The Verdant Passage - My First Experience with Dark Sun

In June of 2024, I read the 1991 novel The Verdant Passage by Troy Denning. I have read many of his novels set in the Forgotten Realms, but this was my first time reading anything in the Dark Sun campaign setting. Over the years I have explored these other D&D settings, such as Dragonlance and Greyhawk . Dark Sun is different from these, and the Forgotten Realms, for (as the name implies) the…