Battleblade Warrior

Battleblade Warrior is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Marc Gascoigne, illustrated by David Gallagher and originally published in 1988 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 31st in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-032412-7). There are currently no announced plans to republish this book as part of the modern Wizard series.

Story

For six years Vymorna has been besieged... but soon it must fall to the evil Lizard Men. Day after day you fight alongside your war-weary mother, Queen Perriel, but only divine assistance can save you now.

Then the great Lord Telak appears in a dream. YOU are the one chosen to seek out the weapon which will aid you and your city against the dark forces. Your mission will be fraught with danger but you must succeed... YOU are Vymorna's only hope!

Battleblade Warrior in the usual Fighting Fantasy setting of Titan, on the continent of Allansia, and revolves around the besieged city of Vymorna. The player assumes the role of the city's prince who, upon receiving a vision from the god Telak Swordbearer, slips out through the ranks of the Lizard Man invaders in pursuit of a means to end the invasion once and for all. A particularly memorable scene in the book is a sequence based around an Orc funeral.

According to Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World, the Lizard King in Island of the Lizard King (book #7 of the original series) is a former prison commandant employed by the same Lizard Man Empire that besiege the city of Vymorna.

See also

• Fighting Fantasy
• List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
• Island of the Lizard King, which also pits the reader against Lizard Men enemies

References

• "Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org".
• "Battleblade Warrior on gamebooks.org".
• "Battleblade Warrior on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site".