Alright who wants to help in a little bit of memory necromancy? Still here? Good.
I read this book way back when I was in middle school during the years of 1992-93, so it could have been published anytime before 1991, it was in hardback.
The plot of this book centers around a young man who was a wizard with only a couple spells to his name, his father detested magic, a darkness was overcoming the land, he saves his friend a teenage ?orc? with a mohawk from a mutated wolf by dropping a timber beam on it, he later meets a dryad girl who only wears a poncho and can dive into trees(and each tree contains its own unique world), and hooks up with a beggar who is constantly talking to a skull(who turns out to be his famous wizard grandfather in disguise). The story ends with the Darkness coming to him in the shape of the young mans father, who uses a spell on the dryad girl that lets her take the Darkness into a convenient tree and trap it in that trees "world". Young man goes back to his family sees his father and shows of a spell that makes water sculptures and happily ever after(aka that's the best I can remember things).
Any ideas folks?
by ReWerk