Legend of the Shadow Warriors
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| Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks | |
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 The cover of Legend of the Shadow Warriors illustrated by Terry Oakes |
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| Outline | |
| Location: | Gallantaria, Old World, Titan |
| References: | 400 |
| Publication details | |
| Author(s): | Stephen Hand |
| Illustrator: | Martin McKenna |
| Puffin | |
| Cover illustrator: | Terry Oakes |
| First published: | 1991 |
| Number | 44 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0-14-034272-9 |
| Wizard | |
| Cover illustrator: | N/A |
| First published: | N/A |
| Number | N/A |
| ISBN: | N/A |
| List of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks | |
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.
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A strange madness is abroad in Gallantaria. Villagers are being put to the sword by five ghostly figures. The Shadow Warriors are mysterious beings from an ancient legend who have somehow returned to life. But are they all that they seem?
YOU are the battle-scarred veteran hired to solve the mystery. But even YOU have never faced a challenge like the Shadow Warriors, for the whole of the Old World is threatened by their terrible secret!
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.
[edit] 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 correspondence with Stephen Hand at the former FightingFantasy.com).
