Forgotten Realms: The Wizards · #1

Blackstaff

Steven E. Schend

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Archmage of Waterdeep

Chosen of Mystra

Master of Blackstaff Tower

Khelben “The Blackstaff” Arunsun has lived for centuries and kept more secrets than anyone can imagine. He is more than a wizard, more than the protector of the City of Splendors, and more than human.

When his consciousness is intermingled with that of his young apprentice they will learn more from each other than either expected, and go together to a fate neither could possibly see coming.

Steven E. Schend, one of the Forgotten Realms setting’s most prolific sages, breathes new life into one of Faerûn’s most vital mages, and reveals secrets and lies from a thousand years of Realmslore.

Published
2006
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Steven E. Schend

Born in 1967, Steven E. Schend fell into the fantastic worlds of L. Frank Baum's Oz and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom. All that fantasy helped, as Steven worked for over fifteen years with TSR, Inc., Wizards of the Coast, and other game companies. He has been an editor, a designer, an assistant manager, and world builder. He's also worked as a teacher, landscaper, street sweeper, and concrete curb builder. After all's said and done, his favorite job has always been as the mouthpiece and chronicler for the denizens of the Forgotten Realms. There is, however, no truth to the rumors that Steven has actually assumed Khelben's identity, or he…