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A review by tkat
Canticle by R.A. Salvatore
4.0
I finally got a chance to pick up a Realms classic, the Cleric Quintet by R.A. Salvatore and I loved it. I actually came into Realms with Salvatore's Drizz't series, but only just now read the Quintet in order to catch up to Ghost King.
I didn't realize until now just how much I missed the original Realms books before D&D turned everything on its head and tossed half of the cannon out the window along with a lot of major gods.
This is one story that last through five books about a young scholar named Cadderly who finds the love of a god with his friends by his side. Young Cadderly was abandoned at the Edificant Library, a place of magic and learning for all goodly races and home of the brother gods Deneir and Oghma. Cadderly becomes the Chosen of Deneir after defending the Library against one threat and breaking out from his naive shell and going forth into the world to defeat another threat before returning to shell of his former home and rebuilding it for future generations.
Cadderly's friends make his journeys to and fro bearable for the young priest. The dwarven brothers Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder were cooks to the library before they followed Cadderly on his quests. They provide much needed and welcome comic relief, what with no-nonsense axe weilding Ivan trying to keep his club wielding brother with druidic (or doo-dad) intention in line and Cadderly safe.
Danica Mausipont is the love of Cadderly's life and a highly trained monk who was sudying at the Library where she and Cadderly met. Deadly with nothing more than her own hands and fists, Danica is often the one who gives Cadderly the strength to continue on his chosen path when he feels as though he has nothing left to give.
Shayleigh is a beautiful elf maiden that the four Library companions meet within the second book and joins them on their journeys through the third to fifth. She rounds out the party as being the lightfooted archer and doesn't really play pivitol roles as far as I can tell throughout the series.
These along with a few other key characters make for a wonderfully absorbing series worthy of the name of Salvatore. No Spell Plague, no murdered Mistress of Magic, but the Realms as they were in the begining and as they were always meant to be. Loved every second of it.
I didn't realize until now just how much I missed the original Realms books before D&D turned everything on its head and tossed half of the cannon out the window along with a lot of major gods.
This is one story that last through five books about a young scholar named Cadderly who finds the love of a god with his friends by his side. Young Cadderly was abandoned at the Edificant Library, a place of magic and learning for all goodly races and home of the brother gods Deneir and Oghma. Cadderly becomes the Chosen of Deneir after defending the Library against one threat and breaking out from his naive shell and going forth into the world to defeat another threat before returning to shell of his former home and rebuilding it for future generations.
Cadderly's friends make his journeys to and fro bearable for the young priest. The dwarven brothers Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder were cooks to the library before they followed Cadderly on his quests. They provide much needed and welcome comic relief, what with no-nonsense axe weilding Ivan trying to keep his club wielding brother with druidic (or doo-dad) intention in line and Cadderly safe.
Danica Mausipont is the love of Cadderly's life and a highly trained monk who was sudying at the Library where she and Cadderly met. Deadly with nothing more than her own hands and fists, Danica is often the one who gives Cadderly the strength to continue on his chosen path when he feels as though he has nothing left to give.
Shayleigh is a beautiful elf maiden that the four Library companions meet within the second book and joins them on their journeys through the third to fifth. She rounds out the party as being the lightfooted archer and doesn't really play pivitol roles as far as I can tell throughout the series.
These along with a few other key characters make for a wonderfully absorbing series worthy of the name of Salvatore. No Spell Plague, no murdered Mistress of Magic, but the Realms as they were in the begining and as they were always meant to be. Loved every second of it.