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The Fabled Lands
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The Fabled Lands is a series of Gamebooks that were written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson. It was first released in the mid-nineties and, to this day, is probably the most elaborate gamebook series ever written.It differed from other gamebooks (at the time) by presenting a Wide-Open Sandbox filled with numerous quests and places to explore. Each book covers one region that makes up the titular "Fabled Lands", and all of the books were connected so you could cross the border from one book to the next with the same character. While the "level" of the books scales upwards from Book 1 onwards, nothing is preventing you from traveling between the books in any order you wish. A vast array of "keywords" memorizes the quests you are on and the things you have accomplished, allowing the world to change according to your actions.For example, you can help a deposed king reclaim his throne or assassinate him in the name of the new regime. You can climb the dizzying social circles of a mask-wearing theocracy, play the stock market for massive profit, or even buy your ship and make a living as a merchant by buying low and selling high. The sheer volume of options in the game makes The Fabled Lands stand out as a series.The complexity of gameplay falls somewhere between Fighting Fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons. There are six stats (Charisma, Combat, Magic, Sanctity, Scouting and Thievery) to keep track of, with skill checks and fight scenes requiring (at most) two six-sided dice. There are also six character classes to choose from (Warrior, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Troubadour and Wayfarer), which determine your starting statistics and influence some quests. As the adventure unfolds, you increase your power in three main ways: finding better equipment (most equipment offers a boost to one stat), increasing your Rank (a rough equivalent to "character level") by completing major quests or overcoming exceptional trials, and increasing your basic stats through training or the completion of minor quests and challenges.However, since this was a gamebook series created in the Nineties, it can also be extremely Nintendo Hard, with many choices leading you straight to an early grave and others offering a single dice roll between safety or the dreaded "You are dead" page. The game does offer limited help in the form of Blessings (which allow you to reroll a failed skill check) and Resurrection Deals (Exactly What It Says on the Tin) from temples, but they are pricey. And then there are moments when the Random Number God decides to burn down your town house and ruin all of your stored possessions.Unfortunately, Morris and Thomson underestimated the production costs, and only six of the planned twelve books were ever published. However, There Was Much Rejoicing when this was announced, and now the prospect of having the series Uncancelled is a very real possibility... if the reprints of the first six books sell well enough.In July 2015, a Kickstarter campaign to fund Book 7 (The Serpent King's Domain) was launched here. The Kickstarter was successful, and The Serpent King's Domain was released in February 2018, largely authored by Paul Gresty, working with the notes created by Morris and Thomson.A free Java version of the first six books is also available here, with the blessings of the original authors.In 2011, a Tabletop RPG based on the series was released. The RPG features slightly expanded rules and a series of supplements detailing the various lands. The first (about Sokara) has since been published.A CRPG adaptation is available on Steam. Released on Early Access on the 20th of May 2021, it encompasses The War Torn Kingdom, The Plains Of Howling Darkness, and, as of November 2021, Cities Of Gold And Glory with other books due later. May 2022 saw the full release, adding The Court Of Hidden Faces with Lords Of The Rising Sun added as DLC in February 2023. Over The Blood Dark Sea and The Serpent King's Domain are planned to be introduced as further DLC. | |
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Creator Cameo: Morris and Thompson themselves appear alongside the premade characters in each book with parody biographies, inventories, and backstories to go with them. | |
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Early Game Hell | |
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Early Game Hell: No matter which book you start on, you will begin with almost no money, basic-level equipment, and average-at-best stats. The hardest part is locating the quests that give you a foothold into the world; even those are susceptible to bad dice rolling. | |
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Warp Whistle | |
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Warp Whistle: You can find several, but they're usually quest rewards. | |
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Global Currency Exception | |
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Global Currency Exception: The Fair Folk trade in Mithrals, the currency of the Underworld. It's possible to trade items for Mithrals at Fairfolk markets in Golnir. Of course, you'll want to have some on you before leaving or you'll end up stuffed into a bag and buried. | |
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The Blank | |
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The Blank: The leader of Uttaku, in The Court of Hidden Faces, is whoever is born without a face, once a generation. You can also lose your face at one point. Surprisingly, this doesn't affect anything in Uttaku... | |
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The Rival | |
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The Rival: In Book 1, you can gain one in the form of a career rogue called Lauria by agreeing to help her case the mansion of a powerful wizard. If you do so, then you can encounter her multiple times throughout the various books, usually when she has another scheme in motion. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: You start on a boat, in the middle of the sea, without any water or food left, when suddenly you see land! You manage to crash there and begin your adventure. Except for Book 6, where you're revived after almost drowning with no memories and only the clothes on your back and an earring. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Yarimura's religion is complicated. The native god of the region is Tambu, who's a Captain Ersatz of Tengri, but the Clan of the White Spear also brought the New Gods when they established Yarimura. The New Gods are four of the greater gods of the Akatsurese pantheon; Yarimura does not worship the Sage of Peace or the smaller gods of Aksatsurai, and the Yarimuran versions of the relevant gods often work a bit differently from the Akatsurese. | |
