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  (216) Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’. Replaced ‘fight, you’ with ‘fight you’. Added ‘This being is immune to all forms of psychic attack, except Kai-surge and Kai-blast.’ in harmony with the Collector's Editions.

  (217) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell — Counterspell — and’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell Counterspell and’. Replaced ‘electricity, then’ with ‘electricity; then’.

  (218) Replaced ‘Lavas come swooping down’ with ‘Lavas comes swooping down’. Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’. Replaced ‘towards the Tagazin’ with ‘towards Tagazin’. Replaced ‘demonlord's’ with ‘Demonlord's’.

  (219) Removed the quotation marks around Banedon's warning. Replaced ‘korlinium scabbard’ with ‘Korlinium Scabbard’. Replaced ‘another weapon’ with ‘another Weapon’.

  (220) Replaced ‘Dessi stone’ with ‘Dessi Stone’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘weapon’ with ‘Weapon’. Replaced ‘Be sure to record this modification on your’ with ‘Be sure to record this permanent modification to your Weapon on your’.

  (221) Replaced ‘Item, or’ with ‘Item or’.

  (223) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.

  (224) Replaced ‘from which the Tozaz is infamous’ with ‘for which the Tozaz is infamous’.

  (225) Replaced ‘coiled or otherwise’ with ‘oiled or otherwise’.

  (227) Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’.

  (229) Replaced all occurrences of ‘chaos-creatures’ with ‘Chaos-creatures’. Reduced the illustration number from XV to XIV (see erratum for Section 69). Replaced ‘horros and’ with ‘horrors, and’ in the illustration's caption.

  (230) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell — Strength — and, within seconds’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell Strength, and within seconds’. Replaced ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’. Replaced ‘out-distance’ with ‘outdistance’. Added ‘This being is immune to all forms of psychic attack, except Kai-surge and Kai-blast.’, copied from Section 341, earlier in the adventure.

  (231) Replaced ‘suprise’ with ‘surprise’.

  (233) Replaced ‘splutters, ‘it's’ with ‘splutters. ‘It's’.

  (234) Replaced ‘cover avoiding’ with ‘cover, avoiding’.

  (235) Replaced all occurrences of ‘chaos-creatures’ with ‘Chaos-creatures’.

  (236) Replaced ‘sea water’ with ‘seawater’. Replaced ‘rail, then’ with ‘rail, and then’.

  (239) Replaced ‘Ixian undead’ with ‘Ixian Undead’.

  (240) Replaced ‘fifteen thousand’ with ‘eleven thousand’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (241) Replaced ‘to see better’ with ‘to better see’. Replaced ‘Sun Knight, or higher’ with ‘Sun Knight or higher’.

  (242) Replaced ‘Ixian undead’ with ‘Ixian Undead’.

  (243) Replaced ‘Drakkarim undead’ with ‘Drakkarim Undead’. Reduced the illustration number from XVI to XV (see erratum for Section 69).

  (244) Replaced all occurrences of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’.

  (245) Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (246) Replaced all occurrences of ‘rope’ with ‘Rope’.

  (248) Replaced ‘my Lord’ with ‘my lord’ in harmony with the other two occurrences in this section.

  (249) Replaced ‘ante-chamber’ with ‘antechamber’.

  (250) Replaced ‘action they were committing’ with ‘action it was performing’.

  (253) Replaced ‘Sun Thane, or higher’ with ‘Sun Thane’ since Sun Thane is the highest possible rank a Grand Master can have in this adventure. Replaced ‘Grand Huntmastery, and’ with ‘Grand Huntmastery and’.

  (254) Replaced ‘pre-empt’ with ‘preempt’. Replaced ‘Sun Lord, or higher’ with ‘Sun Lord or higher’. Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, or’ with ‘Kai-surge or’.

  (255) Replaced ‘insticts’ with ‘instincts’.

  (257) Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’.

  (258) Replaced ‘Click’ with ‘click’.

  (259) Replaced all occurrences of ‘chaos-creatures’ with ‘Chaos-creatures’.

  (260) Replaced ‘Drakkarim marines’ with ‘Drakkarim Marines’. Replaced ‘rounds, or less’ with ‘rounds or less’. Replaced ‘rounds, or longer’ with ‘rounds or longer’. Replaced ‘If the combat lasts for’ with ‘If you win the combat in’.

