As part of James Taylors bookclub I'm putting together some
background notes as I slowly read through the book.
My memory is really bad as I clearly must
have read the book when it came out?
Normally once I pick up a book that I've not read in decades I start to
slowly recall the plot and ending as I go.
I can normally be happy recalling or finding a paragraph I'd forgotten,
or piece together another aspect of the world or characters.
Recently I listened to the audio of Dragon
Flight by Anne McCaffrey and was shocked to recall that it was written in 1968,
was it truly that long ago. I am fast
finding that my taste in literature is taking a backwards plunge. I'm going back to the authors I liked in my
youth, including many that a viewed as politically incorrect in this modern day
of giving no offense to anybody.
So here are a few pointers from the first 3 chapters I have
read.
Solkan
Solkan is the master of vengeance, an angry god who inflicts
the retribution of the Gods of Law on those who offend them. He is the most popular of the Gods of Law,
and many Witch Hunters worship him. His
followers are held in general fear and mistrust by the bulk of Old Worlders,
who find the absolutism and bigotry associated with his worship uncomfortable.
Warhammer Fantasy Role Play: A GrimWorkd of Perilous
Adventure (1st edition), p210
Arianka
In the distant past, Arianka was defeated and imprisoned by
an unnamed Chaos God, and it is said that she lies in a crystal coffin hidden
somewhere in the Old World. Many places
have claimed to have found her coffin over the centuries, the most recent,
according to rumour, being Praag (see World Guid - Kislev). It is also said
that she can be freed from her coffin only be means of some crystal keys, whose
location has never been found, it is not even known how many keys there are,
and whether they are hidden together or seperately.
Warhammer Fantasy Role Play: A GrimWorkd of Perilous
Adventure (1st edition), p210
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