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The Dark Elf Trilogy

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The Dark Elf Trilogy	comment	The Dark Elf Trilogy is a prequel series of books by R.A. Salvatore that describes the life of Drizzt Do'Urden, a young dark elf who starts his life in the drow city of Menzoberranzan. 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.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. As long as it's done on-the-sly, and nobody remains to accuse you.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.Unlike others of his race, Drizzt is honorable and kind, a mindset which clashes violently with that of his vicious kin. 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.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.Thus begins the tale of one of the Forgotten Realms' most popular characters — in fact, Drizzt has become so well-known (and stories featuring the character so widely-read) that many readers don't know that there are other characters in the Forgotten Realms canon.Books in the series: Homeland (1990) Exile (1990) Sojourn (1991)Chronologically followed by The Icewind Dale Trilogy.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: In Sojourn Drizzt encounters a human peasant boy in his early days on the surface. Not having learned Common yet, Drizzt resorts to a drow cultural practice, taking the boy's knife and juggling it for a few moments with his scimitars before handing it back (the idea is to demonstrate "I have superior skill but I don't want to kill you at the moment"). Not being familiar with drow cultural practices, the kid freaks the fuck out and runs away screaming about a "Drizzit".
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Just about every family in Menzoberranzan. Drow society is based on the Klingon Promotion theory, and lorded over by a deity that demands regular sacrifices of blood. Drizzt is almost killed at birth because he is a third son, which has no value in their society. Wars between Houses are commonplace, as only the top eight Noble Houses have a place on the Council. Children of the Houses that are not killed are made into cousins/slaves of the conquering House, in effect you now get to be a "part" of the family that killed yours. Oh, and the only way to become Matron Mother of your House? Kill the current one.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The books are presented as being Drizzt's memoirs, with Drizzt periodically addressing the reader directly at the beginning of some chapters, but most of the trilogy is written in the third person, from the point of view of an omniscient narrator, recounting events that Drizzt did not witness, could not have remembered, or could not have known about at all. How much is he recounting what others told him, or what he pieced together from circumstantial evidence, and how much is speculation or just outright fiction that he feels is necessary to complete the narrative and that he feels is true to the spirit of what happened? Unlike many examples, however, Drizzt does not seem to have any desire to justify himself—if anything, he reproaches himself far more than he deserves—but rather to avoid holes in the narrative, so he is speculating or making educated guesses about what probably happened?
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Dinin has this one-sidedly with Drizzt, whom he believes is a legitimate threat to his position as elderboy. He does have some reason to expect this given drow culture, especially since he himself became elderboy by blindsiding his own elder brother, but Drizzt has no interest in it.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Since the drow have a reputation for this, the gnomes in the novel Exile thought Drizzt was trying to pull one of these when he was actually honestly trying to surrender to them. It worked out eventually thanks to Belwar's intervention.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_1e020735	comment	Zaknafein, as a reanimated corpse serving Matron Malice, regains control for just long enough to throw his body into an acid pool and thus free himself from serving her purposes.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The sphere of light Zak uses on Drizzt in an earlier chapter of Homeland is the same method Drizzt uses to escape from House Do'Urden at the end of the novel.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Even though he was born and raised in Menzoberranzan, Zaknafein knows something is deeply, nightmarishly wrong with drow society, and he tries to simultaneously get Drizzt to understand this and to protect him from it. Matron Malice and Drizzt's sisters have other plans.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: For most of the novel Homeland, House Do'Urden is completely unaware that House Hun'nett is plotting against them. The readers, however, are fully aware of it (as soon as Alton hears about it. Which is pretty much from the start).
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The third-born male child is always sacrificed to Lolth on the day of his birth. Zaknafein also witnesses the children of House DeVir being slaughtered without mercy. A male child of a lesser house is killed by a hook horror during a training session, which serves as something of a Berserk Button for Drizzt.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The not-too-bright peasant boy in the third book who mispronounces Drizzt's name as "Drizzit" is likely a joke at the expense of people in real life who make that mistake. Officially it's pronounced "Drist".
