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Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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Dark Phantasy - What Is It?

Dark pantasy refers to phantasy worlds where grim themes, nihilistic plots or horrifying elements in form a phantasy tale. Evil dominates a dark phantasy setting, with depravity being commonplace and life holding little value. If a domain holds no place for hope, there's also little allfor resistance and meaningful plots. Choices involve deciding which outcome is the least bad. Magic and magic items might be rarer or require a bargain or sacrifice to use. And anti heers, anti heroes, are common,. ah, characters who have been tainted by the world's evil. These words were so much easier to pronounce. I got i got their normal words appropriate.

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