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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 90490" data-attributes="member: 1106">They were good enough to launch FR - I recently read in a column comparing Dragonlance and FR that the Darkwalker trilogy's success on the bestseller lists helped give FR the initial shove it needed.Doug Niles was aiming for a Le Morte d'Arthur style setting and story, and he largely succeeded in creating that epic yet dark, tragic mood.  What little hope there is gets destroyed by the continual advances of his villains and the emotional struggles of his protagonists with betrayal, a fading goddess, one-sided warfare and a dying land.  It's not your average FR series, because it seems to have been published before the "evil mustn't win" rule got enforced.You're right in that the Moonshaes are almost a setting unto themselves - but I think that's a bonus, one of the reasons they're my favourite part of Faerun.The official Avalon-style isles that are there in place of the original Earthsea-style isles are, IMO, just plain better in that they offer a wealth of conflict, politics and flavour.  The rival kingdoms of the Ffolk and the Northmen, the emphasis on druids instead of wizards, the land itself being a deity tied to the fortunes of the Moonwells, and the overall celtic feel of the place make Nile's Moonshaes special.  That's a lot more useful than just some isles with fishermen on them seperated by reefs.  I know FR fans are used to revering Greenwood's works, but in this case I think we got something better.  (Aaron Allston's Korinn Archipelago from N4 Treasure Hunt is also attached to the top of the official Moonshaes, and that's a fine little setting as well.)</blockquote>

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