About the author
Wayne Chapman, you would guess this name is for an author from an English speaking country, but you would be wrong. In many countries people think the local products and local literature are not so good, so many authors choose a foreign sounding name for that purpose. And whats even worse, this name is shared by two people, but they share their books anyway. One of them is Csanád Novák, other one is András Gáspár, both of them are Hungarian.
About the settings
The book is for two settings, one is Ynev, the default setting of the first popular Hungarian RPG. You can read more about it on the "Hungarian games" section of the forum. The other setting is an Alternate Earth setting called Hálózat. The book doesn't use the brands associated with these settings, but there is a CD (with music on it) that came out with the book. The literature for Ynev tends to have the usual problem: Too strong heroes and at a point you begin to think they are undefeatable. This novel doesn't share this problem.
About the characters
The book isn't fully centered on one hero, but there are 3 heroes that stand out of the crowd:
- Lirian vil Sineas, a female bard (from the fantasy setting)
- Talissa, a strange undead witch (from the fantasy setting)
- Taddeus Byron Newport, an adept (from the alternate earth setting)
The story
The story is about a bard who get from a bad situation to a much worse by the help of the undead witch Talissa, and an amulet made to protect her in a stange way. The amulet ends up in a low magic alternate earth setting and the battle contiunes at both places till its conclusion.
If you would like to see how some people learned languages by reading novels with the help of a dictionary it is a good novel to start with. Real good story, real good setting, and it will worth reading it again, when you know more from the language
10-01-2004, 05:00 AM
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