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''Blackguards'' is a an anthology of anti-hero and rogue-themed stories published Creator/RagnarokPublications and given an intro by Creator/GlenCook. It is notable for being funded by one of the most successful literary Kickstarters of all time.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Infamously, Creator/GlenCook did this for the Foreword. He opened the book by praising BlackAndBlackMorality VillainProtagonist types, even citing ''Literature/TheIronDream.'' This, despite the book being mostly LighterAndSofter fair about heroes on the wrong side of the law. It becomes MoodWhiplash when the second Foreword by the editor, J.M. Martin, following immediately after Glenn Cook's, talks about how his favorite rogue was ''Bilbo Baggins''
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Infamously, Creator/GlenCook did this for the Foreword. He opened the book by praising BlackAndBlackMorality EvilVersusEvil VillainProtagonist types, even citing ''Literature/TheIronDream.'' This, despite the book being mostly LighterAndSofter fair about heroes on the wrong side of the law. It becomes MoodWhiplash when the second Foreword by the editor, J.M. Martin, following immediately after Glenn Cook's, talks about how his favorite rogue was ''Bilbo Baggins''
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Literature/TalesOfTheOtori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Creator/CarolBerg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's [[Literature/TheBlastedLandsSeries Seven Forges]], Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's ''Literature/GnomeSaga'', Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Literature/TalesOfTheOtori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Creator/CarolBerg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's [[Literature/TheBlastedLandsSeries Seven Forges]], Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Creator/LauraResnick's ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'', Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's ''Literature/GnomeSaga'', Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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** It becomes MoodWhiplash when the second Foreword by the editor, J.M. Martin, following immediately after Glenn Cook's, talks about how his favorite rogue was ''Bilbo Baggins''
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Infamously, Creator/GlenCook did this for the Foreword. He opened the book by praising BlackAndBlackMorality VillainProtagonist types, even citing ''Literature/TheIronDream.'' This, despite the book being mostly LighterAndSofter fair about heroes on the wrong side of the law.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Rümayesh is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabia who keeps enraptured slaves.
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* HitmanWithAHeart: Mainon is one of these, being a woman who only kills those who have it coming.
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* VillainProtagonist: Averted, surprisingly, for the majority of stories. Most of the heroes fall into the LovableRogue category.
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** Averted, surprisingly, for the majority of stories. Most of the heroes fall into the LovableRogue category.
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Literature/TalesOfTheOtori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Creator/CarolBerg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Literature/SevenForges, [[Literature/TheBlastedLandsSeries Seven Forges]], Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's ''Literature/GnomeSaga'', Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Literature/TalesOfTheOtori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Creator/CarolBerg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Literatue/SevenForges, Literature/SevenForges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's ''Literature/GnomeSaga'', Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Literature/TalesOfTheOtori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Creator/CarolBerg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Literatue/SevenForges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's ''Literature/GnomeSaga'', Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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* MoodWhiplash: Quite a few of the stories suffer from this but the stand-out is ''A Length of Cherrywood'' which is a horrific story of a CompleteMonster slaver in a book of DeadpanSnarker LighterAndSofter GuileHero types.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The assassin in ''The Long Kiss.'' [[spoiler: She cuts the face off the CompleteMonster bandit of the story after his confession and turns it into a mask--apparently what her order does.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The assassin in ''The Long Kiss.'' [[spoiler: She cuts the face off the CompleteMonster bandit of the story after his confession and turns it into a mask--apparently what her order does.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Najdan is a figure who believes in following his religious order's commands no matter what.
* {{Expy}}: Royce and Hadrian have quite a few similarities to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, though they're more inspired by them than direct take offs.
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* GentlemanThief: Quite a few of the rogues.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The assassin in ''The Long Kiss.'' [[spoiler: She cuts the face off the CompleteMonster bandit of the story after his confession and turns it into a mask--apparently what her order does.]]
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* ASimplePlan: Impersonating a diplomat, a priest, and a marriage counselor for a Troll chieftain in ''Troll Trouble.''
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* ActionGirl: Mainon, Jancy, Irindai, and Swech Tothis Durwrae.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Rümayesh is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabia who keeps enraptured slaves.
