Legend is a life and death struggle with a horde of eastern Mongol types on the march and primed to invade the Drenai. Obviously, our civilization has collapsed and a medieval level society and technology has emerged with no knowledge of the past. Dale Rippke’s old Dark Storm website had the world of the Drenai set thousands of year in the future. Legend is set in Gemmell’s imaginary world of the Drenai. You can’t go wrong with bad-ass warrior with a Celtic name. There were some Pictish kings with the name Drust in the early Middle Ages. The name Druss is a variation on the Celtic name Drust/Drustan/Tristan. Legend is one of the ultimate siege novels of all time. Fortunately for us, he produced a steady and large number of novels from 1984 until his death.ĭavid Gemmell wrote his first novel Legend during a cancer scare where he thought he was staring at death. This was a blow to the sword and sorcery field. We lost David Gemmell ten years ago on Jfrom complications after heart surgery. In that time, David Gemmell (1948-2006) almost kept sword and sorcery alive single-handed. There was a time between the collapse of sword and sorcery publishing in 1985 and before George R.
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