#----- TSR 8473 base product TSR 8473 = title "Tantras"; leader ""; author "Awlinson, Richard"; cover "Caldwell, Clyde"; date June 1989; ISBN 0-88038-748-3; pages 338; system None; audience All; product type Novel; style Paperback; number Book Two; series Avatar Series; price $ 5.99; contents Book; world Forgotten Realms; references "catalogue93", "catalogue94", "catalogue96", "catalog95", "catalog96", "catalog93"; description "\large{\NPC{Elminster} has been murdered}. Now, \NPC{Midnight} and \NPC{Adon}, who saved the \Place{Dales} from the evil god \God{Bane} in the \Event{Battle of \Place{Shadowdale}}, have been sentenced to death for the murder. But chaos has taken hold of nature and magic since the gods were exiled from the \Place{Planes}, and the heroes are the only ones who know the location of the first \Item{Tablet of Fate}, which can save the \Place{Realms} from the fallen gods. Even as the heroes escape, \God{Bane} and his ally, \God{Myrkul}, \God{God of Death}, set in motion a plot to capture \NPC{Midnight} and her allies and steal the \Item{Tablet of Fate} for themselves. The heroes face deadly assassins, nightmarish creatures, and violent storms on their way across the \Place{Dales}, but the worst threat of all is unexpected---one of \NPC{Midnight}'s friends has joined \God{Bane} and the forces of \Place{Zhentil Keep}. \Product{Tantras} is the second novel in the \Product{Avatar Trilogy}, TSR's newest epic saga based on the \Product{Forgotten Realms} fantasy setting.". #.....