Troy Denning

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-08-26

Troy Denning is an American fantasy and science fiction author who grew up in Idaho Springs, Colorado, and began writing at age 14. He joined TSR, Inc. as a game designer in 1981, later also working for Pacesetter Ltd. and Mayfair Games before becoming a freelance writer. He co-created the Dark Sun campaign setting with Tim Brown and Mary Kirchoff and wrote its bestselling Prism Pentad novels (1991-93). His 1989 novel Waterdeep, co-written with Scott Ciencin, became a New York Times bestseller. He has also authored the Twilight Giants trilogy and other Forgotten Realms novels, the Planescape novel Pages of Pain (1996), numerous Star Wars Expanded Universe novels including entries in the New Jedi Order, Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi series, and Halo novels beginning in 2015. He lives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, with his wife Andria.

Universe(s)

Books

• Waterdeep (1989) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Dragonwall (1990) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Parched Sea (1991) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Verdant Passage (1991) · Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad Core Canon
• The Amber Enchantress (1992) · Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad Core Canon
• The Crimson Legion (1992) · Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad Core Canon
• The Cerulean Storm (1993) · Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad Core Canon
• The Obsidian Oracle (1993) · Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad Core Canon
• The Ogre's Pact (1994) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Giant Among Us (1995) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Titan of Twilight (1995) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Veiled Dragon (1996) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Faces of Deception (1998) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Beyond the High Road (1999) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Death of the Dragon (2000) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Siege (2001) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Summoning (2001) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Sorcerer (2002) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Sentinel (2014) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 45 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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