Once a year, tradition demands that a vampire elder free the winner rather than kill him. An arcane taboo forever marks the champion and grants him perpetual freedom from all vampire predation. One of these lucky souls, a fighter named Emmon Trond, recently emigrated to the Free City of Zobeck where he fights in a gladiatorial arena called the Pit of the Fierce Lynx under the Kobold Ghetto (see page 59).