Talisman of Death
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| The Fighting Fantasy series |
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 'Golden Dragon' cover |
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| Outline | |
| Location: | Orb |
| Sections: | 400 |
| Publication details | |
| Author(s): | Mark Smith & Jamie Thomson |
| Illustrator(s): | Bob Harvey (book), Peter Andrew Jones (cover) |
| Year of release: | 1984 |
| Number (Puffin) | 11 |
| Number (Wizard) | 24 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 1-84046-566-2 |
| List of FF books | |
Talisman of Death is the eleventh book in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, illustrated by Bob Harvey and originally published in 1984. Unlike most of the fantasy Fighting Fantasy books, Talisman of Death is set not in the series' usual fantasy world of Titan, but rather in Smith and Thomson's own world of Orb (also the setting for their Way of the Tiger gamebook series). The book has recently been reprinted by Wizard.
Unlike most other Fighting Fantasy books, the reader is in fact a regular person from another world (presumably Earth), drawn into Orb at the will of the gods. In this book the player is given the task of protecting the Talisman of Death. The player must find a way of returning to their own world, thus depriving Death of the Talisman forever.
This book's structure is similar to The Lord of the Rings novel, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
