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

[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?

[VApowers]

Mine is 1 or 2.

Although earth is "real" there are magic creatures and other worlds involved.

[artemficta]

My comic Ring Spell is a 1, just has some fantasy elements thrown in It could teeter over towards 2 more later.

[NickRowler]

I tend to write stories that are level 2.

However, level 9 sounds like a challenge.

[RyzaCobalion]

i guess mine falls under between 7 and 8 but replace the aliens with demons.

[allenT]

(sorry to reply late) I think magic system itself can not define fantasy, even many Action genre stories have magic elements. (urban fantasy and magical girls are almost Action genre imo)

In general fantasy should have a setting that is out of the ordinary. I can see your story is very much a fantasy as you created your own culture with own magic system.

[Macarenaoftime]

Haha I was not talking so much about my own work as I was talking about a subgenre, magical realism.

For example, García Marquez work could be defined as fantasy? His stories are grounded in reality with the occasional fantastic event that it's often seen as normal. It doesn't have a magic system, just weird things happen and coexist with the everyday occurrence.

Is fantasy about the world or what writers choose to do with the world itself?

[allenT]

Your questions are killing me and i have to say that i don't know. (it's out of my league)

[Macarenaoftime]

Haha sorry. Maybe those are questions without answers as sometimes genres' definitions are kind of ambiguous.

[neardrive]

I voted 4, but i misclicked XD

I think mine is not in the list. It's a fantasy world, with just humans and some degree of steampunky tech and a little out of hand alchemy that fuck thinks a little up... so I guess a 0.5 but on another world? More like Full metal alchemist to put an example.

[Kura]

My best guess is maybe 3 or 2 depending on which realm the characters are currently in.

It's harder to generalize in those options.

[allenT]

It looks like Real world with Fantasy elements and your generally High Fantasy world are in the majoritiy.

Let's give it a final push!

Even your genre is not FANTASY, As long as you have created your own unique worlds for your stories, Come participant the poll!

[allenT]

I think fullmetal alchemist is a 3? It has unique culture, but also don't seems to be in a real world. It don't have other types of humanoid creatures (not counting human-looking Homunculus)

[oshirockingham]

I don't even know which one I should put mine into. so I randomly select 3

[neardrive]

It's almos a 3, because of the lack of myth creatures (it's al "science" based). It's hard to label all the fantastic world out there in just 9 categories xD But i'm still mad to missclick that >.<