Talk:Xvart

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Pcrh in topic Alan Garner

Alan Garner edit

Xvarts Created by Alan Garner!!!


Xvarts were created by an author named Alan Garner in the book, "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.95.137.27 (talk) 16:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Please be more specific (ie, provide evidence).--Robbstrd 21:07, 13 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sorry to have never gotten back to this, wasn't watching the page. Alan Garner wrote a book called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. In that book (and its followup) there were goblinesque villains called xvart. They were subterranean, small, and foul--indistinguishable from the D&D incarnation. The book has a wiki article, linked above, though xvart are not mentioned in it. But they play prominently in the book, when the heroes escape a mine or cave complex. Been a while since I read it. The point: the creatures existed in a novel written in the 60s. Only evidence I can quickly find (other than scanning pages from my old paperback) is: http://everything2.com/e2node/Xvart. I personally think Garner should be given attribution in the article. I won't change the article, out of deference to its author. PS it's a good book Pcrh (talk) 19:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism edit

Someone thought it would be funny to blank this page and redirect it to one with no information on the topic. I undid the vandalism, and cleaned up the article a bit. Night1stalker (talk) 13:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)Reply