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Return to the deserts of the Dark Sun world A maverick statesman, a half-elf slave girl, and a man-dwarf gladiator band together to face off against the vile magic of a sorcerer-king who's spent a thousand years draining the world of Athas of its precious life-force. In 1991 best-selling author Troy Denning introduced the world to the post-apocalyptic world of Athas, and almost twenty years later it remains one of the most talked-about and fan-requested settings in the Dungeons & Dragons show more universe. These deluxe trade paperback reissues will introduce a whole new generation to the magic-blasted deserts of the Dark Sun world show lessTags
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A good resource for the cruel sun-baked fantasy world of Dark Sun.
Have good descriptions on how psionics "the Way" would look like.
this world have a lot of exotic animals, weapons and even a different take on the standard things like elves and halflings.
Quite engaging and a certain Conan-feel to it all, with evil sorcerer-kings and brutal gladiator combat.
Have good descriptions on how psionics "the Way" would look like.
this world have a lot of exotic animals, weapons and even a different take on the standard things like elves and halflings.
Quite engaging and a certain Conan-feel to it all, with evil sorcerer-kings and brutal gladiator combat.
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Bestselling fantasy and science fiction author Troy Denning was born in 1958. He has written many novels, including the Prism Pentad series and multiple contributions to the Star Wars and Forgotten Realms universes. Denning is one of the founders of the game company Pacesetter Ltd, and he co-designed the Dark Sun Dungeons & Dragons campaign show more setting. He has published under his own name and the pseudonym Richard Awlinson. Denning joined TSR as a game designer in 1981, and was promoted a year later to Manager of Designers, before he moved to the book department. He then worked for two years managing the Pacesetter game company, and had a stint at Mayfair Games. Denning wrote the third novel in TSRs "Avatar Trilogy", Waterdeep (1989), which he wrote under the house pseudonym Richard Awlinson, the book became a New York Times bestselling novel. In October 1989 he rejoined TSR as a senior designer, co-creating the Dark Sun setting with Tim Brown and Mary Kirchoff. Denning returned to freelance writing again in 1991, writing the bestselling "Prism Pentad" for the Dark Sun setting, and the Forgotten Realms "Twilight Giants" trilogy Denning also wrote the Planescape hardcover Pages of Pain "It had to be from the Lady of Pain's viewpoint which is something of a problem, since (as every Planescape player knows) she never speaks and (this was the really good part) the reader must know less about her at the end of the book than he does at the beginning, and nobody knows anything about her at the beginning. In 2010 Troy Denning published his book Vortex and it hit the New York Times Best Seller list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Verdant Passage
- Original title
- The Verdant Passage
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Rikus; Kalak; Agis of Asticles; Neeva; Sadira; Sacha (animated head) (show all 11); Tithian of Mericles; Wyan (animated head); Anezka; Ktandeo; Nok
- Important places
- Athas; Tyr; Ringing mountains
- Important events
- Ziggurat games
- Dedication
- For Andria, for her help and encouragement.
- First words
- The great ziggurat towered above the squalor of the sun-baked city.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Long live the king!" he whispered, placing the circlet on his own head.
- Original language
- English, US
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- Members
- 461
- Popularity
- 65,864
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.45)
- Languages
- English, French, Hungarian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 3
