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The Sellswords Trilogy
''The Sellswords'' is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by R. A. Salvatore, whose related works include ''The Legend of Drizzt'' series and ''The Hunter's Blades Trilogy''. It contains three books, ''Servant of the Shard'' (also included as the third book in the ''Paths of Darkness'' quartet, which books were later published as the 11th through 14th books of ''The Legend of Drizzt''), ''Promise of the Witch-King'', and ''Road of the Patriarch''. Plot The trilogy continues the tale of the infamous assassin, Artemis Entreri, previously featured in books as Drizzt Do'Urden's self-proclaimed archenemy, and the cunning drow mercenary, Jarlaxle, previously relevant as the leader of Bregan D'aerthe, an outlaw group of drow based primarily in and around Menzoberranzan, that does business mostly with the drow of Menzoberranzan. Continuing the story of Artemis and Jarlaxle told in the ''Paths of Darkness'' series, Artemis and Jarlaxle begin an adventure that tests their skills, their min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servant Of The Shard
''Servant of the Shard'' was originally the third book in R.A. Salvatore's ''Paths of Darkness'' book series. It was also made the first book of the trilogy ''The Sellswords''. In this novel, Artemis Entreri acquires Charon's Claw. Plot summary After regaining his confidence and will to live (lost in Paths of Darkness, when Drizzt Do'Urden seemed to have died without being defeated fairly by Artemis, thus apparently taking from him the ability to prove to himself that he was a better fighter), Artemis Entreri finds himself allied with the mercenary Jarlaxle as the drow's tie to the surface world. Caught in the plans of Jarlaxle's band, Bregan D'aerthe, Artemis finds himself back in Calimport, the city in which he became known as one of the greatest assassins in Faerûn. Without many ties to the city after spending his time in captivity to the drow, Entreri must once again make his name known while trying to survive against the guilds of Calimport and Jarlaxle's lieutenants, Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemis Entreri
''Forgotten Realms'' is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. Several years later, Greenwood brought the setting to publication for the ''D&D'' game as a series of magazine articles, and the first Realms game products were released in 1987. Role-playing game products have been produced for the setting ever since, as have various licensed products including novels, role-playing video game adaptations (including the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to use graphics), comic books, and an upcoming film. Forgotten Realms is a fantasy world setting, described as a world of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities, where magic and supernatural phenomena are quite real. The premise is that, long ago, planet Earth and the world of the Forg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English. It was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In late 2018, the archive was shut down. History The company was established in August 2002 after Patrick Spain, who had just sold Hoover's, which he had co-founded, bought eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com from Tucows. The new company was called Alacritude, LLC (a combination of Alacrity and Attitude). ELibrary had a library of 1,200 newspaper, magazine and radio/TV transcript archives that were generally not freely available. Original investors included Prism Opportunity Fund of Chicago and 1 to 1 Ventures of Stamford, Connecticut. Spain stated, "There was a glaring gap between free search like Google and high-end offerings like LexisNexis and Factiva." Later in 2002, it bought Researchville.com. By 2003, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgotten Realms
''Forgotten Realms'' is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. Several years later, Greenwood brought the setting to publication for the ''D&D'' game as a series of magazine articles, and the first Realms game products were released in 1987. Role-playing game products have been produced for the setting ever since, as have various licensed products including novels, role-playing video game adaptations (including the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to use graphics), comic books, and an upcoming film. Forgotten Realms is a fantasy world setting, described as a world of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities, where magic and supernatural phenomena are quite real. The premise is that, long ago, planet Earth and the world of the For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bregan D'aerthe
Menzoberranzan, the "City of Spiders", is a fictional city-state in the world of the ''Forgotten Realms'', a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting. The city is located in the Upper Northdark, about two miles below the Surbrin Vale, between the Moonwood and the Frost Hills (north of the Evermoors and under the River SurbinEd Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). ''Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition''. (Wizards of the Coast), ''p. 13, 125, 171, 212-213''. .). It is famed as the birthplace of Drizzt Do'Urden, the protagonist of several series of best-selling novels by noted fantasy author R. A. Salvatore. Menzoberranzan has been developed into a video game (of the same name) and a tabletop RPG setting. Menzoberranzan has been described as "a perfect unjust state" and compared to Glaucon's vision of a state that is held together only by the fear of retribution. Creative origins In 1988, the character Drizzt Do'Urden was created b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarlaxle
''Forgotten Realms'' is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. Several years later, Greenwood brought the setting to publication for the ''D&D'' game as a series of magazine articles, and the first Realms game products were released in 1987. Role-playing game products have been produced for the setting ever since, as have various licensed products including novels, role-playing video game adaptations (including the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to use graphics), comic books, and an upcoming film. Forgotten Realms is a fantasy world setting, described as a world of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities, where magic and supernatural phenomena are quite real. The premise is that, long ago, planet Earth and the world of the For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drow (Dungeons & Dragons)
