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Blade on a Stick: The Spear of Qadarnai, an ivory spear of elvish design which was made to kill the undead and Lord Mortis himself.Big Bad: Lord Mortis of Balthor, the titular Lich-Lord, returned from the dead to complete his plans of conquest.Beast Man: Most of the Chaos Pirates seems to be beast-like mutants, including a dog-like Ogre and a boar-like Orc.The Bard: Garond the Minstrel is a precious source of old tales that proves vital to your quest.Always Chaotic Evil: The Chaos Pirates, obviously enough, are more than happy to pillage and burn.The Keep of the Lich-Lord provides examples of: The player character has also an extra score in the form of Resolve, which helps him fighting the dangerous undead on the island.
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The Keep of the Lich-Lord presents a series of features that would later be reused by Morris and Thomson's series The Fabled Lands: optional sidequests, a heavy sense of atmosphere, passwords, multiple (optional) weapon upgrades and fleshed-out secondary characters which make an overall good adventure.
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You are a mercenary, a brave warrior skilled with the sword and ready to perform a dangerous task: you must land on Staying Island, find a way to reach Bloodrise Keep and destroy the evil warlord before it's too late. He has made an alliance with the Chaos Pirates and took by force Bloodrise Keep on Stayng Island, which is now infested with undead and dangerous monsters as the natives live in fear, and the evil Mortis plots the fall of the Varadian Alliance. The Keep of the Lich-Lord is the 43 rd entry of the Fighting Fantasy series of gamebooks, written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson.Īrrowhead Islands are in deep trouble: the evil Lich-Lord Mortis of Balthor has returned from the grave to resume his vile plans of conquest and death.