| Author |
 Topic  |
|
Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
367 Posts |
|
|
Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
367 Posts |
|
|
Kentinal
Great Reader
4688 Posts |
 Posted - 11 Oct 2007 : 12:21:42
|
It appears you skipped the Dark Maiden, however Lolth and her are at each other often that it might become hard for a book just about the daughter.
As far as it goes except maybe for the slime lord almost every book would need to include something about Lolth when dealing with Drow (as it stands now). |
"Small beings can have small wisdom," the dragon said. "And small wise beings are better than small fools. Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards."
"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
"Judgement" copyright 2003 by Elizabeth Moon |
 |
|
|
Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
367 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2007 : 12:37:20
|
| I purposely left the Dark Maiden out because she has been used almost as much as Lloth has been used. The novels with Liriel Baenre, War of the Spider Queen and The Lady Penitent. Granted, Lloth has been in more novels than any other Drow Deity, but I think the others should have more mention. |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDonLNKf6_KA9Qlal3Qu3zQ?view_as=subscriber |
Edited by - Drakul on 11 Oct 2007 13:41:47 |
|
|
|
Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
1720 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2007 : 13:07:00
|
I voted for Kiaransalee, because I believe that the Lady of Dead deserves some more attention than just a mega-adventure based on her cultists and in respect for and memory of one certain forum member that just resenctly decided to leave these halls. 
Besides, most others have been touched by one or another novel as (don't mind me saying) 'side-kicks'. Kiaransalee however...... I have never seen her being mentionend in any novel so far.
Ergdusch |
"Das Gras weht im Wind, wenn der Wind weht." |
Edited by - Ergdusch on 11 Oct 2007 13:09:24 |
|
|
|
sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11829 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2007 : 16:04:51
|
quote:
Originally posted by Drakul
Which novels would you like to have published??
Without a doubt, Kiaransalee. Even if it has to be some past history books... but I'd really like to find out she isn't dead and managed to trick Lolth. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
|
|
|
Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2007 : 18:42:40
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ergdusch
I voted for Kiaransalee, because I believe that the Lady of Dead deserves some more attention than just a mega-adventure based on her cultists and in respect for and memory of one certain forum member that just resenctly decided to leave these halls.
Besides, most others have been touched by one or another novel as (don't mind me saying) 'side-kicks'. Kiaransalee however...... I have never seen her being mentionend in any novel so far.
Ergdusch
She's mentioned in the recent novel Storm of the Dead...however, I'm guessing that novel might have been the reason for the above-mentioned forum member (if I'm thinking of the same person you are) deciding to depart. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
|
|
|
Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
367 Posts |
|
|
IronAngel
Seeker
65 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2007 : 22:00:59
|
| Personally, I've long hoped for Ghaunadaur to gain more influence. If only he became more sane and interested in mortal affairs. As is, he doesn't really have an agenda comprehensible to most drow. I'd like to see something about his followers, to understand how they work and think. At this point, it seems he will not be getting a larger role in the Realms anytime soon, but whatever intrigue we can get around him would be well-accepted over here. |
|
|
|
Arbourean
Acolyte
2 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2007 : 06:28:54
|
| I think they'd all be interesting choices, but unfortunately for most of them the novel would have to be set sometime in the past. |
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2007 : 06:47:50
|
While I've grown tired with the whole "drow scene" of late, I do tend to have a thing for slimes, oozes, jellies, and Ghaunadaur in general. The Slime Lords have got my vote! 
|
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2007 : 08:54:20
|
Ghaunadaur sounds interesting, but not necessarily tied strictly to the drow, as Sage I am a little tired of drow books personally.
|
|
|
|
Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
|
|
Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
942 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2007 : 23:26:49
|
Well, I cast no vote for a variety of reasons. The Jaezred Chaulsin are essentially no drow. The cult of Ghaunadaur is not exactly a drow cult either, even though he was / is listed as a drow deity. Kiaransalee ... well, her dream ended with LP II and we simply will not see any novels on her cult. Same goes for Selvetarm.
NB: It is Lolth, not Lloth ... and essentially, there are not that many novels outside the WotSQ and LP that are exactly Lolth-based novels either. |
Cave quid dicis, quando et cui!
Gęš a wyrd swa hio scel!
In memory of Alura Durshavin.
Visit my "Homepage" to find A Guide to the Drow NPCs of Faerūn, Drow and non-Drow PrC and much more. |
|
|
|
Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 13 Oct 2007 : 04:28:11
|
| I also didn't vote. I like Vhaeraun, but not the Jaezred Chaulsin. And none of the others interest me enough to want to read an entire novel on them. I might do it for Ghaunaduar, but possibly not. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
I am the Giant Space Hamster of Ill Omen!  |
|
|
|
Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
367 Posts |
Posted - 13 Oct 2007 : 11:04:49
|
Zanan, Lloth is spelled many different ways. Lloth, Lolth, Loethe, etc. The first 2 are used in various novels. From Salvatore's to Cunningham's and those that wrote the WotSQ. The Jaezred Chaulssin were Drow before they mastered the powerful magic from their Shadow Dragon slavers. Which is why they have a specific Drow form when they shape shift. I agree, yet disagree with your statement.
