I really enjoy fantasy but there is a common plot progression that I don’t really care for. A story will begin with a character living a modest life among a big interesting world, as things progress it they will end up being the most important person in the world. The only one who can stop it’s complete destruction by an evil force or something. I just don’t like this trope and I lose interest even though I was completely engaged when the plot was “smaller” so to speak
[POTENTIAL SPOILER] I was completely obsessed with the first two books of the Stormlight Archive but now with every character being the most important people in the universe fighting against an evil force that wants to destroy everything and everyone I am a lot less engaged. I miss when the characters were living amongst a world much larger than them experiencing challenges that felt somewhat relateble
The world of warcraft franchise lore feels very similar for all my nerds out there
Are there any great fantasy series out there that keep the scale of the plot more contained?
by pdxjoseph
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Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
The Penric and Desdemona novellas by Louis McMaster Bujold
The books of the Raskura (starting with The Cloud Roads) by Martha Wells
Both of these two have stakes that increase, but neither have “chosen one” tropes and neither get to literally world ending stakes.
Discworld would fit the bill!