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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Rose Society.
Setting labels used: secondary world, capital city, city-states, court politics, inquisition, plague aftermath, fantasy kingdom
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A young noble and three unlikely friends join an imperial guard and tumble into duels, intrigue, and court danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · imperial court · capital city · medieval-feudal society · prequel setting · pre-Interregnum · long-lived species · fantasy empire · urban court politics
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1063
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
Setting labels: secondary world · postwar world · imperial court · city-states · cross-cultural setting · fantasy kingdom
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1246
An outcast heiress is pulled into a god-ruled power struggle, as each linked volume reveals a different side of one world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · mythic world · court intrigue · floating palace · capital city · multiple kingdoms · changing world · gods among mortals · post-war world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1290
A grieving exiled protector hunts an assassin and uncovers a divine conspiracy that could reshape his world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · urban setting · city-state politics · post-divine world · alternate history feel · modernizing world · industrializing world · fantasy city · large-scale worldbuilding · contiguous series timeline
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1292
A Palleseen envoy and her new aide navigate a succession crisis as imperial “perfection” creeps toward conquest.
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Setting labels: capital city · city-state · coastal kingdom · successor state · tropical setting · jungle-like setting · fantasy secondary world · necromantic empire aftermath · religious society · frontier setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1311
A bookish merchant’s son journeys to a distant empire, only to be haunted into a clash of faith, power, and storytelling.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · fantasy empire · island homeland · foreign capital city · trade route · cosmopolitan city · oral society · literate society · feudal setting · exoticized world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1373
A young rebel, a trapped prince, and a vanished queen’s journals converge in a fight to topple a tyrant.
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Setting labels: secondary world · medieval setting · royal court · capital city · college · forbidden library · oppressive kingdom · hierarchical monarchy · secondary-world fantasy · low-magic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1384
An exiled warrior and his uneasy allies race to stop a waking threat while surviving a brutal, politics-ridden world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · postwar world · dying earth · medieval-like · imperial court · city politics · gray realm · alternate realm · alien technology · high fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1414
A mechanic and a mage flee assassins across a guild-controlled world while uncovering their planet’s hidden past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · dead city · ruined city · road journey · imperial territory · guild-dominated society · island setting · capital city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1416
A dark sequel fantasy follows a renamed wizard and a prophesied princess through a ruined world of magic, chaos, and war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · fantasy realm · war-torn land · ruined city · post-apocalyptic fantasy · medieval fantasy · cataclysm aftermath · magic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1456
An oppressed empire, a metal-powered magic system, and a rebellion that unravels into deeper secrets across three books.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · oppressive empire · feudal society · night mists · ashfall
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1456
A young orphan grows into an imperial diplomat, learning the bitter cost of serving a regime built on 'Perfection.'
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · occupied territory · imperial state · occupied empire · multiple locations · city-hopping · alternate world · fantasy geopolitics · magic-inflected world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1458
