DA 4 The Duchy of Ten

[Havard]

DA4 The Duchy of Ten

Item Code: #9205 (DA4)
Title: The Duchy of Ten
Type: Adventure
Author: David J. Ritchie
Published: 1987
Format: 48-page book w/tri-fold cover, fold-out map

Back Cover:

The Well of Souls...
That's what Zugzul bade the Afridhi call the evil artifact that he had taught them to make. They call it the Well of Souls, and they must carry it before them into every battle - and they would be mighty. Thus said the god of Afridhi, Zugzul the One.
So the Afridhi did as they were bade. Seeking the volcano called the Hill of the Hammer in the far Barrens of Karsh, they built in its heart a great forge. There, as Zugzul had promised, efreet came to help them make the mighty artifact. There, amid vile, unholy rites, they bound the souls of men into its very substance, and, as it took shape, they sharpened their swords for the red-handed work that must surely follow hard upon its completion.
Many were the men who guarded the Hill of the Hammer during the days of making - for their foes in hated Blackmoor would try to unmake that which they had wrought. Yet, it was not men that would keep the Well of Souls from destruction, but a prophecy - that the artifact would be unmade only by the hand of one as yet unborn!

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[Rafael]

Well, this was the one that built the LFC. I liked it, but not as much as it may have seemed, mainly because I felt that the campaign sequence (DA1-4) had things backwards: This one was relatively easy, and made for a better beginner adventure. - TotF, and CotG were much bigger challenges, IMO. - But then again, we've been pampered with the way the MMRPG introduced the setting. 80s TSR definitely had a different approach...