+1 to Malazan, it's huge and dense and the magic system is really interesting
however do be aware that the author likes to really drop the reader into the action with no knowledge, lots of the world building won't be explained at all and you sort of pick it up as you go along or notice it on a second read through, so it can be quite hard to get into
it's also very violent and gory and there's some graphic mention of rape and so on, it's quite dark as a series. but it's also really fantastic for lore. it started out as a ttrpg setting iirc and the author is a huge archaeology nerd so he knows how to build a realistic civilisation
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however do be aware that the author likes to really drop the reader into the action with no knowledge, lots of the world building won't be explained at all and you sort of pick it up as you go along or notice it on a second read through, so it can be quite hard to get into
it's also very violent and gory and there's some graphic mention of rape and so on, it's quite dark as a series. but it's also really fantastic for lore. it started out as a ttrpg setting iirc and the author is a huge archaeology nerd so he knows how to build a realistic civilisation