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The Journey of Wolfgang Apprentice

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The Journey of Wolfgang Apprentice

By Hal Robinson

(Also known as Journal of Wolfgang Apprentice)

 

 

 

"The Journey of Wolfgang Apprentice" is another Epic tale from the Battal, written from the perspective of the eponymous hero.

 

I just finished reading it. It came from amazon yesterday evening. I don't want to copy blurbs, anyway, the book is more focused on thoughts than on the plot. - Jake

 

Spoilers Follow:

 

Wolfgang Apprentice is an orphan, and an apprentice to Nilfrem, wasted Water Elemenstor. He is a young boy, dreaming of adventure, and epicness. Unfortunately, all that he does is to bring beer tankards to Nilfrem, and a new companion - Behn, the Etherbunny.

Nilfrem really wasn't a bad person, but the life is unbelievably boring. Wolfgang runs away with Nilfrem's Furniliar Tammy the Chair.

 

He writes in his Journal his recollections of his travel, during which he has met Casey Vandershroud. He found her attractive, and resembling himself, as a failure.

Chapters 6 to 8 of the book are devoted to sad, pathetic drinking with Casey and Jack Joyless, another failure, in various pubs.

Casey, being the most resourceful of the three, proposes to prove their skills. Jack points out that they could help the Elves in their Unlight War. Wolfgang reluctantly agrees.

We set off at morning. Jack was complaining about his poor head, and I was also feeling a bit woozy. Nevertheless, we set off early in the morning.

'This is not our war', I mumbled to Tammy.

'Are adventures not better than filling beer mugs?', she answered. Was this an adventure?

 

Wolfgang finds himself in the port city of Bizarkule, where he meets Captain Potts, a sea captain that seems to know something about his lineage. During the sea travel to Elven Ports his relationship with Casey grows stronger, and he fails to investigate Captain's secrets.

Finally, they reach the Port, the Dim Elves' main port.

The town was "overflowing with refugees", and Wolfgang felt out of place. Thirty pages on the cruelties of war continue.

Wolfgang finally meets a Vampyre, a rogue member of Vhadxi's Twelve Twisted Evil - Peter. He tells him about plans of the Vampyres and mentions his heirloom, and disappears. Wolfgang is puzzled. He discusses matters with Casey and they agree that ancestors of Wolfgang must have been important.

Meanwhile, Jack dissappears. He is later found half-sane, rambling about Elfwiches with goat anus.

 

Captain Potts shows up again, offering a "free ride home".

"But I don't want to return to Nilfhelm!", I complained, loudly.

"I be speaking not of your teacher's home... I mean your family. You have learned what you had to learn. Apart from some things you had to unlearn, and things only the time can teach. And o'course, things like tailorship, or line dancing which are of no use to an Elemenstor. Unless the Elemenstor likes line dancing, or needs fancy dress..."

 

Wolfgang finds out that, as an Elemenstor, he is the heir of Pappy Snooky, one of the richest men ever. He only has to "Find the lost power", as Snooky said in his will. Wolfgang ignores Unlight War, and starts studying Elemenstation in earnest. Casey urges him to avenge Jack, but he is so blinded with the premise of easy cash, that he rejects her and chases wenches instead.

 

Late in the story, when Wolfgang finds out that Casey heavily wounded by a Vampyre (probably Armba Alomba), he rejects the inheritance, and returns to the battlefields of the Unlight War, as ordinary Fighting Magician.

The book ends with this words:

 

I might die. True. But I have found the lost power. The power of love. Snooky didn't really understand this. I do. I do now. And, regardless of my death or victory only one thing matters: I love Casey. And she loves me.

 

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Comments (2)

Anonymous said

at 4:22 pm on Jan 9, 2006

Ok. Here's to all of you question types:
Official sources neither confirm nor deny that Wolfgang has died.
Casey appears (briefly) in the Unlight Eonicles, which, as I heard, aren't considered canon, but the fate of Wolfgang is unknown.

Anonymous said

at 7:22 pm on Jan 9, 2006

Since Wolfgang isn't really an important character in the larger story of Battal, I don't think that there are any mentions of him specifically, although the unit that he joins near the end does go on to do great deeds, so it is assumed that he participated in them. As for his fate, I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a sequel that let's us know how it all turned out.

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