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=== ''Thieves' World'' embodies the following tropes: ===
=== ''Thieves' World'' embodies the following tropes: ===

* [[The Archmage]] - Hazard mages.
* [[The Archmage]] - Hazard mages.
* [[Art Initiates Life]] - A great mage gave one of the recurring characters this ability but most of the time it proved [[Blessed with Suck|rather inconvenient]].
* [[Art Initiates Life]] - A great mage gave one of the recurring characters this ability but most of the time it proved [[Blessed with Suck|rather inconvenient]].
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* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]] - Tempus
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]] - Tempus
* [[Have You Seen My God?]] - most of the Ilsigi gods, most of the time.
* [[Have You Seen My God?]] - most of the Ilsigi gods, most of the time.
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* [[Low Fantasy]]
* [[Jerkass Gods]] - most of them, most of the time.
* [[Jerkass Gods]] - most of them, most of the time.
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* [[Low Fantasy]]
* [[Magic From Technology]] - Kemren the Purple Mage with his [[Mana]] generating waterwheels.
* [[Magic From Technology]] - Kemren the Purple Mage with his [[Mana]] generating waterwheels.
* [[Morality Adjustment]] - Jubal after realizing it's his own fault that he got the crap beaten out of him and then had healing [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] was still a crimelord, but more wise, considerate and even willing to spend efforts for common benefit, e.g. {{spoiler|setting Chenaya's bright, but dislocated brain straight or "Envoy of Sanctuary" project}}.
* [[Morality Adjustment]] - Jubal after realizing it's his own fault that he got the crap beaten out of him and then had healing [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] was still a crimelord, but more wise, considerate and even willing to spend efforts for common benefit, e.g. {{spoiler|setting Chenaya's bright, but dislocated brain straight or "Envoy of Sanctuary" project}}.

Revision as of 14:30, 28 February 2015

Thieves' World is a dark urban fantasy Shared Universe created by Robert Asprin in 1978 and mostly focused on the city of Sanctuary. It drew in authors like Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris and Marion Zimmer Bradley to contribute, and generated a buttload of books (12 short story compilations, 8 official novels, some graphic novel adaptations of the compilations and roleplaying adaptations from the likes of Chaosium and FASA) before it went on hiatus in 1989.

Then in 2002 Lynn Abbey published a new novel in the universe, Sanctuary which re-started the series several decades later. Two additional anthologies were published, as well as D20 books from Green Ronin.

The stories by in large focus on the poorer and nastier inhabitants of Sanctuary, a desert town on the edge of the Rankan Empire. It is implied that a good amount of the conflict in many of the stories is the result of the struggle between the warlike Rankan gods and the Ilsigi ones they displaced when they took over. Later in the series, the city is reconquered by a new group - the snake-worshipping Beysib - which adds another faction to the divine squabbling already going on.

See also the fan site.

Thieves' World embodies the following tropes:

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