Afterword
Andronikos Sosilos
I approached this volume as I did its predecessor, retaining my great-great-great uncle’s linking sections but removing the rest of his first-person narrative. I leaned once more upon the diligent research of Silenus to address certain gaps, and filled others with speculations of my own, though I think it likely they were well-founded ones.
It proved not terribly difficult to construct a preamble to this book from one of my ancestor’s essays within the main body of The Hanuvid. I can only hope the preambles for further volumes will fall as easily into my hands as this did one morning, when I unrolled an old scroll from Antires’ work and it stopped by chance at the ideal text segment.
In an earlier draft of this text, I attempted to incorporate some of the so-called “lost tales” of Hanuvar that Silenus accumulated during her research. It was not so difficult to recast her prose in a style similar to that I’ve presented thus far, but, of course, since these stories were acquired piecemeal there is no knowing precisely where they fit into my ancestor’s narrative. And then there is the problem that there is none of Antires’ text to link them in place. I have therefore decided to keep them separated. Perhaps, at the conclusion of the main narrative, I will present them in my best guess as to their chronological sequence.
As always, I have worked to present these adventures in a format more approachable than the original, in the hope that you will here find the same excitement enjoyed by previous generations. If you do not, I am afraid the failure is mine alone.