. He does not even have a phylactery, what you might imagine him to have. I...

When i wa young i did not care whether fantasy was high or low but now as a adult i have a preference for low fantasy and a disinterest in high fantasy. The undead are not slaves of anybody, they are independent and have their own lichdom. Yes undeath should spread in my world, though not...

My fantasy is set in pre-modern time in fictional feudal, imperial, nomadic and tribal states. It is a low fantasy. There are creatures such as dragons and dwarfs, but there are no orcs, humanoid gods and elves for example. I have only 4 humanoid species. There is no physical...