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What is Toril?
Toril is a fantasy world on perhaps the grandest of scales. It is all encompassing in traditional elements of fantasy, as well as mirror of Earth's own histories as well. From the lands of Zakhara (resembling the lands of Arabia), to those of Maztica (the South Americas) and Kara-Tur (the Far East with it's Yuan-Ti and Samurai).
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My Introduction...
It is perhaps fitting (although it was by sheer chance) that I began my journey through the Forgotten Realms with what was the first of its many novels, 'Dalkwalker on Moonshae' by Douglas Niles. Why is it fitting? Well I suppose i find it comforting to know that I at least entered the realms through the same portal as it's other initiates. Never did I though, envision the that Toril, and the continent of Faerun particularly, would grow on such a grandeur scale. How could I? I'd come from the large, but by no means gigantic world of Ansalon and the Dragonlance novels. Combine this with the somewhat small cluster of islands that are the Moonshaes, and were for my mind at the time, all that was the Forgotten Realms, and I had no way of imaging that distant lands, such as Rashemen or Halruua would come to exist. |
Since 1987, when it's first novel 'Darkwalker on Moonshae' was published, the realms have been one of the most popular bookworlds |
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In the same year as 'Darkwalker on Moonshae', a new author was introduced to the realms, and with him he brought a host of characters, one in particular, now arguably the most popular of all figures within the Forgotten Realms. |
Wizards of the Coast NOVEL LIST |
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R.A. Salvatore's novel, 'The Crystal Shard' was the first indicator that the Forgotten Realms was a large world. It was also where readers were to first meet Drizzt Do'Urden, of D'aermon N'achezbaernon, Ninth House of Menzobberanzan. Bob Salvatore's Drow (Dark Elf) Ranger who captured the imaginations of readers everywhere and of every age. It has also (thus far) led to another 13 novels detailing the further exploits of this unique, almost outlandish character. Such is his (and Salvatore's) popularity, illustrated further in the Baldur's Gate series of Forgotten Realms PC games, where almost expectantly, Drizzt and his whirling Scimitars make cameo appearances. |
The Crystal Shard |
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