: How do I decide what is the best POV for my fantasy novel? How to go about determining what is the best POV to use for my fantasy novel?

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There's no universal "best" POV for Fantasy (or indeed most genres), there can be a best for your particular story and that can be because of many factors.

If you need to keep the readers knowledge of the world and events the same as a particular character's then 1st person or 3rd person limited are the obvious choices, if you want the readers to know more than any one character (or even all the characters put together) then 3rd person omniscient makes sense.

If you're particularly strong at writing in a given POV then use that - it's better to have something well written in a given POV even if another might have suited the story better.