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The Shandman

The Shandman was a popular comic that spun off from The Elemenstor Cycle. Created by popular artist with silly silly hair Spiel Wyfflass, the long-reaching comic told the story of the titular Archbishop, Shandman. To the children of Battal, the Shandman was a magical being that sprinkled an enchanted and dubious mucour known as Shand onto children, bringing them alertness and a slight case of the wiggins directed at something they can't quite explain; in the comic, the Shandman was a higher god on the side, and dressed in snazzy and distinctly modern clothes while having crazy misadventures throughout the "Wakescape" of Battal, which is really just Battal as seen through a constant caffine buzz.

While the early comics are heavily integrated into the universe we all know and love, as the series went on, the setting quickly became an "anyplace" where, aside from the occasional cameo appearance or recognizable beastie, there was very little to discern it from most other fantasy settings, which disappointed some ELOTH:TES fans but made the series more approachable to non-fans (may the scales one day fall from their eyes).

The Shandman is perhaps most popular because of Shandman's younger sister, a flashily-dressed goddess of raucus folk music known as Depeche Maude.