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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4788313" data-attributes="member: 177">You could, you know, ask exactly for that, rather than just "Tell me what you think fantasy is".  Anyway...I think this "blood" hypothesis is off.  Or, more correctly, incomplete.  There's a lot of writing that I'd take to have the "blood", but have no magic.  And there's legitimate magic and fantasy that isn't about "blood". Hemingway, for example.  "The Old Man and the Sea" - it really is about the blood, but there's no fantastic or supernatural element.The way I'm reading you, you're not so much pitching what is fantasy, but what is viscerally satisfying fantasy - you read to me as if you are conflating what you like to see in the genre with what the genre is, overall.My definition of the genre I expect is far too dry for your tastes, and rather broad.</blockquote>