There the loner hunter Kelderek stumbles upon the bear and believes it is the divine Lord Shardik returned as prophesied in ursine form. Shardik begins with an apocalyptic fire burning a giant bear into the backwater province of Ortelga. Fourth, rather than depicting a (rabbit or dog) quest to find a home, the later novel, as Adams says in the 2014 Introduction to the audiobook, is about "power, politics, corruption, and the nature of religious truth." Third, it is bleaker, with less easily appealing characters. Second, it takes place in a pre-medieval fantasy world, not our contemporary real world. First, the point of view characters of Shardik are human beings instead of animals. Richard Adams' epic fantasy Shardik (1974) differs from his first novel, the wonderful rabbit epic Watership Down (1972), and from his third, the devastating satire The Plague Dogs (1977).
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