Tell me about the Iron Duke

[Havard]

I'm 99% certain the Iron Duke is not mentioned at all in the d20 books. I don't recall ever seeing him mentioned. That may be because he was apparently not a Blackmoor character, but something TSR came up with.

There is a mention of the Iron Duke in p 174 of the D20 Dave Arneson's Blackmoor Sourcebook.

But thanks for mentioning this. Its been a while since I looked at this book and I had forgotten how little mention there is of the Thonian Empire in the book. The lisence ZGG operated under prevented them from exploring lands beyond the lands shown on the map of "The North".

There are many references to Thonia scattered around the book, but a separate section for the Empire is sorely missing. I hope to remedy this with my Thonia Sourcebook series.

This is the first time I hear that The Iron Duke might not have been created by Dave Arneson. I have seen no references to this character in the FFC or other tales from the First Fantasy Campaign, but still he is a central character in the era of Blackmoor's history after Uther's Revolt. He appeared in DA1 which was approved by Dave back in the 80s. Do you have other evidence to back this up?

-Havard