• Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    moorcock is the inspiration for 40k but he's an OG (1960s-80s) fantasy author. you'd be surprised how much modern fantasy came from his stuff.

    it's just the more mind bending, multi-dimensional questing kind of fantasy. the stuff that inspired not just 40k but D&Ds planescape, hell most of D&D in general, and any fantasy that abandons the standard human-elf-dwarf and also says fuck you to monarchies and hierarchical systems.

    but i still like tolkien his stuff is more cozy def.