Excerpts from the King's Quest Companion

Excerpts from the King's Quest Companion is an article from The Sierra Magazine, Autumn 1989, and written by Peter Spear.

Excerpts from the King's Quest Companion
--Compiled from Messages to this World from the World of Daventry, as sent by Derik Karlevaegen. Mr. Karlavaegen is apparently a journalist, traveler, and magician in that universe.--

Excerpt from Chapter 3, "The Eye Between the Worlds."
I am an investigator and writer of contemporary events, who hobbies in magic and travels much. Some time ago, after having talked to and written at length about Prince Alexander of Daventry's escape from lifelong captivity and his subsequent rescue of his sister and kingdom from the breath of a fire-breathing dragon (that was a lot, wasn't it?), I decided visit the scenes of the prince's adventures in order to better understand what the brave youth had been through. It was for this reason that I, at length, arrived at the house of the wizard Manannan, whom Alexander had turned into a cat. No cat was to be found anyplace there. The house was in good repair, but no person or animal was anywhere near. I resolved to spend some days there, using it as a base for my explorations around Llewdor. At night I took advantage of Manannan's large library, looking closely through his books on magic and magical lore. The days stretched into weeks, and still no one came to claim the large house with its well-stocked underground laboratory.

It was during this time that I discovered the Eye Between the Worlds.

There is a lever set into one of the library's bookcases that opens the trap door into the secret lab. On a shelf nearby I saw a most curious object. It looked much like a metal head, with only one very large glass eye and an open jaw containing near one hundred teeth. Each of those teeth has a letter, number, or symbol inscribed upon it. This thing must been made by Manannan or some very great sorcerer, for when I pressed a certain tooth, a light appeared to fill the eye. Moreover, when I touched on certain other teeth, words would magically appear on the eye's glass surface. Wondrous indeed was this thing that I soon came to think of as a talking head.

Yes it did talk, and it still does; not with sounds but with words that crawl across it and pictures that draw themselves before my very eyes. After much experimentation, I found that I could make my thoughts and words appear on the eye's surface. The thing is a magchine, to be sure, although, how it works I do not know, for it has no parts which move.