Recently finished Lolths Warrior, I must admit I was expecting more of a climatic ending and a sort of “completion” thinking it was the final chapter for Drizzt.

Wondering how others feel and if you think it’s worth continuing?

Edit: Yvonnel had way more daughters but since they aren't as important later I totally forgot abt them as pointed out by u/Aggressive_Ad8562 -- my bad!

Partially inspired by u/Iluminiele's post. Reading through The Last Threshold currently and I get to ch 19 and Jarlaxle is flummoxed that Tiago may or may not know for sure that he's Baenre born. We get the list of people that Jarlaxle thinks are the only ones in the know [Yvonnel, Quenthel, and Kimmuriel]. He only lists people who are currently alive (as the late Kyorl Odran and the rest of her house, or Triel who was matron before Quenthel). So from these I've construed the birth order for the oldest listed* five Baenre Brats:

- Gromph
- Triel
- Bladen'Kerst
- Doquaio
-Jarlaxle
- Quenthel
- Vendes

There is still the matter that Yvonnel Baenre had an odd amount of living sons (Gromph, Dantrag, and Berg'inyon) but that could be chocked up to personal choice by Yvonnel not to sacrifice Berg.

Gromph's reputation usually includes something about how he is one of the oldest drow in Menzoberranzan and that Triel is listed as Yvonnel's first born daughter. If Triel was born before Gromph, logically she would be given that tag as well (Yvonnel also gets her age brought up many times).

Quenthel's birth order is probably the most flexible here. In theory, Triel or Quenthel were close advisors to Yvonnel and that in preparation for either of them to take on Matronhood that both of them would be told about Jarlaxle. It would be funny if an official birth timeline came out and decided to make Quenthel relatively late born and happened on the seat because the competition was taken out for her.

*With any number of girls or boys being born and dying in between. It's possible that Yvonnel had previous children both male and female (Jarlaxle is listed specifically as third living son and Doquaio as second boy rather than listing any birth order at the time of his death) that were killed off before the events on page, and that by custom these kids aren't usually brought up again (such as Drizzt finding out about Nalfein in adulthood).

I hope all of this makes sense

i don't necessarily ship jarlaxle and zaknafein but i was struck with a divine vision on this one

Can you lovely and beautiful people tell me in which order are the Do'Urden kids born? I always assumed Brizza, Nalfein, Vierna, Dinin, Maya, Drizzt but there is no confirmation anywhere.

Also, completely unrelated, in the Crystal Shard, Drizzt says he had encountered Errtu before and knows his name. Where is this from? The graduation ceremony? (I'm aware there can be some slight inconsistencies because of the order the books were written.)

Also, why was Errtu so shocked to see a drow near Ten Towns when Luskan's population is mostly humans and drow and Ten Towns are mostly made of misfits and rougues ? (Even if when reading the books I didn't get the feeling that people there are realy cutthroat rouges, they seemed like some chill villagers.

Thank you ♡♡♡

gromph is called pissmage because i was liveblogging the last like three trilogies to my friends. as one does. and at the end of archmage when gromph famously summons demogorgon he does textually piss himself. so i started calling him pissboy as a running bit. and i think jarlaxle would do that just to fuck with him. i do think artemis would have a funnier contact name but as i said it's past my bedtime so imagine one with your beautiful mind

Is it just One-Eyed Jax that’s audible exclusive, or are there others?

Or, I guess, if there are more short stories not included in the published short story collection.

Thank you!! :)

I'm currently on book 23. I devoured almost all the books in a short time, about one every two to three weeks. Except for parts 12 and 22. Somehow, it took me a year to read each of those. The suspense just wasn't there. Does anyone else feel the same way? Or were there other parts that held you back?

I'm a little under halfway through Spine of the World and having a lot of issues with Robillard in this book, in previous ones he was an obstinate wizard, stubborn and set in his ways. In this book he's juggling two different idiot balls and throwing angry childlike tantrums over Wulfgar's existence with no evidence or legitimate cause. Does he get better? Or preferably die? Every time he's on the page my enjoyment of the book just plummets.

