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Torrent is a fictional horse in the 2022 action role-playing game and soulslike Elden Ring developed by FromSoftware. A ghostly being known as a "spectral steed", Torrent chooses the player character as his new owner. He subsequently assists the player in their quest to become Elden Lord, the restorer of a magical artifact called the Elden Ring ...
He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series and contributed worldbuilding for the video game Elden Ring (2022). In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien ", [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and in 2011, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
A talisman is any object ascribed with religious or magical powers intended to protect, heal, or harm individuals for whom they are made. Talismans are often portable objects carried on someone in a variety of ways, but can also be installed permanently in architecture.
The Talisman Ring is a historical romance novel by Georgette Heyer, first published in 1936. Set in 1793, [1] in the Georgian era, the action takes place in Sussex, where Heyer then lived. [2] Like several of Heyer's early novels including Regency Buck (1935) and The Corinthian (1940), The Talisman Ring blends the genres of romantic comedy and ...
In 2012, Fantasy Flight Games announced Relic, a board game using the Talisman rules system and set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe, available in early 2013. Talisman: Batman was released in 2019, allowing players to play as several members of Batman's rogues gallery attempting to escape from Arkham Asylum. [50] [51]
The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The plot is not related to that of Walter Scott's 1825 novel of the same name, although there is one oblique reference to "a Sir Walter Scott novel." The Talisman was nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. [1]
A Chinese coin sword-shaped talisman made from Qing dynasty era cash coins on display at the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. Swords are a common theme on Chinese numismatic charms, and coins were often assembled into sword-shaped talismans. Most Chinese numismatic charms that feature swords often show a single sword.
Gerald's Game is a 1992 suspense novel by American writer Stephen King. [1] The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over.