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The city of brass6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() What this does is distort the view of the fantasy genre as a whole. Occasionally, an inscrutable “Oriental” wise man or wizard will put in a brief appearance, or perhaps the protagonist will befriend some wandering tribal people whose customs and traditions are suspiciously like an amalgamation of every single Native American stereotype the author had ever heard of. perhaps, or evil warlords intent on enslaving the otherwise peaceful lands the protagonist calls home. If non-white people do appear, they are cast as the villains: barbarian hordes. Almost every orphan boy (and it’s usually an orphan boy) who rises to become the hero of the realm has been white, and the realm he becomes a hero of is usually some version of Western Europe, but with dragons – and magic, elves, and whatever other fantasy trope/s the author chooses to employ. There has been much ink (actual and digital) spilled in recent years about just how white fantasy is. ![]()
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