I find it difficult to believe that I haven’t done Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Curse of Chalion; it’s a high fantasy (heavy Southern France / Spanish flavor) that is pretty much unique in its tone and style. There is not a dull word in it; I am probably very shortly going to go find it and go read it again, in fact. You should follow my lead in this.
And so, adieu to The Man in the High Castle.
Of course, if you do that, then you end up reading Paladin of Souls (same universe, shortly after, lead was a minor character in Curse of Chalion), and you probably ought to read The Hallowed Haunt (same universe, somewhat earlier) too.
The Chalion books are superb examples of what might be called religous fantasy: like science fiction, but with a fictional religion instead of fictional science. Paladin of Souls (in a way) finishes the deep story from Curse of Chalion. The 3rd book looks a similar issues in a very different situation with a very different perspective. I hope that LMB will one day produce more of these novels.
Lots of fantasy novels, RPGs etc have fictional religions that (1) don’t make sense on closer inspection and (2) are irrelevant to the plot. I know of only 3 series with non-silly fantasy religions that matter in the books: Tanya Huff’s Wizard of The Grove series, Elizabeth Moon’s Paksenarrion trilogy and Gird duology (but not so much the later books in that universe) and the Chalion novels. I strongly recommend all these series. (It’s interesting that all three are by women.)
Love Moon’s stuff, haven’t really read Huff.
LMB is semi-retired, and wasn’t the fastest writer even when she was younger. So another novel from her in any series would be an unexpected bonus at this point.