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Subgenre of Fantasy

High Fantasy
A world with its own physical laws/ developed characters and a magical like environment setting

Grimdark fantasy
Alike dark fantasy grimdark takes it a little bit more into the dark type of fantasies hints it name grim plus it has more of a needed mature audience as it consists of a lot of dark things



Sword and Sorcery
Like high fantasy this makes a strong focus on weapon wielding alongside the characters using different tools or making new friends with sorcery wielding
Fairy tale
Mainly for kids it's just a fairy land of trolls, dragons, witches and others more to come if told well enough it can become a serires like game of thrones with its dragons



Dark fantsy
A gothic type horror fantasy a amazing example is H.P Lovecraft their universe are an amazing dark fantasy a personal favourite of mine but grimdark holds a whole new love to horror and dark settings
Steampunk Fantasy
A world of Victorian type technology nothing really magical apart from the grinding of gears as the machines march with some magical things like resource



Urban Fantasy
Sort of walking dead type more modern day setting with mythical/ supernatural creatures sometimes even environmental structures or areas like fields are effected or causing the effect
Low fantasy
A set of the real world with hidden magical properties that shock everyone something like harry potter with its wands but a real world setting were magic isn't known but if it is its looked down on


Arthurian fantasy
A world were king Arthur lives and is and isn't the mc of the story but it still has knights and a type of mediaeval short story with little magical involvement's
Wuxia fantasy
A Chinese type fantasy with martial arts and some elemental bonds with them or the world around them a film I like that can help is the legend of wukong

Paranormal romance
Similar to vampire diaries with its shows genre it combines the fantasy vampire and the romance of the normal world
