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Author's Notes

Into the Forge is the first book of the duology of Hel's Crucible.
Along with the second book, Into the Fire, it tells the tale of the Great
War of the Ban, as seen through the eyes of two Warrows, Tipperton
Thistledown and Beau Darby.
It is a story which begins in the year 2195 of the Second Era of
Mithgar, a time when the Rapt are yet free to roam about in daylight as
well as night, although it is told that they prefer to do their deeds in
darkness rather than under the sun.
The story of the Ban War was reconstructed from several sources,
not the least of which were the Thistledown Lays. I have in several
places filled in the gaps with assumptions of my own, but in the main the
tale is true to its source material.
As occurs in other of my Mithgarian works, there are many instances
where in the press of the moment, the humans, Mages, Elves, and others
spoke in their native tongues; yet to avoid burdensome translations,
where necessary I have rendered their words in Pellarion, the Common
Tongue of Mithgar. However, in several cases I have left the language
unchanged, to demonstrate the fact that many tongues were found
throughout Mithgar. Additionally, some words and phrases do not lend
themselves to translation, and these I've either left unchanged or, in
special cases, I have enclosed in angle brackets a substitute term which
gives the "flavor" of the word (i.e.... and the like). Additionally, sundry
words may look to be in error, but indeed are correct—e.g., DelfLord
is but a single word though a capital L nestles among its letters.
The Elven language of Syiva is rather archaic and formal. To capture
this flavor, I have properly used thee and thou, hast, dost, and the like;
however, in the interest of readability, I have tried to do so in a minimal
fashion, eliminating some of the more archaic terms.
For the curious, the w in Rwn takes on the sound of uu (w is, after
all, a double-u), which in turn can be said to sound like oo (as in spoon).
Hence, Rwn is not pronounced Renn, but instead is pronounced Roon,
or Rune.




But Mithgar . . . Mithgar is yet wild,
tempestuous, unkempt, savage, turbulent,
exciting. We come here to feel alive.




Into the Forge