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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8086618" data-attributes="member: 22779">This is a mistaken definition of Epic Fantasy.&nbsp; Epic fantasy is epic, not because of big stakes, but, because it is epic in scale - cast of thousands, tons of characters, big, massive battles with thousands of combatants - in other words - epic in the sense the The Illiad is epic - it's not the fate of the world, and, really, we're talking about the battle for one poncy little city over the stakes of a girl.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; But, it's epic because you have all these different characters and stories woven into the plot.Sword and Sorcery is not epic in scale.&nbsp; Conan rarely leads an army and battles, if they appear at all, are almost always small scale.&nbsp; You could list the number of named characters in a Conan story on a single piece of paper, and often a really small piece of paper at that.&nbsp; The problem here [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER], is you are working from some mistaken ideas of genre.&nbsp; Epic Fantasy has nothing to do with stakes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Granted, often Epic Fantasy does have very high stakes, simply because there are so many characters in the story, the stakes get higher.&nbsp; But, &quot;save teh world&quot; stories work in many genres and &quot;save the world&quot; doesn't make a story epic fantasy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8086618, member: 22779"] This is a mistaken definition of Epic Fantasy. Epic fantasy is epic, not because of big stakes, but, because it is epic in scale - cast of thousands, tons of characters, big, massive battles with thousands of combatants - in other words - epic in the sense the The Illiad is epic - it's not the fate of the world, and, really, we're talking about the battle for one poncy little city over the stakes of a girl. :D But, it's epic because you have all these different characters and stories woven into the plot. Sword and Sorcery is not epic in scale. Conan rarely leads an army and battles, if they appear at all, are almost always small scale. You could list the number of named characters in a Conan story on a single piece of paper, and often a really small piece of paper at that. The problem here [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER], is you are working from some mistaken ideas of genre. Epic Fantasy has nothing to do with stakes. Granted, often Epic Fantasy does have very high stakes, simply because there are so many characters in the story, the stakes get higher. But, "save teh world" stories work in many genres and "save the world" doesn't make a story epic fantasy. [/QUOTE]

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