Shadow's Witness
novel 2000 Forgotten Realms
Record
| First published | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780786916771 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Erevis Cale, a servant to the Uskevren family, must abandon his peaceful life when a conflict between rival thieves' guilds unleashes something dangerous from the Abyss. Now he's forced to embrace his shadowy past to protect those he cares about from supernatural horrors threatening the city of Selgaunt.
Where it sits
- Universe: Forgotten Realms
- Series: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms ; position 2 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Paul S. Kemp
Notes
- Sembia: Gateway to the Realms #2. Butler-turned-assassin Erevis Cale is drawn into a plot involving a god-touched relic and the Uskevren household.
- From the series record (Sembia: Gateway to the Realms): A 7-novel series (2000-2003) following the merchant city of Sembia and the extended Uskevren family, one novel per author in a shared timeline, plotted/edited by Ed Greenwood. 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 Sembia: Gateway to the Realms: position 2 of 7: previous The Halls of Stormweather (2000) · next The Shattered Mask (2001)
- Internal chronology, within Forgotten Realms: position 60 of 215: previous Insurrection (2002) · next Under Fallen Stars (1999)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Forgotten Realms novels
- https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow%27s_Witness
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