I am looking for a series that is progression fantasy or adjacent where the main character ends up grappling with the ethics of power and realities of immortality / pseudo-immortality. I don't want any soft-hearted garbage where the author shoves the dick of altruism down my throat like your mom's strap-on, but I also don't want an unhinged psychopath. I want genuinely good writing. I don't care if it's sexually explicit; I'd actually welcome some of that although I'm not looking for straight up porn. I enjoy self-insert power fantasy but as an ancillary, not the main focus. Mainly I WANT A CHARACTER WHO EMBRACES POWER FOR ITS OWN SAKE. Here are some series I have already read in the last few years that are related to one degree or another, I do not necessarily recommend any of them:>Beginning after the End>Grimnoire Chronicles (not bad desu)>Most Bruce Sentar shit>Herald of Shalia>Cradle (beginning great, end cringe)>Millennial Mage (meh, I'll finish it)>Dungeon Crawler Carl (too much of a communist pussy but I'll finish it)>The Wheel of Time (like 4th or 5th reread)>Demon Cycle (first 3 books are great, rest is turboshit)>Heretic Spellblade>The Immortal Great Souls (I'll finish it, not bad desu)>Beware of Chicken>A Thousand Li>Super Powereds>Demon's Throne>Every Brandon Sanderson Series (takes like 3 days to finish each book but aside from 2-3 they don't deal with real power and the philosophy of it)>Dune (I reread this every few years)>A Court of Thorns and Roses (chick shit, DNF>Powder Mage>Old Man's War>Troy Rising (awesome concept but Ringo is fucking retarded and doesn't understand how levers work. Live Free or Die was genuinely good other than that.)Probably another 20-ish books and short stories. Read about 1-2 books / week. Happy to read a bunch of trash to find a gem. Happy for all recommendations. Don't give a fuck about the specific genre as long as it deals with the concepts of immortality, power, etc and doesn't wield the cock of altruism like a club. I've also read a lot of non-fiction in this time, this is just a small section of the fiction I've read recently. So much communist faggotry out there and a lot of fascist simping too. I want people who actually engage in critical thinking.
>>25308600That’s pretty niche. I can only think of vampire stuff
>>25308600I don't read a lot of genre but i'm in the middle of Earthsea and it does discuss power in a way i enjoy, with the obvious jungian shadow concepylt etc. Altough the mc might be too "pacifist" for your taste, but i think in general the concept of power is well explored. You should try it regardless since you sample all that crap, at least Le Guin is a certified good writer in comparison.
>>25308600Are you fine with webnovels and western fiction?
>>25308600Kind of maybe Roger Zelazny. He loves big powerful protagonists who impose their will on the world. Lord of Light, Amber or maybe Creatures of Light and Darkness all come to mind.The Black Company very briefly grapples with this in the later books The protagonist from the thousand li series by tao wong is basically a cultivation sperge\loner.
