Fabled Lands : Lords of the Rising Sun

FABLED LANDS is an epic series of interactive books with the scope of a massively multiplayer game world. You can choose to be an explorer, merchant, priest, scholar or soldier of fortune. You can buy a ship or a townhouse, join a temple, undertake desperate adventures in the wilderness or embroil yourself in court intrigues and the sudden violence of city backstreets. You can undertake missions that will earn you allies and enemies, or you can remain a free agent. With thousands of quests and locations to explore, the choices are all yours.

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SET OUT ON A JOURNEY OF FABULOUS ADVENTURE

The Lords of the Rising Sun hold absolute power over the exotic kingdom of Akatsurai. But proud warrior clans constantly seek to overthrow them. In the turmoil of war there are countless opportunities for a quick-witted adventurer. Will you spy for the Shogun? Will you pledge your life to the Sovereign as one of his chivalrous knights? Or just play one side against the other in your pursuit of riches and power?

Track down the elusive, raven-winged Tengu to learn the secret arts of sorcery and swordplay. Defeat the vampires, skilled in martial arts, who guard the Lost Tomb of the Necromancer. Enter the dreadful cloisters of the Noboro Monastery, where you will fight the most dangerous opponent of all ? yourself ...

A thousand quests await you and every decision is in your hands. Be whoever you choose, go anywhere you please, do anything you want ? the only limit is your imagination.

The choices are unlimited, the adventures endless, in the fantastic role-playing world of the FABLED LANDS.

Dave Morris is an award-winning game designer and #1 top-selling author. He has written more than two dozen choose-you-own style gamebooks with worldwide sales in the millions. His recent interactive reworking of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN won critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, with Salon.com describing it as "maybe the best interactive fiction yet." He is also the creator and writer of the epic graphic novel MIRABILIS: YEAR OF WONDERS. Jamie Thomson is the best-selling author of DARK LORD: THE EARLY YEARS and a shortlisted contender for the 2012 Roald Dahl Prize. With Dave, he is co-founder of Spark Furnace, a creative studio dedicated to originating worlds, characters and properties that span media from print to games to television.