The City of Towers is a fantasy novel by Keith Baker, set in the world of Eberron, and based on the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. It is the first novel in "The Dreaming Dark" series. It was published in paperback in February 2005.

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Hardened by the Last War, four soldiers have come to

Sharn Eberron is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') role-playing game. The game is set primarily on the continent of Khorvaire following a vast destructive war. Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional ''D&D'' elements an ...

, fabled City of Towers, capital of adventure, home to the best and worst that Eberron has to offer. After a lifetime of fighting, war is all they know. Now, in a time of uneasy peace, they must struggle to survive. But then people start turning up dead. The heroes soon find themselves caught in a plot that will take them from the highest reaches of power to the most sordid depths of the city of wonder, shadow, and adventure.

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{{reflist 2005 American novels Eberron novels