genre passage to dawn
The Legacy of the Drow is a New York Times best - selling ___MASK86___ series . It is the third series by R . A . Salvatore following the adventures of the Forgotten Realms character Drizzt Do ' Urden . The Demon Wars ___MASK36___ is a series of seven novels written by R . A . Salvatore . The series is set in the world of Corona , principally in the kingdoms of Honce - the - Bear and Behren , and amongst the nomadic To - gai - ru . The ___MASK36___ is separated into two trilogies bridged by a single book , " Mortalis ". The ___MASK36___ has an accompanying roleplaying game , entitled " Demon Wars ". ___MASK86___ is a ___MASK37___ ___MASK90___ set in an imaginary universe , often but not always without any locations , events , or people from the real world . Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element , theme , or setting . Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds . ___MASK86___ is generally distinguished from the genres of science ___MASK37___ and ___MASK95___ by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes , respectively , though there is a great deal of overlap between the three , all of which are subgenres of speculative ___MASK37___ . Drizzt Do ' Urden is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the " ___MASK94___ " fantasy role - playing game . Drizzt was created by author R . A . Salvatore as a supporting character in the " Icewind Dale Trilogy ". Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed to replace another character in Salvatore ' s first ___MASK16___ , " The Crystal Shard ". Drizzt has since become a popular heroic character of the Forgotten Realms setting , and has been featured as the main character of a long series of books , starting chronologically with " The Dark Elf Trilogy ". As an atypical drow ( dark elf ), Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark , in the drow city of Menzoberranzan . Star Wars is an American ___MASK66___ space ___MASK27___ franchise , centered on a film series created by George Lucas . It depicts the adventures of various characters " a long time ago in a galaxy far , far away ". Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the " ___MASK94___ " (" D & D ") fantasy role - playing game . Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as " The Realms ", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories . Several years later , Greenwood brought the setting to the " D & D " game as a series of magazine articles , and the first Realms game products were released in 1987 . Role - playing game products have been produced for the setting ever since , as have various licensed products including sword and sorcery novels , role - playing video game adaptations ( including the first massively multiplayer online role - playing game to use graphics ), and comic books . The Forgotten Realms is one of the most popular " D & D " settings , largely due to the success of novels by authors such as R . A . Salvatore and numerous role - playing video games , including " ___MASK4___ of Radiance " ( 1988 ), " Eye of the Beholder " ( 1991 ), " Baldur ' s Gate " ( 1998 ), " Icewind Dale " ( 2000 ) and " Neverwinter Nights " ( 2002 ). Robert Anthony Salvatore ( born January 20 , 1959 ), who writes under the name R . A . Salvatore , is an American author best known for " The DemonWars ___MASK36___ ", his " Forgotten Realms " novels , for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do ' Urden , and " Vector Prime ", the first ___MASK16___ in the " Star Wars : The New Jedi Order " series . He has sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the United States alone and twenty - two of his titles have been " New York Times " best - sellers . Star Wars : The New Jedi Order ( or New Jedi Order or NJO ) is a series of nineteen ___MASK29___ novels , published from 1999 to 2003 , set in the " Star Wars " expanded universe . The series revolves around the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy 21  26 years after the events depicted in " Return of the Jedi ". The New Jedi Order was the restored and reformed Jedi organization , in the wake of the Great Jedi Purge and subsequent fall of the Galactic Empire . The Jedi Knights , reduced in number to only a handful , were slowly restored , primarily under the leadership of Luke Skywalker . Additional stories , generally published as e - book novellas ( some published as recently as 2006 ) and comic books ( as recent as 2010 / 2011 ), take the total number of published NJO - related stories to twenty - six . Passage to Dawn is the fourth and final ___MASK38___ of R . A . Salvatore ' s Legacy of the Drow series .