{{short description|2003 novel by Jeff Crook}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2013}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Dark Thane | title_orig = | translator = | image = Dark Thane novel cover.jpg | image_size = | caption = First edition cover | author = Jeff Crook | cover_artist = Matt Stawicki | country = United States | language = English | series = Dragonlance: The Age of Mortals | genre = Fantasy | publisher = Wizards of the Coast | release_date = November 2003 | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 320 pp<ref>*https://web.archive.org/web/20030202004910/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dlnovel/178780000</ref> | isbn = 0-7869-2941-3 | congress= CPB Box no. 2280 vol. 8 | oclc= 53309742 | preceded_by = The Lioness (2002) | followed_by = Prisoner of Haven (2004) }}
'''''Dark Thane''''' is a fantasy novel in the setting of Dragonlance, based on the campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. It was written by Jeff Crook. It is volume three of the six volume book series The Age of Mortals. It is set in the year 422 AC (After Cataclysm), also known as 39 SC (Second Cataclysm).
==Plot introduction== After a series of ugly battles and incidents, the dwarven community becomes increasingly isolationist in its city under the mountains. Unfortunately dark magic, backstabbings, betrayal and power grabs threaten to destroy the already destabilized dwarf society.
===Explanation of the novel's title=== A Thane is a ruler of a dwarven faction.
==Characters in "Dark Thane"== *Tarn Bellowgranite *Mog Bonecutter *Crystal Heathstone *Zen *Ferro Dunskull *Glint Ettinhammer *Tor Bellowgranite
==Release details== *2003, USA. Wizards of the Coast, ({{ISBN|0-7869-2941-3}}), Pub date November 2003, Paperback <!--major publication history to be included here, not everything if too extensive--> <!--example--> <!--*1999, USA, C.S. Black & sons ISBN 8768768760 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (0) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}{{Please check ISBN|reason=does not match hyphenation rules and is probably invalid}}, Pub date 1 April 1999, Hardback -->
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930022228/http://www.wizards.com/books/downloads/products_dlnovel_178780000.zip Zipped sample chapter from Wizards of the Coast.com]
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