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: The process of Zin-carla involves taking control and reanimating a lifeless corpse while making sure that the owner's memories and emotions don't interfere during the time the body is resurrected; this is how Malice brings Zaknafein back to life. This process is elaborated on in the 3E sourcebook Faiths and Pantheons.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: After spending ten years surviving alone in the Underdark Drizzt is afraid he is starting to succumb to this trope during Exile, becoming what he calls "the Hunter".
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Belwar mentions once that a drow once came to Blingdenstone as a guest before Drizzt; what that drow was doing there is never explained.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_33d76f78	type	Heroic Ambidexterity
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_33d76f78	comment	Heroic Ambidexterity: Drizzt Do'Urden was originally intended to train as a mage, but after his mother observed his natural ambidexterity she decided he could better serve the family as a warrior. He becomes an exceptional swordsman, twin scimitars being his weapons of choice.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_34dcfc96	comment	Briza gets one of her Kick the Dog moments when she bullies relatively-more-sympathetic Vierna for not whipping little Drizzt enough when she trains him in basic drow magic.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: To an outside observer, drow culture and society (for lack of better words) is pretty much as close to Hell as you can get without actually dying. The drow themselves, on the other hand, are having the time of their lives.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Drizzt at the beginning of the first novel; then he gets a nasty taste of reality. This breaks him of the idea that everyone in the world follows those ideals, but not of his desire to follow them himself.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Mixed with Earn Your Happy Ending: By the end of the trilogy, Drizzt finds his calling as a ranger and befriends Bruenor and Catti-Brie, two of his four future adventuring companions. However, along the way, a lot of innocent people are killed, including Drizzt's father Zaknafein. Zaknafein gets brought back to life as an animated servant tasked with hunting down and killing Drizzt, however he commits suicide rather than kill his own son.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: At one point in the second book, Drizzt and his friends are captured by illithids (mind flayers) and made into the creatures' brainwashed slaves. Zaknafein, who's been revived as an undead monstrosity sent to kill Drizzt, eventually tracks him to the illithids' lair. The mind flayers try to mentally enslave him the way they did Drizzt, but since he's an undead monster who's being controlled by an external force he's pretty much immune to it. Zaknafein slaughters the illithids, and ends up freeing Drizzt and his friends from their enslavement.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Subverted. In his first grand melee, Drizzt was defeated due to BackStab: he never expected such a dishonorable tactic. So, in his second grand melee, Drizzt marches out into the open and challenges his final opponent to an honorable fight while his brother and his teacher Face Palm in the observation area. The opponent takes advantage of this to attack him from behind... and trips over the wire Drizzt set up for just that eventuality.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4832a3bb	comment	Drizzt's older sister Vierna feels an uncommon closeness to and affection for her brother. The presentation is ambiguous, and it may be intended simply as a sign that like him, she is not as Always Chaotic Evil as the rest of their family, and thus able to feel a trace of normal (by human standards) familial attachment. However, her affection for him is at the least repeatedly understood (and misunderstood?) as an example of this trope by everyone else in the story.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_49fb23f8	type	Clean Dub Name
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_49fb23f8	comment	Clean Dub Name: In the Russian version of the books, "Drizzt" was changed into "Dzirt", due to the original name resembling a Russian slang word for someone with diarrhea. (Of course, in English, the Russian version sounds like he's a delicious confection of some kind.)
