&inclusion.brian.williams.bio.lw;
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<publisher>Project Aon</publisher>
- <date class="publication"><year>2007</year><month>7</month><day>22</day></date>
+ <date class="publication"><year>2007</year><month>7</month><day>31</day></date>
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<p>Frustrated by your defeat of his minions, the Dark God Naar plots a bitter revenge. From the depths of his lair upon the Plane of Darkness he creates and sends forth an evil champion who is the very image of yourself.</p>
<p>In <cite>Wolf<ch.apos/>s Bane</cite> you must hunt down and destroy your evil alter-ego before it lays waste to your proud reputation and your homeland of Sommerlund. Will you find and defeat this evil mirror-image in time? Or will you fall foul of the Dark God<ch.apos/>s plans and be destroyed by your likeness?</p>
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<p>You are Grand Master Lone Wolf, the sole survivor of a massacre that wiped out the First Order of the Kai<ch.emdash/>the warrior <ch.eacute/>lite of Sommerlund.</p>
- <p>It is the year MS 5080, thirty years since your brave kinsmen perished at the hands of the Darklords of Helgedad. These champions of evil, who were sent forth by Naar, the King of the Darkness, to destroy the fertile world of Magnamund, have them-selves since been destroyed. You vowed to avenge the murder of the Kai and you kept your pledge, for it was you who brought about their downfall when alone you infiltrated their foul domain<ch.emdash/>the Darklands<ch.emdash/> and caused the destruction of their leader and the base of his power that was the infernal city of Helgedad.</p>
+ <p>It is the year MS 5080, thirty years since your brave kinsmen perished at the hands of the Darklords of Helgedad. These champions of evil, who were sent forth by Naar, the King of the Darkness, to destroy the fertile world of Magnamund, have themselves since been destroyed. You vowed to avenge the murder of the Kai and you kept your pledge, for it was you who brought about their downfall when alone you infiltrated their foul domain<ch.emdash/>the Darklands<ch.emdash/> and caused the destruction of their leader and the base of his power that was the infernal city of Helgedad.</p>
<p>In the wake of their destruction, chaos befell the Darkland armies who had been poised to conquer all of Magnamund. This disorder escalated into a mutinous civil war, which allowed the Freeland armies of Magnamund time in which to recover and launch a counter-offensive. Against the odds, a swift and total victory was secured over the feuding Darklands armies.</p>
<p>Later that evening, using your mental Kai Disciplines to help loosen the tight-lipped resolve of a dungeon guard, you learned the reasons for your apparent fall from grace.</p>
- <p><quote>You first arrived in Anskaven by ship eighteen days ago, as expected,</quote> said the gaoler, in response to your psychic commands. <quote>Baron Caldar met you personally at the quayside and gave you a horse and six of his best troopers to escort you to Toran. During your ride to that city, they say you murdered his men and burnt their bodies. On arriving at Toran, you tried to assassinate Banedon<ch.emdash/>the Guildmaster of the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star. He survived, yet much of the Guildmaster<ch.apos/>s Hall was destroyed by your doing. To cover your escape from the city, you poisoned the wells causing hundreds of deaths. At first it was said that a Helghast had adopted your likeness to gain entry to the Guildhall, but Guildmaster Banedon refuted these claims. He is convinced that you are possessed by the spirit of Naar. The Guildmaster despatched the Toran militia to spread this message across Sommerlund. A few days later at the forest village of Durnfallow, near Tyso, the Fryearl of Durnfallow was murdered and his manor house was torched to the ground. The villagers say they saw you riding away from the blazing ruins, howling like a crazed wolf. The people are terrified by the thought that Naar has corrupted you<ch.emdash/>their greatest hero<ch.emdash/>and turned you against your own. They are scared and they are demanding swift justice. King Ulnar has bowed to their will; he has sent all of his Border Rangers to Tyso with orders to find and kill you on sight.</quote></p>
