@TheEdVerse … Recommended order for your Elminster books or books in between? I've gone through Making of a Mage, Myth Drannor, Temptation, Hell, Daughter in that order, but it seems like The Herald is supposed to have occured between Drannor and Temptation.
— EJ Boston (@ejboston) June 26, 2020
1)
You’ve read them in the right order.
THE HERALD occurs long after those others; my only Realms novels later than it, chronologically, are SPELLSTORM and DEATH MASKS.
Twitter isn’t the best place for long lists, so what follows is missing a novella, a prologue in… 2)
…an omnibus, and more than half a dozen short stories, but it does have all of my Realms novels in it. Here we go:
-400 DR: Cormyr: A Novel begins
212 DR: Elminster: The Making of a Mage begins
224 DR: "Not the Most Successful of Feasts" (The Best of the Realms II)…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 26, 2020
3)
241 DR: Elminster: The Making of a Mage ends, and Elminster in Myth Drannor begins
261 DR: Elminster in Myth Drannor ends
759 DR: The Temptation of Elminster begins
767 DR: The Temptation of Elminster ends
902 DR: “The Whispering Crown” (Realms of the Arcane) 4)
1293 DR: "The Burning Chalice" (The Halls of Stormweather) begins
1333 DR: "Too Many Princes" (Realms of War)
1334 DR: "So High A Price" (Realms of Infamy)
1336 DR: "Elminster at the Magefair" (Realms of Valor)
…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 26, 2020
5)
1348 DR: Swords of Eveningstar, Swords of Dragonfire, The Sword Never Sleeps
1357 DR: Spellfire, Crown of Fire
1358 DR: Shadows of Doom, Cloak of Shadows, All Shadows Fled, “A Slow Day In Skullport” (Realms of the Underdark)
1365 DR: Stormlight
… 6)
1366 DR: "Nothing but Trouble" (The Best of the Realms II)
1368 DR: The Grinning Ghost of Taverton Hall (Realms of Mystery)
1369 DR: "The Place Where Guards Snore at their Posts" (Realms of the Deep), Cormyr: A Novel ends, Silverfall: Stories of the Seven Sisters, …and…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 26, 2020
7)
..”The Burning Chalice” (The Halls of Stormweather) ends
1370 DR: The City of Splendors: A Waterdeep Novel begins
1371 DR: The City of Splendors: A Waterdeep Novel ends, Death of the Dragon
1372 DR: “When Shadows Come Seeking a Throne” (Realms of Shadow), Elminster In Hell 8)
1373 DR: Elminster's Daughter
1374 DR: "Tears So White" (Realms of the Elves)
1377 DR: The Mercenaries, The Diamond
1385 DR: "The Many Murders of Manshoon" (Realms of the Dead)
1479 DR: Elminster Must Die, Elminster Enraged, Bury Elminster Deep
1487 DR: The Herald
…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 26, 2020
9)
1488 DR: Spellstorm
1491 DR: Death Masks
1492 DR: "All Things Through The Bright Flames," "The Book That Talked Back" (both were up on DM's Guild)
…and that's all of the novels, set in Realms time for you. :}#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 26, 2020