Salvatore, R A - Icewind Dale 1 - The Crystal Shard

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The Crystal Shard

The Crystal Shard - Cover

Come gather 'round Hardy men of the steppes

And listen to my tale

Of heroes bold and friendships fast

And the Tyrant of Icewind Dale

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The Crystal Shard

Of a band of friends

By trick or by deed

Bred legends for the bard

The baneful pride of one poor wretch

And the horror of the Crystal Shard

Dedication

To my wife, Diane and to Bryan, Geno, and Caitlin for their support and patience through this

experience.

And to my parents, Geno and Irene For believing in me even when I didn't.

Whenever an author takes on a project like this, especially if it is his first novel, there are invariably a

number of people who help him accomplish the task. The writing of The Crystal Shard was no exception.

Publishing a novel involves three elements: a degree of talent; a lot of hard work; and a good measure

of luck. The first two elements can be controlled by the author, but the third involves being in the right

place at the right time and finding an editor who believes in your ability and dedication to the task at

hand.

Therefore, my greatest thanks go to TSR, and especially to Mary Kirchoff, for taking a chance on a first

time author and guiding me throughout the process.

Writing in the 1980s has become a high-tech chore as well as an exercise in creativity. In the case of

The Crystal Shard, luck once again worked on my side. I consider myself lucky to have a friend like

Brian P. Savoy, who loaned me his software expertise in smoothing out the rough edges.

My thanks also to my personal opinion-givers, Dave Duquette and Michael LaVigueur, for pointing out

strengths and weaknesses in the rough draft, to my brother, Gary Salvatore, for his work on the maps of

Icewind Dale, and to the rest of my AD&DR game group, Tom Parker, Daniel Mallard, and Roland

Lortie, for their continued inspiration through the development of eccentric characters fit to wear the

mantle of a hero in a fantasy novel.

And finally, to the man who truly brought me into the world of the AD&D game, Bob Brown. Since

you moved away (and took the pipe smoke with you) the atmosphere around the gaming table just hasn't

been the same.

Prelude

Maps

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The Crystal Shard
Book 1        Ten-Towns
    Chapter 1    The Stooge
    Chapter 2    On the Banks of Maer Dualdon
    Chapter 3    The Mead Hall
    Chapter 4    The Crystal Shard
    Chapter 5    Someday
    Chapter 6    Bryn Shander
    Chapter 7    The Coming Storm
    Chapter 8    Bloody Fields
Epilogue
Book 2        Wulfgar
    Chapter 9    No More a Boy
    Chapter 10    The Gathering Gloom
    Chapter 11    Aegis-fang
    Chapter 12    The Gift
    Chapter 13    As the Wielder Bids
    Chapter 14    Lavender Eyes
    Chapter 15    On the Wings of Doom
    Chapter 16    Shallow Graves
    Chapter 17    Vengeance
    Chapter 18    Biggrin's House
Book 3        Cryshal-Tirith
    Chapter    19    Grim Tidings
    Chapter    20    A Slave to No Man
Epilogue
Book 4
    Chapter 21    The Icy Tomb
    Chapter 22    By Blood or by Deed
    Chapter 23    Besieged
    Chapter 24    Cryshal-Tirith
    Chapter 25    Errtu
    Chapter 26    Rights of Victory
    Chapter 27    The Clock of Doom
    Chapter 28    A Lie Within a Lie
    Chapter 29    Other Options
    Chapter 30    The Battle of Icewind Dale
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The Crystal Shard

Chapter 31 Victory?

Epilogue

The Author

Prelude

The demon sat back on the seat it had carved in the stem of the giant mushroom. Sludge slurped and

rolled around the rock island, the eternal oozing and shifting that marked this layer of the Abyss.

Errtu drummed its clawed fingers, its horned, apelike head lolling about on its shoulders as it peered

into the gloom. "Where are you, Telshazz?" the demon hissed, expecting news of the relic. Crenshinibon,

pervaded all of the demon's thoughts. With the shard in its grasp, Errtu could rise over an entire layer,

maybe even several layers.

And Errtu had come so close to possessing it!

The demon knew the power of the artifact; Errtu had been serving seven lichs when they combined their

evil magics and made the crystal shard. The lichs, undead spirits of powerful wizards that refused to rest

when their mortal bodies had passed from the realms of the living, had gathered to create the most vile

artifact ever made, an evil that fed and flourished off of that which the purveyors of good considered

most precious-the light of the sun.

But they had gone beyond even their own considerable powers. The forging actually consumed the

seven, Crenshinibon stealing the magical strength that preserved the lichs' undead state to fuel its own

first flickers of life. The ensuing bursts of power had hurtled Errtu back to the Abyss, and the demon had

presumed the shard destroyed.

But Crenshinibon would not be so easily destroyed. Now, centuries later, Errtu had stumbled upon the

trail of the crystal shard again; a crystal tower, Cryshal-Tirith, with a pulsating heart the exact image of

Crenshinibon.

Errtu knew the magic was close by; the demon could sense the powerful presence of the relic. If only it

could have found the thing earlier . . . if only it could have grasped . . .

But then Al Dimeneira had arrived, an angelic being of tremendous power. Al Dimeneira banished

Errtu back to the Abyss with a single word.

Errtu peered through the swirling smoke and gloom when it heard the sucking footsteps.

"Telshazz?" the demon bellowed.

"Yes, my master," the smaller demon answered, cowering as it approached the mushroom throne.

"Did he get it?" Errtu roared. "Does Al Dimeneira have the crystal shard?"

Telshazz quivered and whimpered, "Yes, my lord . . . uh, no, my lord!"

Errtu's evil red eyes narrowed.

"He could not destroy it," the little demon was quick to explain. "Crenshinibon burned his hands!"

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The Crystal Shard

"Hah!" Errtu snorted. "Beyond even the power of Al Dimeneira! Where is it, then? Did you bring it, or

does it remain in the second crystal tower?"

Telshazz whimpered again. It didn't want to tell its cruel master the truth, but it would not dare to

disobey. "No, master, not in the tower," the little demon whispered.

"No!" Errtu roared. "Where is it?"

"Al Dimeneira threw it."

"Threw it?"

"Across the planes, merciful master!" Telshazz cried. "With all of his strength!"

"Across the very planes of existence!" Errtu growled.

"I tried to stop him, but . . ."

The horned head shot forward. Telshazz's words gurgled indecipherably as Errtu's canine maw tore its

throat out.

* * * * *

Far removed from the gloom of the Abyss, Crenshinibon came to rest upon the world. Far up in the

northern mountains of the Forgotten Realms the crystal shard, the ultimate perversion, settled into the

snow of a bowl-shaped dell.

And waited.

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