Three Hearts and Three Lions hails from that era, seamlessly weaving myth and religion into a tale of chivalry and romance. Among them is Three Hearts and Three Lions.īefore the isekai boom, before the fad of Western dark fantasy, there was the traditional Western fantasy in all its glittering splendor. Both of these media owe their origins to Gary Gygax’s Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game, and Gygax in turn drew inspiration from a list of stories, stories he listed in his famous Appendix N. Coming from an era saturated with Japanese isekai stories and Western dark fantasy CRPGs, Three Hearts and Three Lions is simultaneously refreshing and inspiring. Thus begins Poul Anderson’s seminal work Three Hearts and Three Lions. Nearby is a horse of startling intelligence, carrying arms and armour that fit him perfectly, including a shield that bears the device of three hearts and three lions. Yet one fateful day, when fighting along the Resistance in the Second World War, he is knocked out in battle, and awakens naked in a strange forest. The immutable laws of physics govern the universe, and there is no space in this rational world for the mysterious and the magical. To Holger Carlsen, Dane by birth and engineer by trade, science rules all.
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