Ghyll:Ibah Mahli

Up until his untimely demise, Ibah Mahli was perhaps the most famous and influential writer in all of Ghyll. His works, though never officially collected, undoubtably contain many of the books considered to be classics.

Of course, the real problem is, nobody is entirely sure exactly which books are his. He had an unfortunate habit of using pen names when he wrote, so there is a great deal of confusion as to which books were his and which books were written by other people with particularly fake-sounding names. Ferrestung Longraze is undoubtably a Mahli psudonym, but is Perry Tocklewits? Some scholars say yes, some scholars say no. To make things even more confusing, some writers who were quite probably NOT Ibah Mahli have used his name in their works, under the impression that he never really existed and his name was available for anyone's use.

This is not true. Ibah Mahli quite definately existed. He was, in his time, a very public figure and an official Bearer of Bad News. He had an entire wing built for him in the Odlucian Library (which is, strangely enough, rumored to not contain a single one of his many books,) and he was well-known for his habit of giving candy to small children if they passed him in the street.

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