Recommendations Looking for dark high-fantasy series with...

[MarQaroll]

'Lo, ev'ryone! This is my first post. I'd like to find my fellow dark high-fantasy folks here, so I'm looking for stories similar to my series, The Little Gods. I admit I'm very picky, so...bear with me. I just know there are stories like these on Scribble Hub...!!

So, I'm looking for dark high-fantasy series with...

• Slow-burn
• High fantasy (other worlds)
• POC or dark-skinned MCs and ensemble
• Subplots of mystery
• Tragedies
• Angst
• Subplots of romance (mainly BL/ML but M/F is also fine)
• Detailed lore/worldbuilding
• Wuxia or wuxia-inspired
• ....and overall well-written stories aimed at adults

But anything similar is alright if you think I might like it! However, I do not want to read:

• Fanfics
• Isekai
• Furries
• Xianxia
• Harem
• Comedy
• School-based locations
• LitRPG
• GameLit
• Modern day
• Teenage protagonists (13 - 19)
• ...any other portal-fantasy-adjacent stories and tropes

I know, I know...That's most of the stories here...

To get an even better idea of what I'm looking for, feel free to look at the blurb of my novel and series in my sig or look at what I offer in TLG in the series' description. I look forward to seeing what y'all bring to the table! I wanna read your best works.

 

[Eldoria]

Try mine. If you dislike it, you can stop reading at any time.

Blood Rose Princess Just Wants to Live in Peace with Her Little Daughter

What if the world chose to forget its saviour and its sins, while the saviour chose instead to protect her daughter’s innocence? Seven years ago, the age of tyranny was erased from the memory of mankind. Civilisation crumbled, the tyrants fell into an eternal sleep, and the victims woke...

www.scribblehub.com

 

[LyssaFae]

You might enjoy my series, Beloved Dawn! It’s still pretty early on (7 chapters currently), but it’s a dark high fantasy focused heavily on trauma, healing, political manipulation, and identity.

It follows a young girl named Shani whose life slowly unravels within the palace walls of Gildan before she’s eventually forced into the Silva Mortis, a forest feared as the Forest of Death.

It’s very character and atmosphere driven, with:

- slow-burn emotional development
- tragedy/angst
- detailed worldbuilding
- mystery elements
- a POC main cast
- psychologically heavy relationships
- and a large focus on healing and survival later in the story

Definitely more melancholic and emotional than action-heavy fantasy... and if you dont like it that's fine too!

 

[MarQaroll]

You might enjoy my series, Beloved Dawn! It’s still pretty early on (7 chapters currently), but it’s a dark high fantasy focused heavily on trauma, healing, political manipulation, and identity.

It follows a young girl named Shani whose life slowly unravels within the palace walls of Gildan before she’s eventually forced into the Silva Mortis, a forest feared as the Forest of Death.

It’s very character and atmosphere driven, with:

- slow-burn emotional development
- tragedy/angst
- detailed worldbuilding
- mystery elements
- a POC main cast
- psychologically heavy relationships
- and a large focus on healing and survival later in the story

Definitely more melancholic and emotional than action-heavy fantasy... and if you dont like it that's fine too!

Ohhhhhhhh...you're a worldbuilder, too!! I wouldn't mind checking it out.

 

[LyssaFae]

Please do! I’m a huge worldbuilding nerd honestly...

I’ve been working on maps, cultures, religions, languages, creature lore… probably way more than is healthy at this point.

Beloved Dawn leans more forest/palace fantasy, but I also have another future project planned with darker desert fantasy tones and an adult cast once this series is finished... thank you for the change in advance!!!! I appreciate it.

Ohhhhhhhh...you're a worldbuilder, too!! I wouldn't mind checking it out.