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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6098385" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 310: August 2003part 6/9Fiction: The knells of Tancras Moor by Michael A Stackpole. The fiction this month is a good old example of those stories where the protagonist turns a deal with the devil around, and via cleverness and willpower, manages to not only get the better end of it, but hold the supernatural creatures to their deal and actively screw them over. But that doesn't mean he gets a particularly happy ending, or indeed an ending at all for that matter, as he now has to wander the world, with considerable supernatural power, but no real friends, and the burden of great responsibility and temptation always with him. This is a fairly entertaining bit of franchise bait, in other words, setting up the backstory of the kind of protagonist that could get into all sorts of scrapes and misadventures. It's also more than a little derivative of the Fool Wolf stories, but I'm not going to hold that against it too much, as it does take the idea of spirit bonded people in an animistic universe in a different direction. I wouldn't object to seeing it again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 6098385, member: 27780"] [B][U]Dragon Issue 310: August 2003[/U][/B] part 6/9 Fiction: The knells of Tancras Moor by Michael A Stackpole. The fiction this month is a good old example of those stories where the protagonist turns a deal with the devil around, and via cleverness and willpower, manages to not only get the better end of it, but hold the supernatural creatures to their deal and actively screw [i]them[/i] over. But that doesn't mean he gets a particularly happy ending, or indeed an ending at all for that matter, as he now has to wander the world, with considerable supernatural power, but no real friends, and the burden of great responsibility and temptation always with him. This is a fairly entertaining bit of franchise bait, in other words, setting up the backstory of the kind of protagonist that could get into all sorts of scrapes and misadventures. It's also more than a little derivative of the Fool Wolf stories, but I'm not going to hold that against it too much, as it does take the idea of spirit bonded people in an animistic universe in a different direction. I wouldn't object to seeing it again. [/QUOTE]

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