Appendix N
Trid is an amalgam of many disparate inspirations, including:
Fiction
Cornwell, Bernard: The Saxon Stories
Hardy, Lyndon: Master of the Five Magics
Howard, Robert E.: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian; The Bloody Crown of Conan; The Conquering Sword of Conan
Lewis, C.S.: Chronicles of Narnia
Moorcock, Michael: The Elric Saga
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit
Vance, Jack: Dying Earth
Wolfe, Gene: Book of the New Sun
Non-fiction
Breay, Clair and Joanna Story (editors): Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War
Bulfinch, Thomas: Bulfinch’s Mythology
Cheyney, Edward P.: A Short History of England
Chickering, Howell D.: Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
Frere, Sheppard: Britannia: A History of Roman Britain
Fry, Stephen: Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Gaiman, Neil: Norse Mythology
Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hamilton, Edith: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Haywood, John: The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings
Howarth, David: 1066 The Year of the Conquest
Jager, Eric: The Last Duel
Jotischky, Andrew and Caroline Hull: The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World
Kramer, Samuel Noah: Great Ages of Man: Cradle of Civilization
McCall, Andrew: The Medieval Underworld
McEvedy, Colin: The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History
Siddorn, J. Kim: Viking Weapons & Warfare
Simons, Gerald: Great Ages of Man: Barbarian Europe
Tuchman, Barbara: A Distant Mirror
Wernick, Robert: The Seafarers: The Vikings
Role Playing Games
Baker, Richard: Worldbuilder’s Guidebook
Charlton, Coleman and Pat Fenlon: Character Law & Campaign Law
Cook, David and Stephen Marsh: Dungeons & Dragons Expert Rulebook
Gygax, Gary: B2 Keep on the Borderlands; World of Greyhawk
Heard, Bruce: Voyage of the Princess Ark (DRAGON Magazine, Issues 153-188); Champions of Mystara: Heroes of the Princess Ark
Judges Guild: Ready Ref Sheets, 2nd Edition
Moldvay, Tom: B4 The Lost City; Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook; X1 Isle of Dread
Moldvay, Tom and Lawrence Schick: The Known World