This premier, hardcover, richly illustrated guide to The Legend of Drizzt celebrates twenty years of the most popular character in fantasy. This book will captivate new readers and established fans alike with its in-depth exploration of Drizzt and full-color illustrations by renowned artist Todd Lockwood.
Forgotten Realms Novel by Wizards of the Coast
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front. -- Drizzt Do’Urden
This is the paperback version of the stunning new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel that begins the tale of his signature dark elf character, Drizzt Do-Urden.
Drizzt Do'Urden emerges from the Underdark into a world of eye-searing light and bizarre new creatures -- a world teeming with life and almost limitless danger. For a dark elf born into the ruthless matriarchy of Menzoberranzan, the World Above can be a confusing place, but it can also be a place of second chances, new beginnings, and unimagined friendships. All he has to do is live long enough to convince the surface dwellers he means them no harm.
Millions of readers have already discovered the magic of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels. This deluxe new series puts the saga of the dark elf renegade in its proper chronological order, and reintroduces a generation to the legend of Drizzt.
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went—indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.
-- Drizzt Do’Urden
This release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel continues the tale of the origins of Salvatore's signature dark elf character Drizzt Do'Urden.
Forgotten Realms Novel; The Legend of Drizzt Book 4, by Wizards of the Coast
Drizzt Do'Urden has settled in the windswept towns of Icewind Dale. There, he encounters a young barbarian named Wulfgar, captured in a raid and made the ward of a grizzled dwarf named Bruenor. With Drizzt's help, Wulfgar will grow from a feral child to a man with the heart of a dwarf, the instincts of a savage, and the soul of a hero. But it will take even more than that to defeat the demonic power of Crenshinibon, the fabled Crystal Shard. Although this was the first title actually published about Drizzt, it has now been placed in its proper chronological order as fourth in the series.
I would gladly teach him. I would revel in his successes as much as in my own, but I would demand, always I would demand, a sense of humility, dedication, and an understanding of this power I was teaching, an appreciation of the potential for destruction. I would teach no one who did not continue to display an appropriate level of compassion and community. To learn how to use a sword, one must first master when to use a sword. --Drizzt Do’Urden
I am dying.
Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.
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Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know that when I die, that which is important will live on. This is my legacy; by the grace of the gods, I am not alone. -- Drizzt Do'Urden
Return to the City of Spiders!
Still reeling from the death of Wulfgar, Drizzt is allowed little time to grieve, for dark elves are massing in the caverns deep under Mithral Hall. To protect his adopted home, he'll have to return to the city of his birth, the evil City of Spiders. Menzoberranzan is one of the most dangerous places in the already perilous Underdark on a good day, but for Drizzt, a renegade with a price on his head, its certain death ever to set foot there again. But Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions have faced certain death before, and will gladly spend their lives for the sake of the dwarves of Mithral Hall.
"Let the damned drow come!"
All about me I saw excitement, in the dwarves, in Catti-brie, even in Regis, the halfling known more for preparing lunch and nap than for war. I felt it, too. That tingling anticipation, that camaraderie that had me and all the others patting each other on the back, offering praises for the simplest of additions to the common defense, and raising our voices together in cheer whenever good news was announced. What was it? It was more than shared fear, more than giving thanks for what we had while realizing that it might soon be stolen away. I didn't understand it then, in that time of frenzy, in that euphoria of frantic preparations. Now, looking back, it is an easy thing to recognize.
It was hope.
Drow march on Mithral Hall and Drizzt must once again join with dwarves, humans, and even a halfling, to combat his own family and their evil dark elf mistresses. The subterranean halls of the dwarf citadel wring with fierce battle, and a hero's heart fills with loyalty and remorse, as the Legend of Drizzt continues.
Millions of readers have already discovered the magic of R.A. Salvatore’s Forgotten Realms novels. This deluxe new series puts the saga of the dark elf renegade in its proper chronological order, and reintroduces a generation to the Legend of Drizzt.
Catti-brie and I vowed that we would return to Mithral Hall one day, and so we would, for Bruenor was there, and Regis. But Catti-brie had seen the truth. You can never get the smell of blood out of the stones. If you were there when that blood was spilled, the continuing aroma evokes images too painful to live beside.—Drizzt Do’Urden
A deluxe new hardcover edition of The New York Times best-selling classic.
Drizzt and Catti-brie have been away from Mithral Hall for six long years, but the pain of a lost companion still weighs heavily on their strong shoulders.
Chasing pirates aboard Captain Deudermont’s Sea Sprite is enough to draw their attention away from their grief. Then a mysterious castaway on an uncharted island sends them back to the very source of their pain, and into the clutches of a demon with vengeance on his mind.