The drow ( or ) or dark elves are a dark-skinned and white-haired subrace of elves connected to the subterranean Underdark in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. The drow have traditionally been portrayed as generally evil and connected to the evil goddess Lolth. However, later editions of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' have moved away from this portrayal and preassigned alignment. More recent publications have explored drow societies unconnected to Lolth. Creative origins The word "drow" is from the Orcadian and Shetland dialects of Scots, an alternative form of "trow", which is a cognate with "troll". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' gives no entry for "drow", but two of the citations under "trow" name it as an alternative form of the word. Trow/drow was used to refer to a wide variety of evil sprites. Everything about the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' drow was invented by ''Dungeons & Dragons'' co-creator Gary Gygax except for the basic concept of "dark elves". How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drizzt Do'Urden
Drizzt Do'Urden () is a fictional character appearing in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the ''Icewind Dale Trilogy''. Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed him to replace one of the characters in an early version of the first book, ''The Crystal Shard''. Drizzt has since become a popular heroic character of the Forgotten Realms setting, and has been featured as the main character of a long series of books, starting chronologically with ''The Dark Elf Trilogy''. As an atypical drow (dark elf), Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark, in the drow city of Menzoberranzan. Drizzt's story is told in Salvatore's fantasy novels in ''The Icewind Dale Trilogy'', ''The Dark Elf Trilogy'', the '' Legacy of the Drow'' series, the ''Paths of Darkness'' series, ''The Hunter's Blades Trilogy'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunter's Blades Trilogy
''The Hunter's Blades Trilogy'' is a fantasy trilogy by American writer R.A. Salvatore. It follows the ''Paths of Darkness'' series and is composed of three books: '' The Thousand Orcs'', '' The Lone Drow'', and '' The Two Swords''. ''The Two Swords'' was Salvatore's 17th work concerning one of his most famous characters, Drizzt Do'Urden. In this series, Drizzt tries to stop an orc king from spreading chaos and war. The series reached the ''New York Times'' bestseller list and is followed by the installments of the '' Transitions'' series. Series titles # '' The Thousand Orcs'' (2002) # '' The Lone Drow'' (2003) # '' The Two Swords'' (2004) Characters * Drizzt Do'Urden * Catti-brie * Bruenor Battlehammer * Wulfgar * Regis Reception ''The Thousand Orcs'' debuted on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list at number 11. Reviews were generally positive. ''Publishers Weekly'' described it as a "rousing tale of derring-do and harrowing escapes", although in doing so they acknowledged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promise Of The Witch-King
''Promise of the Witch-King'' is book 2 of the Forgotten Realms trilogy ''The Sellswords''. Book 1 was originally part of the Drizzt line of novels and has now been re-released with some short stories making up for the gap in time. The book details the adventures of Artemis Entreri the assassin and Jarlaxle the drow, formerly of House Baenre, with two new companions: the ghost of a powerful lich called the Witch-King, and an oath-bound knight. Plot summary Leaving behind their past, Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle Baenre become mercenaries in the lands of Damara and Vaasa where fame and glory await any who seek it. They are hired by two dragon sisters, Ilnezhara and Tazmikella, to uncover artifacts left behind by Zhengyi the Witch-King, a powerful lich who ruled the region for many years before falling to the power of King Gareth Dragonsbane and his allies. In search of adventure, glory, and treasure, the pair of unlikely heroes embarks on their mission to destroy, or retrieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Drizzt
''The Legend of Drizzt'' is a series of fantasy novels by R. A. Salvatore that began in 1988, and consists of 38 books as of August 9, 2022. They are based in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting in the dimension of Abeir-Toril on the continent Faerûn in the popular D&D universe currently published/owned by Wizards of the Coast. It combines the series ''The Dark Elf Trilogy'', ''The Icewind Dale Trilogy'', '' Legacy of the Drow'', ''Paths of Darkness'', ''The Hunter's Blades Trilogy'', and other sets into an abridged compilation. Drizzt Do'Urden Drizzt Do'Urden () is a fictional character appearing in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the ''Icewind Dale ... is the main character of most of the books. Main titles This series includes re-issues of novels (with new cover art) that had previously been published under different series titles. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transitions (novel Series)
''Transitions'' is a series of fantasy novels by R. A. Salvatore, the famous science fiction and fantasy author, consisting of three novels: ''The Orc King'', ''The Pirate King'', and ''The Ghost King''. It continues the tale of the famous renegade drow (dark elf) Drizzt Do'Urden and his friends. This series is a follow-up to The Hunter's Blades Trilogy. Like the rest of the saga, it is set in the Forgotten Realms, a popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing setting. Works included '' The Orc King'' was published in September 2007, '' The Pirate King'' in October 2008, and '' The Ghost King'' in October 2009. Plot summary The Orc King In this novel, an uneasy peace between dwarves and orcs begins to fail as orc tribes fight each other, and the dwarf Bruenor Battlehammer seeks to finish the war between the two races. The Pirate King In this novel, Captain Deudermont seeks to rescue the city of Luskan which is under the control of the Arcane Brotherhood. The Ghost King In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
