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Forgotten Realms ®

Campaign

Table of Contents

The Seekers: Who They Are ........................... 6

Barstaags Revenge .................................... 61

Bublim Barboast ....................................... 6

The Night of Sharp Teeth ........................... 67

Esta Starchild .......................................... 7

The Black Hood Bandits .............................. 71

Furian Arcanus ....................................... 8

News Spreads to Scornubel ........................... 76

Lorrick ................................................... 9

The Star-Spore .......................................... 78

Samkin Silvertooth ................................. 10

Empty Purses in High Horn ........................... 82

Trothgar ................................................ 11

A Mystery in Arabel .................................... 86

The Journey Begins .................................... 12

A Talk with Mother Lledew ........................... 93

On To Neverwinter .................................... 18

Taking Ship from Suzail .............................. 97

Talk of Evermeet ....................................... 23

Lorrick Takes a Quest .............................. 100

Horrors of the High Moor ........................... 26

Farewells in Saerloon ................................. 104

A Vision Upon the Hill .............................. 28

Thunderholme .......................................... 106

Lost Among the Bones ................................. 31

A Tale of Pirates ....................................... 110

In the Forgotten Forest ................................. 34

Crossars Tomb ....................................... 113

Elves of the Greycloaks .............................. 37

A Night in Procampur .............................. 116

A Tale of Prince Chelimber ........................... 46

News of Impiltur ....................................... 117

The Pegasus Rider ....................................... 48

A Death in Damara .................................... 118

Samkins Past Catches Up ........................... 51

Clues From the Past ................................. 121

Strangeness in Cloak Wood ........................... 57

At the Shrine .......................................... 124

The Lore of Candlekeep .............................. 59

The Last Hope .......................................... 126

Credits

Original Realms Design: Ed Greenwood

The Annals of the Seekers Design: Anthony Herring

Additional Material: Jeff Grubb, Karen Boomgarden,

Julia Martin, Steven Schend, J. Robert King, Tim Beach

Editing: Jonatha Ariadne Caspian

Product Group Manager: Karen Boomgarden

Cover Art: Larry Elmore

Interior Art: Valerie Valusek

Cartography: Dennis Kauth

Typesetting: Nancy J. Kerkstra

Production: Paul Hanchette

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The

Players Guide to the

Introduction

lore! Welcome to the FORGOTTEN REALMS® World.

If youre a newcomer, the dozens of novels and game volumes

may seem daunting. Where do you start reading?

Dont worry. Start here!

The book in your hands is both an introduction to and refer-

ence for the fantasy world beloved to ADVANCED DUNGEONS &

DRAGONS® game players. But you dont need to know the game to discover

the world within these coverstheres no jargon or lengthy statistics here.

Journal entries from the Annals of the Seekers, a half-elfs chronicling of the

many exploits of his adventuring company, allow you to explore the Realms

firsthand. Live their triumphs and dangers! Unravel their mysteries! For the

brave of heart and keen of wit, glory awaits. Safe journey!

ome theorists explain dragons and other fantastic occurrences by postulat-

ing parallel worlds. In times past, they believe, travel between mundane

worldslike our ownand more exotic locales was easy and frequent. But we

have lost contact, and lost the worlds themselves. Lost, or forgotten.

Abeir-Toril, more commonly Toril, is an Earth-sized planet dominated by a

continent in its northern hemisphere. Called Faerûn in the west, it is here that

the Forgotten Realms lie. Although other large landmasses sprawl across Torils

surface, and indeed, other civilizations share the continent with Faerûn, these

regions are merely rumors and legends to most Realmfolkperhaps known, but

rarely visited. They do not concern us.

Turn Back to Medieval Times

In many ways, the Forgotten Realms are similar to our Earth of the 13th and

14th centuries. Until recently, much of the area was wild forests and unsettled

grasslands.

Civilization is still a novelty. The births of the oldest of cities on the Inland

Seaeven the founding of Waterdeep, now jewel of the Northlie within the

memory of some ancient elves in Evermeet. History is young.

Faerûns peoples share the mindsets and advancements of 13th-century

Earth. City-states are common, and organized nations are rising where wilder-

ness is pushed back. Farming and craft-industry skills are widespread. Swords

and heavy metal armor are readily available, and too-often put to use.

Literacy and the quest for knowledge continue to advance civilization. The

What are the

Forgotten Realms?

recent innovation of printed hand-bills has trans-

formed alley walls in Waterdeep. As markets and

resources are discovered, the merchant class grows in

both wealth and power.

Though not as dominant as it was in Europe of this

period, faith is a major force in peoples daily lives, be

they commoner or noble. Realmfolk pay homage to

many gods.

Here Be Monsters

and Magic

There are also tremendous differences between the

world of the Realms and our own. There, monstrous

beasts and evil humanoids prowl the wilderness,

sometimes to the very outskirts of cities and settle-

ments. Travel, whether by land or sea, can be treach-

erous.

Most differently, the Realms have magic.

Some say magic (or the Art) was a gift to the

Realmfolk from the goddess Mystra, who later regret-

ted her charity. With or without Mystras blessing,

some individuals study the Art. These wizards have

learned the ability to channel magical energies.

And not only wizards handle extraordinary power.

The gods here allow believers to work miracles in

their names. Priests and clerics perform acts of heal-

ing and power our modern world might well call sor-

cery.

In the Realms, such mages and priests can alter the

very face of the world. Indeed, they have done so over

the millennia. Mountains may walk, and hills and

forests appear where none stood before. In the heart

of the Realms, an immense sandy waste spreads south-

ward. An equally relentless glacier advances to its

east.

Kings rise and nations fall. Evil forces gather like

thunderheads. And the need for valiant action calls

the hero forth.

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