No one asked where anything came from because it was always there. And yet, the food and water still came, as did the thread for their fine linen clothes, leather for their armor, steel for their swords, wool for their blankets, and on and on, because a luxurious castle in a luxurious city needed such things to keep them in comfort. They forgot where the food they ate and the water they drank came from, as if it just magically appeared behind the wall or grew from the rocks they had planted rather than trees. But shortly thereafter, the king and those who lived within the walls changed. The wall came next, and it was praised by all living in the city, for it offered them safety they had never before known. Around the castle a great city grew, filled with those closest to the king, and those close to those closest to the king, and so on and so forth, until the city bustled and there was room for no more. When the war was over, the people crowned him king, and King Umbert built a glorious castle on the highest hill, a hill so tall it could be seen from every part of the land. It took Umbert the Conqueror, a warrior known for honor and valor. Large beasts twice the size of the tallest man, with daggers for fangs and serpent tails decorated with deadly spikes, the draignochs terrorized the four lands. He was once considered a valiant king, the warrior who beat back deadly monsters, known as draignochs, all to save the people. King Umbert ordered the building of this wall. Hailed a wonder of the world, it rose forty feet into the air. Unlike the ramparts of this time, which were mostly made of wood, this wall was made of stone. The lands were divided, not by name, which was common, but by a wall. He is currently working on more novels set in the Demonwars and Dark Elf series. His gaming group still meets on Sunday nights. Salvatore makes his home in Massachusetts, with his wife, Diane, and their dogs. He enjoys a broad range of literary writers, from James Joyce to Dante and Chaucer, and counts among his favorite genre literary influences Ian Fleming, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fritz Leiber, and J. R. R. Salvatore spends a good deal of time speaking to schools and library groups, encouraging people, particularly young people, to read.

Among his books are numerous titles in the saga of dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden, the Coven series, the Crimson Shadow trilogy, and many more.

In addition, Salvatore has numerous game credits, making him one of the most important figures in modern epic fantasy.

Since then he has written more than sixty novels, which have sold more than thirty million copies worldwide. Salvatore’s first book, The Crystal Shard, was published in 1988 in 1990 his third novel, The Halfling’s Gem, hit the New York Times bestseller list.

The Color of Dragons by R.A. Salvatore