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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3970635" data-attributes="member: 32536">Just because Gnostic Christianity was a minor sect that no longer exists, does not mean it "did not have much of a mythology". It still was just as complex and real as any other religion, currently worshiped or not.Also, as I said, D&D downplaying mythology is irrelevant to anything I have said in this thread.Xenogears, Xenosaga, The Matrix, Scrapped Princess, and probably many things I have never read. That is more than enough. Would you mind providing a list of fiction that is directly inspired by any other relatively obscure religious sect that has such a number of works inspired by it? How about Lutheranism or Calvinism? Do those have many fantasy works based on them?I never said any such thing. Look back and see for yourself. I understand that you are confused somewhat (I responded to your response to someone else, after all), but none-the-less, you are putting words in my mouth.And you never heard of Xanth? Piers Anthony's novel series that must have more than 30 entries, and used to hit best-seller lists frequently? It is atypical fare, but it is widely popular fantasy.Also, for the whole fantasy in school stuff... I was exposed to Greek myth in the second grade, around the time that I was reading my school's copies of the Chronicles of Narnia books, as my very earliest introduction to the fantasy genre. Norse myth came a few years later. Tolkien came in High School. Around this time was mostly spent reading Anne McCaffery, Mercedes Lackey, Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Terry Brooks, and various other relatively modern authors. I never once touched the old stuff like Lieber, Moorcock, Howard, or various other things you don't even see on bookstore shelves these days.Rechan, what do you think is common and popular fantasy?</blockquote>

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