Dream Book you wish you could write...

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That sounds interesting. Keep us posted as it develops.
An idea I've been playing with, is to, instead of making in a series of novels is to not make anything longer than a novella, and to clump related and contemporary stories together, but also offer supplemental material that makes the story broader and deeper and basically allow readers the ability to choose how they want the story to be fleshed out.

Deeply fleshed out fantasy stories often tend to seem somewhat unfocused with all the world-building and background or slowly introduced characters. Further, sometimes an audience will find some aspects really boring or draining to deal with, and instead only like part of a work - especially if it's something where parts fall into different genres. Basically the idea is to let people choose how much and what parts they interact with, so that it's somewhat of a choose your own story, but where they don't control outcomes and how the story develops, instead it's more just control over perspective.

The other thing I'm considering is releasing it more as a series of narrated and animated videos. Not a cartoon series (although that would be awesome), but more like the history videos you might encounter on different platforms. Say for example, if a battle unfolds it might have a few PoV character chapters as they experience it (with maybe the odd illustration), but also possibly a brief 'documentary' style chapter to show how the event unfolded in a more objective way.

For what it's worth, I've got a handful of families and a few other individuals to follow. Some of them are mundane, a few are power-brokers or their servants. Since a lot of the tensions exist along ethnic, caste and class lines, I need to have people from a bunch of backgrounds to show how that matters. Instead of typical fantasy evil, I've tried to make economic and social issues the main motivators, as well as making them at least somewhat relatable instead of being too wonkish. Lack of social mobility and wide swathes of society fearing falling behind economically seem fairly relatable, they're further compounded along ethnic lines. Theedish folk are starting to fall into 'debt-thralldom' whereas historically only very few Theeds were thralls. The Waulish folk face suppression of their language and customs, combined with largely being shut-out of power structures and denied the right to own more than personal parcels of land. It's more complicated than that, but that's the general trend. There's a lot of bold-faced denial of this from Theedish people, basically a steady and constant gas-lighting of matters related to this. Since the society is heavily integrated in cities (no records of ethnic identity, everyone's a børger) and much less so in the rural areas (most of the realm) it's a matter that people feel strongly about but don't break into coherent blocs over the idea is that it becomes an endless clusterf**k of conflict that keeps influencing the more easily understood and factionalized 'main' civil war. Parliament manages to masterfully use those tensions to their benefit until it blows up in their face. Parliament is also split between republicans and we'd just prefer someone else as king and since you didn't get enough votes officially, kindly stop insisting you're king with the more radical of the republicans steadily accruing more power; when the radical republicans push most of their agenda through it leads to them having to ally with other radical factions in order to resist the reactionaries when they finally decide things have gone too far.

Would you believe the Yugoslav Wars of the '90s were one of the inspirations?