Аннотация
The Temptation of Elminster
Ed Greenwood
Forgotten Realms Elminster Saga 3
1998
Prologue
There is a time in the unfolding history of the mighty Old Mage of Shadowdale that some sages call "the years when Elminster lay dead." I wasn't there to see any corpse, so I prefer to call them "the Silent Years." I've been vilified and derided as the worst sort of fantasizing idiot for that stance, but my critics and I agree on one thing: whatever Elminster did during those years, all we know of it is...nothing at all.
Antarn the Sage
from The High History of Faerunian Archmages Mighty
published circa The Year of the Staff
The sword flashed down to deal death. The roszel bush made no defense beyond emitting a solid sort of thunking noise as tempered steel sliced through it. Thorny boughs fell away with dry cracklings, a booted foot slipped, and there was a heavy crash, followed, as three adventurers caught...
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