Editing Diamond Throne (section)

===Children of the Rune===
The setting got a short-story collection, as White Wolf settings did; following the pattern of ''Champions of the Scarred Lands'' (2002). This collection takes its theme from those marysues marked by [[derp|runes]]. Such books, mostly we read for lore, but some gems are buried in here.

Here we learn about the Nightwalker mafia (Lucien Soulban, "Stone Ghosts"; more so Will McDermott, "Child of the Street"); about those two redundant runecults (Fleshrunes: [[Bruce Cordell]] and Keith Strohm, "Hollows of the Heart"; Runepriests: [[Wolfgang Baur]], "Name Day"); about old city Sormere ([[Ed Greenwood]], "Fallen Star"). Greenwood features thieves, McDermott an assassin.

Richard Lee Byers did well in "The Silent Man" expositing on the difference between Death and The Dark, honestly better than Cook himself had done in, you know, ''an actual adventure module'' on that topic. We will further credit Miranda Horner's "Clash of Duty" for a real moral conflict given the ''AU'' focus on oaths and life - and the lorefags among us will appreciate the time granted to those quickling extremists called Darkling.

Then there's [[Mike Mearls]]' "The Pebble Before The Avalanche". Like "Child of the Street" some gangsta shit is goin' down; except that the Nightwalkers aren't present to organise the crime. Here's a character labeled "Champion Of War, Herald Of Battle" which entity had gone undetailed in ''AU''. As to that redundancy, some might smell a Cook-Mearls debate as to what name for the "Champion" would be coolest which Cook won because - who ''owns'' Malhavoc press, suck it.