The Gilded Rune

Lisa Smedman

WIZARDS OF THE COAST Incorporated, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 384 pages

A plague has ravaged the population of gold dwarves of the Great Rift. It starts slowly, but the progression is devastating. One dwarf has eyes that have become hard and glassy like marbles; a second dwarf has skin that flakes off in sharp, hardened scales; the skeleton of a third is petrified and fused in place; a fourth wastes away with blood that has turned dark and muddy. Clerical magic doesn't help. Neither do herbal remedies, nor spells meant to break curses. And in all cases, death is always the same--the heart blackens, hardens, and eventually stops beating, killing each victim with a heart attack and turning the bodies to stone. It's called the Stoneplague. It's terrifying. And it's spreading.

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Review: The Gilded Rune

User Review  - Ralph Tapia - Goodreads

really goood

Review: The Gilded Rune

User Review  - Nick Wilson - Goodreads

Good book, interesing story, nicely fleshes the background of the dwarven race in the forgotten realms

About the author

Lisa Smedman is a novelist, short-fiction writer, and one of the founders of "Adventures Unlimited" magazine. She lives in Vancouver, B.C.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gilded Rune; Forgotten Realms
• Author: Lisa Smedman
• Publisher: WIZARDS OF THE COAST Incorporated, 2012
• ISBN: 0786960302, 9780786960309
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic