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#1 18DELTA Aug 06, 2011 10:45:39	Just finished Bury Elminster Deep. All I can say is wow! The last chapter has some revelations in it that blew me away. If you like Ed's writing, I highly recomend it.
#2 Iluvrien Aug 06, 2011 11:08:54	Before all the spoilers drop in.... I would just like to say.... I knew I had forgotten something! I haven't even picked up my copy yet.
#3 18DELTA Aug 06, 2011 11:22:34	Get it!!
#4 sfdragon Aug 06, 2011 14:00:37	Before all the spoilers drop in.... I would just like to say.... I knew I had forgotten something! I haven't even picked up my copy yet. shame on you what delta said
#5 angelus_obscura Oct 07, 2011 21:18:54	UGH! I find myself struggling to get through each chapter of this book. The plot sequences literally repeat themselves with slightly different variations in events, but the characters are all running around in circles with no real development. We got the heroes sneaking into the palace, then being chased back out. RINSE AND REPEAT for 18 chapters! I can see why Manshoon was getting headaches. I'm at the point of just chucking it aside and start Salvatore's Neverwinter, which btw hooked my interest with the first paragraph alone. -________________- Is the end really worth it?
#6 18DELTA Oct 07, 2011 23:28:17	The end is worth all of the keystone cops sequences you have to read. I enjoyed the novel.
#7 Mr_Miscellany Oct 11, 2011 11:05:20	Hot dang I loved this book! The Realmslore revelations, particularly toward the end of the book, finally answered some old questions many a Realms fan has wondered about over the last two decades. I was tempted to play the cynic and view the 4E tie-ins at the end as something an editor put in and not Ed, but since they came on the heels of the previously mentioned revelations I took a step back and had to say, “Yeah, it all fits. This is actually pretty awesome!” Beware, players of Warlocks in the Realms! You know not what you do! Yes, Ed seems to have written a rinse-and-repeat, but to me it seemed less like he was repeating the same plot sequences than he was writing the same style of book found in the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy (Swords of Dragonfire, Swords of Eveningstar, The Sword Never Sleeps). However, this time around we got at least one cool revelation/piece of Realmslore with each chapter. As the book progressed and built on itself, I found myself thinking less and less “oh, it feels like I’ve read this before” and more “Dude, that’s where all the old, doddering War Wizards were housed? Kick ass! I can use that in my fan fiction now!” or “Oh, wow! The Royal Palace has six levels and at least four cellar levels. Good to know.” I came to this series books with this one. However, I think I’ll still find the time to read Elminster Must Die. If it’s anything like Bury Elminster Deep, it’ll be worth the read.
#8 MR._T Oct 12, 2011 11:25:53	UGH! I find myself struggling to get through each chapter of this book. The plot sequences literally repeat themselves with slightly different variations in events, but the characters are all running around in circles with no real development. We got the heroes sneaking into the palace, then being chased back out. RINSE AND REPEAT for 18 chapters! I can see why Manshoon was getting headaches. Seriously... aside from the the last chapter or two (which were pretty awesome), the entire book was tough to get through since all the characters did was the SAME thing chapter after chapter after chapter...
#9 angelus_obscura Oct 12, 2011 21:08:45	Seriously... aside from the the last chapter or two (which were pretty awesome), the entire book was tough to get through since all the characters did was the SAME thing chapter after chapter after chapter... Word! Okay, I finished the book. Advice to all who did not yet read it but want to: save yourself 30 agonizingly redundant chapters and just skip to the last 5. You won't miss a thing. And the ending wasn't even that awesome. Or at least it wasn't worth what I had to go through to reach it. SPOILER beware: Mystra and Azuth allowed a group of spellcasters to go about imprisoning people in magical items, whose life energy would then feed the mages' longevity. These arcanists were called the Imprisoners, chief among them being the infamous lich, Larloch. Nine such items exist now, each binding a "blue-flame ghost" that does the bidding of whoever controls said items. One of the item, a handaxe, held Mirt the Moneylender. He is now free and promptly hid the handaxe. Five were recovered by Cymmarra, a betrayed minion/mage of Manshoon's and accidentally cursed by Elminster long ago. One remains in the Obarskyr's possession, the ghost of the Steel Regent to be exact. At the end of the book, another was found and fed to the Simbul to heal her madness. That makes it a total of 8. I think the 9th formerly held Laeral before Blackstaff freed her. I'm not sure. Anywho ... Storm, El, his descendent and her paramore healed Alassra, who in turn resurrected El and then explained everything. Mystra is alive as a vestige, hidden, waiting for all the blue-flame items to be recovered and a new Weave made. That's what I felt was implied anyway. But before this can be accomplished, they must heal the planar rifts/portals created by Larloch, using the blue-flame items to do so. El and Manshoon must work together to do this. Manshoon of course says yes for the Simbul's benefit, then "destroys" El after she leaves.
#10 sfdragon Oct 12, 2011 22:13:56	Alassara be the next mystra. I asked Ed something on that lines a while back. three letters was my reply NDA of course the other part of my question was more or less something else. no I'm not going to link it, I'm not foolish enough to go an use that site's monstrous search engine