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"The Blacksmith and his Apprentice" tells us about a young lad being apprenticed to a smith, eager to be allowed do the big tasks, just like the master himself. Yet, he still has his lesson to learn...
 

"The Challenge" is a fable that deals with a seemingly uneven competition between two men - the one being of extraordinary physical strength, who claims to be able to run, swim and climb as no other can, and his challenger, who obviously has no such qualities. Still the challenger is sure that he will win, as he has something his perfectly athletic opponent doesn't have....
 

"The Four Suitors" is a fable about a competition between four noblemen trying to win the heart of the King's daughter, who is about to be married to provide the kingdom with a son and heir. Three of the men demonstrate incredible abilities, leaving the forth desperate that he won't be able to compete with them at all. But just a little piece of advice might change the favour of the princess instantly...
 

The "Greyler and the Dragon" is a fable well-known in central Santharia, especially in the region of the Northern Rimmerins Ring. It recounts of the tyranny of a despotic dragon over a small village, which seems to be helplessly at his mercy. No one has managed to survive a confrontation with the invincible beast, until one day a greyler, an outcast and eremit, sets out to entangle the dragon into a discussion, armed only with his wits... - The fable is not only a suspenseful story, but gives the attentive reader several hidden clues to the real meaning behind the story, which goes beyond the pure confrontation with the monster. Will you get to the heart of it?
 

The "Other Side" is an ancient tale about a little girl getting lost in the Auturian Woods and while trying desperately to get out again, she find wondrous things and has a strange encounter... A decision will need to be made in the middle of the forest, a decision that would determine the fate of her life's future. There will be three endings the narrator can choose from, depending on the choice of the listeners. But will it be the right one?
 

One of the most recent additions to the "Frethoni Book of Fables" is the "Pocketwatch", not more than two centuries old. It tells us of the efforts of a dedicated and well-known clock-maker trying to repair a precious pocketwatch a nobleman has given him to look after. But for some strange reason the clock never seems to be completely repaired, and the clock-maker needs to do get back to work again and again. Until one day, that is...
 

This story may be found in the Frethoni Book of Fables, as well as (in a rather different version) Aunt Sannie's Babetales. The version here is similar to the way it is told in the Mithrals. The "White Corbie" tells us about a farmer's little boy, who encounters something he thought impossible to exist: a white corbie, who can even talk to him. For a little help, he even will answer the boy any question he might have. What will it be? And what will the white corbie answer? - Read and find out!
 

A simple fable of morality found throughout southern Sarvonia in various guises - there are even records of dwarfish and halfling variations on the theme. This particular version was recorded as told to a child of a moderately well-off Erpheronian family by his nurse. The Wise Man figure is an ambiguous and wide spread one. He crops up in countless tales, normally to give a gentle moral lesson, and normally in the ‘land to the south where it is warm all the time’. Numerous suggestions have been made as to the whereabouts of this unspecified country, including Truban, the Eyelian lands, Denilou and even Nybelmar, though most scholars must ultimately conclude that the tales are so old and varied that it is little more than a fae-land existing only in legend. The wise man himself has been identified with various sages, and even as a human version of the various wise old halflings who crop up across the hobbit books of wisdom, the Vale-Tales, and the Hobbithallows.