Quote Originally Posted by nokhor
one of my issues with the conventions of fantasy is that in every major work, the freedom-loving chivalric people with knights are always in the west, always bounded by a great western ocean, the 'boundless hordes' and darker skinned peoples are always in the east/south, the viking-esque peoples are always in the north. the steppe peoples are always in the east etc. which i just find silly.
That is why I find nearly all fantasy so utterly boring. It isn't fantasy at all, just a watered-down version of some mediocre writer's idea of reality. Every dwarf, every robot, every elf is another testimony to the author's lack of talent and imagination.

Y'all may hang me now.