Cloak of Shadows: Table of Contents

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Cloak of Shadows

By Ed Greenwood

Alternate Title: The Second Volume of the Trilogy isn’t Too Late to Start the Actual Plot, Right?
SPORKER: MasterGhandalf

SUMMARY

Elminster and his companions have defeated Manshoon (again) and Elminster himself has gotten his magic back (courtesy of a convenient and literal deus ex machina) but the Time of Troubles continues. Amidst the chaos of gods being cast down and magic running wild, a new (old?) threat rears its head. Dhalgrave, lord of the Shadowmasters, the shapeshifting Malaugrym, has put a price on Elminster’s head, and how his followers are falling over themselves to fulfil it (and proving that suicidal overconfidence isn’t just a trait of Greenwood’s human villains). Meanwhile, the Malaugrym wizard Milhvar has created an enchanted cloak that (supposedly) renders the Malaugrym undetectable by magical means. In the end, it will fall to Sharantyr, Belkram and Itharr to take the fight to the Shadowmasters, while Elminster… flies around doing a bunch of other stuff, mostly. All of which would be much more exciting if Greenwood could finally learn how to string a damned story together. But, alas, some things never change.



Table of Contents

CHAPTERS

Prologue
Chapter 1: A Long Day Indeed
Chapter 2: This Wizard Must Be Destroyed
Chapter 3: To Battle we Go, Let the Blood Flow
Chapter 4: A Slaying Moon
Chapter 5: Fallen the Flames
Chapter 6: Fire in the Night
Chapter 7: Mushrooms and Revelations
Chapter 8: To Get a Head in this World
Chapter 9: Another Day Spent Saving the Realms
Chapter 10: Talking to Gods
Chapter 11: Two Edges to Every Sword Blade
Chapter 12: Marshalling the Madfolk for Battle
Chapter 13: Guests of the Blackstaff
Chapter 14: Visitors to the Castle
Chapter 15: Tumult and Afright
Chapter 16: The Unbidden Guest Knows Not Where to Sit
Chapter 17: Hot and Cold Running Receptions
Chapter 18: Shadows of the Castle Walls
Chapter 19: But a Grand Place to Skulk Around
Chapter 20: A Sword Against the Shadows
Chapter 21: Shadows Cloak, but Make a Better Shroud