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55: "All of them seemed to be warriors and sorcerers" menial work done by goblin/kobold slaves. 6-9: Lots of interesting faerie magic, customs here. 46: Land permanently in twilight for Chaos types (e.g., goblins).

General emphasis on smells in sense-descriptions.

My notes follow (page numbers from 1993 Baen printing): However, with this read-through I was paying more attention to lesser-known, possibly overlooked tidbits, that either are or could be used as core parts of our game. Most of us are aware of the big-ticket items: Alignment (the cosmic system of Law-vs-Chaos prior looks one, two), the paladin with a holy sword, a Scottish-speaking dwarf, and the swanmay (see also: mythological swan maidens).

This is, of course, a critical piece of literature for D&D scholars (and other Appendix-N readers), granted how many ideas that were baked into the DNA of D&D originated here.

I recently re-read Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions.