Dave Morris

A choose-your-own-adventure style gamebook that gives the reader a choice of different quests and adventures. The book is open-ended and provides an almost unlimited number of plot lines. You can be a warrior, explorer, priest, wizard, thief or bard. The books in the series are inter-connected, allowing you to travel all across the Fabled Lands. This volume takes you across freezing tundra and northern wastelands dotted with ancient tombs, lost cities and haunted ruins.

SET OUT ON A JOURNEY OF UNLIMITED ADVENTUREAt the Court of Hidden Faces, no one is what they seem. The sinister lords of the Uttakin go masked to hide their treachery. The secret police of the god Ebron kill those who flout their fanatical codes. In this tyrannical realm of oppression, intrigue and assassination, life is cheap. But rich rewards await the adventurer courageous enough to penetrate this hostile land.Will you uncover the secrets of the High King's citadel, where no mortal has trod for ten generations? Or wrest the holy sword from the crypt of Kizil Irmak, the Harbinger of War? Or find the key that unlocks the greatest secret of all - the means to open the gate of Time and travel back into the past?Your fate is in your own hands. You choose your skills, your goals, where you will venture and what you will do. The only limit is your imagination.* * *FABLED LANDS is an interconnected gamebook series with the epic sweep of a sandbox RPG. You can choose to be an explorer, merchant, priest, scholar or soldier of fortune. You can buy a ship or a townhouse, join a temple, undertake desperate adventures in the wilderness or embroil yourself in court intrigues and the sudden violence of city backstreets. You can undertake missions that will earn you allies and enemies, or you can remain a free agent. With thousands of numbered sections to explore, the choices are all yours.

Set out on a journey of unlimited adventure FABLED LANDS is an epic interactive gamebook series with the scope of a massively multiplayer game world. You can choose to be an explorer, merchant, priest, scholar or soldier of fortune. You can buy a ship or a townhouse, join a temple, undertake desperate adventures in the wilderness or embroil yourself in court intrigues and the sudden violence of city backstreets. You can undertake missions that will earn you allies and enemies, or you can remain a free agent. With thousands of numbered sections to explore, the choices are all yours.At the Court of Hidden Faces, no one is who they seem. The sinister lords of the Uttakin go masked to hide their treachery. The secret police of the god Ebron kill those who flout their fanatical codes. In this tyrannical realm of betrayal and assassination, life is cheap. But rich rewards await the adventurer courageous enough to penetrate this hostile land.Will you uncover the secrets of the High King's citadel, where no mortal has trod for ten generations? Or wrest the holy sword from the crypt of Kizil Irmak, the Harbinger of War? Or find the key that unlocks the greatest secret of all - the means to open the gate of Time and travel back into the past?Your fate is in your own hands. You choose your skills, your goals, where you will venture and what you will do. The only limit is your imagination.The choices are all yours. And success will give you the powers to venture ever deeper into the amazing role-playing world that is Fabled Lands.

A choose-your-own-adventure style gamebook that gives the reader a choice of different quests and adventures. The book is open-ended and provides an almost unlimited number of plot lines. You can be a warrior, explorer, priest, wizard, thief or bard. The books in the series are inter-connected, allowing you to travel all across the Fabled Lands. In this volume you get to sail over the oceans, experiencing fantastic adventures to rival those of Odysseus, Jason and Sinbad.

Darkness casts a lengthening shadow over the Vulcanverse, threatening all who dwell in the five realms. Queen Nyx, with her dread sons Death and Sleep at her side, unleashes a devastating war that will sweep away both gods and titans and leave her the unchallenged monarch of all creation. You set out on a perilous journey on which you must hone your skills, win over allies, and gather the secrets that will make you into the Hero of the Age, the only mortal capable of opposing the Night Queen. Traverse the vast expanse of Vulcan's world, confronting battle-hardened foes and cunning rivals at every turn. You will make friends for whom you are willing to risk everything and enemies whose treachery will make your blood boil. Restore the fortunes of ruined lands, giving heart to their people, as you encounter gods and monsters and unravel mysteries that may hold the key to your destiny. Among your many fantastic experiences you will be drawn into worlds steeped in sinister dream and dark myth. Are you ready to brave the grimy alleyways of the criminal underworld and the treacherous intrigues of the great palaces? To plunge back through time to take part in the eternal battle and to witness the first dawn? To set sail across the celestial void? Are you willing to face murderous androids that can kill with a scream? Can you outrun the terrible hounds of death? And do you have the courage and tenacity to break through the skin of existence to find the workshop of the gods where new realities are born? * * * In the Vulcanverse series you can begin in any region and travel freely back and forth between the books to pursue your quests. Your actions have consequences that endure, forging relationships with friends and foes alike as you carve your legend across the annals of the world. Embark now on an odyssey of epic proportions where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance and only you can determine the outcome.