  (261) Replaced ‘bow fire’ with ‘Bow fire’.

  (264) Reduced the illustration number from XVII to XVI (see erratum for Section 69). Replaced ‘Mindblast and Kai-surge’ with ‘Mindblast, Psi-surge, and Kai-surge’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘pugnacious Captain’ with ‘pugnacious captain’.

  (265) Replaced ‘bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’.

  (266) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’. Replaced ‘cross-winds’ with ‘crosswinds’. Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (267) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.

  (269) Split the final sentence into its own paragraph for consistency.

  (270) Replaced all occurrences of ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (272) Replaced ‘Sun Knight, or higher’ with ‘Sun Knight or higher’. Replaced ‘you increase you’ with ‘you increase your’.

  (273) Replaced ‘spell — Slow Fall — enables’ with ‘spell Slow Fall enables’.

  (275) Replaced ‘at its centre’ with ‘from its centre’. Replaced ‘round, by’ with ‘round by’.

  (277) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (278) Replaced ‘chaos-creatures’ with ‘Chaos-creatures’. Replaced ‘Chaos horde’ with ‘Chaos Horde’. Replaced ‘rounds, by’ with ‘rounds by’.

  (279) Replaced ‘shockwave’ with ‘shock wave’.

  (280) Replaced ‘wall, more’ with ‘wall more’.

  (281) Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘Mindblast and Kai-surge’ with ‘Mindblast, Psi-surge, and Kai-surge’. Added ‘If you win the fight and you used the Sommerswerd, turn to 173’. Replaced ‘If you win the fight,’ with ‘If you win the fight without using the Sommerswerd,’.

  (282) Replaced ‘dust, then’ with ‘dust, and then’.

  (283) Replaced ‘in which’ with ‘from which’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’. Replaced ‘them, or’ with ‘them or’.

  (284) Replaced ‘helmsman at the bow’ with ‘helmsman at the stern’. Replaced ‘swig, then’ with ‘swig, and then’.

  (285) Replaced ‘rope’ with ‘Rope’.

  (287) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘six round’ with ‘six rounds’. Added ‘If you used the Sommerswerd, turn to 238.’. Added ‘Kajarda are undead.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (288) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’. Replaced ‘Ziog: (damaged)’ with ‘Ziog (damaged)’.

  (289) Replaced ‘millenniums’ with ‘millennia’.

  (290) Replaced ‘millenniums’ with ‘millennia’. Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (294) Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’.

  (296) Replaced ‘gutteral’ with ‘guttural’.

  (297) Replaced ‘raidant’ with ‘radiant’. Removed ‘If you have reached the Kai rank of Sun Thane, turn to 273.’ since Section 273 assumes you have already used Kai-alchemy, whereas in Section 297 you have chosen not to use this Grand Master Discipline. Replaced ‘If you have yet to attain this level of Kai Mastery, turn to 49.’ to ‘Turn to 49.’.

  (299) Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (300) Replaced ‘attention, it’ with ‘attention; it’. Replaced ‘Ixian elder’ with ‘Ixian Elder’. Replaced �
��Kai sixth sense’ with ‘Kai Sixth Sense’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’. Reduced the illustration number from XVIII to XVII (see erratum for Section 69). Replaced ‘Kai-screen, and’ with ‘Kai-screen and’.

  (301) Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’. Replaced ‘demonlord's’ with ‘Demonlord's’. Replaced ‘en masse’ with ‘en masse’.

  (302) Replaced ‘swig, then’ with ‘swig, and then’.

  (307) Replaced ‘door, then’ with ‘door; then’.

  (308) Added ‘This being is immune to all forms of psychic attack, except Kai-surge and Kai-blast.’, copied from Section 341, earlier in the adventure.

  (309) Replaced ‘possess Sabito’ with ‘possess some Sabito’.

  (310) Replaced ‘but only to find’ with ‘only to find’. Replaced ‘Ixian undead’ with ‘Ixian Undead’. Reduced the illustration number from XIX to XVIII (see erratum for Section 69).

  (312) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘destroyed (erase two items of your own choosing from your Backpack list).’ with ‘destroyed. (Erase two items of your own choosing from your Backpack list.)’.

  (313) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.

  (317) Replaced ‘despatch’ with ‘dispatch’.