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Zaknafein, to a surprising extent despite his skill. He carries little glass spheres on him that bathe the room in blinding light when shattered, which to the drow who normally live in complete darkness can be quite detrimental, and uses one against Drizzt in a particularly vicious battle. He also has no qualms about kicking a male opponent where it hurts. When Drizzt calls him out on it, Zaknafein brilliantly replies with this: The Academy of Evil where Drizzt trains teaches pragmatism as much as combat skills. The final exam each year is a battle royale to rank the students; Drizzt is the best fighter, but is beaten because he trusted an "ally" who then stabbed him in the back. His second year he has learned, as he calls for the only other remaining student to settle the battle "with honor", but has actually set up tripwires that allow him an easy victory.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Book one, Homeland ends on this. The book ends with Zaknafein allowing himself to be sacrificed in place of Drizzt, and Drizzt ultimately fleeing Menzoberranzan into the wilds of the Underdark - a much nastier place.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Dinin's news about the attack at the end of Exile is one hell of a wallop. To put that in context, the heads of Menzoberranzan have come to kill them. Even if anyone survives, nobody will take up their claims for revenge. House Do'Urden is screwed. Even worse. The ones coming to kill them are already there. Early in the book, Matron Malice accepted help from House Baenre, augmenting Do'Urden's defenses with their guards. When Malice fails in her attempt to regain Lolth's favor, the enemy is already inside the walls. Jarlaxle helped too.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4e887103	type	The Aloner
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_4e887103	comment	The Aloner: Drizzt lives ten years all alone in the Underdark and he doesn't take it well. Seems that even Always Chaotic Evil company is better than no sapient company at all.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_53f261f	type	Masquerading As the Unseen
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_53f261f	comment	Masquerading As the Unseen: A student assumes the identity of a dead teacher. Somewhat subverted in that some people do know the teacher's identity - but his facial features have been wiped out due to a magical accident, so few can tell.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The drow look down on and hate pretty much every other race, especially elves. Drizzt suffers from the reverse when he leaves. Pretty much every race considers him untrustworthy and dangerous which makes finding a place to settle down hard.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_5a08d0ae	comment	Back Stab: Dinin kills his brother Nalfein by stabbing him in the back during a house war.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6193ae61	comment	Deus Sex Machina: In the first book, there is an orgy at the academy, seemingly something they do traditionally every year. The priestess with the best grades has intercourse with a summoned demon, while around her all the other female students pick a male student and get it on. Drizzt is put off by this.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Zombie Zaknafein, being Undead, is immune to psionic attacks. He comes looking for Drizzt in the middle of a mind flayer city. Your garden-variety mind flayers are dependent on their psi abilities for combat. This does not end well.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Drizzt is a gender-inverted case. Since the drow are matriarchal, Drizzt even shares the "no say in his own life" role that many princesses run from.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Zaknafein and Mooshie both end up dying after teaching Drizzt.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Drizzt is born, and his older brother Nalfein is killed, the night that house Do'Urden destroys house De Vir. Nalfein's death actually saves Drizzt's life, as third living sons are traditionally sacrificed.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Don't expect a lady named "Malice" to be winning any Mother of the Year awards any time soon. Or for the family that has "bane" in their name (House Baenre) to be warm and caring.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Jarlaxle Baenre, a male and therefore unfavored child of the ruling family of Menzoberranzan, found his own way to gain a measure of power, eschewing noble rank and therefore servitude to the women in favor of forming a band of top-flight mercenaries who hire out their services in inter-house wars. He still pointedly won't challenge Matron Baenre, not politically at least: he seems to get a measure of pleasure from personally annoying her, but he's too useful to kill.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_6e2997fe	comment	Intrinsic Vow: Useless fighter or fighter who can fight your control enough to kill himself? To clarify, Zaknafein under the control of Matron Malice, breaks free just long enough to throw himself into a pool of acid to prevent himself from killing Drizzt.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_726ab4c9	comment	Attack Animal: Guenhwyvar is a magical panther that follows the commands of whoever holds the statute that summons her.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Drizzt and Zak. They don't want to kill, but are forced to do so to survive in drow society.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7ae75c78	type	Evil Me Scares Me
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7ae75c78	comment	Evil Me Scares Me: Particularly in Exile, Drizzt is constantly afraid of losing control and succumbing to "the hunter", his other self which he developed in order to survive the dangers of the Underdark.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7d88c452	type	Academy of Evil
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7d88c452	comment	Later in the story, at a debauched graduation party at the Academy of Evil, she and Drizzt end up alone and close together after a disturbed Drizzt rejects the advances of a priestess of Lolth, with the scantily clad Vierna gently reassuring him that she understands his desire for privacy. While ambiguous, it's very easy to read her lines as a come-on—and that seems to be what Drizzt does, offering an angry rebuff. The way Vierna then proceeds to react may suggest anger either at the presumption, or the rejection.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7ee93bc9	type	Some Call Me "Tim"
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7ee93bc9	comment	A pair of dragons that come up in Sojourn seem like this: their names are the mythologically-derived "Hephaestus" and the sesquipedalian "Mergandevinasander." But actually, "Hephaestus" is merely a name used by other races; his dragon name is "Velcuthimmorhar."
