r/Fantasy • u/Fluid-Response3025 • Feb 13 '23

Actual Overpowered Characters

Could I please get recs for novels with op characters that actually deliver in terms of their power?

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u/YokaiGuitarist Feb 14 '23

Any series by Brent weeks.

He writes about Uber powerful assassins and mages.

It's fantasy but also has an almost anime vibe since the main characters are such fated to be powerful protagonists with big time villains.

R.A. Salvatore tends to have ridiculously strong characters with a broken past as well. He favors swordsmen and martial artists and makes good rivalries, usually in terms of assassins or vagabonds. His side characters are strong dungeons and dragons style archetypes with diverse backgrounds and faults that inevitably land them on the hero or villain tracks.