Low Fantasy

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Low Fantasy is a general term for any fantasy story that doesn't fall into the category of High Fantasy. Some common examples are comic fantasy, dark fantasy and contemporary fantasy. Characters are usually regular people rather than princes and wizards, magic is downplayed or absent, the setting is based on gritty realism and historical accuracy, and the style is more plain-spoken. Unlike high fantasy, where characters are neatly ordered into "good" and "evil" categories, low fantasy characters tend to be shades of grey; antiheroes, antivillains, and entirely neutral (or selfish-but-helpful) characters appear frequently.