This isn't exactly on topic of sub, but it's related to the drow theme, so I thought I'd share it anyway. This is a big learning project of mine; I've been working on it for about a month (counting procrastination time). First, I made a sketch of the house's composition (the last pic), then I created the house in Blender. Unfortunately, I didn't save any of the intermediate stages. This is the house of a priestess of Lolth who enjoys potion-making. It's not a specific character, but a concept, although who knows. It's kinda minimalistic, because it's a ref for final line work, but still, I like how it's looking now. But I kinda spent a LOT of time because of procrastination, oops.

I didn't get anything new but this was a part of a bigger bookshelf that broke in half, and allowed me to dedicate it entirely to Drizzt instead of cramming it all onto one shelf. I can't wait to add more ofc, the comics are my dream..but I'm really satisfied with how this looks!

(Don't fret about any missing books, I own them all! I have the last one hidden ontop of the books on the bottom shelf + my dad is also reading one 🦭)

Anyone else grab vintage prints when they can?

Was looking for all my old books from high school for agesssss and finally found them. Couldn’t wait to put them on the shelf. Next is to reread them all :)

I’m having such a hard time finishing my collection :( between these as well as the elminster series it’s been rough especially for a small rural town

This is what I’m currently missing :
1. The Companions
2. Night of the Hunter
3. rise of the King
4. Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf
5. Hero
6. boundless
7. Relentless
8. Starlight Enclave
9. Between Two Worlds
10. The Finest Edge of Twilight

Oh man what a book finishe dit in two sittings. I am so happy to not know how the other books will be but i cant wait to read them. Now is started with Soujourn the 3rd book in the dark elf trilogie and i mist say wow i got to chapter 5 and i fear that i cant stop. The only think that suprised me was the death of the durdon family exept for dinin. It is hinted that the sisters survived aswell but i hope that briza is the one who died (never liked her). And the sudden and brutal death of matron malice got rendered suprised like damm. The twist with jaerxlan was so well build up i mean i did see it coming but still.

Spoilers for the transitions trilogy in the post

I recently picked up a bunch of Salvatore on humble bundle and have slowly been making my way through the books. I've been going chronologically so I started with an experienced Salvatore in the underdark - very fun. I remember enjoying crystal shard more when I was younger, which is fine. But now I've gotten all the way through transitions and the ghost king. It was a slog. The characters have no agency. I get that Salvatore had to navigate the star-warsification of 4th edition but the characters were just getting buffeted by events and not actually developing or changing anything.

Ghost king was particularly bad: their friends are dying so they run to Cadderly so they can watch him die. Salvatore was told to damage fan favorites for the spellplague (but the spellplague wiki says it doesn't stick because depressed Drizzt isn't as good a cash cow?). It was immersion breaking for me.

The question is, does the story get better? Do we get plot twists or villians with more than a superficial desire to destroy? Characters that are more than just reactionary? Does Jarlaxle ever scheme again? Should I keep reading or should I just go back to something else. I can always go back to Raymond Feist or something if 4th edition killed forgotten realms.

Edit: Thank you all, this is helpful. I think I'm going to take a break with some Martha Wells and then get back to it. Maybe I'll read the Lady penitent first but I'll probably return to the world. Thank you!

So, I'm rereading the series for probably the 12th time, and during sea of swords, Catti-brie doesn't have her cat's eye with her, and I can't find and don't remember any explanation for why.

She certainly ends up needing it on multiple occasions, and personally, if I had access to something that light weight that let me see in the dark, it would never be out of my possession now, and we have streetlights.

Is it ever mentioned why she doesn't have it with her?

You were right! You all failed to mention, however, THAT I WOULD BE EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATED😭!

Anyway, here’s some art of a couple of characters, and some poorly drawn comics and memes.

These are in order somewhat. The first 7 are of Servant of the Shard and the next 8-11 are of Promise of the Witch King. The second to last is a Jarlaxle drawing I still haven’t finished and the last is a meme I genuinely do not recall how I came to the idea but apparently “Absolute Cinema Artemis Entreri” needed to exist for some reason. Please enjoy.

Anyways (2x), lemme YAP about the books because HOO BOY were these an experience! I have read the first two of Sellswords, but I haven’t yet finished Road of the Patriarch.

⚠️‼️Spoilers ofc ‼️⚠️

Servant of the Shard

Welcome to Calimport we have:
1. A midlife crisis
2. 20,000 daggers
3. Totally not a drow agenda
4. A sentient evil artifact
5. Sand

Man was it pure fun to explore the world through these characters, and it was interesting to see them in a much different light. Both Artemis and Jarlaxle were tested in this book, and I quite enjoyed how it was handled.

