![]() ![]() ![]() Sojourn (1991) - Sojourn is the story of Drizzt coming to the surface of the world and facing adversity due to the infamy of his kin.Struggling with conflicting emotions, which involve his failure in Menzoberranzan and a deep grief for his father and friend Zaknafein, he makes his way to the surface to face newer dangers. Drizzt is also met with great dangers that he meets with the business ends of his scimitars. For the ten years following his abandoning his house, he is left with no one but his faithful Guenhwyvar, a magical panther he had acquired in Homeland. Exile (1990) - Exile tells the story of Drizzt outside of the drow cities in the open wilderness of the Underdark.From here, the reader follows Drizzt on his quest to follow his principles in a land where such feelings are threatened by all his family including his mother Matron Malice. The book takes the reader into Menzoberranzan, the drow home city. Homeland (1990) - Homeland follows the story of Drizzt from around the time and circumstances of his birth and his upbringing amongst the drow (dark elves).Their deaths usually come from the front. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defendingĪgainst the daggers that would find their backs. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. All climb the Spider Queen's ladders all hunt for her pleasure, and all fall to the hunters of her pleasure. Children? Pawns more likely, dancing dolls for the Spider Queen, puppets on the imperceptible but impervious strands of her web. Station is the way of Lloth, the ambition she bestows to further the chaos, to keep her drow "children" along their appointed course of self imprisonment. Investigation is not the forte of drow justice. ![]() To stick a dagger in the back of a rival during the chaos of a larger battle or in the quiet shadows of an alley, howeveI, is quite acceptable, even applauded. To openly commit murder or wage war invites the pretense of justice, and penalties exacted in the name of drow justice are merciless. Of course, there are rules of behavior, every society must boast of these. The Spider Queen is a deity of chaos, and she and her high priestesses, the true rulers of the drow world, do not look with ill favor upon ambitious individuals wielding poisoned daggers. Ambition over rides good sense and compassion is thrown away in its face, all in the name of Lloth, the Spider Queen.Īscension to power in drow society is a simple process of assassination. It is the calling of their, of our religion, the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings. Station: In all the world of the drow, there is no more important word. ![]()
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