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''Blood Sword'' is a series of gamebooks created by Oliver Johnson and Dave Morris and published by Knight Books in the late 1980s. It was set in the invented fantasy world of "Legend", the authors' own fantasy world, which was the setting for their Dragon Warriors role playing game too. The storyline involved a group of [[An Adventurer Is You|adventurers]] who, after emerging victorious from a grueling adventure in the Battlepits of Krarth, [[The Call Knows Where You Live|stumbled by pure chance]] upon the plot of the five True Magi, evil entities who were thought to have been destroyed during a catastrophic magic explosion centuries before, and are now trying to reincarnate on Earth and bring about eternal damnation. After surviving an attack from a couple of henchmen of Blue Moon (the eldest and most powerful of the Magi), the adventurers are given the scabbard of Blood Sword, the only weapon the True Magi actually fear, by an old man mortally wounded in the attack... and from thereon, begin their quest to reunite the pieces of the sacred sword and stop the True Magi before the end of the Millennium and the coming of [[The End of the World
The books are designed for multi-player, co-operative play, though there was also a single-player option, and one player could control more than one character at a time. A party could consist of up to four players, with each player being either a [[Combat Medic|Sage]], [[Squishy Wizard|Enchanter]], [[Loveable Rogue|Trickster]] or [[Knight in Shining Armor|Warrior]]. Each of the classes was well-balanced and offered a different playing style from the others. Characters advanced in level, gaining power as the series progressed, and were carried forward from book to book, giving the experience of one long story.
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* [[Combat Medic]]: The Sage
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The True Magi were humans once, but now they have become this. {{spoiler|It was actually their plan all along.}}
* [[The End of the World
* [[Evil Prince]]: Susurrien
* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: Red Death's personal domain.
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