A wholly evil, debased, and sadistic god, Bhaal was served by the goddesses Talona and Loviatar.

Talona, also known as Sss ' thasine ' ss, was detailed as a goddess worshipped by poisonous reptilian races in Serpent Kingdoms ( 2004 ).

In the R. A. Salvatore series The Cleric Quintet, the formula to the concoction known as the " Chaos Curse " was given to Aballister Bonaduce by an imp which the avatar of Talona had told Aballister about.

In the Second Edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Talona was an interloper deity-one of several deities who originally came from Earth.

" Bhaal is described as one of “ The Dark Gods ” of evil alignment: " Loviatar, Talona, and Malar serve Bane through Bhaal ( although Loviatar and Talona are rivals ).

Talona is described as one of “ The Dark Gods ” of evil alignment: " Loviatar, Talona, and Malar serve Bane through Bhaal ( although Loviatar and Talona are rivals ).

Talona (), ( The Lady of Poison, Mistress of Disease and Mother of All Plagues ) is the fictional goddess of poison and disease in the Forgotten Realms universe of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Talona later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Sets " Cyclopedia of the Realms " booklet ( 1987 ).

Talona appears as one of the major deities of the Forgotten Realms setting again, in Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting ( 2001 ), and is further detailed in Faiths and Pantheons ( 2002 ).

Ed Greenwood created Talona for his home Dungeons & Dragons game, which Greenwood states the version of the Finnish deity Kiputytto taken from the Deities & Demigods book and renamed.

Talona first appeared within Dungeons & Dragons as one of the deities featured in Ed Greenwood's article " Down-to-earth Divinity " in Dragon # 54 ( October 1981 ).

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, described him as `` a man whose spirit was stark drunk with blasphemies and insolence, a corrupter of the truth, a disturber of the peace wherever he comes ''.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

He was discharged from the hospital after a two-day checkup and he and his parents had what Mr. McKinley described as a `` celebration lunch '' at the cafeteria on the campus.

The instrument used for this work was a slight modification of that previously described.

This sample was contained in a cylindrical container similar to that described above.

Purified inactive chlorine was then added from one of the tubes described above and the mixture frozen out and sealed off in a flask equipped with a break seal.

The saline and albumin tests were performed as described for the ABO samples except that the mixture was incubated for 1 hr at 37-degrees-C before centrifugation.

The deep concave gradient employed ( fig. 2 ) was obtained with a nine-chambered gradient elution device ( `` Varigrad '', reference ( 8 ) ) and has been described elsewhere.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

In contrast to the nuclear changes described above, another change in muscle nuclei was seen, usually occurring in fibers that were somewhat smaller than normal but that showed distinct cross-striations and myofibrillae.

The technique of cutting sections was essentially the same as that described by Coons et al ( 1951 ).

This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.

How this was accomplished may be described, since this sometimes is a crucial problem.

This illusion was described in a far-sighted editorial in The New York Herald Tribune, on March 5, 1947, in connection with the submission of the satellite peace treaties to the Senate.

He had what was described by a psychologist as a `` sunny brutality ''.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the " bellwether of the art market ".

It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

This was the case, for instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men series and in single stories such as " Heir Apparent ", whose protagonist was described as a " benevolent dictator ".

Thus, the planetary model of the atom was discarded in favor of one that described atomic orbital zones around the nucleus where a given electron is most likely to be observed.

The Apiaceae was first described by John Lindley in 1836.

A compilation album was released on 20 September in two formats-a regular version consisting of two 2-disc volumes, and a limited edition ( of 3, 500 copies ), containing 6 CDs, 6 7 " vinyl singles, a hardback copy of the book, a poster and additional items.

He published the entire source code of PGP in a hardback book, via MIT Press, which was distributed and sold widely.

The hardback volume 4A was published in 2011.

The campaign setting was revised twice during Second Edition — first as the Ravenloft Campaign Setting " Red Box ", then as the Domains of Dread hardback.

The first mention of the Carveyor in a hardback book was in There's Adventure in Civil Engineerin, by Neil P. Ruzic.

The initial hardback printing of the book contained the following " Note on the Text ", which was omitted from subsequent paperback editions:

The novel was reprinted in with the Foundation Trilogy, The Naked Sun and I, Robot in a hardback selected works edition in 1982 by Littlehampton Book Services.

And Another Thing ... was released on 12 October 2009 ( the thirtieth anniversary of the first book ) in hardback by Penguin Books in the UK, and by Hyperion Books in the U. S.

It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback.

The Oriental Adventures hardback for AD & D was released that same year, becoming the biggest seller for 1985.

Her 1914 book was the first full-size hardback book to discuss transcontinental travel, as well as the first to mention the Lincoln Highway:

The picture on the front cover of the hardback edition was of a Ditchingham school boy, Douglas Walter Gower, taken from a painting by the artist Edward Seago.

The original edition of Lamb was issued in hardback and paperback and contains an afterword by the author explaining some of the background of the novel.

The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997 with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, three hundred of which were distributed to libraries.

There was also a standard book series published in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of 12 illustrated hardback books:

There was both a hardback ( ISBN 1-56389-431-9 ) and a trade paperback edition ( ISBN 1-56389-470-X ).

Beloved was published in hardback by Harcourt, Brace in 1956 ( ASIN B0007DUFL4 ) and in paperback by Dell in 1965 ( ASIN B00005X85P ).

It was the best selling non-fiction hardback book of 1984 and 1985.

It was first published in hardback in 1996 by Collins Willow when Wright was still a professional player at Arsenal.

On April 11, 2006 her autobiography, Yo Soy la Hija de mi Padre ( I Am my Father's Daughter ) was released as a hardback edition.

The book was first published in hardback in 1996 and then later published in paperback in 1997.

The hardback edition saw the Internet as one of the " important precursors of the information highway ... suggestive of future " ( p. 89 ); he noted that the " popularity of the Internet is the most important single development in the world of computing since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981 " ( p. 91 ) but " today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway ", the information highway he envisioned would be as different from the Internet as the Oregon Trail was to Interstate 84.

The hardback was published by Viking, and the paperback by Penguin, an affiliate of Viking.