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Swords and Deviltry [Book 1 of the "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" series]
by Fritz Leiber
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Copyright (c)1995 by Fritz Leiber


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*I: Induction*
Sundered from us by gulfs of time and stranger dimensions dreams the
ancient world of Nehwon with its towers and skulls and jewels, its swords and
sorceries. Nehwon's known realms crowd about the Inner Sea: northward the
green-forested fierce Land of the Eight Cities, eastward the steppe-dwelling
Mingol horsemen and the desert where caravans creep from the rich Eastern
Lands and the River Tilth. But southward, linked to the desert only by the
Sinking Land and further warded by the Great Dike and the Mountains of Hunger,
are the rich grain fields and walled cities of Lankhmar, eldest and chiefest
of Nehwon's lands. Dominating the Land of Lankhmar and crouching at the silty
mouth of the River Hlal in a secure corner between the grain fields, the Great
Salt Marsh, and the Inner Sea is the massive-walled and mazy-alleyed
metropolis of Lankhmar, thick with thieves and shaven priests, lean-framed
magicians and fat-bellied merchants -- Lankhmar the Imperishable, the City
of the Black Toga.
In Lankhmar on one murky night, if we can believe the runic books of