I can heartily recommend the BBC audio drama series called Tumanbay. It’s an epic of politics, intrigue and skullduggery in an imaginary world inspired by the Mamluks of Egypt. There’s no fantasy - its ‘alternative normal’ but it’s got plenty of sultans, mad priests, mysterious prophets, marauding armies, thieves ,pirates, vast deserts etc. This is the link for the UK and I think you can get it as a podcast outside of Britain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nwt51