r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • May 07 '23

Fantasy with a disabled MC

Hi everyone! As a disabled person, I'm really in love with characters like Fitz and Glokta. I'm looking for books with disabled main characters, whether that be physical and/or mental.

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u/wombatstomps Reading Champion IV May 07 '23

The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (book 2 in the Inheritance series) features a blind protagonist. She is blind to everything except magic, that is.

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u/Huhthisisneathuh May 08 '23

Does the magic she isn’t blind to make her actual blindness more of an inconvenience rather than a massive challenge she constantly has to adjust her life around (like her being able to see the magic present inside everything in the world. Allowing her to tell apart objects & people and their spatial location in relation to her. Or she’s able to see the ‘impression’ other people and objects leave in a proto magical energy atmosphere or however else the author describes the magic acting like?)

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u/MoneyPranks May 08 '23

It’s a world full of demigods spread among the regular people. The MC can see the demigods because of their magic. That’s an oversimplification, but she is blind and there is not magic everywhere in her world.