Posts tagged "romantasy"
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A schlocky “bastard daughter returns to the magical world to take revenge on her father’s clan” story. Here's a juicy intro sequence:
• enraged mom who was pregnant at time of exile from the magical world raises daughter into the Perfect Revenge Weapon
• when the daughter is ~10, the mom meets a really nice guy, chills out, heals, possibly goes to church or whatever. decides she will become a Progressive American Mom, and is reasonably successful at this transformation
• when the daughter is 17, the mom dies of complications from the torture she underwent during the clan warfare that drove her out of the magical world
• at the mom’s deathbed, the girl is like “hey btw. I’m still prepared to do the revenge sequence. I’d be delighted”
• the mom is all “no no I’m good now, I’ve moved on,…
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Ostara is a forsaken world, plunged into eternal winter at the murder of its goddess a thousand years ago. Some humans retreated into burrows deep within the ice sheets to survive, clustering in the ice caverns formed by hot springs; others drained dry their innate gift of magic to transform themselves for survival in the killing surface cold. For all mortals, life is an unforgiving struggle against the dark.
The MC is a skinshifter, one of the few of their kind to possess magic, and they’re determined to use their gifts to secure prosperity for their small, impoverished clan—even if it means venturing far from home to attend training school with the deepdwellers. Their teachers and classmates are hostile, from the xenophobic deepdwellers to the skinshifters from other clans playing their…