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A Homeowner Is You | |
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A Homeowner Is You: You can buy a townhouse in each town. They're susceptible to random events, though. You can even get your own castle in Book 5. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: The Troubadour character Astariel Skysong is adventuring simply because he has wanderlust and feels restricted if he stays in one place. However, the Priest character Ignatius the Devout is traveling due to his desire to learn all that he can about the gods of the Fabled Lands. | |
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No Place for a Warrior | |
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No Place for a Warrior: The Warrior character Andriel the Hammer left his homeland due to extended peace making his abilities redundant. | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: A random encounter in Book 5 has Holyamu The Unbidden turn your hair into gold as a prank for his own amusement. As a result, every time you cross between books, you gain 20 shards by cutting and selling your hair. | |
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Level Scaling | |
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Level Scaling: Each book has progressively harder encounters than the last one. A specific example is a dragon that you can slay in book one - at which point you could head to the west and into book two, and within three-page selections of your dragon slaying, encounter an "enraged bull" that poses a far greater challenge. Though the Bull is harder then some of the fights in later books too. | |
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Grim Up North | |
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Grim Up North: Life on the Steppes is harsh due to the cold weather conditions. A wolf pelt is a must to keep warm and you'll have to make constant scouting rolls in order to hunt for food or risk losing stamina. | |
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Class and Level System | |
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Class and Level System: Kind of, you can choose a class at the beginning of your play-through, and each one is initially better at something then the other. While any class can max out all stats, certain quests are restricted to specific classes; For example, the Lauria questline is exclusive to Rogues. You have a sort of level, or Rank; there's no Experience Points system, but certain specific achievements or victories grant you a rank increase or the chance thereof. Of course, certain Random Encounters (such as battles with pirates) cause this, allowing for Level Grinding by just going back and forth. Rank itself has more than just an effect on your stats, too. It also effects certain events. For example, you can enter Castle Ravayne more easily if you're Rank 4 or higher. | |
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Absurdly Low Level Cap | |
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Absurdly Low Level Cap: The earlier books had a level cap of 10. The later books did away with the cap. The cRPG reintroduces a level cap of 12. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death is Cheap: It certainly is if you remember to pay for a resurrection (which is only cheap if your patron god is the god of death or war. And if you've remembered to leave some money aside to pay for all the equipment you just lost. Hmmmm.... maybe it's not that cheap after all). If you only fly what you can afford to lose, and don't rely on unique items, it's cheap (in fact, some strategies use death as a quick ticket back to Yellowport). If not, Continuing is Painful. | |
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Karl Marx Hates Your Guts | |
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Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: Completely averted. Prices can differ depending on where you buy items, allowing you to play merchant by buying low and selling high. This is especially true if you buy a cargo ship. The quests you complete can also affect the economy, and more often than not, you can get a Hero Discount by performing good deeds. Also, while selling back the free goods you get at Vervayen's Isle will anger the locals, there's no rule against stocking up on free swords and leather armor there and selling it elsewhere. You can even engage in a bit of evil market manipulation. There is a lake frozen with a curse, and the Uttaku have set up a mining operation since the magical ice melts incredibly slowly and can be used to cool drinks. You can buy satchels of this ice and then sell it in the Uttaku capital for a modest profit. Your best move is to stock up on rime ice, and then melt the lake by lifting the curse. After this, the price of rime ice soars in the capital, and you can make an absolute killing. | |
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To Hell and Back | |
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To Hell and Back: It's entirely possible to get on the ship of the death god. Of course, you can only leave if your patron god is that of death or war. If not, well, you're dead. There was also supposed to be a whole book dedicated to exploring the underworld, and you could find its entrances worldwide. Sadly, the series ended before it got that far. | |
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Wretched Hive | |
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Wretched Hive: Smogmaw. Think of a tropical fantasy version of Mos Eisley. | |
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Girl in the Tower | |
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Girl in the Tower: There's one in Book 2, waiting on her knight to rescue her. | |
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GreyAndGreyMorality | |
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Grey-and-Grey Morality: Neither the rightful heir to the throne nor the upstart dictator of Sokara is completely blameless, and the choice between them is rather complicated. The rightful heir is, obviously, "rightful" - that is, if you're a believer in the monarchy. He's also idealistic and compassionate but implied to be spineless and not above acting quite villainously when it suits him. The dictator, meanwhile, may be a bloody-handed, iron-fisted tyrant, but he's also a very effective one, and unlike the prince, he wears his beliefs on his sleeve. Furthermore: it is implied that much of the population actually prefers him on the throne, once again leading to the player having to question whether it's okay for someone to rule just because they were born to the right man while a better qualified one exists. Oddly the 2011 Tabletop RPG shifts this into Black-and-White Morality in Marlock's favour. The dictator is given a very sympathetic backstory as a honorable patriot and elements that showed his more brutal side, such as corruption and bullying by his soldiers and the sack of the city of Trefoile are either eliminated or retconned to make Marlock look better. In contrast, the king Marlock overthrew is made to seem even worse by implying he killed his father and sister, and the rightful heir is left a cipher whose personality is not even described. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Locales are lovingly described in detail. The illustrations only add to this. | |
