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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9250536" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>They're definitely unique. It's a strange mixture of cool perspectives that aren't always well-explored in fantasy, some of which are done well (undead cavemen, for example), some of which serve to illustrate why they're rare attempted, some pretty cool war scenes (which sometimes feature excessive or gratuitous sexual violence though, note), and an awful lot of really cheesy power-fantasy which, when you know all the most "XTREME BADAZZ!!!!" characters come from their home 1E>GURPS game really colours how you perceive them. For me it completed it's final shark jump (of many) by introducing a character somehow really significantly worse than Anomander Rake, Tehol Beddict. If Anomander Rake is a sugar-rush early teens too-much WWE take on Elric, Tehol Beddict is a particularly smug male college sophomore's idea of what "badass" looks like after he's taken like, Economics 101 and watched too many episodes of House (or the like). Tehol (what a name!) is a dressing-gown-wearing, get out of bed at noon, smug, superior, condescending, snippy dude who <em>inexplicably</em> all the ladies love, and who is also, in ways implausible for even "xtreme fantazy" like Malazan, is so "good at economics" that he can rapidly but without magic cause economies to crumble and so on. He also <em>allegedly</em> acts like a dumbass to conceal that he is secretly the smartest guy on the planet - in actuality he mostly acts like a guy who spends too much time on Reddit - and as a bonus he is of course totally ripped despite doing zero exercise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9250536, member: 18"] They're definitely unique. It's a strange mixture of cool perspectives that aren't always well-explored in fantasy, some of which are done well (undead cavemen, for example), some of which serve to illustrate why they're rare attempted, some pretty cool war scenes (which sometimes feature excessive or gratuitous sexual violence though, note), and an awful lot of really cheesy power-fantasy which, when you know all the most "XTREME BADAZZ!!!!" characters come from their home 1E>GURPS game really colours how you perceive them. For me it completed it's final shark jump (of many) by introducing a character somehow really significantly worse than Anomander Rake, Tehol Beddict. If Anomander Rake is a sugar-rush early teens too-much WWE take on Elric, Tehol Beddict is a particularly smug male college sophomore's idea of what "badass" looks like after he's taken like, Economics 101 and watched too many episodes of House (or the like). Tehol (what a name!) is a dressing-gown-wearing, get out of bed at noon, smug, superior, condescending, snippy dude who [I]inexplicably[/I] all the ladies love, and who is also, in ways implausible for even "xtreme fantazy" like Malazan, is so "good at economics" that he can rapidly but without magic cause economies to crumble and so on. He also [I]allegedly[/I] acts like a dumbass to conceal that he is secretly the smartest guy on the planet - in actuality he mostly acts like a guy who spends too much time on Reddit - and as a bonus he is of course totally ripped despite doing zero exercise. [/QUOTE]
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