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The Dark Lord of Derkholm (Dark Lord of Derkholm in the United States) is a 1998 fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones. From Wikipedia: âThe novel is a parody, for its setting is a mock high fantasy world, similar to that Jones covered in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, a humorous travel guide on the Rough Guides model.
The narrative is set in a fantasy world whose economy and society are controlled by an interdimensional tourism industry. An organization called "Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties" coordinates annual tours for visitors from the real world to participate in various fantasy tropes, including interactions with wizard guides, attacks by winged predators, and confrontations with designated "Dark Lords". These events cause widespread environmental damage and casualties among the local population. In a meeting about the Pilgrim Parties, High Chancellor Querida takes a wizard, a high priest and a thief to see the Oracles, who determine that the next person the group sees will play the role of the Dark Lord, and the second person will be the Wizard Guide that they need. They meet Wizard Derk. Derk undertakes to "evil-fy" his home, Derkholm, for its role as the Dark Lord's capital. He summons a demon to bind there, but it escapes. An ancient dragon mistakes him for a ruling Dark Lord, then takes offense when it learns the commercial truth.
The Dark Lord of Derkholm won the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. Together with Year of the Griffin, the two novels have been called the Derkholm series.â
this is one of my favorite books of all time, and it's aged really interestingly when you take the isekai boom into account
