It is a dream among roving juggs to be good enough to get The League's attention and, with it, all of the luxuries afforded a League player. Members of The League live in luxury almost equal to that of aristocrats. Each of The Nine Cities fields its own team of juggs in an organization known as The League, and its membership is maintained with a fresh stream of new players who are proven veterans of the travelling "dog-town" games by their collection of trophy skulls. The Nine Cities, buried deep underground, are home to affluent and powerful members of the aristocracy. However, not all in this time live so sparsely. One unarmed player-the "quick"-runs with the skull while being protected by his/her teammates from attack by the opposing team. The Game involves two armoured teams of five attempting to score by placing a dog skull on the opposing team's goalpost. Their trophy is the dog skull from the town. They might be considered professional athletes, as they make their living through the tribute paid by the town people, should they defeat the local team. It is played by bands of roving teams known as juggs, who challenge local teams. What little entertainment exists comes primarily from a brutal sport known as The Game. In a barren world caused by wars waged in the 20th century and now forgotten, most live from hand to mouth in enclaves known as "market-towns" or "dog-towns", scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, and trading in trinkets from the past. The film has inspired the creation of the sport Jugger. When she's not working, Nilah is watching movies, growing herbs, roller-skating, and fighting her cat for control of her desk chair.The Salute of the Jugger (also released as The Blood of Heroes in the United States) is a 1989 Australian-American post-apocalyptic film written and directed by David Webb Peoples, produced by Charles Roven, and starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, and Vincent D'Onofrio. She has published short fiction in the anthology All Out, in Fireside magazine, and for Marvel Comics. Nilah is the author-illustrator of M.L.K., a middle grade graphic novel that won the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, and How to Find a Fox, a picture book. She also illustrates children's books, including the Dactyl Hill Squad series by Daniel Jose Older. She has written and storyboarded for studios such as Disney and DreamWorks. From her early days she developed an eternal love for three things: nature, books, and animation. Follow him on Twitter at Magruder is a writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney-Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two #1 New York Times best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick Riordan, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology the Kane Chronicles, based on Ancient Egyptian mythology and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, based on Norse mythology.
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