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<b>The Tales of Ka-Ess</b> is a [[wikipedia:codex|codex]] containing the complete works of [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]]. Published after his unsettling demise, it was criticized by poetic authorities as grandiloquent, longwinded, grandiose, and delusional, but the author's excruciatingly detailed accounts of his own minutia afford historians insight into daily life in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the rule of the [[Council of High Captains]]. | <b>The Tales of Ka-Ess</b> is a [[wikipedia:codex|codex]] containing the complete works of [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]]. Published after his unsettling demise, it was criticized by poetic authorities as grandiloquent, longwinded, grandiose, and delusional, but the author's excruciatingly detailed accounts of his own minutia afford historians insight into daily life in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the rule of the [[Council of High Captains]]. | ||
This annotated and illustrated | 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 Tales of Ka-Ess" and other relevant sources. | ||
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* [[Open plot threads]] | * [[Open plot threads]] | ||
Revision as of 22:47, 24 February 2021
"None had been so handsome,
nor greater in prowess
nor ever had been better dressed
than the lizard Ka-Ess."
- —Ka- Ess, "The Tales of Ka-Ess"
The Tales of Ka-Ess is a codex containing the complete works of Ka-Ess Lizardkin. Published after his unsettling demise, it was criticized by poetic authorities as grandiloquent, longwinded, grandiose, and delusional, but the author's excruciatingly detailed accounts of his own minutia afford 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 his companions' lives and adventures from the material available in "The Tales of Ka-Ess" and other relevant sources.