The Cauldron of Fear
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‘Our prayers have been answered,’ says Chiban, as he and Banedon rejoin you at the city wall. ‘Behold, the allies of Anari have come to aid us in our darkest hour.’ He points to the advancing cavalry and you recognize, fluttering from their lances, the battle standards of three countries: Firalond, Lourden, and Kakush. Then the thunder of their horses' hooves fills the air and a wave of joy surges through you as you witness their first charge devastate the enemy's ranks, throwing them into chaos and confusion. A great battle ensues as the enemy slowly gather themselves to resist this unexpected assault. By noon two of their armies have been smashed and routed, and the third fights a desperate rearguard action as it covers the chaotic retreat westwards.
At last the fighting around the city comes to an end, and the defenders give voice to their elation that their home has been saved from the hordes of Darklord Gnaag. Senator Zilaris proclaims you ‘the saviour of Tahou’, and the victorious cheers of the citizens echo through the burning streets and across the flats that lie strewn with enemy dead. (If any of your Weapons or weapon-like Special Items were confiscated by the South Gate Guard, they are now gratefully returned to you.) You gaze at this grim panorama and your blood runs cold. But it is not the sight of the carnage that grips you with fear, it is your growing awareness of a powerful evil that is taking shape above the West Gate. A billowing black cloud forms in the sky, and from out of this cloud there comes a harsh and terrible voice.
‘I will be avenged,’ it booms, its resonance shaking the battlements on which you stand. You steel yourself, half expecting a bolt of lightning to leap from the cloud and hurtle towards you, but no such attack materializes. Instead, the chilling voice continues in a mocking tone. ‘Know this: you will pay for your defiance with your life. I, Gnaag of Mozgôar, have the three remaining Lorestones that you seek, and I shall destroy them when I destroy you, Kai Lord.’
A gust of wind catches the cloud and it clears swiftly, but it leaves behind a numbing dread that fills your heart, for you sense that the words were no idle threat — the terrible voice of Darklord Gnaag spoke the truth.
Your quest has succeeded, for the wisdom and strength of the Lorestone of Tahou is now a part of your body and spirit, and your defeat of Zakhan Kimah has turned the tide of war decisively against the Darkland armies. But the shocking news that the Darklords now possess the remaining Lorestones of Nyxator heralds the start of a new and deadly perilous episode of the Magnakai quest.
If you have the courage of a true Kai Master, the challenge of recovering the last Lorestones from the clutches of your mortal enemies awaits you, beginning in Book 10 of the Lone Wolf series, entitled:
The Dungeons of Torgar
Numbered Sections
1-10: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11-20: 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21-30: 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31-40: 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41-50: 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51-60: 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61-70: 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
71-80: 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
81-90: 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91-100: 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
101-110: 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110
111-120: 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120
121-130: 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130
131-140: 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140
141-150: 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150
151-160: 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160
161-170: 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170
171-180: 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180
181-190: 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190
191-200: 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200
201-210: 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210
211-220: 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220
221-230: 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230
231-240: 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240
241-250: 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250
251-260: 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260
261-270: 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270
271-280: 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280
281-290: 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290
291-300: 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300
301-310: 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310
311-320: 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320
321-330: 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330
331-340: 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340
341-350: 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350
The Republic of Anari
Action Chart
Combat Rules Summary
Add your COMBAT SKILL to any extra points given to you by your Magnakai Disciplines.
Subtract the COMBAT SKILL of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.
Pick a number from the Random Number Table.
Turn to the Combat Results Table.
Find your Combat Ratio on the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of ENDURANCE points to Enemy. LW indicates loss of ENDURANCE points to Lone Wolf.)
Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when the ENDURANCE points of either character falls to 0 or below.
To Evade Combat
You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.
You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only Lone Wolf loses the ENDURANCE points.
If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first round of combat or any subsequent round.
Combat Results Table
Random Number Table
Errata
Introduction
We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please contact the Project Aon Staff.
Errata List
(Title Page) Replaced ‘THE CAULDRON OF FEAR’ with ‘The Cauldron of Fear’. Replaced ‘metropolis, built’ with ‘metropolis built’.
(The Story So Far … ) Replaced ‘freelands of Talestria’ with ‘Freelands of Talestria’. Removed the quotation marks from the words from the language of Dessi (i.e. koura-tas-kai, Ikar, Skarn). Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced ‘gods’ with ‘Gods’. Replaced ‘armies, others’ with ‘armies; others’. Replaced ‘magician's guild’ with ‘Magicians' Guild’. Replaced ‘purpose and’ with ‘purpose, and’. Replaced ‘would each come’ with ‘would both come’. Replaced ‘chances of your completing your’ with ‘chances of you completing your’. Replaced ‘Darklord armies’ with ‘Darkland armies’.
