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I'm kind of curious about what overarching cosmology size or structure would best serve most works of fiction or that would otherwise be sufficient to portray pretty much everything broadly relevant about the High Fantasy/Sword&Sorcery/Fantasy Isekai/Gothic Horror/Oriental Horror/Survival Horror/Cosmic Horror/Space Horror/Science Fiction/Doomsday Survival/Aura Revival/Xianxia/Awakener Manhwas/etc. and such.
I guess a cosmology size of up to Low-1C (or maybe 6D if the author really wants to bring in something-something special or cram in something like a hyper timeline) might be enough to portray most of these kind of works
Low-2C to 2-A might work just as well for most of them, as even Xianxia can range from Country/Continent level to Moon/Planet/etc. to maybe Universe and to things beyond, with even for these kind of works, things affecting entire Timeline not exactly being the norm (up until it became more popular in recent years) without limiting the authors too much both ways (i.e. author has to much narrative restrictions to work with due cosmology being too small in design/author has to take into account practical implications if cosmology is too vast and he made it extremely hyperdimensional or beyond-dimensional for no practical or useful reason and gets overwhelmed with necessary details to make things work out). One-upmanship like writing something as with countless infinite higher dimensions or partaking in pure archetypical form or whatever without actually doing anything with it (or at least nothing that's at minimum either interesting to read or useful narratively) just seems like asking for trouble or being a potential hassle coming one's way.
So, where might the narrative sweetspot actually be?
I guess a cosmology size of up to Low-1C (or maybe 6D if the author really wants to bring in something-something special or cram in something like a hyper timeline) might be enough to portray most of these kind of works
Low-2C to 2-A might work just as well for most of them, as even Xianxia can range from Country/Continent level to Moon/Planet/etc. to maybe Universe and to things beyond, with even for these kind of works, things affecting entire Timeline not exactly being the norm (up until it became more popular in recent years) without limiting the authors too much both ways (i.e. author has to much narrative restrictions to work with due cosmology being too small in design/author has to take into account practical implications if cosmology is too vast and he made it extremely hyperdimensional or beyond-dimensional for no practical or useful reason and gets overwhelmed with necessary details to make things work out). One-upmanship like writing something as with countless infinite higher dimensions or partaking in pure archetypical form or whatever without actually doing anything with it (or at least nothing that's at minimum either interesting to read or useful narratively) just seems like asking for trouble or being a potential hassle coming one's way.
So, where might the narrative sweetspot actually be?
