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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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 Posted - 14 Aug 2013 : 16:58:11
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Nah, I can't think of anything ground-breaking from that series. It was just an episodic series of melodramatic scenes strung together.
There was some stuff sprinled throughout, but especially in the last book, about followers of the goddess Tymora, Lady of Luck. That might help flesh out her mindset a bit better--I don't know. I don't really care for the religious stuff.
The main thing to take from it is that little Maimun had a whacked childhood which confused the Hells out of him, so it becomes perfectly understandable that he would go on to grow up into a morally neutral pirate in The Pirate King.
I also liked the fact that the Salvatores did a good job of presenting the confusing world in the eyes of a kid, in that it wasn't always easy to tell who the good guys were, even if you were outright told who the good guys were. Everybody seemed to be acting in mysterious, self-serving, fickle, inconsistent ways (to the mind of a child, at least). Even Drizzt is kinda cryptic and shady, here. The world can easily seem that way, and the father-and-son duo pulled that feeling off quite well. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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Anylore I should know from stone of Tymora?
