A note on Dray Prescot
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A note on Dray PrescotThe undead monster called the Spectre has been destroyed. Princess Didi’s fine new city of Gafarden no longer suffers under the threat of the animated corpse. Didi herself lies seriously injured in Zandikar in the Eye of the World, lovingly tended by her cousin, Princess Velia. Ulana Farlan, the governor of Didi’s province of Urn Vennar, has been removed from office. Now the rogue and schemer Nath Swantram, Nath the Clis, rules.
Prescot is a man above middle height with immensely broad shoulders, who moves like a hunting cat, silent and lethal. There is about him an abrasive honesty and an indomitable courage. Educated in the harsh conditions of Nelson’s Navy he gained the quarterdeck; but only when he arrived on the exotic world of Kregen under Antares could his true qualities find expression.
The mysterious Star Lords need him to further their obscure plans. Pushed into trying to unite all the continents and islands of Paz by the Star Lords, Prescot recognizes the enormity of the task.
Believing the Spectre destroyed by hundreds of arrows, Prescot returns to his home of Esser Rarioch in Valka to be with the divine Delia.
Some parts of this story give details that Prescot could not have known until later. They are inserted where they aid clarity. Due to this logical presentation, we know what Prescot does not.
We know the Spectre, dead and animate, is about to terrorize Gafarden again as Tralgan Vorner, the wronged Elten of Culvensax, seeks vengeance on those who betrayed him. Within Vorner the Spectre lives.
So join Dray Prescot as he attempts to learn a new skill, there on the high balcony of Esser Rarioch, under the streaming mingled lights of the Suns of Scorpio.
Alan Burt Akers
- Writer
