The Ghost King (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Drizzt Do'Urden: Dark elf ranger, wielding his swords he faces any challenge head on with his swords
• Danica Maupoissant: Add a description of this character.
• Jarlaxle Baenre
• Ivan Bouldershoulder
• Rorick Bonaduce
• Pikel Bouldershoulder
• Bruenor Battlehammer: Dwarven King of Mithril Hall
• Yharaskrik
• Kimmuriel Oblodra
• Temberle Bonaduce
• Athrogate: Dwarf who dual wields morningstars, partner to Jarlaxle
• Cattie-Brie: Adopted human daughter of King Bruenor, uses magic and a bow
• Regis: Halfling and advisor to King Bruenor
• Cadderly Bonaduce: A powerful priest of Deneir
• Crenshinibon: A sentient crystal.

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• “All that I told you is true," Jaraxle replied. "But yes, good dwarf, my tale was not complete." "Me heart's skippin' to hear it.""There is a dragon." "There always is," said Bruenor.”

  Jaraxle to Bruenor and response

• “the ability to hold poise and calm and rational though no matter how devastating the consequences of failure, the ability to go to that place of pure concentration in times most emotionally and physically tumultuous. Not just once and not by luck. The hero makes that shot.The hero lives for that shot. The hero trains for that shot, every day, for endless hours, with purest concentration for that critical shot. When the stakes are highest, the hero wants the outcome to be in his hands.”

  Drizzt Do'Urden

• “I know what is in my heart. Perhaps I simply do not feel the need to find a name for it.”

  Jaraxle

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• Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, though I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into one heaven or another would seem transparent to a god, any god, for if one’s heart is not in alignment with the creator of that heaven, then … what is the point?

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• For as this dark moment shows me the futility, so too it demands of me the faith—the faith that there is something beyond this mortal coil, that there is a place of greater understanding and universal community than this temporary existence. Else it is all a sad joke.

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• The recognition of utter helplessness is more than humbling; it is devastating. On those occasions when it is made clear to someone, internally, that willpower or muscle or technique will not be enough to overcome the obstacles placed before him, that he is helpless before those obstacles, there follows a brutal mental anguish.

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• “Are ye more trapped by the way the world sees ye, or by the way ye see the world seein’ ye?”

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• We all believe that we can defeat that plague or that disease, should it befall us, through sheer willpower. It is a common mental defense against the inevitability we all know we share. I wonder, then, if the worst reality of a lingering death is the sense that your own body is beyond your ability to control.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Carradoon
• Mithril Hall
• Spirit Soaring

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Pirate King.

Preceded by The Pirate King, and followed by Gauntlgrym.

Followed by The Mark of Nerath.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. R. A. Salvatore (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Todd Lockwood (Cover Artist)
2. Todd Gamble (Artist) - Map
3. James Wyatt (Author) - The Abyssal Plague: The Gates of Madness pt. 1
4. Imke Brodersen (Translator) - German translation.

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3569.A462345G47 2009
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Magic & Wizards
• Books › Literature & Fiction