From the introduction: Athanor is part Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom, part Mike Grell’s Skartaris, and a large dash of random inspirations from film, television, comics, and books throughout my life. This is a game of swashbuckling adventure and lurking horror set in a dying post - apocalypse world. Athanor is a game of weird fantasy and planetary romance, filled with elements of political intrigue, romance, action, terrible monsters, and ancient evil. User note: This version further refines the rules laid out in Version 1.0: restores advancement to an experience point system, refines the skill system and adds a professional skills system, a (simple) system for unarmed combat is added, spellcasting failure effects, the bestiary and spell lists are further refined to be specific to the campaign world.