Spellstorm
FORGOTTEN REALMS
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ED GREENWOOD
SAGE OF SHADOWDALE
Elminster: The Making of a Mage
Elminster in Myth Drannor
The Temptation of Elminster
Elminster in Hell
Elminster’s Daughter
Elminster Must Die
Bury Elminster Deep
Elminster Enraged
The Herald
(Book VI of The Sundering)
Spellstorm
THE KNIGHT OF MYTH DRANNOR
Swords of Eveningstar
Swords of Dragonfire
The Sword Never Sleeps
SHANDRIL’S SAGE
Spellfire
Crown of Fire
Hand of Fire
THE SHADOW OF THE AVATAR
Shadows of Doom
Cloak of Shadows
All Shadows Fled
THE HARPERS
Stormlight
THE CORMYR SAGE
Cormyr: A Novel (with Jeff Grubb)
Death of the Dragon
(with Troy Denning)
ALSO BY ED GREENWOOD
Silverfall: Stories of the Seven Sisters
The City of Splendors: A Waterdeep Novel (with Elaine Cunningham)
The Best of the Realms, Book II:
The Stories of Ed Greenwood
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SPELLSTORM
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To Jenny
,
For everything and more
.
Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1: Sipping Choice Wines at the Dragon Rampant
Chapter 2: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Chapter 3: No Shortage of Dark Schemers
Chapter 4: It’s All Up To You
Chapter 5: Very Bad, Very Soon
Chapter 6: Laughter, Threats, and a Little Truth
Chapter 7: A Feast to Die For
Chapter 8: A Surprising Evening
Chapter 9: Behold the Best Preening Idiot
Chapter 10: A Sword Is Always Easier
Chapter 11: A Little Tumult
Chapter 12: A Truce Among Wizards
Chapter 13: What Lord Halaunt Was Up To
Chapter 14: Crudeness and Comeuppance
Chapter 15: The Army That Came Too Late
Chapter 16: Too Many Murderers
Chapter 17: Manshoon’s Magnificent Moment
Chapter 18: Dark and Stormy Knights
Chapter 19: Hunting the Sleeping Snake
Chapter 20: The Snake Sleepeth Not
Chapter 21: This Isn’t Over Yet
1. Front Entrance
2. Great Entry Hall
3. Red Receiving Room
4. Servery (accesses 3 through sliding panels; reached via cellar-level passage from 16)
5. Feast Dumbwaiter Antechamber (dumbwaiter elevator from cellar-level Underservery; also goes to disused upper floor)
6. Library
7. Front Staircase (cellar/ground floor/upper floor)
8. Servants’ Stair (ground floor/cellars)
9. Summer Room (lounge)
10. Armor Court
11. “The Passage” (Hall of Ancestors)
12. Blue Chamber
13. Copper Receiving Room
14. Feast Hall
15. Kitchen
16. Butlery
17. Back Kitchen
18. Kitchen Stairs (servants’ use: cellars [cold cellar and wine cellar adjacent to bottom of stair]/upper floor)
19. South Servery
20. Pantry
21. Larder
22. Green Audience Chamber
23. South Stairs (cellars/upper floor [upper floor: servants’ quarters and storage attics, currently ruinous])
24. Withdrawing Room
25. Parlor
26. Fire Stair (spiral)
27. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Elminster)
28. Nursery (used by servants)
29. Family Bedchamber (used by servants; assigned to Myrmeen)
30. Family Bedchamber (used by servants; assigned to Mirt)
31. Lord Halaunt’s Receiving Room
32. Lord’s Wine Antechamber
33. Lord Halaunt’s Bedchamber
34. Lord’s Wardrobe
35. Lord’s Retiring Room/Robing Room
36. Lord’s Lounge (assigned to Tabra as her bedchamber)
37. Lord’s Study
38. Guest Servants’ Bedchamber (vacant)
39. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Malchor Harpell as his bedchamber)
40. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Manshoon as his bedchamber)
41. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Skouloun as his bedchamber)
42. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Maraunth Torr as his bedchamber)
43. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Calathlarra as her bedchamber)
44. Guest Servants’ Bedchamber (vacant)
45. Ladies’ Lounge (assigned to Shaaan the Serpent Queen as her bedchamber)
46. Chamber of the Founder (statue of first Lord Halaunt [used as guests’ lounge])
47. Grand Staircase (cellars [furniture repair workshop, bulk larder stores]/ground floor/upper floor [ten vacant guest bedchambers])
48. Statue Chamber
49. Linens Closet
50. Bathing Chamber
51. Trophy Chamber
52. Garderobe
53. Documents Room
54. Messengers’ Bedchamber (vacant)
55. Messengers’ Lounge
56. Guest Wardrobe
57. Armory
58. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Yusendre as her bedchamber)
59. Guest Bedchamber (assigned to Alastra Hathwinter as her bedchamber)
60. Guests’ Storage Room/Wardrobe/overflow Guest Servants’ Bedchamber (vacant)
61. Guest Servants’ Hall
62. Storeroom
63. Prayer Room
64. Writing Room
65. Dancers’ Robing Room
66. Garderobe
67. Garderobe
68. Dancing Hall
69. Plate and Cutlery (“secret stair” at end, cellars/ground floor/upper floor)
Seek no morrow, but make war ready; heed what I darkly warn
For you face blood, sorrow, fell treachery, and dread spellstorm
.
Bardraskur, Bard of Immersea
A Dark Day for Cormyr
Published circa the Year of the Helm
CHAPTER 1
Sipping Choice Wines at the Dragon Rampant
S
PYING ON BEHALF OF THE
C
ROWN COULD GET FAR WORSE THAN THIS
.
Tarnmark Lionmantle let the rich, tart Brodolvan red sluice its delightful way around his mouth until his tongue flirted with the edge of numbness, then swallowed. It burned wonderfully, all the way down. Truly, the older Chessentan vintages were coming into their own.