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Castle Roogna

Piers, Anthony
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fantasy high fantasy adventure past tense third limited POV ~450 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

adventurous whimsical gritty

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, humor.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 40
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 70
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 70%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count112,434
Page count~450 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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