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When Trees Attack | |
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When Trees Attack: The Red Garden, Uttaku's execution grounds. You'll probably find yourself there several times if you go to Uttaku. It's actually not as dangerous as the Uttakin think it is. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
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Shock and Awe: In the CRPG adaptation, the primary combat technique for Mages is to summon sorcerous lightning against their opponents. | |
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Level Grinding | |
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Level Grinding: There are some areas where you can go back and forth to find encounters that provide increased Rank, money (or stuff to sell for money), or increases to your stats. Most players look down on excessively grinding infinite loops, however; the point of the game is to get out there, adventure, and experience the Fabled Lands rather than get yourself repeatedly sold into slavery to pump up your muscles. The cRPG adaptation clamps down on this, making such encounters (such as sea battles with pirates) convey stat and level bonuses one time only. To be fair, Stat Grinding is extremely limited, as the game's rules only allow each of the six stats to go to a maximum of 12. Defence is linked to level, so Level Grinding will increase that as much as desired. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The Church of Ebron, which controls the nation of Uttaku. Their religion states that the rich and powerful are the most blessed of Ebron. As a result, the upper echelons have become bloated with their power, funneling wealth from the poor to the rich and arresting anyone who displeases them for "heresy". The rules of the religion are so complex and numerous as compared to a game of Calvinball. While nobles are not completely immune to the scriptures, you become above the law if you climb up the hierarchy high enough. | |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Each book focused on a particular culture, most of which were heavily influenced by a specific real-world culture: Golnir, from the second book is Ye Olde Merry England, with dragons and knights. While not a country per se, the Great Steppes from The Plains of Howling Darkness are based on Siberia and Mongolia, with Mongols that are actually an outcast Akatsurese tribe. Uttaku is the Byzantine Empire, but with loads more backstabbing, a fundamentalist religion, and a court society based on masks. Akatsurai is feudal Japan (specifically, the late Heian period and the Genpei War), complete with samurai. Sokara is a fantasy medieval version of the English Civil War, with a military dictator and the rightful heir to the throne in hiding. Atticala was going to be based upon ancient Greece, while the Feathered Lands were going to be based on several South American cultures. | |
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Magic Knight | |
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Magic Knight: Entirely viable since a warrior can grind their magic stat, a mage can grind their combat stat, and every other class can grind both to play this trope straight. There's not even a restriction for any applicant to the Mages' College in Dweomar to necessarily even be a mage. | |
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Disc-One Nuke | |
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Disc-One Nuke: The starting Rank and stats scale with the books, so if you begin your quest in a high-level region and immediately move to a low-level region, it makes the game easier. In Book 4, a starting character can get themselves kidnapped by the Trau by going to the Gemstone Hills (right outside the starting area), passing a simple Magic skill check (which can be repeated if failed) and then failing an average Sanctity check. The character loses all of their items (which shouldn't matter for a new character) but gets incredibly useful items in return, including a wolf pelt (essential for that region), a decent amount of cash, a chunk of selenium ore (which can be traded for a +4 Magic wand) and an incredibly rare key that opens up warp gates across the world. But wait, it gets better! By wandering west from the starting city, a character has a small chance of running into a satyr. Getting kidnapped again (by failing an incredibly tough Magic check) will again lead to you losing all of your possessions but getting incredibly useful ones in return, including two uncommon items you can use to complete a quest in the starting city, which in turn reveals the quest that lets you trade in the selenium ore for the wand. In short, getting kidnapped is great! Less dramatically, players starting in The War-Torn Kingdom are highly advised to make Yellowport their first destination and immediately perform the quest to slay a nearby dragon. It can be accomplished in an extremely small number of steps, is very easy (even for the weakest starting characters), and finishing it gives you just enough money to get yourself seriously started as an adventurer. It's all but the official tutorial quest of the game. | |
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Limited Loadout | |
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Limited Loadout: Your inventory is limited to twelve items. Since your weapon and armor will automatically take up two slots (unless you decide to roleplay as someone like Kintu Ironhands, the pre-generated warrior from Book 6 who hates weapons), you'll have to decide carefully what other items you take with you. The cRPG adaptation alleviates this by giving equipped items their own dedicated slots. | |
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Army Scout | |
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Army Scout: If the player ends up Made a Slave by the Uttakin, one of the tasks they can be assigned is as a scout to a slave army. The player can scout an enemy force or escape to freedom. Completing the assigned task will boost your scouting skill. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_619b771c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_619b771c | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6331ba26 | type |
