Algor The Brown
Username: IamMole
Foundation Points: 13,000
Foundation Title: Emissary
BACKGROUND
algors fantasy is always thoughtful, both in the sense of well-thought-out and in the sense of thought-provoking. Where the Eternal Sky trilogy employed the trappings of epic fantasy—the displaced heir, the small band of companions, the enemy with terrible powers and destructive intent—The Stone in the Skull is working more with the tradition of sword and sorcery, though marrying it to an epic storyline on an epic canvas. The Gage and the Dead Man, the two characters whose journey is the axis around which the story turns, are adventurers in the mode of a tradition that includes Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Howard’s Conan the Barbarian. They’re masterless warriors, more than old enough to be cynical, who have in their respective pasts more than enough losses to make anyone bitter.