Though the Nehwon God of Death, above all other gods, has played the most crucial role in the twains' adventures, that doesn't necessarily mean that he plays the most critical role in the realm. In The Sadness of the Executioner , Death targeted both the main characters even after he declared them his best servants.
Other key players among the gods who played role(s) in the lives of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser include the gods that the twain had previously worshiped. Kos and Issek of the Jug were worshiped by the imfamous barbarian Fafhrd, wheras Mog had been by the Mouser himself. Later in their careers, the two even trans-located the Norse mythology gods...Oden and Loki who were hellbent on dooming the entire Rime Isle as well as at the time the greater Nehwon.
The two heroes discovered they had the same idea for a perfect burglary when they independently jumped the same pair of petty thieves at the same time. Afterward Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, or the Twain as they become known, realized that not only did they work well together—each one’s skills perfectly complementing the other’s—but that they truly enjoyed one another’s company. Returning to their loves and bringing the women together to meet, the four shared their various tales of adventure and how they came to be in Lankhmar.
When the women challenged the Twain to carry through on a promise to inflict great harm to the Thieves’ Guild in Lankhmar, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, full of liquid courage and wanting to impress (both one another and their ladies), ventured out to do just that. Their half-drunk scheme of dressing as beggars and infiltrating Thieves’ House was just bold enough to be successful, and they learned a great deal about the most powerful underworld organization in Lankhmar. But their return home brought horror, as they discovered the guild had not been idle in its own retribution for their crimes against two of its own. Dark sorcery slew Vlana and Ivrian, a kind of magic Fafhrd and Gray Mouser had witnessed originating from Thieves’ House earlier that night. Returning to the site of the devastating magic, they slew the hateful wizard who wielded it, and finding their sorrow unassuaged, left Lankhmar for a time.
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