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: In the beginning of Homeland, Dinin kills his older brother during the battle with another house. Mind you, no one is fooled. Later, it is mentioned that wizards cannot participate in surface raids - because some guy killed a few drow with a fireball in a raid and claimed it was a malfunction of his magic due to the conditions (the investigators were in no hurry).
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: More prominently - Malice. In the background - every other drow mother. They sacrifice their own children.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: For a generous interpretation of "romance," part of the drow graduation ceremony in Homeland involves, as part of a regular orgy, the priestess with the highest grades ritually mating with a glabrezu in hopes of producing a half-fiend child. For those unaware, glabrezu aren't Hot as Hell, but towering, four-armed, claw-handed, dog-headed monsters that lack the sort of natural magic to assume a less monstrous form. It's mentioned in other background material that not all priestesses survive such couplings.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_94d2506d	type	Can't Catch Up
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_94d2506d	comment	Can't Catch Up: Drizzt's instructors eventually realize that, because of the training he had already received from Zaknafein, his classmates would never even approach his ability and start having him compete against more senior students. They can't catch up either.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_9d3008d3	type	Snake Whip
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_9d3008d3	comment	Snake Whip: Drow high priestesses use six-thonged, living, snake-headed whips that deliver poison when they bite.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Drizzt asks himself this multiple times throughout the trilogy, after maliciously cutting off several of Briza's fingers and making an attempt on Dinin's life, whenever he goes into 'hunter mode', and once again when he indirectly - and inadvertently - causes the death of a farming family.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: After obsessively pursuing Drizzt, murdering Kellindil in the process, and trying to sexually assault Catti-brie, Roddy McGristle leaves Icewind Dale at the cost of his dog's leg.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: It's said that Malice has had many lovers, but usually ends up sacrificing them to the dark gods when she tires of them. We see this happen "onscreen" to Rizzen, and arguably Zaknafein, though she also has other reasons to get rid of the latter.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Dinin hadn't killed his brother, Drizzt would have been sacrificed the day he was born, and never lived to perform any of his heroic deeds. And House Do'Urden would still stand. In an attempt to get to a slightly higher rank, Dinin started a chain reaction that led to his complete downfall.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b09bf442	type	Whip of Dominance
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b09bf442	comment	Whip of Dominance: The domineering Drow priestesses of Lolth all use whips, as it is the favored weapon of their goddess. Six-thonged, living, snake-headed whips that deliver poison when they bite. As a tyrannical Matriarchy society, drow priestesses often whip young male drow to hammer in their status as second-class citizens. Drizzt was raised and mentored by his older sister Vierna Do'Urden (a priestess of Lolth) and while she was a stern and authoritative teacher, she was considered "soft" on him by their elder sister Briza (a high priestess of Lolth who was far more sadistic) who pressured Vierna into starting to using the lash when he made mistakes to "motivate" him and teach him to be submissive to the supremacy of female drow. Vierna reluctantly complied and started to whip him when he made grave mistakes, which wielded results, but also damaged their relationship.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: The backstabbing society of the drow accepts this to a large extent, though usually they hide it behind some (often very superficial) window dressing. This applies to individuals as well as whole families, who need to eliminate other families higher on the hirarchy in order to gain status. Subverted with Alton DeVir, however: when his master is killed, he takes over his job by also taking over his identity.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b39b810e	type	Fiery Coverup
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b39b810e	comment	Fiery Cover Up: The real Faceless One's body is burned so it can be passed off as Alton's corpse. Since no one cares about Alton's assumed death, this prevents an investigation into the corpse.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Drizzt wins every grand melee after his first, which he lost through treachery, and he bests other students that have three or more years of training more than he does.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b7cd068f	type	Skilled, but Naive
