![]() ![]() ![]() (Shortly thereafter it was adapted into a computer game by SSI, but the game’s connection to the novel, aside from some character cameos, is negligible.) Plot However, Azure Bonds was originally a standalone novel which was retconned into being the first book of the trilogy in later printings. Grubb and his wife Kate Novak collaborated on a trilogy of Realms novels, of which this is the first - a very loose trilogy, where each book is a standalone story which shares some characters and a particular glowing rock, retroactively titled the Finder’s Stone trilogy. It’s the first one that feels both well-plotted and full of well-developed characters. In a word, yes! Azure Bonds is the first of the Forgotten Realms novels so far which I’d unabashedly recommend to someone who’s interested in the series. So you’d think he and his wife would be the ideal candidates to pen one of the first Realms novels. He spent months sorting through cardboard box after cardboard box of Ed Greenwood‘s notes about the setting and compiling them into a collection of sourcebooks and maps. TSR employee Jeff Grubb was the co-author of the “Grey Box,” the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting boxed set which introduced the Realms to tabletop roleplayers.
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