Novels of a Bygone Period: Forgotten Realms Novel Suggestions

I used to be requested on the THAC0 with Benefit Discord if I had any Forgotten Realms novels I’d suggest. I spotted that whereas I had suggestions for earlier period sourcebooks, I by no means talked about novels. My prime picks, which can embrace books that embrace parts that my mind has buried too deep to think about, could be this:

• Songs & Swords (Elfshadow, Elfsong, Silver Shadows, Thornhold, The Dream Spheres)
• The Finder’s Stone Trilogy (Azure Bonds, The Wyvern’s Spur, Track of the Saurials)
• The Icewind Dale Trilogy (The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, The Halfling’s Gem)
• The Darkish Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn)
• Starlight & Shadows (Daughter of the Drow, Tangled Webs, Windwalker)
• The Sellswords (Servant of the Shard, Promise of the Witch-King, Highway of the Patriarch)
• The Erevis Cale Trilogy (Twilight Falling, Daybreak of Night time, Midnight’s Masks)
• Evermeet: Island of Elves
• Cormyr: A Novel

These are all books that don’t essentially present a very powerful occasions within the Realms however current what the Realms “seems like” to me. I’d suggest the Songs & Swords books above any of the remainder of them as a result of Elaine Cunningham is wonderful, and her novels are as a lot why I fell in love with Waterdeep as any of the sourcebooks. The Sellswords could also be a bit of complicated if you happen to leap from the Icewind Dale books to these, however I don’t suppose it’s too difficult to catch up. 

The Starlight & Shadows books are one other sequence by Elaine Cunningham, however they might be a bit of complicated with out studying extra about Menzoberranzan in The Darkish Elf trilogy, despite the fact that I like them higher. Evermeet and Cormyr are each stand alone books on actually vital locations within the Realms. Evermeet is one other Elaine Cunningham guide. Cormyr was written by Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb, and might be a bit extra readable as a result of Jeff Grubb was on board (sorry Ed, however its true).

The Erevis Cale books sit in a bizarre place. I don’t need to suggest the entire Sembia sequence that got here earlier than it, and I feel you possibly can catch up simply from studying these books, however there’s a little bit of a sense that they bleed into the Twilight Conflict books, which get actually muddied within the 4e Realms transition stuff occurring.