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Richard Awlinson’s Avatar Trilogy SHADOWDALE Copyright 1989 TSR, Inc. AH Rights Reserved. This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein to prohibited without the expreM written permission of TSR, Inc. Random House and all affiliate companies have worldwide distribution rights in the book trade for English language products of TSR, Inc. Distributed to the book and hobby trade in the United Kingdom by TSR Ltd. Distributed to the toy and hobby trade by regional distributor. FORGOTTEN REALMS is a registered trademark owned by TSR, Inc. The TSR logo is a trademark owned by TSR, Inc First Printing: April, 1989 Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88ISBN: 048038-730-0 All characters in the book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead are purely coincidental. TSR, Inc. P.O. Box 758 Lake Geneva U.S.A. TSR Ltd. 120 Church End, Cherry Hinlon Cambridge CB1 3LB United Kingdom For their kindness and support, this book is dedicated to: Anna, Frank, Patricia, Gregory, Laura, Marie, Millie, Bill, Christine, Martin, Michele, Tom, Lee, Joan, AUison, Larry, Jim, Mary, and Alice. Book I: Shadowdale Prologue Helm, He of the Unsleeping Eyes, God of Guardians, stood vigilant, watching his fellow gods. The assemblage was complete. Every god, demigod, and elemental was in attendance. The walls of the great pantheon that hosted the gods had long ago vanished, but the windows remained, hanging on the empty air, and through them Helm looked out onto a universe crumbling into decay. The pantheon, with its many unfinished altars, was located in the heart of the cancerous decay; it had been constructed on an isle that was only large enough to house the meeting place of the gods. A path made of crumbling gray stepping stones floated outward across the sea of decay to a destination that lay bey