Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith.

Averoigne is located in the southern half of France.

In the southern half is located the town of Ximes ; the main road of Averoigne runs between Ximes and Vyones, straight through the thick, dark forest that blankets the province.

The only way to escape Castle Amber ( or Château d ' Amberville ) is to explore the castle, putting up with the demented and at times insane members of the d ' Amberville family and the other, often hostile, denizens, and open a hidden portal to the wilderness of the world of Averoigne, where the party can find the means to reach the inter-dimensional tomb in which Stephen Amber rests, in order to break the curse and return home.

Most of Smith's weird fiction falls into four series set variously in Hyperborea, Poseidonis, Averoigne and Zothique.

Smith's weird stories form several cycles, called after the lands in which they are set: Averoigne, Hyperborea, Mars, Poseidonis, Zothique.

A number of other Averoigne stories exist in outline form, uncompleted at the time of Smith's death.

The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Poseidonis, and Zothique.

The main non-player characters of the module, the Amber family ( d ' Amberville in French, as an option ), are not actually in any of Smith's stories, and were created by the designer to provide a link to Averoigne.

*" The Beast of Averoigne " ( originally published version ), by Clark Ashton Smith ( Weird Tales, Popular Fiction Publishing Co., May 1933 )

* In addition, in the novel A Case of Conscience, James Blish includes a character named " Lucien le Comte des Bois d ' Averoigne.

Smith based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne.

In ancient times, Averoigne was settled by the fictional Gallic tribe called the Averones.

Other towns and villages located in Averoigne include: Moulins, Les Hiboux, La Frenâie, Touraine, Sainte Zenobie, and Périgon.

" This name means, " Lucien, the Count of the Woods of Averoigne.

The module's credits give special thanks to Clark Ashton Smith and Casiana Literary Enterprises, Inc., " for use of the Averoigne stories as inspirational material.

" Castle Amber ( Château d ' Amberville ) draws from the Averoigne stories of Clark Ashton Smith.

In addition to the Averoigne references, there are individual encounters within the module that have allusions to stories written by others.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the ' Clark Ashton Smythos '.

Smith's literary estate is represented by his stepson, Prof William Dorman, director of CASiana Literary Enterprises.

Joshi is working with other scholars to produce an updated bibliography of Smith's work.

Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.

Smith has a justified true belief that a man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job ; however, according to Gettier, Smith does not know that a man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job, because Smith's belief is "... true by virtue of the number of coins in Jones's pocket, while Smith does not know how many coins are in Smith's pocket, and bases his belief ... on a count of the coins in Jones's pocket, whom he falsely believes to be the man who will get the job.

This name derived from Latter Day Saint founder Joseph Smith's statement that "“ an Evangelist is a Patriarch.

The earliest surviving example of this technique is Smith's The House That Jack Built, made before September 1901.

For example, if a geologist knows there is a high likelihood of the discovery of petroleum under Farmer Smith's land, he may be entitled to make Smith an offer for the land, and buy it, without first telling Farmer Smith of the geological data.

The smuggling of Malevich paintings out of Russia is a key to the plot line of writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller Red Square.

Smith's theory of price ( which for many is the same as value ) has nothing to do with the past labor spent in the production of a commodity.

In terms of modern orthodox terminology it is important to note that " labor ", at least in Smith's approach, is defined as the opposite of utility-" disutility ", pain, toil etc.

If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.

Much of Adam Smith | Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is an attack on mercantilism.

According to Smith's grandnephew, Van Buren said to Smith, " Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you ; if I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri.

* Black Jack Tarr is Smith's aide-de-camp and a powerful giant of a man with a gruff manner.

Smith's 1838 written account of this vision is considered by some Mormon denominations to be scripture and is contained in a book called " The Pearl of Great Price.

For many Mormons, Joseph Smith's cosmology is the most attractive part of the restoration.

* Oxfordian theory is central to the plot of Sarah Smith's 2003 novel Chasing Shakespeares, which she also adapted into a play.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

In his stead is a milquetoast version known as `` the corporation ''.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

this is an improved version of the old Model 200, a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun.

A simplified version of the instrumentation for this procedure is shown in Fig. 2.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

The `` Taras Bulba '' excerpt is a rousing version of Gogol's Ukrainian folk-tale choreographed by Bo Fenster to music of Soloviev-Sedoi.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

Doing so does not create another version of TAI ; it is instead considered to be creating a better realisation of Terrestrial Time ( TT ).

This call is modified to a quieter courtship call on the approach of a female or to a more aggressive version if a male intruder draws near.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

The following is a more subtle version of the fallacy embedded into conversation.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

For Altaicists, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic – Mongolic – Tungusic – Korean – Japanese.

Similarly, all the statements listed below which require choice or some weaker version thereof for their proof are unprovable in ZF, but since each is provable in ZF plus the axiom of choice, there are models of ZF in which each statement is true.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman.