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The Crystal Shard

Book 1 of The Icewind Dale Trilogy

  • 340 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 21 editions

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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: fantasy, adventure, and magic.

  • Fantasy
  • Adventure
  • Magic
  • Epic Fantasy
  • Comics & graphic novels, fantasy
  • Epic
  • Elves
  • Goblins

2 About R. A. Salvatore

Born 1959

Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959) is an American author best known for The Legend of Drizzt, a series of fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms and starring the character Drizzt Do'Urden. He has also written The DemonWars Saga, a series of high fantasy novels; several other Forgotten Realms novels; and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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