![]() ![]() ![]() This group encompasses a highly developed pre-technological civilization whose inhabitants interact by sea and land: they conduct trade in cloth, wine, spices and so on using sailing ships and horse-drawn wagons their weapons are swords and arrows. ![]() ![]() The story is set in the various provinces of a land mass known as the Palm, together with its nearby islands. The secondary world of Tigana1 is a true world of High Fantasy, with its own geography, religion, politics and social systems. Here, there are echoes and resonances as the familiar tales are woven into a self-contained fictional mythology that is an integral part of a sophisticated text which declines to offer the traditionally clear division between Good and Evil. Tigana represents a new, more subtle direction. His earlier trilogy, the highly acclaimed Fionavar Tapestry ( The Summer Tree: The Wandering Fire: The Darkest Road) worked deliberately with myth, overtly drawing on a wide range of readily identifiable sources to produce a truly innovative re-interpretation of the archetypal battle between the forces of Light and Darkness. Guy Gavriel Kay is a writer for whom myth is of the utmost importance. First published in The Ring Bearer: Journal of the Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, Spring 1991, Vol 8, No. ![]()
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