Upon leaving his homeland, Drizzt spends several years roaming the Underdark (a massive series of caverns and tunnels that span from one end of Faerun to another) before befriending a deep gnome and finding his way to the surface. At first, Drizzt refuses to acknowledge that such evil can exist unpunished, but is eventually forced to confront (and question) his nature after his family's various schemes almost force him down the same dark path. Unlike others of his race, Drizzt is honorable and kind, a mindset which clashes violently with that of his vicious kin. The drow place very little value on life - children are set up as pawns in dangerous training exercises, the Academies of the city teach outright racism and genocide, and anyone who is not drow (and occasionally, not drow enough) is quietly executed before they can become a liability. As long as it's done on-the-sly, and nobody remains to accuse you. In Menzoberranzan, and in drow society as a whole, ascension to a higher rank is gained not by merit, but by strength - if you can live long enough to kill those that outrank you, you gain rank and prestige. He being the third born male child (and thus due for ritual sacrifice immediately after birth), his mother, Matron Malice Do'Urden, spares him after his eldest brother is killed by second brother Dinin to gain in rank. Salvatore that describes the life of Drizzt Do'Urden, a young dark elf who starts his life in the drow city of Menzoberranzan. The Dark Elf Trilogy is a prequel series of books by R.A.
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The walls were of the usual dull red, relieved by plaster casts of arms and legs and hands and feet and Dante’s mask, and Michael Angelo’s altorilievo of Leda and the swan, and a centaur and Lapith from the Elgin marbles-on none of these had the dust as yet had time to settle. The big piano, a semi-grand by Broadwood, had arrived from England by “the Little Quickness” ( la Petite Vitesse, as the goods trains are called in France), and lay, freshly tuned, alongside the eastern wall on the wall opposite was a panoply of foils, masks, and boxing-gloves.Ī trapeze, a knotted rope, and two parallel cords, supporting each a ring, depended from a huge beam in the ceiling. Things were beginning to look shipshape at last. The big studio window was open at the top, and let in a pleasant breeze from the northwest. IT was a fine, sunny, showery day in April. 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Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. And a quest that may destroy them both.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the bestselling author Holly Black.Ī runaway queen. While a teenager, Medusa is visiting Athene’s temple when she is set up on by Poseidon and raped. They quickly have to learn to take care of a baby, to feed and care for it and they come to love Medusa. She is a mortal child (with wings) born of sea gods, and is left on the beach in the care of her immortal sisters the Gorgons, Euryale and Sthenno. 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