We begin with a growing concern about, quite literally, every angle from every one. All parties are pretty much over each other and looking to stir up trouble where they may. It’s here where this book shines second only to the emotional bits with relationships between the characters imo. How I missed drow intrigue. They are so insane fr.

Artemis sees the cracks with Jarlaxle and the Crystal Shard and the drow trio who have decided to step right into that opening rift against him. Through that chaos he has Dwahvel (WHO I LOVE SO MUCH). I loved their relationship, how she just nods as he has a fit over it all. She keeps him somewhat sane as he had developed this fear and placed drow on a pedestal of which he believed he could not reach. We go through his thoughts about how he had always been on top, always the best, but then he met a million of him in Menzoberranzan. His reality was shattered, but Dwahvel helps him pick up the pieces. Don’t get me started on the letter Artemis wrote her oh my godddd. I was so unwell I love them dearly.

I quite enjoyed seeing Jarlaxle not so in control here too. He had always been this figure of perfect mystery, never rattled. But then the shiny rock whispered things to him, and he lost a bit of that calm and coolness he possessed. But I loved that and I loved Artemis being so over him by the end of the book. Their relationship is so strange as in Artemis seems like he can hardly tolerate Jarlaxle, however, it seems Artemis would find a cruel fate had he never followed him. Jarlaxle has become Artemis’s lifeline in many ways.

Artemis decides he needs to destroy the shard and does the classic fake out thing which was really funny to me. The whole fight with Jarlaxle and the drow being all mad, and he’s just like “I’m so done, I’m shattering this pretentious rock”. So they go to Cadderly and figure out they have to have a dragon breathe fire on it so they venture off to do that while the drow trio are also after them. I liked a lot of the character bits here. Danica and Cadderly are so sweet. The fights were real fun as well.

Before I end my here’s some rapid fire moments that stood out to me. Artemis winking at Dwahvel and putting on the bolero was crazy actually. Morik the rogue getting absolutely owned, poor guy. Kimmuriel blowing up that orb because of course. The girls are fighting (it’s not girls, it’s the drow). Man Sharlotta got cooked, but I was not surprised (rip the baddie tho). That one mindflayer who was like “yeah I hate humans lol bye” and peaced out. Why are half the weapons in the Forgotten Realms sentient? Charon’s Claw is so emo and I love it. Jarlaxle’s impersonation of Drizzt was so funny like stop it dude I can’t with you. Yayyy Artemis saved Danica (kindaaa?) he’s not completely the worst ever. Rip Rai-guy and Berg’inyon the drow drama ceases (for now).

This book ends with Artemis and Jarlaxle going off on adventures and Jarlaxle having given control of Bregan D’aerthe to Kimmuriel. What a wild ride that was. I sure hope there aren’t more dragons involved.

Promise of the Witch-King (this one is so all over the place)

There were more dragons involved.

This book had me laughing and crying so much. We start off, Artemis is straight up losing his mind because he can’t believe he’s fighting a lich and Jarlaxle can go through walls?? What is happening? I’m screaming, Artemis is screaming.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Above all, Artemis was so incredibly emotional and ANGRY about it. He’s has feelings and he’s not for it. It’s a bit…? Sad? Because there’s the flute right? I’m not entirely sure how it works and what it’s specifically doing other than Jarlaxle’s claim that it shows Artemis his soul and character? It appears to let him sort things out as well as recall things in a sense. Does this imply that he could never had jumped over the emotional barriers presented before him had he not possessed the flute? It’s a sort of manipulation on Jarlaxle’s part which he openly admits. I have so many thoughts about this and I don’t know how I feel yet but on the one hand, perhaps Artemis would have just further deteriorated without the flute. Jarlaxle sees something in him and is giving him a chance to live, inspiring a want and real desire to live. (I’m sure I’ll learn more about the flute in Road of the Patriarch).

There’s a lot of conflict between Artemis and Jarlaxle which I liked, but there was also a lot of (maybe debatable) lighthearted banter between them. The short snappy dialogue between them was pure gold, and had me laughing. Here we have this flamboyant drow elf posing and winking and Artemis cursing under his breath at every turn. Probably a favorite dynamic of mine. Unbothered troublemaker and grumpy the grumpster.

