From Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Why does all fantasy have to be like that?
Please recommend some fantasy novels with themes of real liberation to me. I love fantasy but I hate that it's always a new monarchy people happily submit to...
FYI, mistborn isn't suuuper pro monarchy. The new king is effectively a figurehead for a bourgeois democracy whose main trait is that it can't get anything done.
Sanderson's politics are mostly cringe but usually in a lib way.
Looking through my (pirated) library, I'd also recommend The Masquerade as someone else did. Powder Mage is also a very fun story, though the central revolution is very Liberal in nature, a closer analog to the French revolution than anything else.
I'll look into it!
Ya, as I said the blurb is misleading but it brings the point across