The Demon Awakens

The Demon Awakens

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Author	R.A. Salvatore
Cover artist	Alan Pollock
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The DemonWars Saga
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Del Rey
Publication date	February 28, 1998
Pages	624
ISBN	0-345-39149-7
OCLC	35885984
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3569.A462345 D46 1997
Followed by	The Demon Spirit

The Demon Awakens is the first book in the first DemonWars Saga trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. The book is also the first out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga.

Plot summary

Elbryan Wyndon and his childhood friend Jilseponie Ault (whose nickname is Pony), whose lives are irrevocably changed by the destruction of their home town Dundalis, and Avelyn Desbris who is a very pious man that enters a group of monks that go to a monastery by the name of St. Mere Abelle to study and serve under god. So while Elbryan and Pony try to sort out their lives Avelyn comes to terms with the all-too human brothers of the church and the myriad injustices he watches them cause. After the destruction of Elbryan’s home town he is taken in by the Touel’alfar and to their home Andur’Blough Inninnes (The Forest of cloud) and teaches him to not just train his body but his mind in the ways of philosophy and to be a formidable ranger. While Elbryan is training his childhood friend Pony can’t even remember her past and is trying to ease the pain of her forgotten past. While all this is happening Avelyn has problems of his own and soon has to leave the church in a most unexpected way. It is not till years later when they all meet each other and fight an evil like no other by the name of Bestesbulzibar who is a mighty demon that was reawakened by the humans weakness to rule all the realm with an army of goblins, powries (dwarfs), and Fomorian Giants and not only that the church is after Avelyn to. So now this ragtag group of friends and with the help of some unlikely allies must stop the demon and save the entire realm from its impending doom.