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Yeah sorry, it's fictional.

is it

Dun dun duuuun.

One of the premises of it is that people there are almost universally born with a single magical talent.

But that talent can be of uh.

Varying usefulness.

Think MHA except it had the idea first, it's much older lol.

So one person might have the ability to SUMMON AND CONTROL STORMS.

And another guy can create a colored illusionary spot on the wall and move it around.

sounds kinda weeb

The main character of the first book spends like the first half about to be exiled for having no talent.

Turns out he just has an extraordinarily powerful, but also extremely subtle talent. He cannot be harmed in any way by magic, period. And his talent usually acts in ways that make it look like complete coincidence.

 

It also changes the protaganist pretty much every book or two.

And is uh, a stupid long series.

what's it called

ngl though the early books suffer from being a product of their times though.

Xanth.

ah xanth

The first one is uhhh. A spell for chameleon. 1977.

Oh geeze it's at 42 books nowadays.

I think it's literally had multiple generations pass in universe since the first book.

jesus

Like the main character was a father and/or grandfather last time I checked lol.

But yeah the earlier books uh.

... chameleon is a character and her talent is she slowly shifts from beautiful and extraordinarily dumb, to ugly and hyper smart over the course of about a month over and over again back and forth.

....

?

sounds like ff14 subplot

Hah.

That guy writes.... a lot...

But yeah the entire series is puns galore.

It also kind of has weird early installment stuff in that.

In the first book or two, Xanth is EXTREMELY dangerous and kinda dark despite all the puns.

But the farther you get into the series the safer it is.

Till it's more comedy.

Snrk, although there's a fan theory about the talent I spoilered above maybe influencing that.

hmm there's 35 books

42.

damn google failed me

how long is a book typically

Hmmmm...

Honestly it's been years since I read one.

wikipedia says the first is 344 pages paperback though.

8th is 303

jesus