Vulcan City is a place of striking contrasts. A metropolis where marble palaces and gilded rooftops soar against the sky, whose walls and towers seem to approaching travellers like the flanks of mountains, where gold and jewels overflow the coffers of wily merchants, and where nobles in silk finery indulge in epicurean pleasures to rival the banquets of Olympus.But it is also a place of teeming streets and plazas where cutthroats and spies hide themselves amid the crowds, where narrow alleyways can lead to stinking, maze-like warrens where the unwary visitor is soon as lost as in the deepest wood. In candlelit taverns you may overhear whispered secrets that can make a fortune or ruin a reputation. And here in the magnificent hub at the center of the Vulcanverse, life is often as cheap as a trinket sold on a marketplace stall.Meet up again with old friends and bitter enemies. Uncover long-buried secrets, hunt down thieves and murderers, wrestle with demons, cross swords with assassins, join criminal gangs - even come face to face with the specter of your own death. Visit the puppet shows where you'll find hints about the fate of a universe. Seek counsel from the oracle who is privy to the insight of the gods - if you can afford it. Venture into the prison that holds the cleverest man alive, knowing that you must either befriend him or kill him. Lay claim if you can to a mansion brimming with treasures and traps. Rise in society, making alliances among the ruling factions. And attend the glittering party at Vulcan's palace, whose location is hidden from the eyes of ordinary mortals, where you will set out on a perilous journey through space and time to reach the crucial, cataclysmic battle between light and darkness towards which all your choices have been leading.This is the city where all possibilities meet, where destinies are made, where the fate of the Vulcanverse will finally be decided.

In the high peaks that stretch to the floor of heaven, amid howling winds and engulfing blizzards, lurk mysteries that have waited since the dawn of time. Labyrinths of a lost civilization, now crumbling and almost deserted but still home to treasures and dangers. The mountain stronghold of the Halizons, as distrustful of strangers as their sister tribe the Amazons. Mechanical marvels built to plumb the depths of the cosmos. The fortress where Boreas, the North Wind incarnate, once lord of all this land, has been trapped by the forces of darkness that are working to conquer all.Find the keys to unlock a vault that has lain unopened for millennia, sealed with curses that even the gods fear. Seek out the last of the Argonauts and enlist him in your cause. Fight a pitched battle on an inland sea against brutal raiders who will give no quarter. Twist time in a loop and steal from the messenger of Olympus. Avenge your brother's death. Raise your adopted city to the heights of glory. Quiet the restless dead. Hunt mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers on the storm-blasted plains. Or visit the carnival of crossed destinies and learn why gods and titans have picked you out as their champion.As you explore The Pillars of the Sky you will forge friendships, meet companions, make enemies - all of whom have long memories and will help or hinder you throughout your adventures. In this vast open world you will find hundreds of amazing quests, make choices with lasting consequences, win glory, cheat death, and face challenges at every turn.