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b7cd068f	comment	Skilled, but Naive: Drizzt being innocent yet powerful is a rarity among the drow. In his first grand melee, Drizzt agrees to team up with another student. Drizzt quickly learns that he is by far the most skilled competitor, but still loses since he never considered that his ally might stab him in the back. Even after he leaves Menzoberranzan, the narrative uses his Fish out of Water nature and young naivetÃ© for conflict.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Among the drow, Maya is the only character whose name can also be a girl's name in the real world. As for boys' names, "Zaknafein" is often shortened to "Zak." A pair of dragons that come up in Sojourn seem like this: their names are the mythologically-derived "Hephaestus" and the sesquipedalian "Mergandevinasander." But actually, "Hephaestus" is merely a name used by other races; his dragon name is "Velcuthimmorhar."
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: At the end of the second book, we see two drow men locked in a deadly swordfight over an acid pit. Finally, one of them yells "You are not my father!" to which the other replies with an evil sneer: "No ... I am your mother!" If anyone who didn't know the story were to somehow stumble over this passage, they'd surely be confused to no end.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bbd319f4	type	Sinister Scimitar
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bbd319f4	comment	Sinister Scimitar: Our hero Drizzt is perhaps the greatest aversion around. Played straight by some of the other drow.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bc74ef27	comment	A male child of a lesser house is killed by a hook horror during a training session, which serves as something of a Berserk Button for Drizzt.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Drizzt's older sister Vierna feels an uncommon closeness to and affection for her brother. The presentation is ambiguous, and it may be intended simply as a sign that like him, she is not as Always Chaotic Evil as the rest of their family, and thus able to feel a trace of normal (by human standards) familial attachment. However, her affection for him is at the least repeatedly understood (and misunderstood?) as an example of this trope by everyone else in the story. Her mother Malice, upon noticing, admonishes her sternly to remember that he is her brother. Vierna seems to be annoyed not so much for the suggestion of impropriety on her part as the hypocrisy of the admonition, coming as it does from Malice. Later in the story, at a debauched graduation party at the Academy of Evil, she and Drizzt end up alone and close together after a disturbed Drizzt rejects the advances of a priestess of Lolth, with the scantily clad Vierna gently reassuring him that she understands his desire for privacy. While ambiguous, it's very easy to read her lines as a come-on—and that seems to be what Drizzt does, offering an angry rebuff. The way Vierna then proceeds to react may suggest anger either at the presumption, or the rejection.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bf1255fa	comment	Her mother Malice, upon noticing, admonishes her sternly to remember that he is her brother. Vierna seems to be annoyed not so much for the suggestion of impropriety on her part as the hypocrisy of the admonition, coming as it does from Malice.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Guenhwyvar is a black panther that Drizzt can summon from another realm, although he does need to send her back periodically (especially if she's been injured.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_c696f3ba	type	Heroic Willpower
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_c696f3ba	comment	Heroic Willpower: A subversion: Drizzt manages to escape the mind flayer's control not by willpower, but by slipping into his "Hunter" alter ego that he developed to survive years alone in the Underdark. Zaknafein, as a reanimated corpse serving Matron Malice, regains control for just long enough to throw his body into an acid pool and thus free himself from serving her purposes.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_c7d86fbe	type	Plausible Deniability
