Loremaster
The Iron Wind (1st Edition)
Author: Peter C. Fenlon, Terry Kevin Amthor
Stock #:
?
ISBN: ?
Published 1980 by Iron Crown Ent.
Cover Price: $8.00
Pages: 68
(Thank you to Bruce Neidlinger at ICE for providing me with a lovely mint
copy of the first printing of this module)
Notes:
There are two variations of this module, There was an initial printing of 5,000
Iron Wind's on that golden parchtext with a B&W cover and interiors. After
it had been selling for a few months the distributors talked ICE into doing
a color cover so Pete Fenlon drew the color cover using an overlay process
and they stripped the B&W cover off the remainder of the first printing
and bound the new color covers back on them.
The differences in the front covers are; the black and white cover has a rendering
of the fortress of Systax. It is drawn from a similar perspective as a small
picture inside the cover of the color version, but is larger in size and signed
RB rather than PCF. The only words on the black and white version are "The
Iron Wind ©Iron
Crown Enterprises 1980." No mention of a unique fantasy campaign or contents
as found on the color cover.
Inside front cover: blank in the black and white
version. The color version describes the Iron Wind as the first in the Loremaster
Series, and has the above mentioned small picture of Systax.
Inside back cover:
blank in black and white version. Large picture of Syrkakar in color version.
Back
cover: Large picture of Syrkakar in black and white version. Color map from
page 35 on color version.
Cover/Jacket Text:
THE IRON WIND
THE DAWNING OF A NEW FANTASY WORLD...
Enter the World of Loremaster!
The IRON WIND recounts the tale of Elor Once Dark, a famed Loremaster who traveled to the chill land of the Mur Fostisyr, snow-clad isles surrounded by cruel glaciers and treacherous icy waters. It is the home of the Iron Wind, an arm of the unlife threatening to subdue the valiant peoples of the isles. Demons, Supernatural assassins, Dragonlords and corrupt Elven priests all serve the dark purpose of the Iron Wind as they strive to further drive apart the already divided peoples. Against these terrifying minions stand the Elvish Ky'taari; the stout, hardy Fustir, the secretive, superhuman Udahir in their subterranean metropolis; and the fierce, warlike Syrkakar - who are already falling under the cruel shadow of the Iron Wind.
THE LOREMASTER SERIES:
Clusters of islands and small continents dot the surface of the world. Myriad
cultures and peoples ie separated by sheer mountains, treacherous reefs,
and the powerful but invisible Flows of Essnce.
Churning like ocean tides under the Five Moons, the Essence ebbs and flows,
its eddys and currents dictating unseen barriers and centers of power. Some
have learned to tap into that power.
Travel across the world is perilous, though some have made it an art: the
aloof Navigators will transport anyone anywhere—for a fee. And of course,
there are the mysterious, saged Loremasters, keepers of the old knowledge
and consummate wielders of the Essence. It is they who lead the ongoing fight
against the Unlife and its twisted servants.
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