Plot Hole | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6331ba26 | comment |
You can also lose your face at one point. Surprisingly, this doesn't affect anything in Uttaku... | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6331ba26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6331ba26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_6331ba26 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_64fa0ea8 | type |
Random Encounters | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_64fa0ea8 | comment |
Random Encounters: While traveling across the country, on the sea, or exploring a large city, the player rolls dice to see what they encounter. Sometimes this leads to a quest, sometimes to a simple enemy to fight, and sometimes to no encounter. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_64fa0ea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_64fa0ea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_64fa0ea8 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_659ef759 | type |
Implacable Man | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_659ef759 | comment |
Implacable Man: Kaschuf. He's called the Deathless for a reason. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_659ef759 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_659ef759 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_659ef759 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6602cad | type |
Permanently Missable Content | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6602cad | comment |
Permanently Missable Content: Almost anything can be lost permanently, so don't get too attached to your awesome equipment. A special prize, however, goes to the Savior of Vervayens Isle title; you can only get it if you start in Book 3, and only if you're dumped on the isle by the Random Number God. If you don't get it then you'll never get it. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6602cad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6602cad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_6602cad | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_681077c5 | type |
Wide-Open Sandbox | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_681077c5 | comment |
Wide-Open Sandbox: Compared to other gamebooks, heck, compared to some video games, this series is huge; with six different but interconnected countries, you could do whatever you wanted to pretty much. Considering that the creators originally planned twelve books, this could have been much bigger... and might still be yet. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_681077c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_681077c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_681077c5 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6bcfbc7e | type |
Fantasy Gun Control | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6bcfbc7e | comment |
Fantasy Gun Control: Nothing stops a player from deciding they want a gun, as the markets state that the weapons for sale are simply any weapon. The cRPG adaptation has an achievement for recovering the "Magic Spear" from the metal-hulled ship off the coast of Sokara, which turns out to be a musket. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6bcfbc7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6bcfbc7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_6bcfbc7e | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6c82a69d | type |
Tabletop RPG | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6c82a69d | comment |
Oddly the 2011 Tabletop RPG shifts this into Black-and-White Morality in Marlock's favour. The dictator is given a very sympathetic backstory as a honorable patriot and elements that showed his more brutal side, such as corruption and bullying by his soldiers and the sack of the city of Trefoile are either eliminated or retconned to make Marlock look better. In contrast, the king Marlock overthrew is made to seem even worse by implying he killed his father and sister, and the rightful heir is left a cipher whose personality is not even described. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6c82a69d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6c82a69d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_6c82a69d | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: Getting Savior of Vervayens Isle requires starting in the correct book (which is a bad idea unless you're specifically going for the title, due to the difficulty of travel if you're unprepared) and getting exactly the right rolls to land on the island and save it. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_6ec989d8 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_70645f69 | type |
Money Grinding | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_70645f69 | comment |
Money Grinding: Several methods occur throughout the books, such as investments, though these are susceptible to dice rolls and other factors, but a notable one is Holyamu's curse, which turns the player's hair to gold, allowing them to make 20 shards every time they cross a border. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_70645f69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_70645f69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_70645f69 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8082ef3c | type |
Ideal Illness Immunity | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8082ef3c | comment |
Ideal Illness Immunity: The Immunity To Disease/Poison blessing. It's absolutely essential to have this blessing, given how many things can kill you by infecting your wounds. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8082ef3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8082ef3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_8082ef3c | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8437cb10 | type |
Made a Slave | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8437cb10 | comment |
Made a Slave: You can be enslaved in Uttaku for any number of reasons. It can benefit you, as you can be assigned to a task that will increase one of your stats. You can do this to Lauria as revenge. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8437cb10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8437cb10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_8437cb10 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_859ec5d8 | type |
