I Read Books: Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn
Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn The Vulgar Unicorn* is a tavern in the city of Sanctuary, the Thieves’ World of the Thieves’ World collaborative anthology series. This has seven stories from seven authors, as well as an introduction and comic essay at the back from editor Robert Asprin. The introduction has Hakiem the storyteller, an observer of the events in Sanctuary, commenting on how the Vulgar Unicorn seems to somehow have an even less salubrious clientele since the disappearance of One-Thumb the landlord**. Spiders Of The Purple Mage *** has a midwife recruited by a foreigner to infiltrate the complicated defences of the titular Purple Mage, who fled with secrets of his homeland’s religion. Goddess has a nobleman discover a demon that has cursed his family, and has it’s lair under one of the city’s temples. The Fruit Of Enlibar has Ilyra, the half-Szabo seer from The Face Of Chaos in the first volume, this time trying to find the secret of a superlative metal for her...
