Invitation to a Small Trivia Game

[RedRover]

I started a thread on a Zulu-based mod in the mod section.

In a recent post, I appended a list of folklore-based magic items.

One of them is a fake, which I lifted from a favorite fantasy author.

Can you spot it?

Can you name the author and source?

Game ends two weeks from yesterday.

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[Ed Kolis]

The post is not there...

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Remove the "#" from the URL after clicking on the link...

[RibbonBlue]

Hmm its either, the Trumpet or the Fairy Bird, im guessing the trumpet.

[RedRover]

Interesting guess. Try for source/author?


One author it is not: One of the few fantasy authors I've found writing African-based fantasy is Charles R. Saunders.

I found his novel from the '70s, Imaro.

After more than a score of years out of print, the novel is returning. Next year (2006), Night Shade will be releasing a heavily-revised edition.

A website dedicated to the hero and world can be found here:

Imaro website

And here's a list of short stories for the interested:

Agbewe's Sword, (nv) Amazons!, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, DAW, 1979

Amma, (ss) Beyond the Fields We Know Fll '78
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VII, ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1979

The City of Madness ["M'ji ya Wazimi, City of Madness"], (nv) Dark Fantasy Jul '74
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories, ed. Lin Carter, DAW, 1975

Death in Jukun, (ss) Heroic Fantasy, ed. Gerald W. Page & Hank Reinhardt, DAW, 1979

Ishigbi, (ss) Hecate's Cauldron, ed. Susan M. Shwartz, DAW, 1982

Mai-Kulala [*Imaro], (ss) Space & Time Nov '77
Swords Against Darkness #4, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1979

M'ji ya Wazimi, City of Madness, (nv) Dark Fantasy Jul '74; also as "The City of Madness".

The Pool of the Moon, (ss) Dark Fantasy #8 '76
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories #3, ed. Lin Carter, DAW, 1977


Happy Hunting!

[RedRover]

BTW,

the previous post should not be taken as a confirmation your item guess (neither am I saying you're wrong ).

The contest is still fully open until a week from next Monday.

[RedRover]

Let's try that link again.

If it doesn't work, the thread itself is easy to find--there's only one on Zulus, and the trivia post was Monday 11/7/05.

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