***Spoilers for The Skrayling Tree below***
I'm leafing through the Elric RPG and finding it a great product. I do have a question unrelated to the game content, however. The brief summaries of the Elric saga are all pretty good, except for the one covering The Skrayling Tree. It states that "Ulrik von Bek... is visited by a strange albino version of himself and, when Oona is abducted by a group of Native Americans, Ulrik trails them using The Skrayling Oak... Finally the hero discovers that Gaynor the Damned, now ruling over a mob of outcasts, is behind Oona’s abduction."
As anyone who has read The Skrayling Tree will know, this is not what happens in the book at all. Ulric isn't visited by an albino version of himself (although he and Oona do see White Crow on the island near their home.) Oona isn't abducted at all - Ulric is. The Skrayling Oak isn't used to track anyone - it's the object of the novel's quest. And Gaynor isn't behind the abduction - the Kakatanawa indians are.
The RPG book otherwise summarises the Elric saga so well that these disparities really stood out as rather odd, so I figured I'd ask what happened. Why does the summary of The Skrayling Tree bear so little resemblance to the actual novel itself?
I'm leafing through the Elric RPG and finding it a great product. I do have a question unrelated to the game content, however. The brief summaries of the Elric saga are all pretty good, except for the one covering The Skrayling Tree. It states that "Ulrik von Bek... is visited by a strange albino version of himself and, when Oona is abducted by a group of Native Americans, Ulrik trails them using The Skrayling Oak... Finally the hero discovers that Gaynor the Damned, now ruling over a mob of outcasts, is behind Oona’s abduction."
As anyone who has read The Skrayling Tree will know, this is not what happens in the book at all. Ulric isn't visited by an albino version of himself (although he and Oona do see White Crow on the island near their home.) Oona isn't abducted at all - Ulric is. The Skrayling Oak isn't used to track anyone - it's the object of the novel's quest. And Gaynor isn't behind the abduction - the Kakatanawa indians are.
The RPG book otherwise summarises the Elric saga so well that these disparities really stood out as rather odd, so I figured I'd ask what happened. Why does the summary of The Skrayling Tree bear so little resemblance to the actual novel itself?
