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Ib Dirk Miles, in memory of the Bighorns
VIPERHAND
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First Printing, August, 1990
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-51885
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ISBN: 0-88038-907-9
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4. THnpte and Pyramid of Qotal
5. Nattecona's Palace
6. AxaH's Palace
PRoIogcie
The gods grew complacent in the sameness of their immortal lives, content to
accept the worship of mortals and to rule their lordly domains. Eternal
imperturbable, they passed the centuries in sublime disregard of the
flesh-bound world below.
But occasionally the actions of a god's worshipers brought that deity into
conflict with his fellows. Such a collision of godhood inevitably spelled
chaos, even complete doom, for the peoples in the divine one's fold.
So it was with Helm the Vigilant, patron god of the Golden Legion. His
faithful, the crusading soldiery of that legion, carried his banner forward
into new landsтАФlands of great riches and beauty, but of dark savagery as well.
Willingly, eagerly, Helm followed. Now he faced gods from beyond his kenтАФgods
with an apparently unquenchable thirst for human hearts, human blood.
So, too, with Zaltec the Terrible, one of those thirsty lords. The ravenous
god of war consumed the hearts offered by his priests with relish. Lordly
master of Maztica, he faced the invading forces of Helm with a burning