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Runes can be used to buy items, and improve weapons and armor. Dying in Elden Ring causes the player to lose all collected runes at the location of death; if the player dies again before retrieving the runes, they will be lost forever. [16] Elden Ring contains crafting mechanics; the creation of items requires materials. Recipes, which are ...
Wizard101 is a 2008 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by KingsIsle Entertainment. Players take on the role of student wizards who must save the Spiral, the fictional universe in which the game is set, from various threats.
Ransome based the geography of the other three books, Peter Duck, Missee Lee and Great Northern? on various books, and often from his own experience. Crab Island: The treasure island of Peter Duck was based on the volcanic Brazilian island of Trindade described in E.F. Knight's book The Cruise of the Alerte.
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
Flourish & Blotts sells a variety of magical books including Hogwarts textbooks. [35] Gambol and Japes is a wizarding joke shop. Gringotts Wizarding Bank is the only wizarding bank mentioned in the novels. It is operated primarily by goblins and contains vaults that are protected by very strong and complex security measures. [34]
The horror critic R. S. Hadji placed The Lair of the White Worm at number twelve in his list of the worst horror novels ever written. [5] Historian of the horror genre H. P. Lovecraft, in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", stated that Stoker "utterly ruins a magnificent idea by a development almost infantile." [6]
In 1154, just a few weeks before the king died, Al-Idrisi completed his atlas, producing a book with 70 sectional maps and a 300 lb (140 kg) silver disc engraved with the composite world map they formed. This would become known as the Nuzhat al-mushtaq fikhtiraq al-afaq, as well as the Book of Roger. This disc was made in accordance with Al ...
An overview (with maps) of the account. English translation, in a series of pages; The Latin text, in one page; The Bordeaux Pilgrim at Centuryone.com; Bordeaux Pilgrim (1887). Itinerary from Bordeaux to Jerusalem (333 A.D.). London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. Bechtel, Florentine (1910). Itineraria. Catholic Encyclopedia. 8.