tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post4466463225630558404..comments2024-03-28T21:13:53.845+00:00Comments on Fabled Lands: The Sword of the Silver DawnDave Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-31924711862595468262011-09-19T16:10:33.394+01:002011-09-19T16:10:33.394+01:00It's only the first step, Ikaros. In the case ...It's only the first step, Ikaros. In the case of Blood Sword, Oliver and I had a vague sense of where the story was going just based on the titles, but I don't think we originally intended for Aiken/Icon to play such a major part in the trip to Sheol in Doomwalk. So we probably started out with a couple of paragraphs about each book, but by the time we were halfway through book 2, the notes on later books had probably grown to several pages each. A bit like J K Rowling's plot sheet for Order of the Phoenix here:<br />http://bit.ly/bTCzOVDave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-14127552116814862762011-09-19T14:45:41.166+01:002011-09-19T14:45:41.166+01:00Amazing story!
BTW, That's how you plan a stor...Amazing story!<br />BTW, That's how you plan a story with many parts?Ikaroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13713846838494518139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-4467935007384013982011-09-19T00:48:19.373+01:002011-09-19T00:48:19.373+01:00That was most definitely the first use of Sussurie...That was most definitely the first use of Sussurien/Sussurian, a good 3-4 years (at least) before Demon's Claw. As for "Thalassa" - yes, literally "the sea" but also (after Xenophon) metaphorically an expression of hope and triumph, which was the context in which I think we meant it. Mike Polling and I were/are big fans of Walter Hill's movie The Warriors, which was based on Xenophon's account of the Persian expedition.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-3540881072854274822011-09-18T18:39:32.949+01:002011-09-18T18:39:32.949+01:00A sea of coffee.. which is dark, like some types o...A sea of coffee.. which is dark, like some types of wine... Of course, it must be set in the Fabled Lands too! 8^)Jiminyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03928886405446170395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-49891764806182383472011-09-18T18:31:01.013+01:002011-09-18T18:31:01.013+01:00"Thalassa" is the Greek word meaning &qu..."Thalassa" is the Greek word meaning "sea". <br />On the contrary, in colloquial French, "lavasse" means "bad coffee" !cafaristeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915889856526586336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-64983094360257135712011-09-18T18:21:48.133+01:002011-09-18T18:21:48.133+01:00Sounds very interesting. It's a pity the serie...Sounds very interesting. It's a pity the series never saw the light of day.Hamzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-64822123404185020752011-09-18T16:51:11.521+01:002011-09-18T16:51:11.521+01:00Very interesting to hear about a proto-Golden Drag...Very interesting to hear about a proto-Golden Dragon gamebook series that was lost to the winds of fate. Although Legend must have been just a twinkle in your eye when this was written, the coincidences just keep on cropping up. Seems to me that this story would make a great little bardic folk-tale that - like the best of ancient myths - might contain a grain of Legendary truth:<br /><br />Thalassa... Lalassa... Lavasse? <br />Galador... Ganelon?<br />Karstang... Vergang?<br />...and Sussurian, as Oiliver mentions.<br /><br />All just a coincidence?Jiminyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03928886405446170395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-45241431752742243832011-09-18T15:58:36.041+01:002011-09-18T15:58:36.041+01:00Was this Prince Sussurian the "ancestor"...Was this Prince Sussurian the "ancestor" of Sussurien met in "the Demon's Claw" (BS3) ? <br /><br />Oliviercafaristeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915889856526586336noreply@blogger.com