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manyworldspress · 3 months

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Larry Elmore, cover illustration for The Crystal Shard, by R. A. Salvatore (TSR, 1988).

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#larry elmore #r. a. salvatore #dungeons & dragons #Forgotten Realms #faerûn #icewind dale #icewind dale trilogy #drizzt do'urden #fantasy art #game art

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tharannas · 1 month

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I wanted to fill the gap in my cultural upbringing and finally read the Icewind Dale trilogy. Honestly, I was quite bored, so I entertained myself with silly doodles.

(the excerpt on the first doodle roughly translates as "[Wulfgar] thrust his battlehammer behind the belt and went after the dwarf")

(the excerpt on the last doodle roughly translates as "Entreri ran out into the street and spread his legs, ready to meet Drizzt")

#icewind dale #drizzt do'urden #bruenor battlehammer #wulfgar #regis #artemis entreri #r. a. salvatore #icewind dale trilogy #legend of drizzt #fanart #dnd fanart #digital artist #digital art #artists on tumblr #art

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sharpestasp · 3 months

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I'm sitting here thinking about Drizzt in context of the original trilogy only.

The one who is a minimum of a century, likely closer to two. The one who lived in a city called Menzoberranzan that wasn't so antithetical to himself so that he took longer to escape. The one who is a fighter who lives in the wilds because he has to and that's why he doesn't do ranger things.

The one with far more knowledge of wizard things than a fighter would be expected to know. The one who tried to enter cities on the surface repeatedly. The one who lived above long enough to hear reputations of cities and people but was always on the outside.

The one that set out to take Guen from the wizard abusing her, even though it was basically murder. The one that had actual knowledge of Errtu wandering in Menzoberranzan. The one who is chaotic, but maybe not truly 'good' by nature so much by choice.

All of these things show in the original trilogy, and it is why I view the prequels as a retcon. But that jaded older drow who tried and was turned away has a deep appeal to me that is so hard to explore, because the books written later defined him differently.

#drizzt do'urden #legend of drizzt #forgotten realms #icewind dale trilogy

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ivorycypher · 5 months

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Did a lil sketchpage after reading through the first 4 Salvatore books

I would die for Drizzt and Guen ngl

#drizzt do'urden #wulfgar #catti-brie #regis #bruenor battlehammer #dark elf trilogy #salvatore books #icewind dale trilogy #digital art #ibispaintx #yes I know this is not their canon appearance. this is how I imagined them while reading.#cry me a new book abt it

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haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted · 1 year

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Streams of Silver (Icewind Dale #2) Cover Art by Anna Podedworna

#Forgotten Realms #Dungeons and Dragons #Dungeons & Dragons #D&D #Toril #Faerun #Legend of Drizzt #Icewind Dale Trilogy #Streams of Silver #Covers #Cover Art #anna podedworna

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spidermilkshake · 1 year

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Older DND even up to late 2000s DND novels: "OH! How horrible, the monstrous orcs, who so often murder the fine folk of the region unprovoked!"

The heros of past DND books even into the 90s: "OOh, a goblin encampment that we could literally walk around and avoid any killing. Huzzah! Death to orckind! We are Lawful Good. *then charges fully in and kills all of the breadwinners and most of the mothers and older children, leaving on the adolescents and tiny kids out of honor* *in the midwinter of a polar region* **and no one adopts an orc-kid, even considering they'll likely die of starvation and neglect or hypothermia when the tribal fires burn out**

JESUS. Salvatore, it could have been a comment on how biased the human/dwarf/surface elf-centric the culture was, but DAMN, even in the "eventually, some orcs and dwarves have peace" book it stuck out how weirdly non-individual most orcs were and how much leeway dwarves and elves got for randomly slaughtering VILLAGES. Not warcamps, not encampments of hostile groups-- permanent VILLAGES where orcs were described as just sleeping the night over in houses and having fields and workshops and... the elves in the area just decided that massacre was a fine thing to do in this case?

What the actual fuck, Salvatore? Couldn't you depict the attackers less delicate and sympathetic? Add more nasty elves, after the fact? No? Those in charge of the "assault" (i.e. mass murder of a village on race basis) are just established heroic characters?

UGH.

