Corona

Beneath the sacred gemstones of the Abellican Church — a ruby to loose fire, malachite to lift a body into the air, the soul-stone to slip free of it — a ranger raised by elves and the woman he loves stand against a waking demon. This is Corona: a world of faith and steel where enchanted stones are the true engine of power, coveted alike by monks and monarchs, and where the dactyl demon stirs the goblins and giants of the north to war across the kingdoms of Honce-the-Bear and Behren. R. A. Salvatore, better known for Drizzt, built here a second world entirely his own, and its spine is the DemonWars. A founding trilogy — The Demon Awakens, The Demon Spirit, The Demon Apostle — is bridged by Mortalis into a second, darker, more political trilogy (Ascendance, Transcendence, Immortalis) that carries the next generation. Around that spine run the further cycles the catalog holds: the Saga of the First King, set centuries earlier, in which a crippled outlaw called the Highwayman helps forge the young kingdoms; The Coven, a later return to Corona and its warring gods; and shorter Buccaneers and prequel tales along its coasts. What sets this world apart is its warmth — heroic adventure grounded in real weight, in questions of faith, church corruption, mercy, and the price of power, carried by companions you come to love and grieve. Begin where it began, with The Demon Awakens, and read the seven core books in publication order. Those who would rather start at the dawn of the world can enter instead through the Highwayman's saga, which stands well on its own.