Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Katherine Kurtz’s “Deryni Rising”, sarcophagi, achieving literary liftoff, the Brandon-to-Demos scale, fantasy worlds with real-life historical cultures, female fantasy authors writing under their own names, scattered hidden magical races, Empire of the Petal Throne, AD&D psionics, counterspells, adventure hooks to clear a character’s name, Dragon Magazine and White Dwarf Magazine on archive.org, and much more!
Appendix N Book Club 
I never got too deep into the Deryni books, but my intro to them was the short story “Swords Against the Marluck”. Not a lot of story, but definitely an exciting scene and some lore building.
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