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== Preface == | == Preface == | ||
<b>''The Tales of Ka-Ess''</b>,containing the complete works of [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]], remained unpublished until | <b>''The Tales of Ka-Ess''</b>, containing the complete works of [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]], remained unpublished until long after the author's unsettling demise. Criticized by poetic authorities as grandiloquent, longwinded, grandiose, and delusional, Ka-Ess' excruciatingly detailed accounts of his own minutiae nevertheless have afforded historians insight into daily life in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the rule of the [[Council of High Captains]]. | ||
This annotated and illustrated edition of the ''Tales'' represents the most comprehensive effort to date to create a complete history of Ka-Ess and [[The Fishwives|his companions]]' lives and adventures from the material available in the original [[wikipedia:codex|codex]] and other relevant sources. | This annotated and illustrated edition of the ''Tales'' represents the most comprehensive effort to date to create a complete history of Ka-Ess and [[The Fishwives|his companions]]' lives and adventures from the material available in the original [[wikipedia:codex|codex]] and other relevant sources. | ||
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== Index == | == Index == | ||
<b>Part the First</b>: [[Events|The great achievements and exploits of Ka-Ess the Rakish and his merry Fishwives]], the Foes they outwitted and slew, where they travelled and what they found there, and their great Fortune thus attained. | |||
<b>Part the Second</b>: [[Open plot threads|The continuing adventures of the Fishwives]], their voyages into the Unknown, and the world's mysteries yet unexplained. | |||
<b>Appendix A</b>: [[Places|The Skaugan Main and its Surroundings]], with emphasis on the exotic and forbidden Locales of which our tale is concerned. | |||
<b>Appendix B</b>: [[People|A compleat accounting of the Characters of our tale]], both great and small, and the divers fashions in which their lives intertwined with our heroes. | |||
<b>Appendix C</b>: [[Society and Culture|The Kingdoms, Societies, Races and Cultures]] of the many Folk of the Skaugan Main in the time of Ka-Ess, and their many Rites and Traditions both mundane and arcane. | |||
<b>Appendix D</b>: [[Organizations|The Fraternities, Sects, Orders and other such Bodies]] to be found in the tales herein, and how their Interests converged and diverged with those of our Heroes. | |||