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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Black Easter.
Characterization labels used: black magician, white magician, arms dealer, church observer, creepily charismatic, morally compromised, amoral, bureaucratic evil, intellectual magician, flat supporting cast, unpleasant characters, fanatic
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A far-future Earth’s last magicians and rogues scheme, quest, and betray each other beneath a dying red sun.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: antihero · rogue · wizard · sorcerer · scoundrel · trickster · scam artist · thief · selfish protagonist · amoral character · clever fool · pompous magician · eccentric magician · misanthropic
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2399
An all-star anthology of original stories honoring Jack Vance’s Dying Earth world, blending homage, wit, and weirdness.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: amoral protagonists · anti-heroes · wizards · sorcerers · witches · magicians · rogues · clever tricksters · fools · travelers · watchmen · architects · apprentices · curious outsiders · self-serving characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2494
A shared-world fantasy anthology set in a corrupt city where multiple authors follow overlapping rogues, mages, and schemers.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: morally gray characters · rogues · thieves · crime bosses · priests · wizards · brothel madames · fortune tellers · corrupt guards · assassins · naive ruler · gladiator · slave · bartender · minstrel · storyteller · outsider cast · ensemble cast · antiheroes · villains · unsavory characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2601
In a quarantined South African city, a corpse collector and a hustler get pulled into a feverish search amid a deadly laughter plague.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: corpse collector · truthologist · hustler · black market dealer · orphan · junkie · sin eater · librarian · data dealer · security guard · antiheroic ensemble · outsider characters · morally compromised characters · sympathetic cast
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2607
Two strangers keep meeting across many lives in changing roles, and must uncover why their fates are entwined.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: kindred spirits · skeptic · believer · headstrong · spiky · pious · placid · curious · optimist · pessimist · abrasive · thorny · complex characters · flawed characters · character-driven
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2613
Two rival Victorian magicians wage a lifelong battle of secrets, with descendants later uncovering the truth.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: rival magicians · ambitious · obsessive · jealous · unreliable · sympathetic · ambiguous morality · craft-focused · showman · practical · flashy · aristocratic · middle-class · journalist · descendants
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2618
In modern Moscow, Dark Others narrate a twisty struggle over a stolen artifact, a fragile truce, and shifting loyalties.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: dark witch · light magician · amnesiac protagonist · powerful mage · bureaucratic operator · troubled · sympathetic villain · self-interested · manipulative · morally ambiguous · pawn · antihero
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2624
Skeeve travels alone to a hostile dimension to find his lost partner and learns how to stand on his own.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: naive protagonist · apprentice magician · growing up · self-reflective · whiny protagonist · inept protagonist · solo protagonist · mentor figure · supporting cast absent · new side characters · temporary sidekicks · deadly bodyguard · djinn character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2666
In the corrupt city of Primordium, an assassin’s encounter with an ancient flesh-shaper ignites transformation, revenge, and desire.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: assassin · flesh-transformer · ancient being · corrupt leaders · supplicant · monster · sympathetic monster · morally flawed protagonist · sadistic figures · unstable / twisted characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2673
On an isolated colony-world, occupation, religious factionalism, and supply collapse turn one ritual choice into citywide crisis.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ensemble cast · bureaucrat · governor · religious savant · cleric · business elite · socialite · servant · enslaved character · ambitious · self-interested · sympathetic underdog · morally gray · unlikable characters · character-driven
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2683
A collection of dark, ornate tales set on Earth’s last continent, where necromancy, decadence, and doom rule.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: necromancers · sorcerers · kings · princes · adventurers · shepherd boys · goatherds · evil rulers · decadent nobility · tricksters · flawed protagonists · hopeless protagonists · thin characterization
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2735
Twenty years after a world-shaking war, new and old players are drawn into a darker campaign toward apocalypse.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: wizard protagonist · political ruler · boy king · cult leader · psychopathic child · reclusive scholar · morally compromised cast · burdened characters · fascinating new cast · alien nonhuman figures · inhuman antagonist · outside perspective character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2741
