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Ascendance

  • 2001 first published
  • 400 pages
  • 9 editions

Published in 2001, Ascendance is an epic fantasy and demon fiction novel by R. A. Salvatore. The story is set in Forgotten Realms. It features Drizzt Do'Urden. Key subjects include good and evil, magic, wizards and elves.

41 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions.

It runs to roughly 400 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Ascendance

Years have passed since the great miracle atop Mount Aida--a miracle known as the Covenant of Avelyn. Corona is a different place. Avelyn is about to be elevated to sainthood by the very church that once proclaimed him a heretic. And King Danube has asked Jilseponie Wyndon--the outlaw hero of the Demon War--to become his queen.Jilseponie is torn. She can never love any man as completely as she did the Ranger Elbryan, the father of the child she lost. But she cannot deny that she has feelings for the wise and kindly king. And she could do so much good at his side . . .Yet threat looms, one Jilseponie could never have anticipated. For the child that she lost never died--as she believes--but was stolen away by the queen of the elves. Raised in secret by the queen, he has grown to be a headstrong boy who shows every promise of being as skilled in the arts of combat as his father before him, and as powerful with the gemstone magic as his mother.They called him Aydrian.Aydrian: a boy raised to be a weapon. A boy who has never known the love of a human mother. A boy so hungry for fame and the sound of his name on human tongues that he will pay any price for a chance to wrest immortality from an uncaring world. Aydrian: a boy on a collision course with destiny!From the Hardcover edition.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Characters

Subjects

  • Good and evil
  • Magic
  • Fantasy
  • Epic fantasy
  • Wizards
  • Elves
  • Demonology
  • Dungeons & Dragons Novel

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Ascendance?

Ascendance was written by R. A. Salvatore and first published in 2001.

What genre is Ascendance?

It is usually shelved as Epic Fantasy, Demons & Devils, Fae & Fairy Fiction and Dragon Fiction.

How long is Ascendance?

The median edition has 400 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Ascendance?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and House of Earth and Blood.

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