Holoman
Troubadour
How do people feel about reading these kind of words in fantasy novels? Words that are entrenched in our world like "hell"--do they have a place in fantasy or should we create our own?
I see many fantasy novelists that replace earth blasphemy with whatever deity is worshipped in their world, so to curse they say something like "Oh, Lord of the Sky..." but I don't really feel like doing this, mainly because my gods' names are not obviously gods and I don't want to info dump it early in the book.
I tend to avoid referring to "the moon" or "the sun" for similar reasons, as I feel this has the same earthly connotations.
When you read do you notice things like this?
I see many fantasy novelists that replace earth blasphemy with whatever deity is worshipped in their world, so to curse they say something like "Oh, Lord of the Sky..." but I don't really feel like doing this, mainly because my gods' names are not obviously gods and I don't want to info dump it early in the book.
I tend to avoid referring to "the moon" or "the sun" for similar reasons, as I feel this has the same earthly connotations.
When you read do you notice things like this?