Bury Elminster Deep

Name: Bury Elminster Deep
Author: Ed Greenwood
ISBN: 9780786958153

expanded novel 2011 Forgotten Realms

Record

First published	2011
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	expanded
First-edition ISBN	9780786958153
Internal chronology	7

Synopsis

After his defeat by Manshoon, Elminster survives in the form of magical ash and becomes trapped within the mind of a woman named Amarune. Now inhabiting her body alongside Storm Silverhand and Lord Arclath Delcastle, he searches for new servants of the goddess Mystra while Manshoon plots to assassinate Cormyrian nobility and seize the throne.

Where it sits

Universe: Forgotten Realms
Series: Elminster series expanded; position 7 of 8 in the series' recorded order
Author: Ed Greenwood

Notes

Elminster series #7; the final 3 volumes (Elminster Must Die, Bury Elminster Deep, Elminster Enraged) are also marketed as "The Sage of Shadowdale" trilogy, a continuous conclusion to the same reading order.
From the series record (Elminster series): Ed Greenwood's 8-novel line about the setting's signature wizard Elminster Aumar (1994-2012); the final 3 volumes are also marketed as "The Sage of Shadowdale" trilogy, a direct continuation of the same reading order, not a separate series. Individual volumes registered 2026-08-18, completing a series stub that had been registered without them since the original admission.

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 Elminster series: position 7 of 8: previous Elminster Must Die (2010) · next Elminster Enraged (2012)
Internal chronology, within Forgotten Realms: position 200 of 215: previous The Devil You Know (2016) · next Lord of Stormweather (2003)

Sources

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