POLL: Fantasy Storytellers, choose the Fantasy level of your series (1 to 9)

[allenT]

I want to try the poll function so...
Fantasy Storytellers: Select Your Worlds!

(this is just my own version of catergorizing fantasy worlds--for FUN. Don't take it too seriously, I'm not a Fantasy fanatic.)

** This only applies to Fantasy genre, not include Sci-Fi which is harder to define.
When i say characters, i mean the inhabitants of the fantasy world. (because a lot of isekai main characters are humans)**

• 1 - Real world with Fantasy/magic elements (e.g. urban fantasy)
• 2 - Read world but also mixed with another realities, with fantasy/magic elements.
• 3 - Fantasy world with a cultural influenced settings, with altered humanoid characters, with some myth creatures (e.g. Witcher)
• 4 - Fantasy world, less based settings, with more diversive humanoid characters, mythical creatures or even alien-like creatures. (e.g. High fantasies)
• 5 - Higher fantasy world, settings become otherworldly. Characters are more non-human, and creatures are more alien.
• 6 - More non-humans involved. Starts to become dreamlike/ or more alien-otherworldly. (e.g. Dark Crystal)
• 7 - Dreamlike fantasy, less realistic less logical (e.g. Alice in Wonderland); or a heavily alien-ized culture (some part just written in alien language).
• 8 - Intentionally abstract, avant-garde worldbuilding, things don't function as expected/ starts to become very weird (e.g. some 90's wacky cartoons); Or something even beyond the human/alien narratives
• 9 - Very abstract/ Ultra trippy that most readers don't understand.

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It's hard to fit all types of fantasy into this leveling. But i think this would do okay. Let me know if this needs fixing.

[allenT]

I have some typos but couldn't edit the poll. Oh well.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I think mine is 2.5
What human-looking non-human characters count as?

[allenT]

How would i know? Just choose based on your world first i guess.

[Arieso_Here]

According to my point of view, I like the real-world parallel to the magical world which is connected due to a small leak between the two worlds which never came in contact with each other...

But, yes I also like a hidden magical world inside the real world unknown by many, yet known by some...
{you know, almost like Harry Potter}

[allenT]

I think Harry potter is a 2 from my poll.
I should've also add mythical creatures in both 1 and 2.

[SummerBoredom]

From 1 all the way to 6. Maybe a 7 too, but if its all crytic language, how you going to read it but yeah.

[allenT]

May be a silent alien comic with crytic alien language as a decorative. That could work.

[SummerBoredom]

Oooo I didnt think of that.
That could work?

[darthmongoose]

I think Errant is around a 4? It's a little tricky because a lot of the time Errant follows relatively hard magic rules and has a fairly mundane world, but I'd put the power level higher than The Witcher or Harry Potter even though the magic tends to have clearer physical laws about what it can do because Rekki just picked up and chucked a car at a house-sized demon and that's pretty wild.

Like you can't magically fix your broken glasses with magic in Errant, and you can't turn a person into a frog (conservation of mass), stop time or teleport, but you can heal wounds, shoot magical death rays, leap twenty feet into the air or talk to ghosts.

[Candlebite]

Think Devoured World is a 4 or maybe even a 5, the world is sorta mundane except for how everything has magical power flowing through it, so odd- magical things often happen to the landscape or creatures there, and Then theres' this realm called the Abyss, the whole place and the "Abyssals" that exist there are very much Otherworldly.

[allenT]

20 votes, and level 4 fantasy is leading so far. thanks for participating guys!
I want to see someone with level 7 or 8!

[DukeOfOool]

I would claim my story is a 7 if you count it although there is a lot of sci-fi involved. But all in all it's a cluster of confusing ideas, gods and magic.

[allenT]

That's a really alien world you're creating!

[NellieVP318]

My world is a mixture of both 1 and 2. There is so much of the world that I haven't explained in my current novel but probably be addressed in another novel or if I want to do another series within that world.

[milejdyvan]

I don't think mine is applicable to this poll. Closest is 3 but the thing is, mine is very culturally based but there are no mythical creatures or anything like that. I call it modern fantasy since I basically just made a fantasy world that is similar to ours in a lot of ways but also different culturally and socially. I guess there's also a power system but I don't necessarily count that as mythical but if you mean that, then yeah, 3.

[Iris-Grimoire]

Splitting Image is absolutely a 6. Even though the world at large (not Aeolia in the comic) has access to Earth technology, there are tons of non-human and human-with-magic cultures and things don't quite work as intended because of Fae magic, but it all still follows logic even when warped, so it's far from 7.

[TAMAnnoying]

Somewhere between 4 and 5, tho the magic could be considered low magic i don’t think it would be considered a soft magic system. There is non human races and because of this societies and buildings change based on biological differences.

The world is more based on reality in the sense of i want it to be relatable and make sense rather for everything to be wibbily wabbaly dream magic (I personally hate that). It’s very based on simple cause an effect, if your surrounded by water, your contry will prob have better water based tech then the contry surrounded by Mountans and cliffs.

But obviously the magic can have an effect on this as well

[spadesart]

I really like writing in that little space between urban fantasy and high fantasy. I think both a 1:1 copy of earth but with Some Magic added as well as hardcore high fantasy are kinda boring (for different reasons, urban fantasy tends to be too realistic and grimy for me, and I'm also not a fan of the feudal/medieval style vibes of high fantasy. I think in general I just dislike settings that look disgusting and grimy.). My comic Spire takes place in a post-tech-invention fantasy world and it's been a ton of fun figuring out how that kind of world would transition.

[Macarenaoftime]

Does magical realism counts as fantasy?
I would say no, but what are your opinions?