Ryo Mizuno

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Ryo Mizuno (born 13 July 1963) is a Japanese author and game designer, known mainly for creating Record of Lodoss War. He began as a game master, and the Lodoss world of Forcelia started as a rules-free setting for tabletop role-playing sessions that Group SNE serialized as replays in the magazine Comptiq from 1986. When the replays proved popular, he turned the story into novels, published by Kadokawa Shoten from 1988; the franchise has sold over ten million copies in Japan. He has also created or co-created Sword World RPG, Legend of Crystania, Rune Soldier, Starship Operators and Record of Grancrest War, served as general supervisor of Galaxy Angel, and supplied the idea for the TV series Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. He has contributed text to manga adaptations of his work. His 2019 novel The Crown of the Covenant continued the Lodoss story.

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Books

• 灰色の魔女 (1988) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 炎の魔神 (1989) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 火竜山の魔竜(上) (1990) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 火竜山の魔竜(下) (1990) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードスの聖騎士(上) (1991) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 王たちの聖戦 (1991) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードスの聖騎士(下) (1993) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説 亡国の王子 (1994) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ハイエルフの森 ディードリット物語 (1995) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説 太陽の王子、月の姫 (1996) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説2 天空の騎士 (1996) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説3 栄光の勇者 (1997) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説4 伝説の英雄 (1998) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記1 闇の森の魔獣 (1998) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記序章 炎を継ぐ者 (1999) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説 永遠の帰還者 (2000) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記2 新生の魔帝国 (2001) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記3 黒翼の邪竜 (2001) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島伝説5 至高神の聖女 (2002) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記4 運命の魔船 (2004) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記5 終末の邪教(上) (2005) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• 新ロードス島戦記6 終末の邪教(下) (2006) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon
• ロードス島戦記 誓約の宝冠 (2019) · Record of Lodoss War Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 23 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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