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The fictional shared universe of Thieves' World has many characters. This alphabetic list includes some characters who appear in the anthologies, the comics and the games. This alphabetic list includes some characters who appear in the anthologies, the comics and the games.
City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad.It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines.
Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by science fiction and fantasy authors Poul Anderson , John Brunner , Andrew J. Offutt , C. J. Cherryh , Janet Morris , and Chris Morris .
Thieves' World is a collection of stories which take place in the trading city of Sanctuary, located on the southern end of a peninsula, which has transformed into a den of thieves. [1] "Introduction" by Robert Lynn Asprin
Other imagery surrounding demiliches, in particular that of a jeweled skull, is drawn from the early Fritz Leiber story "Thieves' House". [7] Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, said that he based the description of a lich included in the game on the short story "The Sword of the Sorcerer" (1969) by Gardner Fox. [8] [9]
City of Thieves may refer to: City of Thieves, a 1983 single-player adventure gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series written by Ian Livingstone; City of Thieves, a 2009 album by Sonic Boom Six; City of Thieves, a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff "City of Thieves", episode 13 of the first season of Adventure Time
Thieves' World is a role-playing game supplement published by Chaosium in 1981, based on the Thieves' World series of novels. It was notable for including rules and statistics allowing for its use with nine different fantasy and science-fiction RPG gaming systems.
[3] [4] Thieves have been known to operate in high traffic areas such as mass transit stations, even boarding subway trains so they can use the distractions of crowds and sudden stop-and-go movements from the train to steal from others. As soon as the thieves have what they want, they simply get off at the next stop leaving the victim unable to ...