I was rereading one particular story to research something, and I wound up rereading the entire thing. So, here’s my review, having finished the book a lot more recently than the first time I read the entire thing, and a lot more fresh on my mind. Because this is a collection of short stories, I’m going to give a review of each story, and a final rating of the entire book.“Traitors”, by Richard Lee Byers, tied in to the Rage of the Dragon, in explaining how it came about.
I liked this short st -I was rereading one particular story to research something, and I wound up rereading the entire thing. So, here’s my review, having finished the book a lot more recently than the first time I read the entire thing, and a lot more fresh on my mind.
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Because this is a collection of short stories, I’m going to give a review of each story, and a final rating of the entire book.“Traitors”, by Richard Lee Byers, tied in to the Rage of the Dragon, in explaining how it came about. I liked this short story, as it gave an interesting look at what the ancient Dragon Baronies were like. I never liked the concept, I’ll admit, but having read this story a few times, in conjunction with AGHotR (the PDF), it’s grown on me a lot.“The Staff of Valmaxian”, by Phil Athans was a decent story.
Honestly, though, it didn’t think it was anything great. It wasn’t really good, but at the same time, it wasn’t very bad either.
It just was, though it certainly wasn’t “page filler”. It was a good, in-depth display of how much some Wizards will do for power, which was nice. The characters and dates could have all been swapped for Humans, and this is the part that dimishes the story for me, but it was a good one, all around.“Necessary Sacrifices”, by Lisa Smedman, tackles the age old “Can I kill an innocent child” debacle. The Shevarashans kill a bunch of Drow, find a child, one has a moral dilemma, that ‘old’ schpiel. While I know a lot of others who liked this story, I didn’t, really. To me, it’s very simple: These individuals are Clerics of Shevarash. They have enough faith in Shevarash and his dogma to go through with killing a Drow, children included.
Clerics of Shevarash need not be good. I mean, I look at it like this: Put an incredibly sexy girl in front of a priest. Is he going to cave? -“The Greater Treasure”, by Eric Scott De Bie, introduced everyone’s favorite Elven rogue, Fox-At-Twilight.
While I have nothing against her, I’m not a big fan of hers. But, that’s besides the point. I enjoyed the Cult of Graz’zt- you don’t see Demon Cults taking antagonist roles in Forgotten Realms stories too much, so that was a nice touch.
The betrayal of Cythara, at the end, was a very nice touch, though. Yldar was a good Sun Elf protagonist, though. You don’t see too many of those.“Comrades at Odds”, by R.A.
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Salvatore, I didn’t care for. I, like many others, am tiring of Drizzt. The parts with Tos’Un were probably the scenes I enjoyed the most. The scenes with the necromancy, with summoning the spirit of the slain Ellifain, I didn’t like.
Elves don’t dabble in Necromancy. Summoning spirits and bringing the dead back, and all of that stuff is only done in the most dire of circumstances. To make poor Drizzt feel better, well, that’s not a dire circumstance.“Tears So White”, by Ed Greenwood, is another story that I’ve heard so many people as liking, but I, honestly, didn’t like it too much. I’ve come to realize that, while I like his setting, I don’t really like his writing too much. In this case, I don’t really know why this short story is in this anthology. It’s only tangentially related to Elves, and with Ed Greenwood’s ability to make up things that become canon, write (which he can do, though I don’t always enjoy it), and all of that, I thought that was a bad move, by him or Phil.
I don’t like the Knights of Myth Drannor much, either, so that subtracted from my enjoyment of this story as well.“The Bladesinger’s Lesson”, by Rich Baker, was another story that I didn’t like too much. The main reason for that, though, is not Rich Baker’s writing, or anything, but my own prejudices. Daried the Bladesinger was a fine character, and the story itself was a good one.
But, Half-Elves don’t deserve Moonblades. Arilyn Moonblade? Being a direct descendant of the Royal Family of Evermeet, however, hers is a different case, as opposed to Nilsa, a no-name farmer girl.
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Philip Athans is the founding partner of Athans & Associates Creative Consulting, and the New York Times best-selling author of Annihilation and more than a dozen other fantasy and horror books including The Guide to Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction and Writing Monsters. Born in Rochester, New York he grew up in suburban Chicago, where he published the literary magazine Alternative Fictio Philip Athans is the founding partner of Athans & Associates Creative Consulting, and the New York Times best-selling author of Annihilation and more than a dozen other fantasy and horror books including The Guide to Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction and Writing Monsters. Born in Rochester, New York he grew up in suburban Chicago, where he published the literary magazine Alternative Fiction & Poetry.
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His blog, Fantasy Author’s Handbook , is updated every Tuesday, and you can follow him on Twitter @PhilAthans. He makes his home in the foothills of the Washington Cascades, east of Seattle.
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Contents. Contents The Grand History of the Realms is an accessory for the which presents a definitive in-game history of the setting from the dawn of recorded history through the ancient days of and the Fallen Kingdoms, to the and the uphevals of the present time in the setting. The text is accompanied by anecdotes, diary entries, letters, and historical texts created by famous personalities of Faerun, and an extensive and comprehensive timeline including a sneak peek into upcoming events. Publication history The Grand History of the Realms was written by, and, and published in September 2007. Cover art was by, with interior art by, and.
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