Author notes

Book Two, page 63

bravo1102

on July 25, 2018

The Skull Knights were last mentioned on the special Halloween page.

I went with a scary font and jagged balloons to convey the voices of those whose larynx might be dry and decomposed. The Skull Knights are actually based on Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead series.

even though I used figures from LotR and Army of Darkness and they can see. Don't worry I'm certain Belinda Brandon did at least one movie with de Ossorio's blinded Templars.
In the last movie of the series the blinded Templars are depicted worshiping a statue of an amphibious frog like pagan god. A Cthulhu mythos Deep One! That's where I got the idea for the faceless deity that demands the sacrifice of human hearts for the skull knights to feast upon.

By the way if you run across the movies they are worth a watch. It took me years to finally track them down because all I had were some memories of a book on horror movies I had as a kid. They're under lots of different titles s foreign horror often is. Tombs of the Blind Dead, Return of the Blind Dead, The Ghost Galleon and Night of the Seagulls are what they're mostly known as now. And of course undead Templars are a trope in all kinds of games now. Great how digital media can take a creepy idea and just make it another monster to kill.

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Wait Lord Ash? heh, heh. That is a custom Evil Ash figure, but you figure that there is a province in Narthathia called Ashrack – he might be the guy it's named for. Some things are just lost in the mists of time and better left there. As said in Lovecraft's "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" "Never bring up what you can't put down again."