In the desert's fiery heart, secrets and wonders await you that even the gods have forgotten. Brooding sphinxes, whose centuries of stony sleep only the most resourceful hero dare disturb. The skeletal Spartoi, consumed with cold hate, waging perpetual war against all living things. Proud Amazons, who may make you their monarch or their sworn foe. And seers and demigods who will guide you through the hidden reaches of this fabled realm - at a price.Defy the ravages of time to restore the ancient city of Iskandria to its former grandeur. Hunt monsters among the stars. Uncover the mysteries of sand-covered ruins. Range out into the wilderness to face primordial dangers and strange creatures out of deepest dream. Venture into lost tombs and haunted temples to uncover the truth about what threatens the Vulcanverse - a danger from the dawn of time that now stirs and plots in the darkness.As you explore you will forge friendships, meet companions, make enemies - all of whom have long memories and will help or hinder you throughout your adventures. In this vast open world you will find hundreds of amazing quests, make choices with lasting consequences, win glory, cheat death, and face challenges at every turn. Every decision is in your hands. Start in any book, be whoever you choose, go anywhere you please, and do anything you want. The only limit is your imagination.

Midwinter's Eve in the year 1000. The Day of Judgement is at hand. This is the moment you have devoted your life to preparing for.Before you lie the ruins of Spyte, the city of magicians which no mortal has entered in over two centuries. The ultimate mysteries of creation were unlocked here. Secrets that could break reality apart and forge a new universe - for good or evil.And in the darkening sky above: five baleful stars, the celestial forms of the True Magi. They mean to reincarnate themselves and rule over a world enslaved.Only you, armed with the Sword of Life, can stop them.* * *Blood Sword can be played either solo or in a team of up to four people, providing the most exciting challenge yet in fantasy adventures, combining the best of role-playing, novels and tabletop games.What reviewers are saying: "A beautifully wrought and utterly fantastic epic quest...""A blast from start from finish.""Easily one of the best gamebooks out there."

The Lords of the Rising Sun rule the exotic kingdom of Akatsurai, but rival warrior clans constantly seek to overthrow them. In the turmoil of war there are countless opportunities for a quick-witted adventurer. Will you spy for the Shogun? Make your fortune as a paid assassin? Or become one of the Sovereign's knights in your pursuit of glory and power?Track down the elusive, raven-winged Tengu to learn the secret arts of sorcery and swordplay. Defeat the vampires, skilled in martial arts, who guard the Lost Tomb of the Necromancer. Enter the dreadful cloisters of the Noboro Monastery, where you will fight the most dangerous opponent of all: yourself.A thousand quests await you and every decision is in your hands. Be whoever you choose, go anywhere you please, do anything you want. This is the true freedom of an open-world roleplaying game in solo gamebook form.The choices are unlimited, the adventures endless, in the fantastic world of the Fabled Lands.

In The Average Man Speaks Out, life is discussed not by Charles Krauthamer or Tom Brokow, or even Andy Rooney but by the average man. The average man believes that we are all stories and that people need stories to live. Through his collection of stories he gives the average mans perspective on the world we live in, its people, history, politics, entertainment and miscellaneous topics. Whether youre average or not, youll be entertained, informed, and maybe even a bit surprised as the average man tells about heroes, villains, and opines on, well, everything.

In The Average Man Speaks Out, life is discussed not by Charles Krauthamer or Tom Brokow, or even Andy Rooney but by the average man. The average man believes that we are all stories and that people need stories to live. Through his collection of stories he gives the average mans perspective on the world we live in, its people, history, politics, entertainment and miscellaneous topics. Whether youre average or not, youll be entertained, informed, and maybe even a bit surprised as the average man tells about heroes, villains, and opines on, well, everything.

SET OUT ON A JOURNEY OF FABULOUS ADVENTUREExplore The Plains of Howling Darkness, where nomadic barbarians attack all who enter their trackless wilderness. Where legendary prizes await the adventurer who can release the High King from his frozen tomb. Where a city of ghosts guards the treasure vaults of the ancients. Where the secret of immortality itself awaits those courageous enough to confront true evil.Fantastic quests and hideous dangers await travellers in this savage land. You can choose to be a warrior, using weapons and combat skills to strike down your foes. A mage skilled in sorcery and lore. A cunning rogue, acquiring wealth by theft and trickery. A priest, dedicated to bringing the faith to a benighted people. A troubadour, using charm and artistry to win where force alone would fail. Or a wayfarer scouting out wild places beyond the dreams of civilization.Your destiny is in your own hands and there are no limits on your imagination. Success will bring the rewards that will lead you to still greater exploits in the amazing role-playing world of the Fabled Lands.