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| MrMacnificent |
Posted - 07 Nov 2013 : 00:58:34
Hello! I was wondering, is there a book that explains how Drizzt got his unicorn mount. Also a book about Catti brie and her mage training under Alustriel and her eventual fall during the spell plague. I have read all of the books in the series over the years but when it came to transitions it seemed to lose me. Events were talked about that I have never read. I am a huge fan of RA Salvatore and the Drizzt series. If anyone can help me fill in the plot holes I woupd appreciate it. |
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| SirUrza |
Posted - 12 Nov 2013 : 19:26:14
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Originally posted by BEAST
Aw, you no likee Drizzy-poo?  
Drizzy-poo?! Drizzy-poo?! LOL!
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| BEAST |
Posted - 12 Nov 2013 : 18:43:09
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Originally posted by Volathar
@BEAST: Although this isn't my own topic, thank you for all the explanation you've provided. As a person, who doesn't like Drizzt and reads only the books, which involve Artemis Entreri (and preferably Jarlaxle also), this information has been very helpful.
Aw, you no likee Drizzy-poo?
You're very welcome. I love this stuff!
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Apart from this, I'd very much like to read in detail, the story behind Entreri's capture (or rather Jarlaxle's selling out) and how/when he became Barrabus the Grey & etc.
I still haven't read "The Last Threshold" and "The Companions" though.
I haven't read either of those yet, either, but I'm pretty sure that The Last Threshold finally explains that ordeal. I'm looking forward to reading up on that, too. |
| Volathar |
Posted - 12 Nov 2013 : 12:56:58
@BEAST: Although this isn't my own topic, thank you for all the explanation you've provided. As a person, who doesn't like Drizzt and reads only the books, which involve Artemis Entreri (and preferably Jarlaxle also), this information has been very helpful.
Apart from this, I'd very much like to read in detail, the story behind Entreri's capture (or rather Jarlaxle's selling out) and how/when he became Barrabus the Grey & etc.
I still haven't read "The Last Threshold" and "The Companions" though.. |
| SirUrza |
Posted - 07 Nov 2013 : 15:21:18
If Realms of... was still I think I can't help but feel some of these events would have been covered as short stories. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 07 Nov 2013 : 07:36:01
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Originally posted by MrMacnificent
Hello! I was wondering, is there a book that explains how Drizzt got his unicorn mount.
We aren't given the details.
But Gauntlgrym (P1:C2) says that Silverymoon commissioned the unicorn mount for Drizzt as a gift for his services during the Third Orc War.
We don't know which war this was. I have speculated that the first was the rise of King Obould ("The Hunter's Blades Trilogy"), and the second was the rise of Chieftain Grguch (The Orc King), and the third must've been some sort of dispute with one of the sons of King Obould, who had assumed the name "Obould II", in the Year of the Solitary Cloister (1408 DR; see The Orc King, Prelude), shortly before the Prologue to Gauntlgrym (1409 DR). But who knows?
The text does not say that Silverymoon commissioned the pendant--just "the mount". I have speculated that the unicorn pendant may actually be the scrimshaw unicorn's head pendant that Regis crafted for Drizzt in The Crystal Shard (1350 DR), but Silverymoon may have magically enchanted it to summon a unicorn steed later in time (~1409 DR).
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Also a book about Catti brie and her mage training under Alustriel and her eventual fall during the spell plague. I have read all of the books in the series over the years but when it came to transitions it seemed to lose me. Events were talked about that I have never read. I am a huge fan of RA Salvatore and the Drizzt series. If anyone can help me fill in the plot holes I woupd appreciate it.
Because of ongoing pains from her hip injury incurred during The Lone Drow (1371 DR), Catti-brie was forced to retire from her life as a fighter (The Orc King, 1372 DR). Methinks part of this decision also derived from feelings of guilt over it having been her sword, Khazid'hea, which had killed Wulfgar's wife Delly (The Two Swords, 1371 DR). Cat helped Wulf to locate his missing adopted daughter Colson so that he could return her to her birth mother, because Wulf did not feel up to the challenge of being a single father and a warrior at the same time, and she could see how much it broke his heart, and so it broke hers, as well (The Orc King).
And I think Lady Alustriel could see this, when Wulf and Cat visited Silverymoon (The Orc King, P2:C8). She seemed to sense Wulf's resolution to leave the Companions long before Cat ever did, and also invited Cat to visit her in Silverymoon more often. The Lady was already hard at work, reading between the lines, and attempting to insinuate herself more directly into Cat's life.
Catti-brie loves Drizzt as her new husband, but she experiences the renewal of old doubts and concerns when she hears news of the elf Innovindil's death (The Orc King, P3:C15). Once again, she feels her own mortality, and worries about the disparity between her lifespan as a human and Drizzt's as a drow. Of course, Drizzt does his best to reassure her with romantic rhetoric, but mayhaps magic to prolong life would be the only real answer to her problem?
As Alustriel oversees Silverymoon wizards constructing the Surbrin Bridge, she offers to tutor Cat, and gives her magical items to aid in the fight against the ogre-orcs (The Orc King, P3:C18). Cat is intrigued by all the display of magic. One might even say that she had taken the bait!
The male Companions and friends head off to whack King Obould, and Cat is left behind, feeling useless (The Orc King, P4:C23). She wants something that can get her back in the game!
Lady Alustriel seized upon this and renewed her offer to tutor Cat in the ways of magic (The Orc King, P4:C24).
She and Catti-brie have a heated discussion over the wisdom of King Bruenor's wish to hunt down King Obould, versus Silverymoon's reluctance to take up the fight, anew. Despite Cat's initial upset with the Lady, the younger woman eventually comes to see Alustriel's point of view (The Orc King, P4:C24). This probably sealed the deal.
Initially, Cat is tutored only indirectly by Alustriel, through the gnome Nanfoodle (The Orc King, P4:C31).
Next, we're told that Alustriel took Cat in as a student shortly after the orc war drew to a close, and that in the time afterward, Cat had become a wizard (1376 DR; The Pirate King). That winter, the two ladies were set to take an extended magical trip together across Faerūn and various planes of existence (TPK, P1:C4).
In The Ghost King (P1:C2); 1385 DR), we're told that Catti-brie had been a wizard for less than a decade. This means that she must have formally become a wizard at some point after 1375 DR. And this means that she must've become so just before the beginning of TPK. At any rate, Lady Alustriel was still her mentor at the time of the onslaught of the Spellplague.
And it was on a trip from Silverymoon back to Mithral Hall with news of what would turn out to be the Spellplague that Cat was, herself, stricken (TGK, P1:C2).
That is the limit of what I know about Cat's wizard training with Alustriel. I have only read through the novel Charon's Claw, so far. I don't know if The Companions reveals any more details of that past time period in Cat's life. |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 07 Nov 2013 : 05:29:34
Cattie-brie's mage training is only hinted at during the Orc King after her leg injury in The Thousand Orcs. Alustriel lends her some magic items which impress her enough to begin learning The Art under both Alustriel and Nanfoodle but her training is never explicitly described. Andahar is indeed first mentioned in Gauntlgrym. It was a reward for Drizzt's help in the fighting and later for his diplomatic efforts during the third Orc War. |
| Tanthalas |
Posted - 07 Nov 2013 : 01:56:02
I don't think either of those events were described in any of the books.
Drizzt already had Andahar in the Gauntlgrym book. At least wiki says that it was a gift from Silverymoon.
Catti-Brie's training with Alustriel was also never shown I believe. We just know that in happened between the events of "The Orc King" and "The Ghost King". |
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