The Gilded Rune
A plague that turns dwarves to stone...
A race of people, said to be forged from precious metal, face a devastating disease. Stoneplague. Once afflicted, the suffering is agony. Eyes become opaque and glassy, skin flakes off in scales, bones fuse into an immovable skeleton, and blood turns dark and muddy. Death comes when the heart stops beating and hardens into stone. And the plague is spreading.
A dwarven soul in human form...
Torrin Ironstar is a delver, an adventurer whose daft quest to find the Soulforge in Faerûn invites ridicule and scorn. But he’s used to that. He’s an outsider, a human who believes he’s really a dwarf, right down to the silver hammers in his beard.
An impossible puzzle...
The other citizens in Eartheart shun him, suspicious of his true intentions. Little do they know, Torrin holds the key to the cure, if only he can figure it out in time. But time is running out.
Lisa Smedman
Lisa Smedman (born c. 1959) is a newspaper editor and a science fiction and fantasy novelist. Her most well-known novel is Extinction, set in the Forgotten Realms universe.
Forgotten Realms
According to the setting's creators, Forgotten Realms is the name of an imaginary fantasy world that exists somewhere beyond the real world. The setting is described as a world of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities, where magic and seemingly supernatural phenomena are quite real. The premise is that, long ago, the Earth and the world of the Forgotten Realms were more closely connected. As time passed, the inhabitants of planet Earth have mostly forgotten about the existence of that other world—hence the term Forgotten Realms.
Forgotten Realms consists of 19 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Moonshae Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: Shandril's Saga
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Finder's Stone Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Avatar Series
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Pools Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Empires Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Maztica Trilogy
Related series Songs & Swords
Related series The Cleric Quintet
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Harpers
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Druidhome Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Twilight Giants
Related series Starlight & Shadows
Related series The Shadow of the Avatar
Related series Forgotten Realms: Netheril Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: Mysteries
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Lost Gods
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Adventures
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Nobles
Related series Double Diamond Triangle Saga
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Cormyr Saga
Related series Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Threat from the Sea
Related series The Sellswords
Related series Forgotten Realms: Lost Empires
Related series Forgotten Realms: Sembia
Related series Counselors & Kings
Related series Forgotten Realms: Return of the Archwizards
Related series The Elminster Series
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Rogues
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Scions of Arrabar Trilogy
Related series The Erevis Cale Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Year of Rogue Dragons
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Last Mythal
Related series Forgotten Realms: House of Serpents
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Cities
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Watercourse Trilogy
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Priests
Related series R. A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen
Related series The Knights of Myth Drannor
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Wizards
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Fighters
Related series The Twilight War
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Haunted Lands
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Lady Penitent
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Empyrean Odyssey
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons
Related series The Best of the Realms
Related series Stone of Tymora
Related series Forgotten Realms: Blades of the Moonsea
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Citadels
Related series Forgotten Realms: Abolethic Sovereignty
Related series Ed Greenwood Presents Waterdeep
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Wilds
Related series Forgotten Realms: Chosen of Nendawen
Related series Sage of Shadowdale
Related series Forgotten Realms: Unbroken Chain
Related series Forgotten Realms: Brotherhood of the Griffon
Related series The Legend of Drizzt
Related series Forgotten Realms: Brimstone Angels
Related series Forgotten Realms: The Sundering