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CONTENTS

STORY ONE:

  1. THE SHADOW BEAST

  2. A CIRCLE OF STONE

  3. INTO THE PAST

  4. ERRIN’S HALL

  5. A HERO’S DEATH

  6. POISON

  7. FORGOTTEN

STORY TWO:

  1. SORCERY!

  2. NOTHING PERSONAL

  3. FIREPOS

  4. THE STUPIDITY OF HEROES

  5. THE GIANT NEST

  6. CURSED AVANTIANS

  7. HERE LIES A HERO

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STORY ONE

BEHOLD THE BEAST!

Petorix, the Winged Slicer… Her scales glittered as she flew. Vicious were her talons, and her foul tongue dripped with deadly venom. She ravaged the village, tore Errin’s Hall apart.

Yet bold Tanner feared nothing. Astride Firepos the Flame Bird, he came to face the savage Beast. He soared up high, then down he leapt. His sword flashed like lightning. He grasped Petorix by her leathery wing and clung on as she fought to shake him.

But the warrior was too strong.

With a single blow, he struck her head from her shoulders. Then down they fell until she met her doom, perishing at last in the village she had wasted.

Thus Tanner, Master of the Beasts, vanquished the wicked Petorix!

Extract from The Chronicles of Avantia