** Averted in ''Friendship'' which is built around a nobleman who is trying to call off the murder on his lover.
* DepravedHomosexual: Rümayesh is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabia who keeps enraptured slaves.
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* FantasticDrug: The villainess in Irindai sells literal dreams.
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** Averted in ''Friendship'' which is built around a nobleman who is trying to call off the murder on his lover.
* GuileHero: A good half of the protagonists.
* DepravedHomosexual: The villainess of Irindai is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabia who keeps enraptured slaves.
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dreams to her customers. It's what gives her the godlike control over her followers she has.
* GuileHero: A good half of theprotagonists.
* DepravedHomosexual: The villainess of Irindai is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabiaprotagonists. Perhaps best displayed by Selden who keeps enraptured slaves.
** Avertedcomes up with a bizarre XanatosGambit to trick an incubus out of a Troll chieftain in ''Friendship'' which is built around a nobleman who is trying to call off the murder on his lover.''Troll Trouble.''
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* HitmanWithAHeart: Mainon is one of these, being a woman who only kills those who have it coming.
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* MuggingTheMonster: ''The Betyar and the Magus'' is a story about how a nobleman turned bandit screws up by robbing a powerful wizard on the road.
* TheReveal: Done brilliantly with a BaitAndSwitch in ''Professional Integrity.'' [[spoiler: The obvious twist the daughter is a werewolf being locked up on the full moon turns out to have been a double-blind to distract her nobleman father from the fact they're smuggling goods through his basement. The girl actually doesn't suffer from lycanthropy at all but is being drugged and substituted with a wolf through stage magic.]]
* ASimplePlan: Impersonating a diplomat, a priest, and a marriage counselor for a Troll chieftain in ''Troll Trouble.''
* TheReveal: Done brilliantly with a BaitAndSwitch in ''Professional Integrity.'' [[spoiler: The obvious twist the daughter is a werewolf being locked up on the full moon turns out to have been a double-blind to distract her nobleman father from the fact they're smuggling goods through his basement. The girl actually doesn't suffer from lycanthropy at all but is being drugged and substituted with a wolf through stage magic.]]
* ASimplePlan: Impersonating a diplomat, a priest, and a marriage counselor for a Troll chieftain in ''Troll Trouble.''
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* AllStarCast: A fairly prestigious number of fantasy authors were involved despite the indie nature of the book.
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* XanatosGambit: Quite a few of these are in the story. For example, Mainon is about a complicated plan to assassinate a Duke [[spoiler: by hiring a famed assassin to protect him]] while ''Professional Integrity'' is about a poor woman [[spoiler: who has been framed for]] suffering a werewolf curse.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The Kindle version is over seven hundred pages long.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Infamously, Creator/GlenCook did this for the Foreword. He did his without reading the book and praised BlackAndBlackMorality VillainProtagonist types, even citing ''Literature/TheIronDream.'' This, despite the book being mostly LighterAndSofter fair about heroes on the wrong side of the law.
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* MoodWhiplash: Quite a few of the stories suffer from this but the stand-out is ''A Length of Cherrywood'' which is a horrific story of a CompleteMonster slaver in a book of DeadpanSnarker LighterAndSofter GuileHeroe types.
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* CynicismVersusIdealism: A running theme in the book as the majority of the rogues are frustrated idealists.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Prevalent.
* DeadpanSnarker: Prevalent.
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, ''Literature/GnomeSaga'', Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
* TheAtoner: Rosenwyn doesn't want to be a thief anymore, which makes her unique in the book's cast.
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A FANTASY ANTHOLOGY featuring the deadly, the worldly, and the sneaky. BLACKGUARDS consists mainly of stories in established series, and the authors range from wildly successful indie authors to New York Times bestsellers.
Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
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''Whether by coin or by blood... YOU WILL PAY.''
A FANTASY ANTHOLOGY featuring the deadly, the worldly, and the sneaky. BLACKGUARDS consists mainly of stories in established series, and the authors range from wildly successful indie authors to New York Times bestsellers.
Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
''Blackguards'' is a anthology of anti-hero and rogue-themed stories published Creator/RagnarokPublications and given an intro by Creator/GlenCook. It is notable for being funded by one of the most successful literary Kickstarters of all time.
