Is my fantasy novel cliched?

Hey all,

I have the day off today (yippe) and being the unsociable grump ass that I am (coupled with the fat all my mates are still in school) I’m stuck inside. I’ve already asked about the characters (type in Are my fantasy characters clichéd) and the reviews are not as helpful as I’d hope, but I get the point :P So I’m gonna babble on the plot (or as much of it as I know) of the book I’m writing (10,000 words in).

Right, so it’s set in another world (I did have the name of it but it’s gone now) with humans being the main dominant race. The place it is set in is a Medieval times, or rather, the age of swords and that, as not all of my kingdoms are European. The main kingdoms are: Cha’n Yo (I like to think of it as China), Imlad (Medieval England), the Empire of Se (Aztecs), the Moot (Africa) and Jalalil (Japan).

Basically, without writing a big ol’ synopsis, I’ll just quickly lay out the important stuff. Alexander Dyder is searching the globe for the Shards of Glass (I dunno what the hell they are at the moment) in an effort to destroy the Draig of Cha’n Yo and earn the right to journey to the afterlife. Along the way, he is joined by several companions, including Johnna, a vampire by the name of Cras, his old friend Vela Fixx, and a rogue warrior known as Tomma from the Highland Realms. In the first book, Cha’n Yo is getting ready to invade Imlad and crush it, whilst Alexander and his cohorts plot to kill a king to get the first Shard of Glass. Then, why they find trhe fake, they are forced to travel to Fort Knox to recover the real Shard before the Ghost kills Alexander, or the Draig captures the first Shard of Glass.

I don’t know how well I’ve written that paragraph, but if it doesn’t make sense, sorry. Just wondering if it sounded far too clichéd to you guys.

Cheers.
 
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