(The Game Rules) Replaced ‘you you’ with ‘you’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘ie,’ with ‘i.e.’. Removed ‘that you will find in the front of this book. For further adventuring you can copy out the chart yourself or get it photocopied’. Deleted ‘on the last page of this book’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘Lone Wolf’ when referring to the series. Placed ‘or below’ after ‘fall to zero’. Replaced ‘Chart (you’ with ‘Chart. (You’. Replaced ‘Items).’ with ‘Items.)’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf Magnakai’ with ‘Lone Wolf Magnakai’. Replaced ‘Action Chart. (ie, if’ with ‘Action Chart (i.e. if’.
(Magnakai Disciplines) Deleted ‘that appears on page 9’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘Lone Wolf’ when referring to the series. Added ‘(Psi-surge and Mindblast cannot be used simultaneously.)’ to the description of Psi-surge. Replaced ‘knowledge mastery’ with ‘knowledge that mastery’. Replaced ‘weapons list’ with ‘Weapons List’. Replaced ‘two weapons’ with ‘two
Weapons’. Replaced ‘blindness and’ with ‘blindness, and’. Replaced ‘roots and’ with ‘roots, and’. Replaced ‘will be of use’ with ‘may be of use’. Added ‘If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 3 to any number that you choose from the Random Number Table, when using the Bow.’ from the Equipment section. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf Magnakai’ with ‘Lone Wolf Magnakai’.
(Equipment) Replaced all occurrences of ‘ie’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘eg’ with ‘e.g.’. Deleted ‘(see the inside front cover of this book)’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘safe-keeping’ with ‘safekeeping’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘Lone Wolf’ when referring to the series. Replaced all three occurrences of ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrows’. Replaced ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘Weaponmastery with a bow’ with ‘Weaponmastery with Bow’. Replaced ‘combat, therefore’ with ‘combat; therefore’. Replaced ‘two weapons’ with ‘two Weapons’. Replaced ‘your list’ with ‘your Weaponmastery Checklist’. Deleted ‘If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 3 to any number that you choose from the Random Number Table, when using the Bow.’. Added ‘You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(Rules for Combat) Removed ‘on the inside back cover of the book’. Replaced ‘on the page after the Random Number Table’ with ‘in the back of this book’. Replaced ‘reduced to zero’ with ‘reduced to zero or below’. Replaced ‘points reduced’ with ‘points possibly reduced’. Replaced ‘at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead.’ with ‘at which point that combatant is declared dead.’.
(Levels of Magnakai Training) Replaced ‘rank and titles’ with ‘ranks and titles’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf Magnakai’ with ‘Lone Wolf Magnakai’.
(Lore-circles of the Magnakai) Replaced ‘Psi-shield’ with ‘Psi-screen’. Capitalized ‘bonuses’ in the title ‘Lore-circle Bonuses’.
(Improved Disciplines) Replaced ‘will be’ with ‘are’ under the Primate's improved Animal Control. Replaced ‘will have’ with ‘have’. Replaced ‘is not be able’ with ‘is not able’. Replaced ‘will not’ with ‘is not’. Replaced ‘will be’ with ‘is’ under the Primate's improved Curing. Replaced ‘will have’ with ‘have’. Replaced ‘be able’ with ‘are able’ under the Primate's improved Huntmastery. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘Lone Wolf’ when referring to the series.
(1) Replaced ‘Xulun mountains’ with ‘Xulun Mountains’. Replaced ‘giaks’ with ‘Giaks’. Replaced ‘cavalry and’ with ‘cavalry, and’.
(2) Replaced ‘noon but’ with ‘noon, but’.
(3) Replaced ‘blow but’ with ‘blow, but’.
(5) Capitalised all items on the list. Deleted ‘Spyglass’ from the list of items in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(6) Replaced ‘click’ with ‘click’.
(7) Added ‘(Erase the Rope from your Action Chart.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(9) Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’.
(11) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘lose 6 ENDURANCE points’ with ‘lose 3 ENDURANCE points for each Meal missed’. Replaced ‘bow and’ with ‘Bow and’. Replaced ‘Twice you stop to sleep and eat (erase 2 Meals from your Action Chart or lose 3 ENDURANCE points for each Meal missed) before you near the centre of the city.’ with ‘Twice you stop to sleep and eat before you near the centre of the city. (Erase 2 Meals from your Action Chart or lose 3 ENDURANCE points for each Meal missed. If you possess the Magnakai Discipline of Huntmastery, you are able to forage for food from the wasteland of Zaaryx and therefore you do not need to make any deductions.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(12) Replaced ‘yellow-flanged’ with ‘yellow-fanged’. Replaced ‘mercy but’ with ‘mercy, but’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘If you wish to fire your Bow again’ with ‘If you possess at least one more Arrow and wish to fire your Bow again’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(13) Altered list so that only the first letters of each item are capitalised.
