/lit/ - Literature

>>19569453
Yes, but there's also some that have dealt specifically focused on the impact of new technologies on maritime industries. Pic related is basically the discovery of the new world: Fantasy edition, and spends a lot of time on the impact caused by the melding of fantasy elements into a new type of engine that allowed ships to cross the oceans.
Yeah you could just make a story and say they teleported there, but that's reductive.

>Death of the warrior class and all that?
This is something of a focus in the Powder Mage series. Magic in Powder Mage is cultural in its origin, which is weird to say but makes sense in context. The magi among the nobility were the Privileged, pretty standard Wizards, wielding the five elements and all that. But along with gunpowder weaponry eventually came the Powder Mages out of the soldiery, who could ingest black powder to strengthen themselves and sharpen their vision, and also give them a sort of psychokinetic control over their bullets, allowing them to shoot further and more accurately.
One of the conflicts in the series is that the Privileged REALLY don't like Powder mages, because a Privileged typically can't hit anything more than a few hundred meters away, while Powder Mages are capable of sniping them from vastly greater ranges.

>>15516535
The Waking Fire. I enjoyed it enough to remember it.

>>14993474
You should try this if you want an Age of Exploration type setting.
The setting is basically that explorers found a new continent decades prior to the story, inhabited by Dragons, among other things. Dragon blood has a variety of properties depending on the type of dragon, which resulted in something of a Gold Rush as it's basically Oil, Opium, and Gold all in one. The main character he's forcibly drafted into an expedition to the center of the continent searching for a mythical new species of dragon whose blood supposedly allows you to see the future.
Somewhat Indiana Jonesey in terms of aesthetic, lots of jungles, dilapidated ruins, and guns.

>consign
>contrive

Is there actually any more decent fantasy out there where dragons feature prominently in the book/series? Just got done with pic related and it left me wanting similar series. Dragons don't need to be the main focus of the books, just having them relatively involved in the plot is fine, but anything where dragons are billed as a main attraction is almost always garbage.