Legends of Ethshar
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wizard, has much to learn. After gathering ingredients for a lesson, she returns
home to find her master, Ithanalin the Wise, transformed into a statue. A tax
collector interrupted Ithanalin while working on a spell, a magic mirror tells
her, with the result that the wizard's soul has been distributed among the
various household objects. "The dish had run away with the spoon" is literally
the case here, as all the furnishings have become animated and escaped out the
door. In her efforts to track down the runaway objects and restore her petrified
master to his former self, a quest that will eventually take her to the Overlord
of Ethshar's fortress, Kilisha first tries to involve the Wizards' Guild, but
ultimately must rely on the few spells she knows and her master's spell book-as
well as her own imagination, initiative and ingenuity.
A SINGLE SPELL
Tobas had been lucky to find a wizard to take him on as apprentice. But then the wizard died suddenly and unexpectedly after teaching Tobas only a solitary spell, and the youth was too old to find a new master. How could he earn a living when all the magic he could do was light fires?
A DESTINY UNFOLDING
In the Small Kingdoms there were dragons to be slain, princesses and gold to be won, magic castles, witches who knew the secret of immortality, and other treasures. But how could a wizard with a single, simple spell hope to find them and win them?
Tabaea was an ordinary thief, sneaking and prowling and stealing for a living. Then one night while burgling a house, she witnessed a wizard teaching his apprentice a spell - the creation of a magic dagger.
Tabaea decided to try the magic for herself. But even though she could feel the power rising around her as she went through the steps of the ritual, something had clearly gone wrong. The apprentice's dagger had glowed; it had resisted attempts to pick it up; and there had been a blinding flash at the end of the ceremony.
But Tabaea's dagger didn't do any of those things. And it wouldn't free her from bonds, or heal her wounds - it didn't seem to be magical at all. It just turned black.
Then, by chance, Tabaea discovered that her dagger indeed had its own kind of unusal magic - a dark, powerful magic that promised invincibility to its bearer.
But magic can be dangerous even in the hands of an expert - and for Tabaea, magic and power could spell disaster . . .
