Archmage

core novel 2015 Forgotten Realms

Record

First published	2015
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.36 (5,322 ratings, collected 2026-09-12)
First-edition ISBN	9780786965755

Synopsis

Archmage opens the Homecoming trilogy as Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions turn their path toward Menzoberranzan, the drow city of his birth, which he has avoided for decades. In the city itself, the archmage Gromph Baenre grows increasingly disillusioned with drow society and its rulers, while his reborn daughter Yvonnel quietly manipulates events from the shadows toward her own ends. On the surface above, dwarves investigating the ruined Hosttower of the Arcane must contain a dangerous fire primordial loosed by earlier events, a threat that draws Drizzt's group further into danger as they travel. The novel interweaves these threads of drow intrigue and surface peril as Drizzt's companions press toward a homecoming he has long dreaded, setting up his eventual return to the city he fled as a boy.

Where it sits

• Universe: Forgotten Realms
• Series: The Legend of Drizzt (author line) core; position 31 of 40 in the series' recorded order
• Author: R.A. Salvatore

Notes

• Homecoming #1
• From the series record (The Legend of Drizzt (author line)): R.A. Salvatore's 40-novel line (1988-2025), incl. The Sellswords; sub-series recorded per book. Continues with Drizzt's daughter (2025-).

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within the series The Legend of Drizzt (author line): position 31 of 40: previous Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf (2015) · next Maestro (2016)

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt
• https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/r-a-salvatore/archmage.htm

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