Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun - Novel and Game Appearances

Novel and Game Appearances

• Khelben appears in many Forgotten Realms novels, including:
  • the Songs and Swords series
  • The Avatar Series
  • the Return of the Archwizards trilogy
  • Blackstaff.
  • The City of Splendors : a Waterdeep novel by Ed Greenwood and Elaine Cunningham
• He (or at least a powerful and influential mage of Waterdeep named Khelben) makes an appearance to help Drizzt Do'Urden in the novel The Halfling's Gem, of the Icewind Dale Trilogy, by R. Salvatore.
• He also appeared in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons comic book published by DC Comics in the mid-to-late 1980s, as a friend, ally and occasional manipulator of the Waterdeep-based main characters.
• He appeared in 1990 SSI/Westwood computer game Eye of the Beholder 2: Legend of the Darkmoon, as the one who gives the player the mission to investigate the Temple of Darkmoon.
• He also shows up in the Forgotten Realms video game Demon Stone, where he sealed away Ygorl and Cireka in a demon stone to stop them from destroying the realms. He was voiced by Patrick Stewart.
• Blackstaff is also mentioned in Neverwinter Nights as the mage who discovered the four reagents for the cure to the plague (these four were a dryad, a yuan-ti, an intellect devourer, and a cockatrice), during the beginning section of the game.
• He also is mentioned in Baldur's Gate II as having once met with Gorion, to whom he spoke like an equal.