There's got to be something we would all like to see more use of in fantasy literature.
Me? I want to see more Firemares!
Krull - Ride Of The Firemares - YouTube
What about you?
Hippocampi. Hippocampi are just way too cool to not put into my story.
If you have to Google "hippocampi", that's a shame and that's why we need more of them.
4. More China Mieville "genre-busting" style writing
5. Unique monsters that actually scare me
Absolutely! China Miéville is awesome, as is Jeff VanderMeer. And yes, scary monsters. We definitely need those.
Also, orcs.
I was playing the first Risen game a little bit ago, and thinking that I'd like to see more tropical fantasy. Everything's always so bleak and grey, it'd be nice to liven things up a little.
Thinking of it, only pirate movies deal with the tropics, can't think of one fantasy that is set in tropics. Either European weather or Oriental weather not commonly tropical Oriental locations either.
Of course, in our world wasn't all the tropics areas more primative, until colonized by Europeans? So they went from tribal to medievil(or more modern) at warp speed? Would be a very nice area to colonize for fantasy. Also use island magic rather then traditional european magic.
"Grass skirts and Breast plates."
examples:
Hawaii, central america, Central american islands, Australia, are areas I am thinking of, all of which were primitive prior to a European infestation.
Thinking of it, only pirate movies deal with the tropics, can't think of one fantasy that is set in tropics.
Only someone with a Eurocentric bias would call tropical cultures "primitive." There were already powerful empires and complex cultures in the Americas and Africa before Europeans ever set foot on that soil, bringing with them their colonialism and diseases.
Only someone with a Eurocentric bias would call tropical cultures "primitive." There were already powerful empires and complex cultures in the Americas and Africa before Europeans ever set foot on that soil, bringing with them their colonialism and diseases.
That's something else we need more of in fantasy. Smug colonialist villains who look down their nose at "primitive" cultures. Bonus points for being white and/or elves. Double bonus points for being a British analogue.