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_c7d86fbe	comment	Plausible Deniability: The drow society works on the basis of families killing each other out to gain status. Everyone knows it's happening, and it's perfectly acceptable unless you happen to leave behind a witness who can accuse you.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Zak is Drizzt's father, although it's pretty clear to everyone but Drizzt throughout the first novel.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Alton, after the death of his family due to House Do'Urden, should be the Trope Codifier, especially since he nearly ruins House Hun'ett's plan of destroying House Do'Urden by attacking Drizzt for no explained reason. Masoj tries to pull a Hand Wave explanation, but to little avail.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: Played completely straight, and extreme since advancement via all means available is the norm in drow society; basically every family of repute is slugging it out with all the other ones for advancement. More specifically the Do'Urdens vs. the Hun'nets whose feud leads to the downfall of both families eventually.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: All of Drizzt's sisters are trained to fight in close combat if need be, and spend many hours practicing with their weapons. They can be legitimately challenging opponents even for Drizzt, though in an actual battle they tend to prefer using magic from a distance when they can.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Drizzt's reaction when he realizes what the "graduation" ceremony really entails.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_da53340	comment	Religious Horror: Along with Religion of Evil. Lolth treats her worshipers as basically slaves, and encourages their infighting.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_e60aad64	type	Spare a Messenger
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_e60aad64	comment	Spare a Messenger: in Homeland, a drow patrol which includes Drizzt wipes out a svirfneblin group which was mining minerals too close to their city. However, since the leader treated Drizzt well when he was briefly captured, Drizzt wants to spare him. Aware that his kin won't understand mercy, he points out that someone needs to come back and tell the gnomes about the drow strength and the folly of approaching Menzoberranzan. The other drow cut off the gnome leader's hands and send him off.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_e8cfde67	type	Ambiguous Disorder
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_e8cfde67	comment	Ambiguous Disorder: Inverted. Drizzt is actually more or less well-adjusted by human standards—but since the drow race is Always Chaotic Evil, his friends and family think there is something wrong with him for experiencing basic empathy and objecting to the colossal hypocrisy and double-think that is standard fare in their public life.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_e993a60f	type	Defensive Feint Trap
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_e993a60f	comment	Defensive Feint Trap: This is Drizzt's assumption in his first grand melee; a fellow student attacks with tactics so rudimentary he assumes it's a ruse, feigning incompetence to put Drizzt off of his guard. However, he quickly realizes that's not the case, and he really is significantly more skilled than his peers.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Zaknafein, to a surprising extent despite his skill. He carries little glass spheres on him that bathe the room in blinding light when shattered, which to the drow who normally live in complete darkness can be quite detrimental, and uses one against Drizzt in a particularly vicious battle. He also has no qualms about kicking a male opponent where it hurts. When Drizzt calls him out on it, Zaknafein brilliantly replies with this:
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Quite common among the drow, as the only way to gain status is to kill the person above you. The opening alone has Drizzt's brother Dinin kill their older brother Nalfein for this purpose, as well as Masoj and Gelroos Hun'ett.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_ed7f9671	type	Adaptational Self-Defense
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_ed7f9671	comment	Adaptational Self-Defense: In the brief backstory given in the Icewind Dale trilogy, Drizzt backstabbed Masoj to liberate Guenhwyvar's figurine after Guenhwyvar had been forced to massacre the svirfneblin. Here, Masoj tries to kill him first.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: Menzoberranzan, along with every other settlement in the Underdark (we also see cities belonging to deep gnomes and mind flayers).
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_f49ba6ee	type	Took a Level in Cynic
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_f49ba6ee	comment	Took a Level in Cynic: In Drizzt's first grand melee, he is defeated only because it hadn't occurred to him that the other student he allied with might stab him in the back. In his second grand melee, when only he an one other student remain, he stands out in the open and invites his adversary to finish it honorably in a fair fight. His teachers groan that he hasn't learned anything — until the other student attempts a sneak attack and stumbles over the tripwires that Drizzt had earlier set, allowing Drizzt an easy victory.
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The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
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Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	The Dark Elf Trilogy

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