  (318) Replaced ‘chaos horde’ with ‘Chaos Horde’.

  (323) Replaced ‘rope’ with ‘Rope’. Replaced ‘If if’ with ‘If it’.

  (324) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

  (325) Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (327) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (328) Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (330) Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’.

  (332) Replaced ‘Thane, or higher’ with ‘Thane’ (Sun Thane is the highest possible rank).

  (333) Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’.

  (336) Replaced ‘Drakkarim undead’ with ‘Drakkarim Undead’.

  (338) Replaced ‘millenniums’ with ‘millennia’.

  (339) Replaced ‘korlinium scabbard’ with ‘Korlinium Scabbard’.

  (340) Replaced ‘main mast’ with ‘mainmast’. Reduced the illustration number from XX to XIX (see erratum for Section 69).

  (341) Replaced ‘demonlord's’ with ‘Demonlord's’. Replaced ‘If, at any time during this fight, you reduce Tagazin's ENDURANCE points score to 25 or less’ with ‘If you reduce Tagazin's ENDURANCE points score to 25 or less at any time during this fight’.

  (343) Replaced ‘by huge frozen fountain’ with ‘by a huge frozen fountain’. Replaced ‘Lord, or higher’ with ‘Lord or higher’. Replaced ‘crystal spire’ with ‘Crystal Spire’. Replaced ‘in the time of the Old Kingdoms’ with ‘at the beginning of the Age of Eternal Night’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (346) Replaced ‘Crack!’ with ‘crack!’.

  (347) Replaced ‘demonlord’ with ‘Demonlord’. Reduced the illustration number from XXI to XX (see erratum for Section 69).

  (350) Replaced ‘Ardan, ‘Is’ with ‘Ardan. ‘Is’. Replaced ‘county’ with ‘country’. Replaced ‘home, and’ with ‘home and’. Replaced ‘DAWN OF THE DRAGONS’ with ‘Dawn of the Dragons’. Replaced ‘grave news I'm afraid’ with ‘grave news, I'm afraid’.

  (Combat Rules Summary) Replaced ‘cross reference’ with ‘cross-reference’. Replaced ‘top of chart’ with ‘top of the chart’. Replaced ‘fall to 0’ with ‘falls to 0 or below’. Replaced ‘Kai Disciplines’ with ‘Grand Master Disciplines’. Replaced ‘Pick number from’ with ‘Pick a number from the’. Replaced ‘Turn to Combat’ with ‘Turn to the Combat’. Replaced ‘to random number’ with ‘to the random number’. Replaced ‘when ENDURANCE’ with ‘when the ENDURANCE’. Replaced ‘ignored, only’ with ‘ignored; only’.

  Note on Adjusted Combat Statistics

  Many enemies in this book have had their statistics altered in accordance with the Collector's Edition to balance the game. Here is a table to show which enemies have been altered.

  Revised combat statistics

  SectionEnemyOriginalCollector's Edition

  21 Ixian Gybia CS 50 EP 60 CS 45 EP 58

  23 Ixian Undead CS 48 EP 55 CS 46 EP 55

  27 Suggaz CS 44 EP 44 CS 40 EP 44

  35 3 Cabalah CS 56 EP 54 CS 53 EP 54

  50 Ixian Undead CS 47 EP 50 CS 42 EP 50

  67 Chaos-horde CS 50 EP 48 CS 46 EP 46

  111 Chaos-horde CS 46 EP 48 CS 43 EP 46

  121 Ziog CS 52 EP 44 CS 50 EP 44

  130 3 Cabalah CS 56 EP 54 CS 53 EP 54

  137 Chaos-horde CS 50 EP 48 CS 46 EP 46

  145 Chaos-horde CS 52 EP 50 CS 48 EP 50

  167 3 Cabalah CS 52 EP 54 CS 50 EP 54

  239 Ixian Undead CS 48 EP 55 CS 46 EP 55

  242 Ixian Undead CS 48 EP 55 CS 46 EP 55

  243 Drakkarim Undead CS 40 EP 42 CS 34 EP 42

  264 Cabalah CS 48 EP 45 CS 47 EP 45

  277 Ziog CS 49 EP 42 CS 48 EP 42

  278 Chaos-horde CS 52 EP 50 CS 48 EP 50

  281 3 Cabalah CS 56 EP 54 CS 53 EP 54

  285 Suggaz CS 44 EP 44 CS 40 EP 44

  310 Ixian Undead CS 45 EP 52 CS 43 EP 52

  336 Drakkarim Undead CS 40 EP 42 CS 34 EP 42

  337 Suggaz CS 44 EP 44 CS 40 EP 44

  Footnotes

  [1] (The Game Rules) The Discipline bonuses mentioned do not affect your permanent scores. If you have completed previous adventures, the Disciplines that you have mastered may still be beneficial. See the Grand Master Rules section of the Readers' Handbook for details.