(14) Replaced ‘wall and’ with ‘wall, and’. Added ‘(If your source of light is a Torch, remember to erase it from your Action Chart.)’. Replaced ‘skill, or’ with ‘skill or’. Replaced ‘Kai training’ with ‘Magnakai training’.
(15) Replaced ‘bow and’ with ‘Bow and’.
(16) Replaced ‘points but’ with ‘points, but’.
(17) Replaced ‘accurate and’ with ‘accurate, and’.
(18) Replaced ‘bed and’ with ‘bed, and’.
(19) Replaced ‘lane;’ with ‘lane.’.
(22) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’.
(24) Replaced ‘whisper;’ with ‘whisper,’. Replaced ‘sight, do’ with ‘sight do’. Replaced ‘brotherhood’ with ‘Brotherhood’.
(25) Added ‘(Erase one dose of Sabito from your Action Chart.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(28) Replaced ‘your gold’ with ‘your coins’, since you may also give them silver Lune (cf. Section 163).
(29) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Added ‘(Record both doses of Sabito on your Action Chart as a single Backpack Item.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(30) Replaced ‘secure you’ with ‘secure, you’.
(31) Replaced ‘narrow but’ with ‘narrow, but’. Replaced ‘of milky’ with ‘of a milky’. Replaced ‘air and gives’ with ‘air, and gives’.
(32) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.
(33) Replaced ‘life you’ with ‘life, you’. Added ‘(If your source of light is a Torch, remember to erase it from your Action Chart.)’. Replaced ‘Or, you may’ with ‘Or you may’.
(35) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.
(36) Replaced ‘attack and’ with ‘attack, and’. Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.
(38) Added ‘(If you possess both of these Magnakai Disciplines, you may only add 3 to the number picked.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(39) Replaced ‘despatched’ with ‘dispatched’.
(40) Replaced ‘west bank’ with ‘east bank’.
(42) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Guildhouse’ with ‘Guild-house’.
(43) Replaced ‘flames forcing’ with ‘flames, forcing’. Replaced ‘creamy-coloured’ with ‘cream-coloured’. Replaced ‘water and’ with ‘water, and’.
(46) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.
(47) Replaced ‘years the’ with ‘years, the’. Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.
(50) Replaced ‘correct and’ with ‘correct, and’.
(52) Replaced ‘stand and’ with ‘stand, and’. Replaced ‘awful and’ with ‘awful, and’.
(53) Replaced ‘wildly, then’ with ‘wildly; then’. Replaced ‘wildly, then’ with ‘wildly; then’.
(54) Replaced ‘you but’ with ‘you, but’. Replaced ‘silence he’ with ‘silence, he’. Replaced ‘your equipment is returned’ with ‘all your Weapons, Backpack Items, and Special Items are returned’.
(56) Replaced ‘or you have’ with ‘or if you have’. Replaced ‘Kai training’ with ‘Magnakai training’.
(57) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.
(58) Replaced ‘supplies and’ with ‘supplies, and’ and capitalised the list of items.
(59) Replaced ‘stairs but’ with ‘stairs, but’.
(60) Replaced ‘guards, incredulous’ with ‘guards incredulously’. Replaced ‘explain but’ with ‘explain, but’.
(62) Replaced ‘narrow but’
with ‘narrow, but’.
(68) Replaced ‘done I’ with ‘done, I’. Replaced ‘storeroom’ with ‘store room’.
(69) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.
(70) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘Drakkar assault-troopers’ with ‘Drakkarim assault-troopers’ to reflect standard usage.
(71) Replaced ‘above an’ with ‘above, an’.
(72) Added ‘(in this instance, 0 = 10)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.
(74) Replaced ‘sight I'll’ with ‘sight, I'll’. Replaced ‘that he’ with ‘that, he’. Replaced ‘brotherhood’ with ‘Brotherhood’.
(75) Replaced ‘later it’ with ‘later, it’. Replaced ‘freedom but’ with ‘freedom, but’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘space, then’ with ‘space; then’. Replaced ‘grey-haired aristocratic figure of Chiban, the other’ with ‘grey-haired, aristocratic figure of Chiban; the other’.
(76) Replaced ‘city and’ with ‘city, and’.
(77) Replaced ‘attention they’ with ‘attention, they’. Replaced ‘her and’ with ‘her, and’. Removed the quotation marks from the telepathic speech. Replaced ‘female, she’ with ‘female; she’. Replaced ‘He that’ with ‘Him who’.
(81) Replaced ‘fatigue your’ with ‘fatigue, your’.
(82) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘Anarian plain’ with ‘Anarian Plain’ in the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘If the fight lasts longer than four rounds turn to’ with ‘If the fight enters a fifth round, do not continue with the combat but turn immediately to’.
(83) Removed the quotation marks from the telepathic speech.
(85) Replaced ‘growl he’ with ‘growl, he’.
(86) Replaced ‘throat but’ with ‘throat, but’. Replaced ‘You wish’ with ‘If you wish’.