Rising Tide
novel 1998 Forgotten Realms
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780786913121 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
From the murky depths of the Shining Sea rises a prehistoric menace who commands a rising tide of invasion to crash over the shores of Faerûn. An ancient entity named Iakhovas, stripped of his powers by a goddess, plots to reclaim his strength and reshape the world while surface civilizations remain unaware of the mounting danger.
Where it sits
- Universe: Forgotten Realms
- Series: The Threat from the Sea ; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mel Odom
Notes
- From the series record (The Threat from the Sea): A trilogy (1998-2000) about an undersea sahuagin threat, led by the mysterious Iakhovas, against the Sword Coast; the accompanying anthology Realms of the Deep (2000, multiple authors) shares the setting but is not part of this trilogy. Registered 2026-08-18.
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 Threat from the Sea: position 1 of 3: next Under Fallen Stars (1999)
- Internal chronology, within Forgotten Realms: position 6 of 215: previous The Halls of Stormweather (2000) · next The Summoning (2001)
Sources
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