  [2] (The Game Rules) If you have completed any previous Lone Wolf Grand Master adventures, remember to choose an additional Grand Master Discipline and add +1 to your basic COMBAT SKILL and +2 to your basic ENDURANCE for each adventure you successfully completed (cf. Grand Master Disciplines).

  [3] (Grand Master Disciplines) Weaponmastery bonuses are replaced by Grand Weaponmastery bonuses, not added cumulatively (cf. Lone Wolf Club Newsletter 28).

  If you have completed previous adventures, already possess the Magnakai Discipline of Weaponmastery with Bow, and have reached the rank of Mentora, it seems that you should already be able to add 5 to numbers picked from the Random Number Table (i.e. the basic Weaponmastery with Bow bonus of 3 added to the Mentora bonus of 2 for all missile weapons). Likely, the author intended the Weaponmastery bonus at the Mentora rank to be a ‘hidden loyalty bonus’ (cf. Lone Wolf Club Newsletter 28). In view of this, the +2 Mentora bonus is therefore not cumulative with Grand Weaponmastery with Bow.

  Certain sections direct the reader to use different bonuses when using a Bow, ranging from 3 to 5, if you have Grand Weaponmastery with Bow. This may be the author adjusting the Grand Weaponmastery bonus on a case-by-case basis (and therefore this bonus should be used instead of the standard bonus) or an error (and therefore all of these bonuses should be 5). It is up to you to decide, but it seems most reasonable to follow the first alternative, to replace the Grand Weaponmastery bonus with whatever bonus is mentioned in that section.

  [4] (Section 10) This is the correct answer to the grid lock in Section 69.

  [5] (Section 20) This is the correct answer to the ancient, green crystal lock in Section 213.

  [6] (Section 22) If you have not visited the city of Darke, only turn to Section 305 if you met Captain Prarg at the Battle of Cetza.

  [7] (Section 23) In view of Banedon's comments in Section 339, it would seem that you should not use the Sommerswerd in this combat.

  [8] (Section 50) In view of Banedon's comments in Section 339, it would seem that you should not use the Sommerswerd in this combat.

  [9] (Section 69) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct. You have only one chance to guess at the correct answer. If you guess incorrect
ly, turn immediately to 139.

  [10] (Section 100) This is the correct answer to the intricate lockplate in the centre of the green crystal door in Section 322.

  [11] (Section 150) In other words, have you ever visited the domain of the Demoness Shamath?

  [12] (Section 213) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct. You have only one chance to guess at the correct answer. If you guess incorrectly, turn immediately to 199.

  [13] (Section 214) According to Lone Wolf, The Roleplaying Game (© 2004): ‘As trapped by the wave of unlife as his people, Ixiataaga has researched the lore of death and magic for ten millennia.’ This indicates that Deathlord Ixiataaga is indeed undead, so remember that you inflict double ENDURANCE point losses against him.

  [14] (Section 234) It seems logical that you should deduct 1 ENDURANCE point due to this use of Kai-surge.

  [15] (Section 239) There is no path which leads to this section of the book. It is functionally identical to Section 23 and Section 242, and therefore its isolation does not affect the gameplay of the book. also, in view of Banedon's comments in Section 339, it would seem that you should not use the Sommerswerd in this combat.

  [16] (Section 242) In view of Banedon's comments in Section 339, it would seem that you should not use the Sommerswerd in this combat.

  [17] (Section 303) If you possess the Sommerswerd, Section 98 of Dawn of the Dragons suggests that you may be able to add 4 to your COMBAT SKILL when using it in the Plane of Darkness (in addition to all other combat bonuses for this Special Item).

  [18] (Section 322) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct. You have only one chance to guess at the correct answer. If you guess incorrectly, turn immediately to 84.