The book includes a onepage introduction, explaining that this book covers the region known as the shining south. Stringheart halflings make up most of the population of the land of luiren. Heres a short list to get you started if you like the underdark, drow, or bad mother ers. The shining south is an accessory for the fictional forgotten realms campaign setting for the.
The forgotten realms atlas 2e wizards of the coast. Salvatore and elminster ed greenwood are easily the most enduring characters from the forgotten realms for a reason, so those are probably the best novels to go with. They are central to the plot of the fantasy novel blackstaff by steven e. Gift set, the lady penitent, shadowbane, and several more. Youll have to explore for a while until you find specific things races, places, events, etc youll want to read more about.
Some, like the legendary forgotten realms, are rich with storied history. Within the context of the setting, the sharn are also called by the lesser known names shiftshades, blackclaws, simmershadows, skulkingdeaths. Franklin, 1 book troy denning, 1 book scott ciencin, 1 book elaine cunningham, 1 book rosemary jones, 1 book elaine cunningham, 1. Read the sundering book, dont think there was a fight scene. Ed greenwoods original map of the realmswhich had been sent to jeff grubb as twentyfour 8. His literature is a beautiful marriage of raw and refined. It had its heyday in the early 2000s with the baldurs gate, dark alliance, icewind dale and then leading into the neverwinter series.
Number crunching the demographics of the forgotten realms. The setting is supported by hundreds of novels worth of lore by dozens of. I liked the book because of the forgotten realms setting. Luiren spring cheese or cheeeese was a type of cheese that acted as a drug to halflings. There really isnt a best launching point to get into forgotten realms. Amn forgotten realms project gutenberg selfpublishing. Campaign setting ed greenwood, skip williams, sean. Pages 4252 detail the land of luiren, the land of the halflings, including its geography and climate, history. Okay the title is a tongue in cheek play on eberron rising from the last war, but my point is a book like eberron rising from the last war is the sort of book ive been asking for, but for the forgotten realms from wotc and given its success i am hoping fr gets its own version of a.
Forgotten realms collectors guide morrus unofficial. The number of gnomes is tiny, just 330k outside the lantan isles. Best of the realms, book i, the, miscellaneous best of the realms, book ii, the, ed greendwood best of the realms, book iii, the, elaine cunningham best of the realms, book iv, the, r. The many maps that had already detailed the realms formed the foundation of fonstads forgotten realms atlas. List of forgotten realms modules and sourcebooks wikipedia. Unlike statet in the players handbook, characters in the forgotten realms almost always have a patron.
Salvatore, 25 books ed greenwood, 15 books douglas niles, 3 books baker, richard, 2 books anthony, mark, 2 books jeff grubb, 1 book paul s. The forgotten realms campaign set was written by ed greenwood, with jeff grubb and karen martin, and published as a boxed set in 1987. See the complete forgotten realms series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. From the bitter, windswept steppes of the endless waste to the stormlashed cliffs of the sword coast stretches a wide, wild land of shining kingdoms and. Forgotten realms campaign setting 1st edition series. Forgotten realms fiction, roleplaying game fiction. The forgotten realms chronological book series by multiple authors includes books sword play, dangerous games. Justice or vengeance watchman by day, vigilante by night, shadowbanes world is turned upside down when he runs across a powerful wizardin the form of a confused, hunted girl. The crystal shard was the second forgotten realms novel ever published, and the first by r. Realms catalogue are supposed to be actual books printed in the realms. She updated her atlas of middleearth 1991 a year later, to account for the first eight books in christopher tolkiens history of middleearth 198396, but that was the end of her atlas creativity.
Auroras whole realms catalogue offers with limitations luiren spring. Currently comprising thirty seven novels, the author has continued to write since his first release, the crystal shard, in 1988. He has created some of the best heroes and antiheroes of any forgotten realms. Schend and are best known as those responsible for imprisoning the malevolent phaerimm. Salvatore beyond the high road, troy denning black bouquet, therichard lee byers black wizards, dougles niles black wolf, dave gross blackstaff, steven e. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. After making numerous appearances in articles written by greenwood for tsrs dragon magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, it was acquired with conditions by tsr and turned.
The shining south 1993, by tom prusa, is the sixteenth and final book in the fr series of sourcebooks for the forgotten realms. Forgotten realms, mortal consequences, and several more. See the complete forgotten realms chronological series book list in order, box sets or. X book at random, chances are theres something and, more than likely, a lot of things in there for the realms or that the dm could put in. Frforgotten realms are sourcebooks describing aspects of forgotten realms, rather than traditional modules. It is the most popular fantasy campaign in history. Clerics in the realms function much in the same way as described in the players handbook, however, all clerics in the realms serve a patron dietiy. Commonly referred to as simply the realms, it began as his own personal campaign.
Almost a quarter of a century old, the forgotten realms version of the book of lairs is a must have for most dms. Unfortunately, the forgotten realms atlas was her last fully original work. Halflings are scattered all over faerun in areas mostly controlled by other races, with only a realatively small population in their homeland of luiren. Salvaores forgotten realms series takes place in the universe of the same name belonging to the wildly popular dungeons and dragons franchise. Order of forgotten realms books forgotten realms is a multiauthor series of fantasy novels created by canadian author ed greenwood. The forgotten realms is a vast setting, and usually anything you can imagine ends up there eventually somehow. Downshadow forgotten realms ed greenwood presents waterdeep the dark knight must choose. His most recent novel titles in the forgotten realms are the ruby guardian, the. Distributed to the book trade in the united states by random house, inc. However, most will not enjoy this book as it lacks the the typical style that most books from this setting have. Well met, traveler, and welcome to the forgotten realms. It is the home of elminster, alias, azoun, khelben, and drizzt the dark elf. Dwarves have a much larger concentration in the great rift, though most of their population is still scattered around the world.