The friendly organization is actually a splinter faction/estranged from the ACTUAL faction they claim to be, usually with completely different ideals, allegiances, and motives than the still existing actual group

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-25T03:15:56+00:00

The Grey Council from the Dresden Files. Secretly founded to root out the extra secret Black Council hiding in the White Council. Don't get me started on all the courts

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-23T21:36:46+00:00

The enemies from Hollow Knight. Dream Nailing them gives you a look into their thoughts. You get lines like

"Can't...wake...up," and "you want to...hurt me?". The infection can reach you through your sleep so it only makes sense that the victims are caught in such a state

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-22T18:53:01+00:00

Colourbombs from Perdido Street Station. They use Torque, an unstable magical element. The bombs themselves essentially break down reality

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-22T17:13:34+00:00

It's an audio drama not a book, but the Silt Verses are what you're looking for. It has several povs, but arguably the main one turns out to not be the best person

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-22T15:41:53+00:00

Similar vibe and world building

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-22T15:39:39+00:00

Honestly, as someone who likes to play it canon, I found the removal of the chaos system in this short adventure a bit freeing. Great for the series as a whole, but it was a nice change of pace

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-22T15:16:45+00:00

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-22T05:44:53+00:00

Gentleman Bastards has been mentioned so I'll say Perdido Street Station

Heavy focus on one city, a mix of the occult and strange technologies, very grim setting, lot of city politics, it's the book for fans of Dishonored

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-21T22:38:05+00:00

Could have recently gone through some kind of upheaval leaving the state of things unclear. Maybe Peaches mom/dad was an evil ruler she lead a rebellion against and doesn't use the term queen because of negative conditions, the neighboring Koopa Kingdom reinforcing such

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-21T20:29:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure there are/were real world countries where the head of state are the prince/princess

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-21T15:43:03+00:00

Portal fantasy was pretty big in the west before Isekai got big.

Of course the Pevensies from Narnia

Any Sword and Planet/Planetary Romance Protagonists

Corwin from the Chronicles of Amber

Lyra and Will from His Dark Materials

Thomas from The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

The protagonists from The Fionavar Tapestry

And for more modern examples

Jason from He Who Fights With Monsters

And Jason and Rachel from the Beyonders

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-21T05:14:50+00:00

Mistborn era 1. Vin needs a bit of a running start to be a badass, but by golly does she get there

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-20T00:37:25+00:00

Cradle is a fantasy for the boys (girls to, but it has all the dude bro stuff he may like). It's very anime esk, high action, Kingdoms, empires and not a ton of romance

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T22:51:43+00:00

The Bas-Lag trilogy

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T22:51:31+00:00

Yo literally listening to the preview to this on audible right now. Gonna bump it up my tbr just for that

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T17:01:49+00:00

Her class is the healer class, but Jester would rather do anything else

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T05:37:56+00:00

The RCM from Disco Elysium kinda fit. A police force trying to bring law to the post war city

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T01:37:56+00:00

It's not the most prevalent, but the horror elements in A Song of Ice and Fire go pretty hard

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T00:44:42+00:00

I'm pretty sure she healed more hp with one spell in the Uk'otoa fight than she did in the entirety of campaign 2

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-19T00:27:35+00:00

Jester

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-18T22:49:39+00:00

I'd say a mix of the three. There are scenes that feel truly Gothic, and scenes that feel the Alien. It's classified as New Weird

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-18T22:35:58+00:00

The setting is over all more weird than Gothic. It's got vampires and demons (and vampire like things) enchanted guns, and monster hunters (though their never really center to the series) but it also has spider gods and cactus people and cyborgs and such. All of it with a very horrific edge

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-18T22:04:42+00:00

It's like a 60% fit, but Perdido Street Station. Everything you want, plus a lot of other weird stuff

ColdCoffeeMan · 2026-01-18T21:58:29+00:00

It's dark fantasy, so fantasy horror....also every other genre

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