Decados Fiefs (for the Fading Suns RPG)
Published by Holistic Design Inc.
Written by Gabriel Zarate
Cover and Interior Art by John Bridges
32 pages (plus inside covers); $7.95
Fething, lad -- mind if I call you Feth? Yes? Fething it is . . . er, Sir Fething, of course -- you want an entertaining play about the Decados, you came to the right place. The Masque guild is more than willing to help you out. We'll write it, we'll act it, we'll find the folks who'll do the magic lantern shows. No trouble!
Now, there's just the slightest problem . . . almost not worth mentioning, really.
Which? Ah. Well, as you'll recall, you wanted your epic to span all the Decados worlds, right? Right. Well, we've done some preliminary research, and let me say this has proven no easy task.
We'd thought we found the perfect tome for the subject. See, we have a few . . . friends in the Imperial palace, if you know of what I speak, and have as such gained access to a tome entitled Decados Fiefs provided by a Sir Klimenty Decados to Emperor Alexius Hawkwood himself, and the fifth in the Imperial Survey series of books intended to broaden the knowledge and scope of the Empire.
Sir Klimenty, of course, is one of the few nobles of House Decados -- a noble house with a reputation, I'm sure I need not say, for depravity as well as wit and charm -- to join the Emperor's Questing Knights. So I was expecting a certain amount of intrigue and obfuscation with this report. But perhaps above all, I was expecting it . . .
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Article publication date: March 29, 2002
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