/lit/ - Literature

>>23010863
>That's a complaint you can levy against like 90% of fantasy races.
No, because most fantasy doesn't have characters who are 20 times older than clay tablets walking around. Such things are just de facto absurd unless a lot of effort is put into justifying them. If he were a couple thousand years old it wouldn't be so silly.

The point being that characters are basically paper figures for epic powers to be tacked onto.
>Rake is 7ft tall and superhumanly strong, he can move faster than a man can see, and he is a super wizard and is one hundred thousand years old and he has a super sword that can kill gods and is too heavy for anyone but him to lift and and and and
>Whats he LIKE? Well, err, he is stoic... and badass... cool... err...

You don't need old characters to examine past societies either.

For a gigantic fantasy epic you'd figure there would be some epic, larger than life characters. There aren't really, or at least weren't in the first two books I read. A good way of describing it would be LItrpg but with the numbers described in purple prose.