Fugitive in Urik
Chapter 4 hits different. Up until now Pavek has been a templar with problems. Now he’s just a man with nothing.
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Role Model Part Two: Lone Becomes Shadowspawn's Apprentice and Pulls Off the Heist
Book: Thieves’ World: Turning Points edited by Lynn Abbey (Tor Books, 2002)
Story: “Role Model: A Tale of Apprentices” by Andrew Offutt
Role Model Part One: Shadowspawn, Lone, and Botched Spells in Sanctuary
Book: Thieves’ World: Turning Points edited by Lynn Abbey (Tor Books, 2002)
Story: “Role Model: A Tale of Apprentices” by Andrew Offutt
Zarneeka and Templar Politics
Chapter 3 opens with Pavek still tasting zarneeka. The numbness is gone but the bitterness lingers. So do the jeers from the other templars at the gate. He’s used to being laughed at. His pursuit of spell-craft, the way he haunts the archives studying scrolls he can never actually cast, makes him a running joke in the civil bureau. Big, ugly, dirt-poor templar with a romantic curiosity. That’s how they see him.
Home Is Where the Hate Is: A Broken Kid Fights for the Only Thing He Has
Book: Thieves’ World: Turning Points Story: “Home Is Where the Hate Is” Author: Mickey Zucker Reichert Series: Thieves’ World New Series, Book 1
Salt Measures and Druid Traders
Chapter 2 picks up a few days later. The bruise from the orphan boy’s punch has faded. Pavek is back to his regular duties, transferring salt sacks in the customhouse, ticking off counts on a wax tablet. Just another day of grunt work for a third-rank Regulator.
Midnight Madness at Joat's Den
Chapter 1 opens with a scene-setter that tells you everything you need to know about Athas. The twin moons have set. The sky is black. The heat of day has turned to bone-numbing cold. And the first thing Abbey tells us is the law of this world: nothing changes. What was will always be.
Thieves' World Introduction: Meet Cauvin, the Stonemason With a Dead Man's Memories
Book: Thieves’ World: Turning Points Story: Introduction Author: Lynn Abbey Series: Thieves’ World New Series, Book 1
The Brazen Gambit by Lynn Abbey: A Dark Sun Retelling
So I picked up this old fantasy novel from 1994 and honestly? It hit different than I expected.
The Brazen Gambit by Lynn Abbey is the first book in the Chronicles of Athas series, set in the Dark Sun campaign world. If you’ve never heard of Dark Sun, let me fill you in. It’s a Dungeons & Dragons setting, but forget everything you think you know about D&D. There are no lush green forests. No friendly taverns with smiling barkeeps. No rain.
Thieves' World Turning Points: A Classic Fantasy Anthology Returns
Book: Thieves’ World: Turning Points Editor: Lynn Abbey Series: Thieves’ World New Series, Book 1 Publisher: Tor Books, 2002
What Even Is Thieves’ World?
If you’ve never heard of Thieves’ World, here’s the short version. Back in 1979, editor Robert Lynn Asprin had a wild idea. What if you took a bunch of fantasy authors, gave them the same city to play in, and let them write stories that shared characters, locations, and consequences? What one writer did in their story would actually affect the world another writer was building in theirs.