Smells nasty. No wonder y'all need a big cleansing of the implicit racism, sexism, and other gross biases to your fantasy stuff. Just... do fantasy-interested cishet white dudes just.. not notice these dogwhistles and gross bits right away?? Need a lie down...

#fantasy #fantasy politics #DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Salvatore #hypocrisy in fantasy media #Icewind Dale trilogy #and The Orc King #comparison #make fantasy better guys

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greenieart · 5 months

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I love how everyone’s reaction to this guy is like “omg look it’s that mysterious drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden….. he’s so cool……..” meanwhile he only has his hood down like that because he can’t see shit in the sunlight

#drizzt do'urden #legend of drizzt #dnd #forgotten realms #fanart #digital #my partner and I have been reading these books like every night for weeks and we’re almost done with the prequel trilogy #we read the first icewind dale and then went. hold on we gotta read the prequels first actually #ALSO I’m thinking about when I said to my partner ‘who tf is this drizzt guy everyone keeps talking about’ and they walked over #to MY bookshelf #and pulled the icewind dale trilogy book off my shelf #and said ‘this is literally the book about him have you not read this’#I had not. I was gifted it in high school and never got into it #what a FOOL I was smfh #anyway I love him a lot he’s my little guy

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tddd123 · 11 hours

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The Companions of the Hall in Dungeon Meshi..

#drizzt do'urden #legend of drizzt #fanart #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #The Icewind Dale Trilogy #Wulfgar #Bruenor #Catti-brie #Regis #drizzt #dark elf #ダンジョン飯

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papermonkeyism · 1 year

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Oh. Wow. I'm suddenly having. Some kind of emotions? Definetely multiple emotions. Many of them.

I'm not sure if I know how to describe this... But, like, in the ancient times of my childhood, back before internet ever got to be a thing. Pretty sure the village I grew up in had a grand total of, like, maybe two computers at the time. With the beige boxes for screens. BEFORE dial-up. I had just discovered the existence of fantasy genre thanks to my literature teacher (technically mother-tongue teacher, but I think that doesn't translate to english directly as English is a foreign language here so the meaning of the class isn't strictly the same BUT I DIGRESS) who had lent me the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and I discovered there was in fact a fantasy shelf in the library, so I pretty much devoured most of the books I found there...

I was a MASSIVE fantasy fan. Still am, but back then I consumed so much more of the books. All of them. I was obsessed.

Like Special Interest™ level obsessed. Absolutely autistic amount, as you know. Except, as this was before internet happened to my world, there was nobody else I knew of who would also be interested, and somehow I guess I thought I was the only one reading this stuff.

At some point I kinda grew out of some of the prevalent tropes, and stopped reading (as much of) the books, and kinda fell out of the most intense obsession. Like I had a favourite book trilogy at one point that I absolutely adored as a kid, but which didn't really hold up after I re-read it somewhere around my later teens, and I found out I wasn't as into some of the tropes anymore. (like DnD alignment systems are fine for games built around battling but I prefer my stories without the "this entire race is evil and should be killed on sight" and such)

But the thing is, I haven't thought about those books specifically in twenty years. It was something only I had experienced and then gotten over, and didn't cast a thought about in two entire decades.

In hindsight, considering how much I like DnD now, it probably shouldn't surprise me this much and yet

But I just clicked some random pics of some art of drow elves and

What do you mean there's an actual fandom for stories of Drizzt Do'Urden? You're telling me that wasn't just some kind of childhood fever dream I had forever ago? Why do I recognize all these names of places and NPCs and stuff, that's not a real thing is it? These are Actual Memories I'm for some reason still having??? (oh gods, I'm suddenly getting flashbacks of tormenting my poor english teacher by asking her how to pronounce all the atupid drow names because "the author speaks english so I'm sure these names must have english pronounciation" I am so sorry...)

The fuck???

So.

I feel like I just failed a saving throw and took 3 d10 psychic damage.

I'm

What

#shut up paper #I'm just staring at a wall while my brain is doing all this remembering #Flashbacks to my most embarrassing teenage years #Oh gods #The Icewind Dale trilogy was once upon a time my mostest favourite thing #Followed by all the other books with the same characters that had been published by then #Ohgods

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sewermageboy · 6 months

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"Goblins is goblins."

"Oh, and a drow's a drow?"

