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Nov. 14th, 2010 06:08 pmRight, so I found this post, Gods and Monsters, by
vito_excalibur, really interesting from a thinky perspective, both in interpreting the Terre D'Ange books but also from the questions posed at the end.
I don't agree with the person in the comments who insists that active faith/religion is considered a necessary trope in fantasy, but I don't really have the energy at the moment to argue.
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quote begins I'd quite like to see fantasy books in which the power religion wields is like the one it wields in this world: a great and effective social power, but not one in which clerics actually receive powers or knowledge from the gods. quote ends
I don't agree with the person in the comments who insists that active faith/religion is considered a necessary trope in fantasy, but I don't really have the energy at the moment to argue.