+ <p><quote>You first arrived in Anskaven by ship eighteen days ago, as expected,</quote> said the gaoler, in response to your psychic commands. <quote>Baron Caldar met you personally at the quayside and gave you a horse and six of his best troopers to escort you to Toran. During your ride to that city, they say you murdered his men and burnt their bodies. On arriving at Toran, you tried to assassinate Banedon<ch.emdash/>the Guildmaster of the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star. He survived, yet much of the Guildmaster<ch.apos/>s Hall was destroyed by your doing. To cover your escape from the city, you poisoned the wells causing hundreds of deaths. At first it was said that a Helghast had adopted your likeness to gain entry to the Guildhall, but Guildmaster Banedon refuted these claims. He is convinced that you are possessed by the spirit of Naar. The Guildmaster dispatched the Toran militia to spread this message across Sommerlund. A few days later at the forest village of Durnfallow, near Tyso, the Fryearl of Durnfallow was murdered and his manor house was torched to the ground. The villagers say they saw you riding away from the blazing ruins, howling like a crazed wolf. The people are terrified by the thought that Naar has corrupted you<ch.emdash/>their greatest hero<ch.emdash/>and turned you against your own. They are scared and they are demanding swift justice. King Ulnar has bowed to their will; he has sent all of his Border Rangers to Tyso with orders to find and kill you on sight.</quote></p>
<p>The news of your alleged crimes comes as a bitter blow. You are sure that it is all the handiwork of an agent of Naar, and you resolve to find and vanquish this impostor at the first opportunity. However, as you cast your eyes around the damp walls of the castle dungeon, you can only pray to Ishir and Kai that the Baron and his guards will believe your story and allow you a chance to reclaim your honour.</p>
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<dt>Deliverance</dt>
<dd><p>Grand Thanes with this Discipline are able to call upon the God Kai for divine assistance should a situation warrant it. Kai cannot intervene to save a Grand Thane from physical danger, but he can give signs which may help a Grand Thane chose the best course of action. A Grand Thane can call upon the God Kai for assistance no more than once every month. The frequency of divine audiences will increase as a Grand Master rises in rank.</p></dd>
<dt>Assimilance</dt>
- <dd><p>Grand Thanes who possess this skill are able to protect themselves from detection by creatures using infravision (the ability to see the heat radiating from a person or thing), or ultra-vision (the ability to detect objects or movement in the ultra-violet spectrum of light).</p></dd>
+ <dd><p>Grand Thanes who possess this skill are able to protect themselves from detection by creatures using infravision (the ability to see the heat radiating from a person or thing), or ultravision (the ability to detect objects or movement in the ultraviolet spectrum of light).</p></dd>
<dt>Grand Kai-surge</dt>
<dd><p>Grand Thanes with this skill are able to focus their mind-power upon inanimate breakable objects, eg, bottles, windows, all ceramics, urns, jugs etc, and cause them to explode violently. Any person or creature in close proximity to such an explosion risks injury from flying shrapnel.</p></dd>
<dt>Grand Nexus</dt>
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<p>Your killing blow punctures the beast<ch.apos/>s single lung and heart, sending it swiftly to the bottom of the flooded cellar. You sheathe your weapon and strike out for the surface where, upon clambering onto the steps, you pause for a few moments to regain your composure. As you recover, you note that one of your Backpack Items is missing, lost during your underwater combat with the Ekmakon. (Erase from your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> the item which you have recorded at the top of your list of Backpack Items.)</p>
- <p>Eager to continue your pursuit, you climb the steps and emerge through a trapdoor into the rubble- heaped city ruins. There is no sign of Wolf<ch.apos/>s Bane, but when you hurry to where you saw him last, you discover a flight of steps leading down into a wide underground passage. His tracks can be seen clearly imbedded in the muddy floor of this tunnel.</p>
+ <p>Eager to continue your pursuit, you climb the steps and emerge through a trapdoor into the rubble-heaped city ruins. There is no sign of Wolf<ch.apos/>s Bane, but when you hurry to where you saw him last, you discover a flight of steps leading down into a wide underground passage. His tracks can be seen clearly imbedded in the muddy floor of this tunnel.</p>
<p>The tunnel passes under a street and then surfaces in front of a grand two-storey building, once a busy warehouse that stored braided coils of fine copper cable. You avoid the main entrance in case your adversary is lying in ambush there, and enter instead by way of a flight of iron steps that lead to a second floor window. The moment you set foot inside the building you sense that Wolf<ch.apos/>s Bane is here. Warily you explore, your nerves stretched to breaking point as your eyes seek out detail in the darkness. You are approaching the west wing of this building when you suddenly catch sight of your opponent through a hole in the floor. He is sitting on his haunches behind a mound of wooden crates, busily eating a green-skinned fruit, and he is unaware that you are watching him.</p>
