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{{quote|''Some of the other children had no father, but their lack was honourable. Their Dad died in the war, you know. He was a hero. This boy's lack was the subject of sly whispers from the adults, and open jeering from his peers. This boy's mother was, the boy heard so many times, a whore. The word was less hurtful than the blows that would follow it. Most of the blows came from other children, but sometimes adults too would weigh in.''
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▲{{quote|''Some of the other children had no father, but their lack was honourable. Their Dad died in the war, you know. He was a hero. This boy's lack was the subject of sly whispers from the adults, and open jeering from his peers. This boy's mother was, the boy heard so many times, a whore. The word was less hurtful than the blows that would follow it. Most of the blows came from other children, but sometimes adults too would weigh in.''|'''David Gemmell'''}}
Possibly the most prolific (he was known to write an entire 500 page novel in ''one weekend'') [[Heroic Fantasy]] writer of all time, David Gemmell was born in West London in 1948. He had a harsh and violent upbringing in a tough urban area, and was raised alone by his mother until the age of six. His stepfather, Bill, compelled him to take up boxing to learn how to stand up for himself, rather than run away or hide behind a wall. This philosophy would later colour a great deal of his writing. He was expelled from school at the age of 16 for organising a gambling syndicate and was arrested several times throughout his youth, [[Curb Stomp Battle|mostly for ending fights.]] He was once described by a psychologist's report as a psychopath.
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** Not really for Shannow, he only really meets two tribes in the first novel and both play large roles
* [[Warrior Monk]]: The Thirty.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Villainous example. In ''Winter Warriors'', the [[Big Bad]] sends [[The Lord of the Rings|nine]] [[Shout-Out|nearly invincible demonic warriors]] after the heroes. They have super-strength, inhuman stamina and fighting skill, can track humans by scent, and are immune to edged weapons. In fact, they're only vulnerable to two things—namely, wood and water. [[Hilarity Ensues|Cue lots of impalement on sprung branches and getting pushed off bridges to a humiliating and watery grave]].
** A slightly less glaring weakness in the case of the [[Exclusively Evil|Daroth]] from the one-shot novel ''Dark Moon''. They're huge, fearsomely strong and [[Made of Iron|almost unkillably tough by conventional means]], but [[Kill It with Fire|'burn like wax']].
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]? Helikaon, on more than on occasion.
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