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<b>''The Tales of Ka-Ess''</b>, containing the complete surviving works of the [[wikipedia:Bard (Dungeons & Dragons)|bard]] [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]], remained unpublished until long after the author's unsettling demise.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 [[third century Valanthe]]. | <b>''The Tales of Ka-Ess''</b>, containing the complete surviving works of the [[wikipedia:Bard (Dungeons & Dragons)|bard]] [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]], remained unpublished until long after the author's unsettling demise.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 [[third century Valanthe]]. | ||
The works included in <i>The Tales of Ka-Ess</i> take many forms, including formal rhyming and alliterative poetry, scholarly entries, journals, notes, [[Draconic]] hieroglyphics and obscene pictograms. Most historians and philologists believe that the varied nature of its contents suggests that the original codex was assembled from fragments rather than written as one unified narrative. The influence on and perhaps authorship of the work by its editor, the so-called [[the Fishwife poet|Fishwife poet]], remains disputed. | The works included in <i>The Tales of Ka-Ess</i> take many forms, including formal rhyming and alliterative poetry, scholarly entries, journals, notes, [[Draconic]] hieroglyphics and obscene pictograms. Most historians and philologists believe that the varied nature of its contents suggests that the original codex was assembled from fragments rather than written as one unified narrative. The influence on and perhaps authorship of the work by its editor, the so-called [[the Fishwife poet|Fishwife poet]], remains disputed. | ||
Scholars consider <i>The Tales of Ka-Ess</i> to be an incomplete document, containing many lacunae, contradictions, and omissions; this is unfortunately but necessarily reflected in this publication. Nevertheless, this annotated and illustrated edition of the ''Tales'' represents the most comprehensive effort to date to create a complete history of [[The Fishwives]]' lives and adventures from the material available in the original [[wikipedia:codex|codex]] and other relevant sources. | |||
== Index == | == Index == | ||