I recently finished the FF Tactics remaster and I’m on the hunt for more stories using its flowery, ornate prose, which I absolutely fell in love with. For those who haven’t played the game, here’s an example of an exchange between two characters:
Milleuda: “How can you nobles live as you do and yet hold your heads so high? We are not chattel! We are humans, no less than you! What flaw do you hold there to be in us? That we were born between a different set of walls? Do you know what it means to hunger? To sup for months on naught but broth of bean? Why must we be made to starve that you might grow fat? You call us thieves, but it is you who steal from us the right to live!”
Argath: “You, no less human than we? Ha! Now there's a beastly thought. You've been less than we from the moment your baseborn father fell upon your mother in whatever gutter saw you sired! You've been chattel since you came into the world drenched in common blood!“
From looking online, I’ve found 3 that tend to come up as a match:
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Phoenix Guards
The Worm Ouroboros
Then there’s the obvious answer of Shakespeare works, but other than that, anyone have any idea of a book that matches this style of dialogue and banter? Doesn’t necessarily have to be political or even fantasy like the game, but that certainly is a plus.
by shiggymiggy1964