The Fair Folk | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: Messing with faeries is a very bad idea, most of the time. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_859ec5d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_859ec5d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_859ec5d8 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: The pregen wizard character for Over the Blood Dark Sea is the villain from one of the Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_898ff050 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_898ff050 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_898ff050 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8b387569 | type |
The Six Stats | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8b387569 | comment |
The Six Stats: Well, skills more like, but these are used in determining rolls in various situations: Charisma. The art of persuasion. Charisma is used to charm and influence people, as well as in the performing arts, such as music and storytelling. This is the signature stat for the Troubadour class. Combat. Fighting ability, this stat determines the effectiveness of attacks. Other combat rolls outside of actual fighting can also represent a character's reflexes in dodging surprise attacks and accidents. This is the signature stat of the Warrior class. Magic. Spellcraft and illusions. Magic rolls involve casting spells and spotting where enchanted traps and illusions may have been set. This is the signature stat of the Mage class. Sanctity. Piety and holiness. This comes into play when unholy creatures, such as the undead, come into play and where curses are placed. This is the signature stat of the Priest class. Scouting. The art of navigation and living off the land. Scouting rolls prevent the player from getting lost and help to chart new horizons. This is vital to surviving in Book 4. This is the signature stat of the Wayfarer class. Thievery. The art of stealth. Thievery rolls involve stealth and dexterity but can also involve counter-thievery, such as preventing your pocket from being picked. This is the signature stat of the Rogue class. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8b387569 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8b387569 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_8b387569 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8f37b | type |
Medieval Stasis | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8f37b | comment |
Medieval Stasis: Averted. It's possible to travel through time to find a rare flower and failing a magic check at one point can fling the player into a modern day setting with cars and portable stereos. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8f37b | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_8f37b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_8f37b | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_905af87e | type |
Fantasy Character Classes | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_905af87e | comment |
Fantasy Character Classes: Your choices at the beginning of the game are Warrior, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Troubadour, and Wayfarer. Initial stats are determined by starting class. Some certain quests and encounters are exclusive to certain classes. It is possible to change class, though the opportunity to do so is very rare. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_905af87e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_905af87e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_905af87e | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_91b31f6b | type |
Please Select New City Name | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_91b31f6b | comment |
Please Select New City Name: Old Sokar became Marlock City when General Marlock took over. Interestingly, the map for Cities Of Gold And Glory is presented as an in-universe map that hasn't been updated to consider the name change. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_91b31f6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_91b31f6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_91b31f6b | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9ba281f0 | type |
Knighting | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9ba281f0 | comment |
Knighting: The player can attain the title of Paladin Of Ravayne for slaying a dragon (or at least providing a dragon's head, which is available at some markets). | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9ba281f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9ba281f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_9ba281f0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9c1c527b | type |
Hub City | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9c1c527b | comment |
Hub City: Most players make Yellowport their main base of operations. It's an extremely safe and central location, and it's one of the only places where you can both stash items in complete safety and have them readily available if you're resurrected. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9c1c527b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9c1c527b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_9c1c527b | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9f5e99a7 | type |
DistressedDamsel | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9f5e99a7 | comment |
Distressed Damsel: Several quests involve rescuing young women from various situations. For example, the commander of one of the forts along the Nerech wall tasks the player with going into Nerech and rescuing his daughter from the manbeasts that have infested the peninsula. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9f5e99a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_9f5e99a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_9f5e99a7 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a0cf200f | type |
Digital Piracy Is Evil | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a0cf200f | comment |
Digital Piracy Is Evil: Notably averted by the free Java-based version of the books, which were given the OK by the original writers. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a0cf200f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a0cf200f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_a0cf200f | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a5e02e9e | type |
Infinity +1 Sword | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a5e02e9e | comment |
Infinity +1 Sword: The White Sword of Nagil adds a whopping +8 to your Combat skill. As a bonus, it can never be lost through robbery, imprisonment or death. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a5e02e9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_a5e02e9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_a5e02e9e | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ac9f78d9 | type |
Jack of All Stats | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ac9f78d9 | comment |
