# Forging the Darksword

**Author(s):** Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, epic-fantasy, fantasy, high-fantasy, sci-fi
**Pages:** 391
**Publisher:** Bantam Books
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 1998 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9788448030377
**ISBN-10:** 0553268945
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/forging-the-darksword

## Description

Born without magical abilities in a magic world, Joram flees to the Outlands after being exiled from his village, and joins the scholar Saryon, practitioner of the outlawed arts of science and creator of the Darksword

## SageChimp reader verdict

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