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'''Lyndon Hardy''' is an American fantasy author.
He wrote a loosely-linked fantasy trilogy set in a world with five magical systems: Thaumaturgy ([[Sympathetic Magic]]), Alchemy (magic potions), Magic (creation of new [[Ancient Artifact
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* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: In ''Riddle of the Seven Realms'', the protagonists fly suspended beneath a balloon made out of lead. Astron, a demon to whom the human world's physics is new and fascinating, had simply improvised a substitute when the conveyance's original balloon was punctured by arrows, unaware that a "lead balloon" was considered preposterous by humans.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: ''Secret of the Sixth Magic'' has an in-universe example (involving ''another world's'' history) -- the sorcerer Farnel is said to have lost out in competitions against other illusion-crafters, because his simulations of famous historical events succumbed to [[Anachronism Stew]]. Apparently this trope isn't just universal, it's multiversal.
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