Forgotten Realms

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The Forgotten Realms is a fictional setting created by author and game designer Ed Greenwood for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Most action in the Forgotten Realms takes place on the supercontinent of Faerûn, which is part of the world Toril.

The following are quotes from novels which are based in the Forgotten Realms.

The Crystal Shard

The Crystal Shard is a novel by R. A. Salvatore.

• "Use yer heads! A barnyard goose tastes better 'an a wild one cause it don't use its muscles. The same oughta hold true for a giant's brains!"—Bruenor Battlehammer, explaining his new recipe in response to Drizzt's and Wulfgar's expressions of horror and disgust.

Servant of the Shard

Servant of the Shard is a novel by R. A. Salvatore.

• Jarlaxle: "Do keep ever present in your thoughts, my friend, that an illusion can kill you if you believe in it."
  Entreri: "And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not."

• "Power is always a relative concept."—the illithid Yharaskrik

• "There are reasons for things that a casual observer might not understand."—Jarlaxle Baenre

•        "It is undeniably beautiful, do you not agree?" Jarlaxle asked, looking back at the soaring cathedral, with its tall spires, soaring buttresses, and great, colored windows.
         "The mask of a god," Entreri replied sourly.
         "The mask or the face?" asked the always-surprising Jarlaxle.
         Entreri stared hard at his companion, and back at the towering cathedral. "The mask," he said, "or perhaps the illusion, concocted by those who seek to elevate themselves above all others and have not the skills to do so."
         Jarlaxle looked at him curiously.
         "A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world, and one embraced by kings and lords, while minor lying thieves on the streets of Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others."
         That struck Jarlaxle as the most poignant and revealing insight he had yet pried from the mouth of the elusive Artemis Entreri, a great clue as to who this man truly was.