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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 1187952" data-attributes="member: 8123">Sure!  I like dark fantasy quite a bit so forgive me if I write a lot <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One of the classic dark fantasy series is The Black Company by Glen Cook. It's about a mercenary company with a shadowy and ancient past, no saints themselves, who are hired in the first book by someone who turns out to be a lieutenant to the ruler of an evil empire.  But they're honour-bound to maintain their contract...Glen Cook also wrote a great fantasy standalone with a sort of Arabian feel to it called The Tower of Fear.  It's out of print but well worth tracking down.  I think it's one of his best books.  The city of an evil wizard has been captured, but a resistance movement still plan a coup against their occupiers.  Meanwhile the citadel, which is sealed and unbreachable, holds a few loyalists to the wizard who is not dead, but trapped in stasis. They send out agents to get the ingredients they need to rescue their lord:  human sacrifices...Another series I've been reading recently - but haven't finished 'cause I can't get book 3 - is by an author called K. J. Parker.  The first book is Shadow and the second Pattern.  It starts with a man waking up in a field of mud - a battlefield, littered with bodies.  Everyone else is dead, and he realizes he can't remember who he is (he has amnesia).  As he travels, people start recognizing him as someone dire, a monster of a man - and they're trying to kill him.  This is definitely a low fantasy setting, with almost no magic at all, but it's a very compelling story.</blockquote>

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