Tales of the Black Raven by Seth Skorkowsky is a collection of stories about a master thief in a world of tombs, corrupt city-states, evil magic, and femme fatales.The Witcher: Monster hunter Geralt travels the land, killing monsters and lifting curses for coin, using swords, alchemy, and magic.Hayes is set in a spectacularly grim and gritty world where the world's second best swordsman has to deal with a lot of trouble from her male rivals. Sword Sisters set in the Legend of the Red Reaper universe and published by Ragnarok Publications takes place in one such world.Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.Howard's companion of the Lovecraft Circle Clark Ashton Smith has the Hyperborea and Zothique cycles, of these Hyperborea is more of a straight example as it happens in Medieval Prehistory whilst Zothique is in the far post-apocalyptic future.Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Kull and Bran Mak Morn. Beowulf, as well as its many adaptations.While they may have genuine allies here and there, they know better than to trust most people as far as they are concerned, everyone they meet has a hidden dagger in their clutches until proven otherwise, and even then, they are usually still prepared for betrayal at some point. There will be at least a few times where they cut their losses and bail on a fight, and they will have at least one Run or Die moment when they recognize that a threat is way out of their league. Many victories will be by the skin of their teeth, and usually won more through quick thinking and cleverness rather than physical might. Any political or criminal leaders are usually merely an Unwitting Pawn of a much darker power. Almost universally, Sword & Sorcery stories are about mighty warriors fighting supernatural horrors with blade in hand, either an Eldritch Abomination or Evil Sorcerer. Coined by Fritz Leiber in the early '60s to define the style of his own works and those writers that inspired him, and to differentiate it from other works described as Heroic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery is a genre of fantasy that is often considerably less glamorous and all about fast paced action. A subgenre of Heroic Fantasy, with which it is often lumped together, but having its own distinguishing characteristics.
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