Jack of All Stats: The Troubador has the most generous spread of stats of the six different classes. It is a better fighter than the Mage or Priest and a better spellcaster and thief than the Ranger and Warrior. The Troubador has only one Dump Stat (Scouting), while every other class has at least two. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ac9f78d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ac9f78d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_ac9f78d9 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_af11866 | type |
Wizarding School | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_af11866 | comment |
Wizarding School: Dweomer in Book 3 has a college for mages that the player can join to improve their magical skills and obtain some quests. Prospective candidates should not have too high a Sanctity skill when applying for the college, as being too pious is seen as a detriment to pursuing magical studies. Passing the Sanctity check during the application process will result in the player failing the entrance exam and being teleported straight to Smogmaw. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_af11866 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_af11866 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_af11866 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b1ef5996 | type |
Rat Men | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b1ef5996 | comment |
Rat Men: The sewers beneath Yellowport are home to a colony of Rat Men. They are pretty cowardly creatures individually but are more dangerous in numbers and their king is a tough fighter, at least against a beginning character. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b1ef5996 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b1ef5996 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_b1ef5996 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b9f472b | type |
Storming the Castle | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: At one point in an inter-book quest, you have to help the rightful heir to the throne take an important castle that is stopping his army from attacking. It's Subverted, as the only way for you to get into the castle is to sneak in, then let some other characters storm it for you. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b9f472b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_b9f472b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_b9f472b | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bcc2f921 | type |
An Adventurer Is You | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bcc2f921 | comment |
An Adventurer Is You: You can choose your name, gender, and class, or take a pick from one of six pre-defined characters. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bcc2f921 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bcc2f921 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_bcc2f921 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bd2812b5 | type |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bd2812b5 | comment |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: If you have the "Chosen One of Nagil" title, Book 4 can allow you to become the right-hand man to the god of death himself. It's one of the better "Game Over" scenes you can get. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bd2812b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_bd2812b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_bd2812b5 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c57b21f9 | type |
Global Currency | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c57b21f9 | comment |
Global Currency: Shards are the currency of choice everywhere except the Underworld. The Merchants Guild even has banking and investments that deals in them. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c57b21f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c57b21f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_c57b21f9 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9790040 | type |
Decadent Court | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9790040 | comment |
Uttaku is the Byzantine Empire, but with loads more backstabbing, a fundamentalist religion, and a court society based on masks. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9790040 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9790040 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_c9790040 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9ca4e7f | type |
Kung-Fu Jesus | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9ca4e7f | comment |
Kung-Fu Jesus: Yanryt The Son is shown to be an excellent warrior, dispatching a group of bandits with ease. Why's he called The Son? His father is Tyranai, the god of war. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9ca4e7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_c9ca4e7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_c9ca4e7f | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: There are places where you are killed in such a way that you cannot be resurrected. More often, you're just permanently sealed in a can somewhere, and nobody ever comes to release you. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_cda501da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_cda501da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_cda501da | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d24ed873 | type |
Developer's Foresight | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d24ed873 | comment |
Developer's Foresight: If you have the title Saviour of Vervayens, they'll give you certain items for free at their market. Attempt to sell these free items back to them and they'll run you out of town. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d24ed873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d24ed873 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_d24ed873 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d88e125e | type |
Our Dragons Are Different | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d88e125e | comment |
Our Dragons Are Different: Several types include "generic" firebreathing, flying western dragons, sea dragons, and (in Akatsurai) oriental-style dragons. At least some of them are intelligent and capable of speech. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d88e125e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d88e125e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_d88e125e | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d8e1b5a3 | type |
Soul Jar | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d8e1b5a3 | comment |
Soul Jar: Kaschuf's soul is sealed into a locket buried on an island in the Violet Ocean. Opening it is the key to defeating him for good. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d8e1b5a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_d8e1b5a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_d8e1b5a3 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_df1a0454 | type |
