• jacksilver@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Discworld would be a good example of fantasy that doesn’t follow this trope (pretty sure in that world anyone can study magic, but like everything else that doesn’t mean everyone is good at it).

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        Only just finished the first entry, and this is still the case by the end of that book at least. The main character does have a kind of “raw power” that goes beyond what others have innately, which is a bit exceptional-ising.

        It’s hard to pin down, but the tone is more community oriented, and less about this one Special.