East/West fantasy crossover

[darkcser]

Has anyone done a East/West fantasy crossover story?

I've considered this in the past but traditional Western fantasy tends to be a bit more magical/supernatural than Wu Xia.

[jetso]

Problem of an acutal crossover is of course the "main" era of Western fantasy is set in a pseudo-medieval Europe, and a lot of Wuxia is set in years before that. And then the lack of effective transport makes life difficult and the multitude of differences mean that the characters may end up spending too much time gaping at the differences between their countries than actually getting to the story...


It's my ambition to write "oriental fantasy" (if that's a valid term.) Set in that China that might have been, but never was. with a West that could have been...

I gave a "westernised" martial artist (her great grandmother came from the Middle Kingdom, but her family had been steadily moving west.) getting extended cameos in my Nordic fantasy...


No reason you can't give it a go. Have fun!

[trizz251]

maybe you should try it out, crossing over traditions and fighting styles if it's a wuxia/medevil thing, that'll be cool, it'll be crazy, but ppl will argue that that historically never happened, so work on it, make it sound real so ppl won't argue back.