"Epic Fantasy" books

[Jones]

Reincarnation is also a theme where one of the main characters, Nevyn who is a Merlin like character, has chosen reincarnation to atone for an action he took that resulted in the untimely death of others.

I decided to read the Deverry series again and I misremembered the above. Nevyn actually decides not to die until he has atoned for the harm he caused others. To that end he lives a very long time and meets the others as different people in different incarnations.

 

[hobnob]

Some series that haven't been mentioned yet, unless I missed them:

The Prince of Nothing by Bakker - This is about a false prophet, near in quality to Game of Thrones.

The Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny - This is as fun as The Matrix, but any character development may be absent.

The author Guy Gavriel Kay takes different historical periods and adds magic. A Song for Arbonne, for example, though not great, serviceably depicts Cathars and throws in owls perched on priestesses' shoulders.