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Giant Snake
Seeker
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 Posted - 12 Nov 2025 : 17:30:06
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Hello friends. I’ve had a thought for some time now about how the FR novel space has dropped off, or how my favorite setting has gotten to be too often stripped of mystery because we always have it revealed that some god or another is the root behind everything.
My own thoughts are that this simply doesn’t need to be the case. I really liked Elaine Cunningham’s books because they focused on characters as members of their respective societies. The curses and magic was more real interesting because of the horror of what could occur overrides the reason why it was done. The little tapestry with captured elves unable to move but able to scream was probably the thing that stuck with me the most.
My only complaint against her was reading Evermeet and having a bizarre tangent involving a spaceship crashing into the world. 
Does anyone else have thoughts on this? Barring some bizarro cross-world interference out of hand, how would you like to see stories given more mystery without FR’s version of ‘a wizard did it,’ ie ‘a god was behind this.’
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Avoiding Pantheon bleed into the story
