The Spine of the World
core novel 1999 Forgotten Realms
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (20,485 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| First-edition ISBN | 0786914181 |
Synopsis
The Spine of the World, the second book of the Paths of Darkness series, follows Wulfgar after the events of The Silent Blade, as he drifts through Luskan in the company of Morik the Rogue, an unscrupulous but companionable thief. Framed for the attempted murder of his old friend Captain Deudermont, a crime neither of them committed, Wulfgar and Morik narrowly escape execution through unexpected intervention, only to find that Wulfgar's enchanted warhammer, Aegis-fang, has already been stolen and sold off to a pirate. Ill-suited to the life of highway robbers they briefly attempt, the pair instead drift into the affairs of a remote frontier settlement, where local politics and a nobleman's hidden illegitimate child complicate Wulfgar's uneasy attempt to claw his way back from grief and disgrace toward something resembling redemption.
Where it sits
- Universe: Forgotten Realms
- Series: The Legend of Drizzt (author line) core; position 12 of 40 in the series' recorded order
- Author: R.A. Salvatore
Notes
- Paths of Darkness #2
- 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 12 of 40: previous The Silent Blade (1998) · next Servant of the Shard (2000)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Forgotten_Realms_novels
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spine_of_the_World
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