Meet Thoral Mighty Fist
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 235 lbs
Hair Color: Golden
Eye Color: There is no word in Gromish for Thoral’s eye color (but it’s violet)
Race: Barbarian (at least that’s what everybody says—no one really knows)
Last seen wearing: Pirate-style clothes—a black leather vest over his bare chest, a crimson sash tied about his waist, tight plum-colored breeches and knee high iron-toed boots. Oh, and he also has heavy brass bucklers on his forearms.
Favored Weapon: Blurmflard, the magic sword lent to him by his wizard mentor, Yiz and Fwang, the mighty yew bow
Magical Aptitude: Low—Thoral knows a bit of stench magic and a handful of minor spells but primarily scorns spell-work in favor of punching things
Favorite Food: Wine
Least Favorite Food: Fancy stuff like baked eel stuffed with bluebirds stuffed with salamanders stuffed with ground dragon tongue—also, warm ale—Thoral hates warm drinks
Favorite Activities: Drinking and fighting and brooding and wandering around in forests looking at trees
Known Associates: Brad, the fighting koi fish, and Warlordhorse, last of the Brendylschmylyn (the horses that can smell danger)
Fun Facts: Thoral can easily outrun a giraffe and can lift a horse off the ground, one-handed
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Fish Wielder by J.R.R.R (Jim) Hardison
Epic Fantasy/YA
Fish Wielder Series (Book 1)
Fiery Seas Publishing
August 23, 2016
Fish Wielder is kind of like Lord of the Rings, set in Narnia, if it was written by the guys who made Monty Python and the Holy Grail while they were listening to the music of They Might Be Giants.
In ancient times, the Dark Lord Mauron cooked the most powerful magic chocolate dessert ever made, the Pudding of Power. One thousand and two years later, the evil leader of the Bad Religion, the Heartless One, is trying to recover the lost pudding in order to enslave the peoples of Grome. Only the depressed barbarian warrior Thoral Might Fist and his best friend, Brad the talking Koi fish, have a chance to save the world of Grome from destruction, but that’s going to take a ridiculous amount of magic and mayhem. Thus begins the epically silly epic fantasy of epic proportions, Fish Wielder—book one of the Fish Wielder Trilogy.
About the Author:
Fish Wielder is J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison’s first novel novel (He wrote a graphic novel, The Helm, for Dark Horse Comics). Jim has worked as a writer, screen writer, animator and film director. He started his professional career by producing a low-budget direct-to-video feature film, The Creature From Lake Michigan. Making a bad movie can be a crash course in the essential elements of good character and story, and The Creature From Lake Michigan was a tremendously bad movie. Shifting his focus entirely to animation, Jim joined Will Vinton Studios where he directed animated commercials for M&M’s and on the stop-motion TV series Gary and Mike. While working at Vinton, he also co-wrote the television special Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy with actor Paul Reiser.
Jim has appeared on NBC’s The Apprentice as an expert advisor on brand characters, developed characters and wrote the pilot episode for the PBS children’s television series SeeMore’s Playhouse and authored the previously mentioned graphic novel, The Helm, named one of 2010’s top ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens by YALSA, a branch of the American Library Association. These days, Jim is the creative director and co-owner of Character LLC, a company that does story-analysis for brands and entertainment properties. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his lovely wife, two amazing kids, one smart dog and one stupid dog.
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