I LOVE U CATTIE-BRIE

#legend of drizzt #drizzt do'urden #cattie-brie #drizzt posting #juno clawing their way through mountains of forgotten realms lore #im finally done with the Icewind Dale trilogy and it seems Im already off to greener pastures

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mokeonn · 7 months

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I love accidentally making a character very similar to another one without any knowledge. Like, not in design but in story.

It's so funny to make a character and then read a book and go "hey wait a minute"

#simon says #I made a dnd character and her story and then I found out about Drizzt #former lolth-sworn drow from menzoberranzan that has since left and has become a ranger and worshipper of Mielikki #am I talking about my dnd character Rauva or famous dnd character Drizzt Do'urden #like the details are different in many ways but imagine my shock reading the Icewind Dale trilogy and being greeted with your dnd character #well... the dnd character prompt. the basic idea. the simple descriptors.#the details start to get very different but the bones are the same #idk I thought this was funny and maybe yall can relate to the feeling #it also feels a little rewarding too. like 'i must have written a good character if they've been written before!' but not quite??#idk i have nothing eloquent to say

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dirtyoldmanhole · 8 months

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man, the underdark in drizzt do'urden's "the dark elf" trilogy is a dead ringer for large chunks of nohr/krakenberg society, imo.

#i was trying to think of similar worlds that had that unique blend of suspicion/station/darkness that nohr does - almost morbidly gothic?#and also trying to think of ways to keep the first third of the slowburn from being too light/limp - where's the threat kind of thing.#WHOO think i found it.#man this was like the only chunk of the icewind dale trilogy worth reading back in the day.#gunter slowburn liveblog

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tiny-huts · 2 years

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I am waiting with bated breath to see what the new sellswords trilogy covers look like I am SOOOO excited

#the legend of drizzt #the forgotten realms #i dont think they showed all the covers yet right?#just saw the icewind dale trilogy #and they were so pretty #i know Artemis canonically got rid #of his gay little ponytail #and I know it was kind of indicative of him not doing great #but consider i think he looks nice with long hair #and have been picturing it despite all logic

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sharpestasp · 2 months

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Forgotten Realms, The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Alustriel Silverhand, Storm Silverhand, Dove Falconhand Additional Tags: Ensemble Cast, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

A study around the edges of only the Icewind Dale Trilogy, with one small change - Mystra taking an interest in a drow sauntering to the good side.

#filly formed #legend of drizzt #icewind dale trilogy #drizzt do'urden #alustriel silverhand

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andromedasummer · 11 months

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having a bit of a shit day. going to read dnd books abt it.

#my reserved book (adulthood rites) is here and the trilogy anthology of the first Drizzt books are on their way as well #someone in the library has realized someone (me) is getting Louise Erdrich books out. i got out the sentence and returned it #so they put out plague of doves. i got that out and began reading it. they put out the roundhouse (ive already read that one)#and when they recognised i havent taken it they mustve gone for another because today i found the night watchmen!#which is a recent one by her and about her own grandfather #i also found tales from the yawning portal which i wanna go through cos forgotten realms #and baldurs gate descent into avernus which also forgotten realms #i was hoping to get waterdeep dragon heist but they didnt have it :(#they do have dungeon of the mad mage which is the sequel and i will take a look through but i doubt it will be for me #its essentially one giant dungeon crawl and i need a balance of roleplay/exploration/battle in my campaigns. esp as a dm #so i would have to heavily rework it if i wanted to run it. which sucks because im REALLY enjoying the waterdeep dragon heist #campaign arcane arcade did and knowing they wont follow it up with the sequel book because its so grindy is a shame.#god dragon heist is a fantastic adventure its tied for the campaign i want to run the most with icewind dale #i have icewind dale and its fucking AMAZING absolutely would recommend it #i started the arcane arcade campaign of it this morning and i am so jealous that they have the beedle and grimms set #i would fucking KILL for a beedle and grimms box set. look them up theyre sick as hell #like their platinum curse of strahd box? i dont have curse of strahd which makes me wish i had 500 usd to drop on it so bad GOD #anyway shit day with the jack news and i have period pain and chronic pain and took a hard fall walking to the library #but the books are helping me :)

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akreon · 1 year

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Some time ago I had the pleasure to illustrate new covers for ' The Icewind Dale' Trilogy by R. A. Salvatore.

#book cover #icewind dale #drizzt #illustration

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