Fantasy Pantheon | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_df1a0454 | comment |
Fantasy Pantheon: Different cultural areas worship different gods, though given only the first six books were published, we only get a few mentions of some pantheons. The Harkunan pantheon worshiped in Sokara, Golnir, and Old Harkuna (and a few more distant enclaves) has elements of Ancient Greek, Norse, and Celtic mythology and is led by a Zeus-like deity named Elnir. The Akatsurese religion is based on Shintoism, while the Sage of Peace is the Buddha. The Sage of Peace allows the player to worship another god, as he's not a jealous deity, which is hilarious if your other god is a war deity. Yarimura's religion is complicated. The native god of the region is Tambu, who's a Captain Ersatz of Tengri, but the Clan of the White Spear also brought the New Gods when they established Yarimura. The New Gods are four of the greater gods of the Akatsurese pantheon; Yarimura does not worship the Sage of Peace or the smaller gods of Aksatsurai, and the Yarimuran versions of the relevant gods often work a bit differently from the Akatsurese. The Uttakin are monotheistic and follow the god Ebron. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_df1a0454 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_df1a0454 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_df1a0454 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e3def52f | type |
Egopolis | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e3def52f | comment |
Egopolis: Sokara's capital city had its name changed from Old Sokar to Marlock City after Grieve Marlock's military coup. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e3def52f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e3def52f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_e3def52f | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5411cdf | type |
Cult | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5411cdf | comment |
Cult: You encounter a rather messed-up one in The War-Torn Kingdom. Given the gameplay's nature, you can fight them or become a member. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5411cdf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5411cdf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_e5411cdf | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: The High King is loosely based on King Arthur. Kaschuf the Deathless is loosely based on Koschei. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5421161 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_e5421161 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_e5421161 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eb27c1f2 | type |
Sealed Good in a Can | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eb27c1f2 | comment |
Sealed Good in a Can: You might free a few (the High King is a notable example). You might even become one. If you're lucky, a hero will come along to rescue you eventually. If not, you'll end up Killed Off for Real. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eb27c1f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eb27c1f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_eb27c1f2 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eba6a077 | type |
Cain and Abel | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eba6a077 | comment |
Cain and Abel: Among the Harkunan gods, Nagil and Tyranai (Death and War, respectively) are bitter rivals. When you meet Nagil in Book 2, there's even a unique chapter if you've taken Tyranai as your god. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eba6a077 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_eba6a077 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands | hasFeature |
The Fabled Lands / int_eba6a077 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ed358a04 | type |
Jidaigeki | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ed358a04 | comment |
Akatsurai is feudal Japan (specifically, the late Heian period and the Genpei War), complete with samurai. | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ed358a04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fabled Lands / int_ed358a04 | featureConfidence |
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Court Mage | |
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Court Mage: In return for freeing him, Targdaz rebuilds a ruined castle in Old Harkuna for your use and becomes your own court mage. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: In the steppes, there is a lake that was cursed to be permanently frozen solid to keep the setting’s King Arthur expy sealed away beneath it. So what do the Uttaku do? Set up a mining operation, of course, where they carve out chunks of the unmelting ice and export it so the nobles back home can use it to keep cool. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: It's possible to encounter certain characters or events that Call-Forward to the events in later books. For example, fighting and killing a samurai you randomly encounter in a marsh in Book 2 is possible. If you're still carrying his ivory-handled katana in Book 6, it's possible to meet his cousins, who insist on taking the katana from you for your safety. There's even a random encounter in Book 3 that refers to an incident from one of the unreleased books. | |
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Evil Mask | |
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Evil Mask: Manbeast helmets are actually a way to mutate people into Manbeasts. The player can put on a Manbeast helmet and, if successful with a magic check, can use it as a disguise to fool the Manbeasts (but not the mage who created them) for long enough to find the Distressed Damsel. If you fail the magic check, you become a Manbeast yourself, which is effectively death. | |
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Discovering Your Own Dead Body | |
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Discovering Your Own Dead Body: In Book 6 one random encounter involves stumbling upon your own funeral. The first hint that something's wrong is if you have a Resurrection Deal already. The whole thing is actually an illusion, and the "monk" that offers to resurrect you instead is actually a fox trying to rob you. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: The Keep of the Lich-Lord, originally a Fighting Fantasy novel, has been reprinted in the Fabled Lands setting; and can be used as an opening quest. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: General Grieve Marlock is seen as this. While his regime is seen as a brutal dictatorship, he overthrew a corrupt king who neglected the people. | |
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