# The Crystal Shard

**Author(s):** R. A. Salvatore
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**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-crystal-shard/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, fantasy, epic-fantasy
**Pages:** 340
**Publisher:** Blanvalet
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 1988 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780880385350
**ISBN-10:** 6053755826
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-crystal-shard

## Description

Isolated in the barren stretches of Icewind Dale the villages of Ten-Towns come under attack by a tribe of barbarians. In the midst of battle a young barbarian named Wulfgar ends up owing five years of his life to a grizzled dwarf. With the help of Drizzt, a renegade dark elf, the dwarf strives to mold the barbarian into a warrior with both brawn and brains.

Meanwhile, there is no peace for the people of Ten-Towns. The fractioned tribes of barbarians continue to pose a threat, and Wulfgar may be the only person who can avert a deadly battle. But an even more dire menace appears when a weak-willed apprentice mage stumbles upon a magical crystal shard. The evil shard directs the hapless mage onto a course of destruction that all of Icewind Dale may be powerless to stop.

*from the paperback*


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**This work is in the following series:**
 
 - Forgotten Realms
 - The Legend Of Drizzt | Book 4
 - Icewind Dale Trilogy| Book 1

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**This work is in the following collections:** 

 - [The Icewind Dale Trilogy][1]
 - [The Legend of Drizzt Collector's Edition, Book II][2]

*See also the [Graphic Novel Adaptation][3] of this work*

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**The following ebook links were found elsewhere online:**
- http://ten-towns.narod.ru/library/fr_iwd_1.pdf

  [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL516718W/The_Icewind_Dale_Trilogy
  [2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL14960754W/The_Legend_of_Drizzt_Collector%27s_Edition_Book_II
  [3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15333836W/The_Crystal_Shard

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