The Crystal Shard
The Crystal ShardR. A. Salvatore

The Crystal Shard (1988)

R. A. Salvatore

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Isolated in the barren stretches of Icewind Dale the villages of Ten-Towns come under attack by a tribe of barbarians. In the midst of battle a young barbarian named Wulfgar ends up owing five years of his life to a grizzled dwarf. With the help of Drizzt, a renegade dark elf, the dwarf strives to mold the barbarian into a warrior with both brawn and brains. Meanwhile, there is no peace for the people of Ten-Towns. The fractioned tribes of barbarians continue to pose a threat, and Wulfgar may be the only person who can avert a deadly battle. But an even more dire menace appears when a weak-willed apprentice mage stumbles upon a magical crystal shard. The evil shard directs the hapless mage onto a course of destruction that all of Icewind Dale may be powerless to stop. from the paperback This work is in the following series: Forgotten Realms The Legend Of Drizzt | Book 4 Icewind Dale Trilogy| Book 1

ISBN:
9781631406218
Length:
340 pages

Genres: fantasy , graphic novel

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I think this is this is fairly effective and you can see that the opening is a very similar sort of opening to lots of other authors who is the character that we are focused on where are they what are they like what are they doing and then we have what is the preoccupation of the story all done within two paragraphs that's very quick it's very straightforward it's not beating about the bush

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R.A. SalvatoreThe strange and exotic Menzoberranzan—the great city of the Underdark, founded millennia ago by the dark elves after they left the surface world—is the home of Drizzt Do'Urden, the hero of The Icewind Dale. Drizzt, the young prince of one of the ruling houses, comes of age in his race's cruel and ruthless world, where the only ray of hope is his weapons master, Zaknafein, who teaches him how—and why—to wield a sword. Possessing a sense of honor incomprehensible to the unprincipled society around him—a society intent only on satisfying the vile whims of the Spider Queen—young Drizzt faces an inevitable dilemma: can he live in a world that rejects integrity?

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