Ben Lindbergh
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And, like...
And this dwarf has just been searching for centuries to try to find it.
And they take a few months out from their journey to try to find this liquor that's been hidden away.
Yes.
And if you like A Night of the Seven Kingdoms and you're looking for something to fill that void...
I feel like this is it, because this gives you the fantasy setting, but the lower stakes, the focus on character and comedy and humor, and also just warmth.
Not that A Night of the Seven Kingdoms didn't get gory and bloody at everything, too, and Firin typically doesn't to that same extent, but it does give you that same sort of sense of just, like, we're a wandering...
Yeah.
When there's combat, there's actual strategy to it and tactics.
And just the animation is pretty impressive, I would say.
And I like a magic system in a fantasy story that has a little more heft to it.
There's just a little more exploration of how it works.
It's almost like a logical, mathematical...
kind of thing, like Patrick Rothfuss's books, which may or may not ever be finished, The Kingkiller Chronicles, which I really liked.
It's kind of that just delving into the mechanics of the magic.
And I really, I enjoy that.
And so in the world of Freiren,
I guess it's kind of like Lord of the Rings where there are different ages of men and elves, and this is sort of humanity has come to the forefront because it has embraced magic and has devoted itself to researching magic, which used to be taboo.
And so it's sort of a...
It's an art, it's a science, it's magic, but there's sort of a logical basis to it.