Le Chevalier d'Eon is an anime series I started watched probably years ago now, but didn't really get into. I picked that back up and watched it through to the (fairly tragic, I must say) ending
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the Nevernight author is resposible for "Stormdancer" a steam-punk fantasy Japan-like setting that reminded me a little of Rokugan and L5R in the clan set up. It was gritty and grimy and made me feel unpleasant as I read it in just how messed up the world was. Sure, steampunk isn't clean and shiny usually, the Parasol Protectorate series saw to that, but reading Stormdancer made me want to bathe after every sitting. I never finished it.
Mmm. Well, I'm hoping this one is more interesting to you, at least. Looking at Stormdancer, I see the write-up starts off with: "The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever." That alone seems to set up a doomed world as a pretty big component. I didn't really feel the setting was that much of the story in Nevernight. The suns thing exists in the background, and we get some slices of society - a few glimpses at the high-class end, a very narrow look at the lower-class end, but most of the time is spent among a sect of assassins. Now, as a bunch of assassins, they can certainly be merciless. There's plenty of morality on display that is questionable at best, but there are shows of gratitude and actual friendship among that too
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That alone seems to set up a doomed world as a pretty big component. I didn't really feel the setting was that much of the story in Nevernight. The suns thing exists in the background, and we get some slices of society - a few glimpses at the high-class end, a very narrow look at the lower-class end, but most of the time is spent among a sect of assassins. Now, as a bunch of assassins, they can certainly be merciless. There's plenty of morality on display that is questionable at best, but there are shows of gratitude and actual friendship among that too ( ... )
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