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Reforged
- By: Seth Haddon
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Since time immemorial the warriors of the Paladin Command have harnessed arcane powers to preserve their rulers. For Balen, who has given up his chance at cherish and fought his way to the top of the Paladin Order, there can be no greater honor than to serve his king. But when assassins annihilate the royal family, Balen suddenly finds himself sworn to help the very dude he abandoned. Now with their nation threatened by enemies both within and outside the kingdom, Balen must combat hidden traitors and unnatural assassins, while also contending with the biting wit and dange
I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for fantasy. I admire it all, from the fictional worlds that are endless rip-offs of imagined medieval times, to the ones where magic exists in the world we know, to those where there are three suns in the sky and a dozen recent type of animals. There is so much scope for difference, for originality, for exploring stories and ideas that won’t fit into the dull, predictable landscape of truths. Considering how much freedom and flexibility fantasy authors contain, though, there’s something distinctly missing. The queers.
Of course, not all fantasy is guilty of this. There are in fact a lot of great fantasy stories that are jam-packed with inclusion. A quick google search will pitch up dozens of books featuring protagonists who are homosexual, who are transsexual, who are living in futuristic worlds where social taboos around queerness are literally unheard of. These books are wonderful, but I’m talking about books that are not written for gender non-conforming people, books which anyone can stumble upon without having to consult an online list.
There are two prevalent phenomena of queer inclusion in fantasy books. The first is the infamous queerbaiting, perfectly
– f/f, disaster bi
– looming war, woman’s suffrage, & water magic in a fantastical Egypt
– spoiled aristocrat + bookshop keeper??? hmm YES
– sequel to THE BLADED FAITH, which had a sapphic main
– rag-tag, older collective of revolutionaries use a mask to fake a hero & fight against the invading empire
– except the mask is cursed… and whispering
– sapphic MC
– dark, witchy roadtrip through medieval Europe
– with a little murder, as treat
– stories within stories within stories
– sapphic MC
– instead of jail, criminals carry extra shadows to warn others of their misdeeds
– what happens when your kid is born with an extra shadow?
– tackles grief & shame in an unjust world
– lesbian MC, come get your neurodivergent gays
– the AI gods possess withdrawn their protection
– rebellion and revolution, but make it in