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Mercedes Lackey

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Premise labels used: mage storms, fragile alliance, political alliance, world-threatening crisis, magical disaster, cross-realm cooperation

Setting labels used: Valdemar, Karse, Hardorn, kingdoms of the West, imperial camp, fantasy secondary world, wartime setting, winter setting

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Storm Warning

Mercedes Lackey · 1995 · Valdemar: Mage Storms

A Karsite envoy’s young secretary enters Valdemar just as magic storms and political tensions threaten the whole world.

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Premise labels: magic crisis · foreign envoy · enemy alliance · worldwide threat · cross-cultural contact · knowledge solving

Setting labels: Valdemar · foreign court · war-torn kingdom · imperial conflict · magic-inflected world · alternate world · preindustrial fantasy · religious society · wartime setting

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Distance: 0.1658

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A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin · 2010 · A Song of Ice and Fire

In a fractured realm, rival houses, hidden heirs, and shifting loyalties battle for a throne as winter closes in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: power struggle · dynastic conflict · throne contest · court intrigue · factional war · succession crisis · political fantasy · alliance shifting

Setting labels: secondary world · medieval-inspired · feudal politics · winter climate · continental setting · war-torn realm · castle setting · kingdom setting · north vs south

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Distance: 0.1910

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The Price of Spring

Daniel Abraham · 2009 · Long Price Quartet

Fifteen years after war and infertility, a poet, an emperor’s daughter, and a new magic must decide whether peace can survive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: after-war recovery · forced alliance · fertility crisis · reviving magic · political reconciliation · magical consequences

Setting labels: secondary world · postwar world · imperial court · city-states · cross-cultural setting · fantasy kingdom

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Distance: 0.2047

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The Rebels of Gold

Elise Kova · 2017 · Loom Saga

In a dual-world rebellion against dragon rule, shifting loyalties and secret schemes decide the fate of Loom and Nova.

Why this is here

Premise labels: rebellion · war · dragon tyranny · political struggle · unlikely alliance · world-spanning conflict

Setting labels: dual world · Loom · Nova · steampunk world · dragon society · guild society · caste system · fantasy setting

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Distance: 0.2182

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The Death of Chaos

L.E. Modesitt Jr. · 1996 · The Saga of Recluce

A woodworker-mage faces invasion and a final reckoning as order and chaos tip toward catastrophe.

Why this is here

Premise labels: invasion threat · magical balance · wizard protagonist · world-ending stakes · war between nations · craftsperson protagonist · returning character

Setting labels: secondary world · imaginary place · Candar · Recluce · Kyphros · continental war · multi-era timeline · far-future history · medieval fantasy world · magic-and-technology world

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Distance: 0.2187

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A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin · 1998 · A Song of Ice and Fire

In a feudal realm of shifting seasons, rival houses battle for power while a northern threat and buried secrets rise.

Why this is here

Premise labels: succession struggle · power struggle · dynastic conflict · political intrigue · warring houses · failing realm · looming winter · ancient threat · court intrigue · struggle for throne

Setting labels: secondary world · medieval-like · feudal politics · winter kingdom · northern frontier · court setting · walled frontier · imaginary realm · continental scale · low magic

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Distance: 0.2188

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Salute the Dark

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2010 · Shadows of the Apt

As war engulfs the Lowlands, scattered allies race to stop an empire, a ritual, and a changing battlefield.

Why this is here

Premise labels: war front · invasion · alliance-building · political intrigue · ritual magic · arms race

Setting labels: secondary world · industrial fantasy · insect-based societies · continental war · city-states · lowlands · imperial capital · wartime battlefield

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Distance: 0.2192

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Kingdom of Today

Gena Showalter · 2025 · Book of Arden

A double agent at a royal academy must save a unraveling prince as gods awaken, prophecies tighten, and war closes in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: double agent · forbidden prophecy · academy return · royal intrigue · warring factions · ancient gods · coming war · dangerous alliance · love triangle · identity conflict

Setting labels: academy setting · royal court · dystopian world · secondary world fantasy · war-torn kingdom · dual world · military training · mystical setting

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Distance: 0.2222

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Empire Ascendant

Kameron Hurley · 2015 · Worldbreaker Saga

In a multiverse war of doubles and magic, survivors must choose between conquest, sacrifice, and extinction.

Why this is here

Premise labels: parallel worlds · mirror worlds · world invasion · survival war · power struggle · political intrigue · identity conflict · doppelganger conflict · apocalypse · violent magic

Setting labels: secondary world · multiple worlds · parallel dimensions · dying world · war-torn world · fantasy multiverse · political kingdoms · siege setting · magical cultures · alternate world

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Distance: 0.2233

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Copper Chain

James Maxwell · 2017 · The Shifting Tides

A king trapped between war, magic, and shifting loyalties must protect his people and his freedom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dragon control · ancient artifacts · magical coercion · kingdom conflict · rescue mission · power struggle · political invasion

Setting labels: secondary world · naval setting · kingdoms · wastelands · island training · ancient civilization

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Distance: 0.2264

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The Mighty Thor, Vol. 3: The Asgard/Shi'ar War

Jason Aaron · 2017 · Thor by Jason Aaron

Jane Foster’s Thor leads allies across realms, then gets pulled into a cosmic god-challenge that may reshape the war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: heroic alliance · realm coalition · divine challenge · war escalation · forced contest · space-fantasy crossover

Setting labels: Asgard · Shi'ar Empire · Alfheim · ten worlds · World Tree · space fantasy · mythic cosmos

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Distance: 0.2279

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The Price of Power

Michael Michel · 2025 · Dreams of Dust and Steel

A disgraced prince, an orphaned heir, a seer, and a doomed ascendant are pushed toward choices that may save or end their world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: power cost · political intrigue · succession crisis · world-ending threat · dark prophecy · quest for power · redemption arc · sacrifice

Setting labels: secondary world · continental scale · wartime · court politics · mountain quest · kingdom-level conflict · multiple regions · mythic fantasy world

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2287

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