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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2039490" data-attributes="member: 11760">And, lest anyone get a mistaken impression of my tastes, I've read both the first Heralds of Valdemar novel (its name has gone clear out of my head) and "Assassin's Apprentice." While I was not compelled to pick up the sequel to either (although I was more tempted with the assassin book), neither made me feel ill, which is apparently the correct response to romantic fantasy tropes.Having said that, I think BR could pretty easily be moved gently towards a more middle of the road approach. Tolkein, after all, had his goody two shoes realms, and his realms of pure ebil. In many ways, fantasy (or fantasy settings) that emulate that sort of approach are a fairly classic setting -- with a few (very) notable exceptions, shades of gray are a relatively modern addition to the canon. I'm actually thinking it might be a nice skeleton setting to attach other content to, such as Freeport and Nyambe.In addition to Earthsea, I could see BR being used to model Narnia, although Narnia's magic ramps up pretty impressively at the top end.</blockquote>