But the demon Errtu isn’t the only one who longs for revenge. Drizzt wants justice, but may get more than he ever dreamed instead. First he’ll have to face Errtu and his demonic hordes, while staring into the burning depths of the endless Abyss, and doing everything in his power not to trade the life of one friend for the soul of another.
Catti-brie and I vowed that we would return to Mithral Hall one day, and so we would, for Bruenor was there, and Regis. But Catti-brie had seen the truth. You can never get the smell of blood out of the stones. If you were there when that blood was spilled, the continuing aroma evokes images too painful to live beside.—Drizzt Do'Urden
Chasing pirates aboard Captain Deudermont's Sea Sprite is enough to draw their attention away from their grief. Then a mysterious castaway on an uncharted island sends them back to the very source of their pain, and into the clutches of a demon with vengeance on his mind.
But the demon Errtu isn't the only one who longs for revenge. Drizzt wants justice, but may get more than he ever dreamed instead. First he’ll have to face Errtu and his demonic hordes, while staring into the burning depths of the endless Abyss, and doing everything in his power not to trade the life of one friend for the soul of another.
Millions of readers have already discovered the magic of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels. This deluxe new series puts the saga of the dark elf renegade in its proper chronological order, and reintroduces a generation to the Legend of Drizzt.
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength. Stealing our will, for what are we without empathy? What manner of joy might we find in our lives if we cannot understand the joys and pains of those around us, if we cannot share in a greater community? I remember my years in the Underdark after I ran out of Menzoberranzan. Alone, save the occasional visits from Guenhwyvar, I survived those long years through my own imagination.
This new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel continues the classic tale of Salvatore’s signature dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden.
by R A Salvatore
Spending time in the unimaginable torture chambers of the Abyss for a day would be enough to break even the heartiest soul, but the barbarian Wulfgar was there for years. When he returns, his friends find him a changed man, and not changed for the better. But Wulfgar’s road to redemption is one he must travel on his own, even if it leads to the bottom of a bottle.
This deluxe hardcover edition of The New York Times best-seller brings The Legend of Drizzt series to a close, and leads directly into the extraordinarily popular Hunter's Blades Trilogy.
"There remains worries and fear. Wulfgar is gone from us -- I know not where -- and I fear for his head, his heart, and his body. But I have accepted that his path was his own to choose, and that he, for the sake of all three -- head, heart, and body -- had to step away from us. I pray that our paths will cross again, that he will find his way home. But I can be patient and convince myself of the best. For to brood upon my fears for him, I am defeating the entire purpose of my own life. That I will not do. There is too much beauty. There are too many monsters and too many rogues. There is too much fun." -- Drizzt Do'Urden
"Drizzt," breathed Matron Malice. "The child's name is Drizzt!"
Briza tightened her grip on the knife and began the ritual. "Queen of Spiders, take this babe," she began. She raised the dagger to strike. "Drizzt Do'Urden we give to you in payment for our glorious vic--"
"Wait!" called Maya from the side of the room. It could only mean one thing. "Nalfein is dead," she announced. "The baby is no longer the third living son."
From the cruel nurseries of the pitiless Underdark to the blinding agony of a sunlit glade in the World Above, Drizzt Do'Urden takes his place among the greatest icons in fantasy.
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of one of the fantasy genre's most beloved heroes, this newly repackaged omnibus edition includes the first three books in the best-selling The Legend of Drizzt series: Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn.
A new omnibus that collects books four through six of The Legend of Drizzt: The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, and The Halfling's Gem. The Legend of Drizzt put R.A. Salvatore's dark elf novels in chronological order, but The Crystal Shard was actually the first published, in January of 1988.
Legend of Drizzt, The (Gift Set, Books I-III) by R A Salvatore
Drizzt Do'Urden made his first mistake the moment he was born: he was a boy. In the rigid matriarchy of the dark elf city of Menzoberranzan, that makes his life forfeit. But when his own mother tries but fails to kill him, Drizzt's path is set. He must find a way to escape the treacherous Underdark, even if that means setting out alone into the no less dangerous World Above.
This set features the first three books in the newly re-numbered and re-covered series: Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn.
Legend of Drizzt, The (Gift Set, Books IV-VI) by R A Salvatore
The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, and The Halfling’s Gem, collected here for the first time in their newly re-numbered and re-covered editions, introduced the world to Drizzt Do'Urden and his creator, R.A. Salvatore, nearly two decades ago.
Includes:
The Legacy
Starless Night
Siege of Darkness
Passage to Dawn
