Forgotten Realms: Crypt of the Shadowking by Mark Anthony

Forgotten Realms
Crypt of the Shadowking
by Mark Anthony
1993, TSR

A former Harper, a kind of benevolent bard secret society, Caledan Caldorien is brought back into action to stop an evil takeover of a city. Little action and lines so cliché I wondered if this was supposed to be postmodern. To be fair almost none of the story managed to lodge itself in my memory - the only thing I remember from the story is it involved people who can control shadows. There is a monster - a shadevar - which is barely described. I looked it up online, assuming that it wasn't fleshed out because it would already be familiar to D&D players, but they originated with this book.

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