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* ActionGirl: Mainon, Jancy, Irindai, and Swech Tothis Durwrae.
* AllStarCast: A fairly prestigious number of fantasy authors were involved despite the indie nature of the book.
* {{Antihero}}: Almost all of the heroes fall into one of the categories with most of them fitting into the upper side of the equation.
* AssholeVictim: Most of the villains in the story. Played exceptionally straight in ''The Long Kiss'' where the victim is horrifically butchered but, honestly, had it coming.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: A feature in many of the stories.
* ClassyCatBurglar: A few of the women.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Infamously, Creator/GlenCook did this for the Foreword. He did his without reading the book and praised BlackAndBlackMorality VillainProtagonist types, even citing ''Literature/TheIronDream.'' This, despite the book being mostly LighterAndSofter fair about heroes on the wrong side of the law.
** It becomes MoodWhiplash when the second Foreword by the editor, following immediately after, talks about how his favorite rogue was ''Bilbo Baggins''
* GuileHero: A good half of the protagonists.
* DepravedHomosexual: The villainess of Irindai is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabia who keeps enraptured slaves.
** Averted in ''Friendship'' which is built around a nobleman who is trying to call off the murder on his lover.
* GentlemanThief: Quite a few of the rogues.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Royce and Hadrian are these.
* LovableRogue: The majority of protagonists tend to be one of these.
* VillainProtagonist: Averted, surprisingly, for the majority of stories. Most of the heroes fall into the LovableRogue category.
** Played straight in ''A Length of Cherrywood'' where the protagonist is complete scum.
*** Also played straight in ''The Secret.''
* XanatosGambit: Quite a few of these are in the story. For example, Mainon is about a complicated plan to assassinate a Duke while ''Professional Integrity'' is about a poor woman who [[spoiler: has been framed]] as suffering a werewolf curse.
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A FANTASY ANTHOLOGY featuring the deadly, the worldly, and the sneaky. BLACKGUARDS consists mainly of stories in established series, and the authors range from wildly successful indie authors to New York Times bestsellers.
Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more.
''Blackguards'' is a anthology of anti-hero and rogue-themed stories published Creator/RagnarokPublications and given an intro by Creator/GlenCook. It is notable for being funded by one of the most successful literary Kickstarters of all time.
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* ActionGirl: Mainon, Jancy, Irindai, and Swech Tothis Durwrae.
* AllStarCast: A fairly prestigious number of fantasy authors were involved despite the indie nature of the book.
* {{Antihero}}: Almost all of the heroes fall into one of the categories with most of them fitting into the upper side of the equation.
* AssholeVictim: Most of the villains in the story. Played exceptionally straight in ''The Long Kiss'' where the victim is horrifically butchered but, honestly, had it coming.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: A feature in many of the stories.
* ClassyCatBurglar: A few of the women.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Infamously, Creator/GlenCook did this for the Foreword. He did his without reading the book and praised BlackAndBlackMorality VillainProtagonist types, even citing ''Literature/TheIronDream.'' This, despite the book being mostly LighterAndSofter fair about heroes on the wrong side of the law.
** It becomes MoodWhiplash when the second Foreword by the editor, following immediately after, talks about how his favorite rogue was ''Bilbo Baggins''
* GuileHero: A good half of the protagonists.
* DepravedHomosexual: The villainess of Irindai is an example of this, being a lesbian drug dealer in fantasy Arabia who keeps enraptured slaves.
** Averted in ''Friendship'' which is built around a nobleman who is trying to call off the murder on his lover.
* GentlemanThief: Quite a few of the rogues.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Royce and Hadrian are these.
* LovableRogue: The majority of protagonists tend to be one of these.
* VillainProtagonist: Averted, surprisingly, for the majority of stories. Most of the heroes fall into the LovableRogue category.
** Played straight in ''A Length of Cherrywood'' where the protagonist is complete scum.
*** Also played straight in ''The Secret.''
* XanatosGambit: Quite a few of these are in the story. For example, Mainon is about a complicated plan to assassinate a Duke while ''Professional Integrity'' is about a poor woman who [[spoiler: has been framed]] as suffering a werewolf curse.
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