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More on ShadowWorld...
ShadowWorld™ is/was a fantasy role-playing game set on the planet ShadowWorld.
ShadowWorld has hellacious weather. So bad, in fact, that people can't
travel by boat between island-continents. They need "navigators" to
shift them through semi-dimensions to reach other spots on the globe.
In the first book, THE BURNING GODDESS,
Zed Niarmon is a navigator guiding a party to a primitive jungle island
supposedly inhabited. The expedition finds out differently when every
party member is ambushed and killed.
Zed barely survives meeting Tiger Eye, a jungle woman. Her tribe was
unknown because they live high in gigantic trees. Tiger Eye actually
fakes Zed's execution - chucking him out of the tree a mile high - to
save his life.
Why? Because Tiger Eye is intrigued by the outsider's stories.
Intellectually curious (always a cat-killing curse), she helps Zed hack
to a lost city in search of treasure and magic.
The characters make a nice pair, and a fun reversal. Zed is the finicky
navigator, all knowledge and no fighting skills. Tiger Eye, a
primitive, jumps into action like lightning.
In the second book, CLOCK STRIKES SWORD, (great title!), Aivlys
the Time Wizard meets Hugh, an inventive sailor, and they fall in love.
Between books, Aivlys and Hugh marry, then go to the capitol on a honeymoon.
In the third adventure, CITY OF ASSASSINS, Zed returns to a capitol
city with Tiger Eye. He finds intrigue in that every other navigator in
town has disappeared. Tiger Eye finds action in barroom brawls and a
dragon attack. Tiger Eye makes an impression in her scars and war paint.
Zed and Tiger Eye meet Aivlys
and Hugh, and the adventure proceeds from there.
ShadowWorld books are out of print, but they're around.
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