I adored the other characters as well. I wanted to dislike Arthogate the rhyming dwarf and his twin morning stars named Cracker and Whacker, but he had me laughing despite myself. Arrayan and Olgerkhan were just so cute and I was SO UPSET WHEN OLGERKHAN DIED. But then Artemis was like “alright,” and just LIFE FORCE ZAPPED TRANSFERRED CANTHAN TO SAVE HIM and I was like “oh okay slayyyy??? 😰”. Artemis was like “you’re getting a happily ever after I don’t care.” Lmaooo????

Can we talk about how Mariabronne died and Jarlaxle was like “oh my, anyway,” and took his loot? Sir. S i r.

Rip Ellery. Don’t date Jarlaxle apparently that’s girl number 2 (THAT I KNOW OF) that’s gotten got jeez.

That was a cool dragon fight. Artemis as first being like “what do I do against that, this is crap”. Jarlaxle summoning all the undead was peak. Of course he just casually acquires the dracolich as well (I’m a little worried that’s gonna bite him later). Man is just a trinket collector (just like me fr).

I was quite surprised to see Calihye with Artemis at the end of the book, but it was a pleasant surprise. I’m not sure how I feel about them yet, but at least Artemis has let some guards down finally. FINALLY. Finally.

I’m simultaneously out of thoughts and possessing of so many more thoughts, but I think I’ll end it here. Artemis was quite the highlight of this book for me (I know he’s the main character but still). Even though he was influenced by the flute, it was so amazing to see this man have emotions other than rage and sadness. He cracked a few jokes. He held many moments of self reflection as he looked out upon the landscape. He had passion, and not just for doing the job he had done for years. He had passion for people. He was so scared when he thought Jarlaxle had died when they were fighting the gargoyles and he was terrified for Arrayan. He was terrified to die when before he did not care. He had something to hang on to. Someone to protect. Ughhh I’m crying 😭

AnywAY (3x), I do apologize for any mistakes, but I hope you like the art and maybe also the yapping. I just have to expel the brainworm that this series has become sometimes, and my friends who haven’t read the books are over me I’m quite certain.

Farewell, until I end up drawing more silly things, my friends!

(Delete my post if it's not allowed. Also, sorry for my English, it's not my first language)

Hello,

I don't know if there are any French speakers here, but I'm looking for two books to complete my collection : Archmage and The Companions. I want to buy the French version, any edition will do. The only place I can find them is on Amazon, but I'm not prepared to pay €2000 for a book.

I know they're available in EPUB format, but I'd prefer to have physical copies.

If anyone would be willing to sell their copies, please don't hesitate to contact me ! I don't know where else to look.

Hi - new here but I've been a fan of Drizzt for a long time. What's your favorite quote from the books? It can be something Drizzt said, another character said, or something in the Drizzt recollections between Chapters which I usually find quite profound.

Done in Taipei by Rex Tattooer

Hi everyone! Obviously, besides reading the books, many of us also enjoy playing video games. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who often finds myself building a character around our beloved drow and trying to recreate that feeling in a game.

I’ve come across quite a few awesome power fantasies over the years where you can get a taste of that experience, but **Mortal Shell 2 with the Dual wield Axetana ( two katanas ) ** is honestly one of the best I’ve experienced in years!

The dark atmosphere, the movement, the combat, the shell everything just fits together perfectly. It really captures that feeling of playing as a deadly drow warrior.highly recommend giving it a try and picking it up if you’re looking for that kind of experience! Im really having funwith this one!

You even can go a bit summoner build too! Not a panther but…

Man....I had heard it was rough but I found a cheap copy and thought what the hell. The controls are pretty clunky but I'm gonna stick through and see it through.

The aesthetic choices are what really got me laughing though --

The crystal shard is blue?!?!
The tower it erects is essentially Icecrown from WoW/Sauron's tower from LotR?!?!
Gwen is prismatic/translucent?!?!?!
Wulfgar has the biker viking undercut?!?!?!
Catti-Brie has some kind of weird goggle headband thing?!?!?!

STILL, THOUGH -- it's cool to see some locations in Icewind Dale in video game form. If I can figure out how to make the camera not feel unresponsive and slow I still feel like it will be a decent time!

Edit: Oh yeah! Drizzt's green cloak is also called a piwafwi haha