<choice idref="sect81">If you possess Magi-magic, and have attained the rank of Grand Thane (and wish to use your skill), <link-text>turn to 81</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect106">If you possess a Bow, and wish to use it, <link-text>turn to 106</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>One of the arrows grazes your left shoulder and gouges a furrow of skin from the back of your left thigh. You stifle a cry, but the intense pain that grips your injured limbs warns you at once that the tip of the arrow was tainted with poison.</p>
- <p>Your innate healing skills counter the poison before it can do its deadly work, but your body<ch.apos/>s defences draw heavily on your reserves of strength and the curing process leaves you feeling weak and light- headed: lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>Your innate healing skills counter the poison before it can do its deadly work, but your body<ch.apos/>s defences draw heavily on your reserves of strength and the curing process leaves you feeling weak and light-headed: lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect309">To continue, <link-text>turn to 309</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You sprint towards the speeding wagon and hurl yourself towards its open cargo bay. But, disastrously, you misjudge your leap and crash headlong into the side of the hover-wagon, knocking yourself unconscious.</p>
- <p>The concussion you have sustained does not kill you, but it contributes indirectly to your death. Your body is seen lying in the avenue by Wolf<ch.apos/>s Bane, from one of the tower<ch.apos/>s many watching posts, and he immediately despatches a troop of Manoyds to capture and slay you. Sadly, they are brutally efficient servants and they obey his commands to the letter.</p>
+ <p>The concussion you have sustained does not kill you, but it contributes indirectly to your death. Your body is seen lying in the avenue by Wolf<ch.apos/>s Bane, from one of the tower<ch.apos/>s many watching posts, and he immediately dispatches a troop of Manoyds to capture and slay you. Sadly, they are brutally efficient servants and they obey his commands to the letter.</p>
<p>Tragically, your life and your duel end here.</p>
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<meta><title>Errata</title></meta>
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- <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far<ch.ellips/></a>) Replaced <quote>elite</quote> with <quote><ch.eacute></ch.eacute>lite</quote>. Replaced <quote>freestate</quote> with <quote>Freeland</quote>. Replaced <quote>Naar<ch.emdash/>the King of the Darkness<ch.emdash/></quote> with <quote>Naar, the King of the Darkness,</quote>. Replaced <quote>monastery of the Kai</quote> with <quote>Monastery of the Kai</quote>. Replaced <quote>Kai lord</quote> with <quote>Kai Lord</quote>. Replaced both occurrences of <quote>new-found</quote> with <quote>newfound</quote>. Replaced <quote>gold, you</quote> with <quote>gold you</quote>. Replaced <quote>dispatched</quote> with <quote>despatched</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far<ch.ellips/></a>) Replaced <quote>elite</quote> with <quote><ch.eacute></ch.eacute>lite</quote>. Replaced <quote>freestate</quote> with <quote>Freeland</quote>. Replaced <quote>Naar<ch.emdash/>the King of the Darkness<ch.emdash/></quote> with <quote>Naar, the King of the Darkness,</quote>. Replaced <quote>monastery of the Kai</quote> with <quote>Monastery of the Kai</quote>. Replaced <quote>Kai lord</quote> with <quote>Kai Lord</quote>. Replaced both occurrences of <quote>new-found</quote> with <quote>newfound</quote>. Replaced <quote>gold, you</quote> with <quote>gold you</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Deleted <quote>that you will find in the front of this book. For ease of use, and for further adventuring, it is recommended that you photocopy these pages.</quote>. Replaced both occurrences of <quote>ie</quote> with <quote>i.e.</quote>. Replaced <quote>fall to zero</quote> with <quote>fall to zero or below</quote>. Replaced each occurrence of <quote>Lone Wolf</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite></quote> when referring to the series.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect294">294</a>) Replaced <quote>dusty and</quote> with <quote>dusty, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect298">298</a>) Replaced <quote>circulate</quote> with <quote>circular</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect300">300</a>) Replaced <quote>scream, <ch.lsquot/>I</quote> with <quote>scream. <ch.lsquot/>I</quote>. Replaced <quote>Naar, <ch.lsquot/>you</quote> with <quote>Naar. <ch.lsquot/>You</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect301">301</a>) Replaced <quote>dispatches</quote> with <quote>despatches</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect302">302</a>) Replaced <quote>artifact</quote> with <quote>artefact</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect304">304</a>) Replaced <quote>eg</quote> with <quote>e.g.</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect312">312</a>) Replaced <quote>Bow and</quote> with <quote>Bow, and</quote>. Replaced <quote>Bow or</quote> with <quote>Bow, or</quote>.</p>
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