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2 brothers, perversion of religion, and a perfectly finetuned magic system, Not just full metal, but hardcore death Scandinavian black doom overkill
2 brothers, perversion of religion, and a perfectly finetuned magic system, it may be even a bit hard Characterization is top to show the struggle of the pair regarding good and evil, career or own moral codex, and many other questions this series is dealing with, more or less, under the surface. The combination of the religious steampunk industrial complex, the degeneracy of faith, and the warmongering and greed, and the splendid protagonists make it an exceptional masterpiece.
Military dictatorships are still bad, but cooler with dark fantasy Especially if the whole necromancing dark magic voodoo stuff is perfectly organized and integrated into a crazy, trigger happy war machine that breeds Saruman's en masse. That´s a great trope for expanding towards big wars, inner conflicts of one or some protagonists until the escalation to civil war and revolution or just a fantasy version of 1984 or The forever war unfolds.
Background story exposed To jump into the series, we get a load of background information about the not so loveable protagonist antiheroes, who are another manifestation of the big „What is evil“ question. If it´s useful to survive or get loads of money, booze, and boys/girls/ animal hybrid chimeras, whatever one is into, the general trend or dogma of an era is something just wrong for dirty troublemakers.
I´m quite sure that there are high and dark fantasy equivalents But because I haven´t read fantasy for years and not that much before that time, I don´t know for sure. But fantasyheads will certainly find similar or maybe even identical concepts, because it´s just so logical to pervert this kind of magic.
Automaily steampunk elements Early industrialization was already dirty, bloody, and exploitative enough, but good old fantasy steampunk makes it even grittier and more disturbing. Although I subjectively don´t enjoy the steampunk genre so much, because it tends to be closer to fantasy than sci-fi, this visualization of an ending era and interim makes it much funnier and quicker to consume. Especially imagining that beginning mechanical and magical biomedical research will become nanotech and bioengineering in real sci fi is a funny thought experiment.
Bloody philosopher stone chimeras An even better manifestation of escalating evil magic than the whole dark Hogwarts concept. Tricky not to spoiler, so let´s just say that, instead of searching for wisdom, magicians can try to go the, not stereotypical, self destructive path towards more power. If you excuse me now, I´ll now really have to continue my necromancing lessons because procrastination did already cost me world domination several times. Better like this review or be my slave forever instead of freely resurrecting.
Should one choose? If it was that easy, but there are both nature and nurture at play, so one has to smoothly move within these bWhat kind of alchemy
Should one choose? If it was that easy, but there are both nature and nurture at play, so one has to smoothly move within these borders. While the universe unfolds and one learns more about the concepts of magic
A secret killer is lurking To take out the state alchemists. Jumping between the cool magic and the crime thriller plot, the brothers are still the main protagonists, struggling with the problems the world has given them. No matter how hard they have to fight for a reputation
Family always comes first In contrast to darker graphic novel series, the more positive undertone and humor are another outstanding element besides the great idea itself. But don´t worry, there are still enough disturbing ideas and concepts, that somewhat also, subjectively, go a bit science fantasy steampunk, to explore and enjoy.
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