Shadowrealm, by Paul S. Kemp, is the conclusion of the Twilight War series, set in the Forgotten Realms. While it shares most of the traits of the first two books, I liked this one both more and less than them. If finishes the story of Everis Cale, the Chosen of Mask and his dealing with the Sh...
Egil and Nix are graverobbers -- think Indiana Jones, battling ancient curses and demons, etc. They get kidnapped by a sorcerer trying to extricate a horn from an ancient tomb so he can rescue a demonic figure to impregnate his sisters and preserve an ancient pact between the families. A fun bu...
Thank You Mr. Kemp for bringing me back to my D&D roots!! It's been a long while since I read this genre and I'm glad I have the privilage to say you brought me back!! The Godborn is the second novel of the soon-to-be released The Sundering series and yes I did read the 1st book Companions. If y...
Shadow’s Witness by Paul S. Kemp is the second book of the Sembia: Gateway to the Realms series.It follows the events of Resurrection by Paul S. Kemp, the short story in The Halls of Stormweather anthology.The story is about the Uskevren’s butler, Erevis Cale seeking revenge for a tragedy that be...
The Lady has spoken to me. It has already begun. Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia. “Be brave, little man,” says the shadowman, and the boy thinks his voice is surprisingly soft. “Stay with your mother. This will be over soon.” The sh...
The shadows deepen in every corner of the Realms.The sun no longer shines on a man who has embraced the darkness within him.The day's opposite finds Erevis Cale so far along the path away from his own humanity, he may never again walk as a man.In the end, to be Chosen by a god like Mask is more c...
Erevis Cale - simple butler or much, much more?The shadows grow long on the mean streets of Selgaunt... and the sun sets on one man's service to Sembia's merchant lords.The day's end finds Erevis Cale serving a new master, one who is beyond the petty accumulation of wealth.After all, what is gold...
The shadows recede from a lost temple in a forgotten wilderness. The sun rises on a new calling for a man as loyal as he is mysterious. The day's beginning finds Erevis Cale holding in his steady hands more power than he dared hope for - and more responsibility than he ever imagined. For now, ...
The invasion of the arch-wizards is on! The archwizards of Shade Enclave have come out of the desert with a message of peace, and an act of war. Split by petty disputes and causeless feuds, the merchant realm of Sembia is wide open for invasion, and with no shortage of Sembians more than happy to...
The fortune-teller was shouting things she couldn’t possibly know, names and places and jobs and payments—guild business. But she did know somehow. Sorcery. Had to be. “Shite,” he whispered. He turned to bolt but she fell silent, and he held for a moment behind the wooden screen, uncertain. He co...
Spears of ice hung in thickets from every overhang. Three-quarters of a communications tower jutted upward from the tundra like an accusatory finger blaming the sky for its fate. A faint, snow-blotted light at the tower's top flashed intermittently, keeping time with the beacon playing over Flots...
Sheer and jagged, they soared so high they appeared never to end, an infinite wall of rock ejected from the ground to reach for the sky. Like the rest of the Demonweb Pits, cracks, jagged openings, and tunnels dotted the face of the peaks. Spiders scuttled in and out of the holes, preying on each...
Everyone else remained asleep. He coughed, spit, and heated the kettle of coffee in the fire's embers. He spotted Rakon near the edge of the sea of glass. The sorcerer had somehow removed a few shards of glass from the edge of the sea and they lay stacked on th...