Wow, thank you for the compliment August!
Indeed, Zager Krahl, we (and Floribur must not be forgotten in this process of review, he did a great job!) tried to improve again the consistency between that book and the entire Magnamund universe, and to complete the few points that were not addressed in the first version, under the supervisory control of Joe Dever. Concretely:
- some provinces that were present in the original book were reworked to fit more with the gamebooks (like the swampy Fethmyre, that became the volcanic province of Northern Skaror to fit with the text of LW25) and new provinces were added (like Ghargon, Zutzinozaga the province of Mozgôar or Jegdazok the northern province encompassing the islands of Dejkaata), as well as more complete descriptions of Darklords fortress-cities like Gazad Helkona, Gournen or Kaag; all these changes were made on behalf of Joe Dever, who revealed us which were the missing provinces, and provided many new descriptive details for all the provinces.
- Helgedad has been modified to be organized around the Imperial Sector described in LW12 and the sectors of the 7 Lords of Helgedad, and new buildings were added like the Temple of the Pentad, with new exciting details and descriptions provided by Joe Dever.
- new creatures of the Darklands were added in the bestiary of
The Darklands (some of them created by August himself in the bonus adventures published in the LW gamebooks, like the terrible Terrorgaunt, and others from the gamebooks that were missing both in
Magnamund Bestiary and in the first
Darklands, like the Ziran, Imperial Guard, Gnagusk, Korozon, Skryza...)
- the Darklords' biographies (with their full-power stats for the LWMPBG) have been supplemented with new exciting details provided by Joe Dever. Vashna's bio has been added too.
- Graphically, you'll enjoy to find the banners of all the Darklords nicely drawn by Jidus, an extremely precise map showing all the provinces and settlements of the Darklands (including even the small fortresses!) drawn by Floribur, and a nice new map of Helgedad drawn by Gill Pearce that completely fits with the new description of the city !
To conclude, I would like to say that August remains the
first and
main author of that book that was already a great one (his cunning explanation of the powers of the Nengud-Kor-Adez made me definitively change my view of the Darklands, long years ago, thank you for that, August!!), and that Floribur, Jidus, Gill and I were enthusiastic contributors who added supplementary material to his work, surpervised and guided by Joe Dever himself who solved the little incoherences to be addressed. Zager, I hope you'll like it
.
Vincent Lazzari
