Once Around the Realms

Once Around the Realms is a stand-alone novel by Brian Thomsen.

"Volothamp Geddarm ("Volo" to his public), traveler, author, renaissance man of the Realms, has been known to brag on occasion, and to bet even more often. So when a discussion, as to who is the greatest traveler in the Realms takes place in his presence, of course he is going to defend his hard-won reputation, no matter what the consequences.

Soon Volo and his erstwhile companion, Passepout, are on a grand tour the likes Toril has never seen. From Chult to Kara Tur, from Suzail to the Shining South, even from the Land of the Dead to Maztica, Volo and Passepout make their way around the globe... little suspecting that this simple bet masks a dark conspiracy unlike any other."

Publication History
Once around the Realms was an attempt by TSR's fiction department to have other authors write for characters created by and associated with freelance authors. Although all work submitted by freelancers was done under a work-for-hire contract and therefore belonged to TSR, if the ownership of the characters was ever challenged in court, having a novel written using those characters by a TSR employee (Thomsen was TSR's Managing Editor for fiction) would put TSR in a much better position to defend its intellectual property rights and thereby make it easier to assign a new author to certain characters.

Index

 * Characters


 * Creatures


 * Locations