title: Siege of Darkness (Forgotten Realms: Legacy of the Drow, Book 3)
author:  R.A. Salvatore 
description: R.A. Salvatore has spent so many years winding himself into fantasy worlds that he's still trying to figure out how to unwind. He is the author of more than forty novels and more than a dozen <i>New York Times</i> best sellers, including <i>The Two Swords</i>, which debuted at or near the top of many best seller lists.
zlib_text: **Philip Athans**
  
   **Anthologies 11 - Realms of**
  
   **the Elves**
  
   **Edited by**
  
   *** Traitors by Richard Lee Byers**
  
   *** The Staff of Valmaxian by Philip Athans**
  
   *** Necessary Sacrifices by Lisa Smedman**
  
   *** The Greater Treasure by Erik Scott de Bie**
  
   *** Comrades at Odds by R.A. Salvatore**
  
   *** Tears So White by Ed Greenwood**
  
   *** The Bladesinger’s Lesson by Richard Baker**
  
   **TRAITORS**
  
  Richard Lee Byers
  
   **-250,090 DR Rhespen**
  
   **Ash brandished his truesilver staff and shouted words of power. The magic
  cast up shields of wind and light, and hurled bright, crackling thunderbolts
  at the foes lurking in the green shadows between the trees.**
  
   **It wasn't enough. The enemy wizards shattered his defenses quick as he
  could conjure them, volleys of arrows moaned through the air, and Rhespen's
  troops and their horses died.**
  
   **If he'd had a chance to prepare, it would likely have been different, but
  the ambuscade had caught him entirely by surprise. He'd marched a 