Legend of the Shadow Warriors

Infobox Fighting Fantasy book


caption=The cover of "Legend of the Shadow Warriors" illustrated by Terry Oakes
location=Gallantaria, Old World, Titan
references=400
authors=Stephen Hand
illustrator=Martin McKenna
coverillustrator=Terry Oakes
year=1991
number=44
ISBN=ISBN 0-14-034272-9
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"Legend of the Shadow Warriors" is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Stephen Hand, illustrated by Martin McKenna and originally published in 1991 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 44th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-034272-9). There are currently no announced plans to republish this book as part of the modern Wizard series.

The book was followed-up by the later book "Moonrunner".

tory

The book is set in the usual fantasy setting of Titan, however it is set in a different time period to the rest of the books - it is set in an historical period just after the War of the Four Kingdoms in the Old World. The player takes the role of a veteran of the war now living as a mercenary, who is called on by the villagers of Karnstein to protect them from the titular Shadow Warriors. The player is drawn into a battle with the Shadow Warriors and their master Voivod, the personification of death and decay.

Future references

Some of the themes and storylines, such as the Frankenstein-like Doktor Kauderwelsch, the parasitic Mandrakes, and the general gothic horror theme are continued in the later book "Moonrunner", a follow-up of "Legend of the Shadow Warriors".

Stephen Hand has written that he envisioned a third book, "Blood of the Mandrake", which would tie together and conclude several outstanding plot lines begun in "Legend of the Shadow Warriors" and "Moonrunner" although the trilogy was never completed due to the Fighting Fantasy series being discontinued in 1995 (See Mark J. Popp's [http://web.archive.org/web/20020223110653/http://fightingfantasy.com/fflett.htm#Stephen%20Hand correspondence with Stephen Hand] at the former [http://web.archive.org/web/20010202070200/http://fightingfantasy.com/ FightingFantasy.com] ).

ee also

*Fighting Fantasy
*List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks

References

* cite web
title=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=11
* cite web
title=Legend of the Shadow Warriors on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=88
* cite web
title=Legend of the Shadow Warriors on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050901133810/www.fightingfantasy.com/ffb44.htm