Title: 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
Subjects: Fiction, Dungeons & Dragons Novel, Epic, Elves, goblins, Fantasy, american fantasy, dwarfs, american fiction, war, Open Library Staff Picks, sorcery, american authors, adventure, Magical thinking, magic, drow, orcs, Epic Fantasy, Wizards, Epic fiction, Artemis Entrei (Fictitious character), Fiction, fantasy, general, Comics & graphic novels, fantasy, Kings and rulers, Comics & graphic novels, fantasy, general, collection:Forgotten Realms, Dwarfs (Persons), Forgotten realms (Imaginary place)
Places: Icewind Dale, Ten Towns, The Spine of the World, Kelvin's Cairn, Bryn Shander, Easthaven, Good Mead, Dougan's Hole, Targos, Bremen, Termalain, Lonelywood, Caer -Dineval, Caer-Konig, Maer Dualdon, Lac Dinneshere, Redwaters, Menzoberranzan, Forgotten Realms (imaginary place)
People: Drizzt Do'Urden (Fictitious character), Wulfgar, Bruenor Battlehammer, Regis, Errtu, Akar Kessell, Cattie Brie, Heafstaag, Cassius, Kemp