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An Excess Of Enchantments
Verse the Second in The Ballad of Wuntvor
Craig Shaw Gardner

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"Things are not always what they seem."

--Words (which some expected to be his

last) spoken by Ebenezum, greatest

wizard of the Western Kingdoms, when he

was discovered in close and personal

consultation with Queen Vivazia of

Humboldt by the queen's husband, King

Snerdlot the Vengeful. Unfortunately,

the following statements made by the

king to his elite assassin guards, as

well as the reply uttered by the wizard

as he climbed down the battlements of

Humboldt castle in his nightshirt,

have been lost to posterity.

Once upon a time, in a land very, very far away, there traveled a
young lad who wanted to see the world. Now this lad's name was
Wuntvor, and he wished to be an adventurer and visit that distant
place from which every morning came the sun. As he grew toward
manhood, he would look out his bedroom window

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each dawn as he awoke, and watch the sun rise. He began to think of
it as his friend, and he imagined the blazing orb beckoned to him,
calling Wuntvor to come and see its home.

So it was that Wuntvor left his native land and journeyed east. He
walked for many days, until the days turned into weeks, but Wuntvor