History Literature / AssassinsOfAllansia

* AvengingTheVillain: Poor you! Why are you being hunted? Lord Azzur has your face on a Wanted Poster for the murder of Zanbar Bone from ''Literature/CityOfThieves1983'', he's a disciple of Zanbar and much of his power over Port Blacksand is derived from being known for having Zanbar's patronage.

* StealthSequel: The story events take place after ''Literature/CityOfThieves1983'', where your character is possibly (but highly unlikely) to be the hero from that story.

* AnAxeToGrind: With Dax the Axe.

* WeaponOfChoice: All the assassins use a different gimmick.

* GoodThingMyShieldWillProtectMe: On the island, you can find a barrel floating near the beach. Swimming out to it, you find the bronze Shield of Sentinels which you recover. This will greatly help you against dragon flame and arrows, and not too shabby in melee too.

* AquiredPoisonImmunity: In this case, it's the Death Hand spell. If you were victimized by an ancient version of this back on the island, you'll develop a resistance which saves you against an assassin that tries the spell on you.

* DoomedByCanon: That friendly barbarian Throm, he'll [[spoiler: end up getting bitten by a poisonous snake in the Trial of Champions. The poison will drive him mad, forcing the eventual winner to kill him. And unless there's been a retcon, that winner cannot be you as the champion had never encountered Throm before.]]

* NoFairCheating: When you're tallying up the number of assassins you've killed, there are options for more than the book actually contains, and trying to choose that automatically gets you shunted to the ending where you're killed from behind.

* AnAxToGrind: With Dax the Axe.

** AnAxeToGrind: With Dax the Axe.

[[caption-width-right:325: An Allansian Assassin and his [[AddedAliterativeAppeal absurdly acute armament]].]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Even if you manage to kill all the assassins, in the end you still only have two choices: immediate death at the hands of the city guards, or probable death in the maze of Literature/DeathtrapDungeon.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Even if you manage to kill all the assassins, in the end you still only have two choices: immediate death at the hands of the city guards, or likely death in the maze of Literature/DeathtrapDungeon.]]

* {{Prequel}}: [[spoiler:The book turns out to be a lead-up to the events of ''Literature/DeathtrapDungeon''.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Even if you manage to defeat all the assassins, in the end you only have two choices: immediate death at the hands of the city guards, or likely death in the maze of Literature/DeathtrapDungeon.]]

* CallBack: [[spoiler:The book turns out to be a lead-up to the events of ''Literature/DeathtrapDungeon''.]]

''Assassins of Allansia'' is the 68th book in the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' series of [[{{Gamebook}} gamebooks]]. It was written by serious co-creator Ian Livingstone and published in 2019.

In it, the reader controls a down on their luck adventurer who's taken a bet to live rough on an isolated island to earn a much-needed pouch of gold. However they haven't been there a night before it turns out someone has put a bounty on their head, attracting an entire rogues gallery of dangerous characters the reader will have to outwit and outfight if they hope to survive.

* CallBack: [[spoiler: The book turns out to be a lead-up to the events of ''Literature/DeathtrapDungeon''.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Even if you manage to defeat all the assassins, in the end you only have two choices: immediate death at the hands of the city guards, or likely death in the maze of Literature/DeathtrapDungeon.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Even if you manage to defeat all the assassins, in the end you only have two choices: immediate death at the hands of the city guards, or likely death in the maze of ''Literature/DeathtrapDungeon.]]

''Assassins of Allansia'' is the 68th book in the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' series of gamebooks. It was written by serious co-creator Ian Livingstone and published in 2019.