"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."The adventure begins when Ben Holiday, a successful lawyer whose wife died two years earlier, flips through a Christmas Wishbook and comes across a rather unusual advertisment:
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836 (Self Reliance)
Landover-island of enchanted and adventure rescued form the mists of time, home of knights and knaves, of dragons and damsels, of wizards and warlocks. Magic mixes with iron, and chivalry is the code of life for the true hero. All of your fantasies become real in this kingdom from another world. Only one thread to this whole cloth is lacking-you, to rule over all as King and High Lord. Escape into your dreams, and be born again.
Price:$1,000,000MAGIC KINGDOM FOR SALE
Personal interview and financial disclosure.
Inquire of Meeks, home office.
Ben answers the ad but realises that Landover is actually a dilapidating country in need of more than a good king: it needs a miracle; it needs the Paladin. To help Ben through his adventures are a wizard, who is lacking any skill, the court scribe, who was turned into a dog, a sylph, and two Kobolds.
