I forgot a whole part of a sentence up there. Infuriating. What I meant to say was that I liked Star of the Guardians more than Death Gate. (And Darksword wasn't bad, either, really, even if Simkin's existence made no sense.)
It helps to think of Simkin as a particularly insane Faerie or Leprechaun who happens to also be the avatar form of all magic in that world. The book for converting D&D campaigns to Thimhallin's realm explains Simkin a lot better than the actual trilogy did. He's basically Q from Star Trek. ---
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