Labels:text | letter | paper | font | black and white | document OCR: INTRODUCTION It is the ancient kingdom of Nerd, during the time of Great Darkness. King Melvin has died without an heir and the kingdom has fallen into the hands of four powerful WARLORDS. Nerd is a lost land, cut off from any other civilization by great mountains where, it is said, the dead live in the perpetual mists. In the great valley that is Nerd itself, there are savage areas where one ventures at one's great peril. The Black Forest of Urm is the preserve of the phantoms and terrors of the night. Creatures, they say, live there that never see the sun and, if you are so bold to be near the edge of the Black Forest, you can hear them gnawing the bones of their victims. Across the plain, and to the north of the capital city, is the Swamp of Toxis Solanis. It is written that in the Reign of Leopold the Brave, a great army was completely swallowed up by the brackish muck of Toxis Solanis. The Magician Aedipios says that there is a way through the Swamp but it is known only to him. And it is common know- ledge that Aedipios himself was born in the Swamp. (It is rumored that his mother was a salamander, but one never says so aloud, lest one be given a hump upon the back!) The capital city, Rascallion, is an enchanted place - full of delights and all the wonders of the known world. There is a great marketplace, where all is shimmering phos- phorescence and music. For four pence, one can purchase a flying obolus or trade his lunia plants for sweet wine. Indeed, it is a city of great wealth and he who controls Rascallion may well be King someday! 1
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