Legends (Professionals zine)

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Title: Legends
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Author(s): Madelaine Ingram
Cover Artist(s): Jade
Illustrator(s): Jade
Date(s): 1993
Medium: print
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Fandom: Professionals
Language: English
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Legends is a slash 280-page Professionals novel by Madelaine Ingram. It is an AU about Beydr (Bodie) and Raedal (Doyle) set in the mythical days of Atlantis.

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The zine combines all five parts of the Witchfires Series.

The flyer lists the zines in a different order than when they were published, and ProsLib, as well as other sources describe the stories in a different order which may be how they were bound into the omnibus zine.

From the flyer:

"THE WITCHFIRES FIVE-PART SERIAL BY MADELAINE INGRAM IS COLLECTED TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME UNDER THE TITLE OF ...LEGENDS.
This writer's best and most astonishing work ever...
WITCHFIRES ... In the latter days of the elder Atlantis the new priesthood outlawed high magic and the greatest magicians were driven out. Soran Beydr, the blue eyed son of the High Priest Ashtoc, has the dangerous duty of hunting down the witch, Raedal. But in so doing, will he doom his ancient homeland? What secret does the witchboy command? And if he dies, what becomes of the Kingdom of High Atlantis? An exciting novella of grand fantasy, thrills and romance from a new writer sure to become a favorite.
LABYRINTH ... Beydr and Raedal travel to Karnossus, in the land-girt sea, where the daughter colonies of elder Atlantis have begun to spread and divide. There, they discover a riddle, a maze and the threat of sudden death. Second in the five stories of the LEGENDS cycle. As Beydr and Raedal always knew, Mohan Ashtoc has learned what be-came of his willful seventh son; and Raedal's existence is no longer a secret. Both young men and prized and hunted, but not for the same reason. MAYAN ... Two Icari war galleys sail west to Jaymaca in search of an ancient tomb. Beydr and Raedal chance upon terrible danger, never faced before. What becomes of the ring, and drowned Atlantis, if they perish?
STORMBRINGER ... Beydr and Raedal now have three rings, but Raedal is a novice and his life is in danger. Near death, he finds his Destiny on the barbarous Kelti Shore...and the Destiny of the sovereign realm of Atlantis. post-holocaust retreat where the company could have settled ... except for what the city fathers here want to do to Zax! Again, they're on the move — fast.
MAYAN ... Two Icari war galleys sail west to Jaymaca in search of an ancient tomb. Beydr and Raedal chance upon terrible danger, never faced before. What becomes of the ring, and drowned Atlantis, if they perish?
PHOENIX ... The Quezelus sails on to Vaal. Beydr and Raedal meet the Fate they have always known they rush toward, but Ashtoc and the Legion are not the sum of their worries. There is the sea itself, and even the Power of Zeft may not stand against it. This is the final part of the Beydr/Raedal saga.
The LEGENDS special edition brings all the parts of Madelaine Ingram's series together, under one cover, lavishly illustrated, with extra art not seen elsewhere, and bound in black marble covers!
Braid bound in hand crafted marble covers. Massively illustrated with a vast portfolio of sizzling fantasy art by Jade! Published for the first time as an omnibus in 1993." [1]


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