IMO one of the most beautiful women of all time . Top 20 for sure . <| sep |> What you ' re talking about are noble , handsome , chivalrous , honorable warriors facing a force of unambiguous evil . Heroes save the day , slay the dragon , rescue the swooning princess . That is high fantasy . That ' s not even remotely the definition of high fantasy , Conan is pretty much the textbook examples of Low fantasy and Howard managed to fit in several women warriors in his books . And he was a massive racist who was born over a hundred years ago , so certainly not a progressive sort . High and Low fantasy have nothing to do with teenage edgelord shit and your confusion of the terms and misclassification of Conan makes me wonder if you know anything about fantasy literature at all . Heck , the Warhammer tabletop RPG is a hell of a lot darker and more grim than the Witcher ever amounts to and never made this an issue , with fighting women featuring prominently in some stories , even if they are not common . Things in fiction exist because the author put or did not put them there . It ' s not the real world , the people don ' t actually exist and griffons aren ' t real .