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Book 1: Extreme

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Book 1: Extreme

Released in the United States on November 12, 2006 by Realmworlds Publishing. (Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the release of The Elemenstor Cycle, Book 1: The Fires of Mount Windice) ISBN 0-142699-019-X. Sold both separately or packaged with Book 1: Romance as part of the Epic Legends Bloody Love Commemorative Edition.

Cover Art

The cover features a heavily-armored screaming Horatio wielding a lance and charging into battle. A blood red army looms behind him as lightning crashes all around.

Dust Jacket Notes

Outside Cover

Return to an ancient and epic land where great warriors rode into fierce combat. Hear the tale as you've never heard it before! Witness the largest cast of characters ever assembled on the field of battle, and see their epic conflict play out in painstaking detail.

Note: Although technically Tycho Brahe is listed as the official author, closer inspection of the book jacket reveals the words "inspired by the licensed property of" printed in five point type just above Brahe's name.

Inside Flap (front and back)

In honor of it's 10th anniversary, witness this new re-telling of Tycho Brahe's classic Elemenstor Cycle, told through the eyes of the dark entity who started it all. Featuring all new weapons, items, and battles. Unlock new secrets of Battal, and meet exciting and violent new characters.

Features:

  • Seventeen new characters encountered by Horatio and Bibee on their epic quest.
  • New weapons found, wielded, or mentioned by every character.
  • Detailed maps of epic battlefields, including 23 all-new regions.
  • More characters per chapter than ever before.
  • Reduced metaphor for greater clarity.
  • Enhanced dialog for rapid chapter completion.

Jacket quotes

"Promising.” - GameSpank Magazine

Notes:

Book 1: Extreme was released along with Book 1: Epic and Book 1:Romance as part of the 10th anniversary re-writes that have caused so much controversy among the fan base. Told from the perspective of the Pixlie Bibee, Extreme is probably the most perplexing of the three editions, as it departs most drastically from the format of all the other books in the cycle.

Bibee's first person account of the epic opens strong, with the deeply emotional and baroque dialog expected of a Brahe work. It degenerates quickly, however, into a series of stiff accounts of various battles fought or witnessed during Horatio's quest. Most of the battles are heavily embellished. A friendly Tribbit muck-throwing fight, for example, quickly builds into a 10,000-man assault on a local castle, complete with siege engines and arbalests, neither of which Tribbits are known to employ in combat. Other battles appear out of sequence, in regions of Battal unknown at this point in the story, or feature characters who were not technically alive at the time, or even in The Elemenstor Cycle.

The book also includes an impressive array of maps, illustrations, tables, and color plates which gradually overtake the actual prose of the story. Towards the end of the book, chapters consist mainly of sketchy illustrations, short synopses of the story relevant to the upcoming combat, lists of goals for the characters to accomplish before the end of the chapter, and trash talk between warriors.

Some have speculated that Book 1: Extreme may actually be derived from the treatment of a possible sequel to the video game The Ravages of Time and Lords, and that the discontinuation of that series may have prompted the publishers to recoup some of their development losses by repackaging their pre-production design documents as a new edition of the cycle. Others suggest that there actually IS a forthcoming sequel, and that this book is merely the first of many promotional materials to see the light of day.

Comments

I've heard some comments that this book is even more bloody than the Iliad, which is saying something. -bfg00-

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