Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (The Best of The Realms, Book I) • essay by Philip Athans
• 1 • Rite of Blood • [Forgotten Realms: Starlight and Shadows] • (1996) • novella by Elaine Cunningham
• 55 • Elminster at the Magefair • [Sage of Shadowdale / Elminster] • (1993) • novelette by Ed Greenwood
• 85 • Darksword • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (2002) • novelette by Troy Denning
• 117 • Blood Sport • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1994) • short story by Christie Golden
• 139 • Six of Swords • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1995) • short story by William W. Connors
• 159 • The Rose Window • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1998) • short story by Monte Cook
• 175 • The First Moonwell • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1995) • short story by Douglas Niles
• 187 • The Greatest Hero Who Ever Died • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1994) • short story by J. Robert King
• 207 • Tertius and the Artifact • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1997) • novelette by Jeff Grubb
• 229 • Red Ambition • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1995) • short story by Jean Rabe
• 247 • The Common Spell • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (1995) • short story by Kate Novak [as by Kate Novak-Grubb]
• 259 • Assassin's Shadow • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (2002) • short story by Jess Lebow
• 289 • And the Dark Tide Rises • [Forgotten Realms: The Threat from the Sea] • (2000) • novelette by Keith Francis Strohm
• 315 • Empty Joys • [Forgotten Realms Universe] • (2003) • short story by R. A. Salvatore