Just a quick note:

Reading through a German translation of Swords and Deviltry, Swords against Death, and Swords in the Mist.

Apart from very generic similarities and common tropes, in that the books tell tales about wandering adventurers in a sword & sorcery world, I don't feel like there would be a profound similarity.

What do you think of this?

Part yes, part no. :)

Also, the area in Lankhmar is called "the sunken land", if it is based on that particular short story.
(From "Swords Against Death".)

The connection to Blackmoor, apart from very generic tropes, is small.



As to Lankhmar being useful to describe a city of thieves as a principle, yes, that is certainly possible.

But from a textual point, my clear answer would be no.



:shock:

Because of the beverage rule, I am 99% sure this is what *Maus* was named after:



As long as we don't have anything but a perceived homophony of two words,
I am opposed to accepting this as a valid theory, sorry. :wink: