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[feotakahari]

Guardians of the Flame hasn’t really aged that well, if only because it’s so much the quintessential “trapped in a magic RPG world” story that its basic structure feels like a parody now. But one thing I will give it over modern isekai is that unlike them, it absolutely despises slave traders. That’s actually what the title means—the “flame” is the belief that slavery is wrong and needs to end, and the protagonists fan it by freeing slaves and killing slavers. I’ll take that over whatever the fuck Shield Hero is doing.