This leads to a number of, frankly, ridiculous changes to the existing structure of Forgotten Realms geography, religion, magic, you name it. Naturally, they just continue their juvenile scheming and jockeying for power. As punishment, Ao forces them all into human bodies and casts them down to the Realms to, I guess, learn humility or something. Ao summons all of the deities into his presence and informs them that the Tablets of Fate (which define and describe the individual duties of each deity) have been stolen, and their juvenile jockeying for power, instead of managing the world as they should have, has disappointed their master. The premise of the story is this: the Gods and Goddesses of the Forgotten Realms themselves answer to an over-being called Ao. Chaos, destruction, and death abound as the Gods themselves walk the earth in mortal shells. Shadowdale begins the tale of the fall of the Gods of the Realms. It was written under the pseudonym Richard Awlinson, which I always believed was to protect the actual authors (Troy Denning and Scott Ciencin) from the ensuing fallout. Shadowdale was first published in 1989 as the leading novel in The Avatar Trilogy, arguably one of the most significant series of Realms novels in terms of their effect on the setting. I'd say if you just enjoy light fantasy, even without a gaming background you'll enjoy it and if you do have a gaming background (especially in D&D or even the Forgotten Realms specifically) you'll already have sort of a toe in the door. It starts out a little slowly (due to setting up the situation and so on) but once all the players are on the board the story moves on and we get some good D&D based brain candy. Lets say they are trying to recover.the MacGuffin.Īnd this is the first book of the trilogy (which turned into a Pentalogy that is 5 books) and (crap, I stopped saying "anyway" and started saying "and".like right there.)Īnyway(crap) this book is good and worth reading. Wait that would be a huge spoiler, sorry. This is/was when (in duh,duh,duh The Realms Ao the above deity, you know above the OTHER deities of duh,duh,duh The Realms) turned all the other deities into mortals and they had bunches of fights and wars and some of the deities died.sort of.Īnyway (I say that a lot don't I?) there are mortals who get involved in straightening things out. ![]() As I play a Paladin and I prefer to play a Christian Paladin we need to work out the details on the Forgotten Realms pantheon.Īnyway this trilogy entails the (again cue portentous music) TIME OF TROUBLES. Okay, I picked this up because our D&D group is or has begun a game in (cue portentous music) THE REALMS.DUH,DUH,DUH!Īnyway my friend N and I rotate DMing duties and he has us in Waterdeep.
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