#has a Welsh character too. I reread that line about his accent abt 50 times to check I wasn’t hallucinating

[crwbannwen]

So like we all know high fantasy relies heavily on ‘Welsh’ (supposedly Celtic really) cultures for a lot of world building. There are bad and good things that come from this, but a bad element I just realised is how that effects low fantasy.

So like very few low fantasy books include wales or welsh characters but presumably wales still exists in them right? So what’s with all the Welsh inspired fantasy elements? Are there two Welsh cultures in this world? Did Wales cease to exist so the elves could? I can think of far more low fantasy elves whose names end in ‘-wyn’ despite having black hair than I can think of genuinely Welsh characters in low fantasy (in fact I can only name two of those).

Low fantasy authors know we’re a real culture right? They know we still exist right? Right? Rydyn ni’n yma o hyd! There’s literally a song about that!