Also, quite a few novels with Drizzt were Lloth based. Dark Elf Trilogy and The Legacy of the Drow. |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDonLNKf6_KA9Qlal3Qu3zQ?view_as=subscriber |
Edited by - Drakul on 13 Oct 2007 11:09:16 |
|
|
|
Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
942 Posts |
Posted - 13 Oct 2007 : 11:30:27
|
Lloth is a misspelling by RAS in one of his earlier Drizzt-novels. It got carried on and was "canonized" in DD as being a regional (as in regional) alias of her in the Northdark, mainly Menzoberranzan and Ched Nasad. That said, all recent drow novels have not taken that notion up for years now - apart from RAS, of course. Why? Because he likes to do his own stuff, just take the drow abilities et al. Loethe? That is somewhat new to me - within Realmspace.
I know the history of the Jaezred Chaulssin and it does not matter what they once "were". It is more important what they are now (though we do not know yet how they stomached LP I). And if I read that web enhancement to Dragons of Faerūn, I think I don't want to hear more on those diehard patriarchs who get themselves drow female slaves for just one reason - dominate them and have them breed more dragonspawn.
The Drizzt novels are Drizzt-based, the drow just make up a part of it. |
Cave quid dicis, quando et cui!
Gęš a wyrd swa hio scel!
In memory of Alura Durshavin.
Visit my "Homepage" to find A Guide to the Drow NPCs of Faerūn, Drow and non-Drow PrC and much more. |
|
|
|
Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
367 Posts |
Posted - 13 Oct 2007 : 11:51:08
|
With all due respect, the Drizzt novels are not fully Drizzt-based. Especially those that have Menzoberranzan involved. After all, it started in Menzo and kind of ended in Menzo. Therefore, they are more Lloth based.
As for tha Jaezred Chaulssin, it is what they once were that made them what they are now. The same goes for every person in the world. You might think it does not matter, when in all actuality, it does. |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDonLNKf6_KA9Qlal3Qu3zQ?view_as=subscriber |
|
|
|
Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
942 Posts |
Posted - 14 Oct 2007 : 23:28:06
|
Without trying to get that far away from the topic ...
- the Drizzt novels have a certain agenda and focus not on the Lolthites, but Drizzt. They use the Lolthites as the archetypical MM drow - there to be abhored and removed from the "surface" of Faerūn. WotSQ and LP though has lots of Dark Heroes who actually portray the society of the drow from within, a drow point of view. I'm not saying that RAS' novels don't show us drow, but it is an angled-view which you get.
- Would this essentially mean that if you want to have novels on the Shades, you would actually be asking for novels of the Netherese humans (they once were)? I'd doubt that, but that's just me. Then again, the Jaezred Chaulssin may provide an interesting story once we know how they survived the events of LP I to III and that certain Spellplague thing. Of course, it is always good to be a mighty dragon aside from all those class levels. |
Cave quid dicis, quando et cui!
Gęš a wyrd swa hio scel!
In memory of Alura Durshavin.
Visit my "Homepage" to find A Guide to the Drow NPCs of Faerūn, Drow and non-Drow PrC and much more. |
|
|
|
GRYPHON
Senior Scribe
USA
527 Posts |
Posted - 02 Dec 2007 : 19:17:05
|
| Bring them all on... |
'Everyone dies...I only choose the time and place for a few.' --Eric Destler |
|
|
|
Wenin
Senior Scribe
585 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2007 : 16:23:30
|
What does WotSQ and LP stand for?
There are books on drow not written by RAS??? =) |
Session Reports posted at RPG Geek.
Stem the Tide Takes place in Mistledale.
Dark Curtains - Takes place in the Savage North, starting in Nesmé. I wrapped my campaign into the Hoard of the Dragon Queen, but it takes place in 1372 DR. |
|
|
|
Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2007 : 16:30:24
|
quote:
Originally posted by Wenin
What does WotSQ and LP stand for?
There are books on drow not written by RAS??? =)
War of the Spider Queen, Lady Penitent. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
I am the Giant Space Hamster of Ill Omen! |
Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 03 Dec 2007 16:30:51 |
|
|
|
BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2007 : 00:54:43
|
| All of the above ... |
BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!
"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2) |
|
|
|
Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2012 : 20:53:48
|
| Wasn't Slime Lords of Ghaunadaur a fold-out calendar published by TSR? |
Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. -Steve Martin
Amazon "KindleUnlimited" Free Trial: http://amzn.to/2AJ4yD2
Try Audible and Get 2 Free Audio Books! https://amzn.to/2IgBede |
|
|
|
Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jan 2012 : 18:45:55
|
| What I'd really like to read about is newly changed Dark Elves coming to the surface. |
"Those with talent become wizards, Those without talent spend their lives praying for it"
-Procopio Septus |
|
|
|
Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jan 2012 : 21:04:01
|
| I am surprised that none have mentioned House Jaelre and the drow in Cormanthor. Of course, I've no idea what became of them after LP or if they've even survived post-SP. |
Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
Green Dragonscale Dice Bag by Crystalsidyll - check it out
|
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 00:53:40
|
quote:
Originally posted by Fellfire
I am surprised that none have mentioned House Jaelre and the drow in Cormanthor. Of course, I've no idea what became of them after LP or if they've even survived post-SP.
I wouldn't mind learning more of the happenings of the Cormanthyr drow. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 04:47:10
|
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Fellfire
I am surprised that none have mentioned House Jaelre and the drow in Cormanthor. Of course, I've no idea what became of them after LP or if they've even survived post-SP.
I wouldn't mind learning more of the happenings of the Cormanthyr drow.
I'd love to see the conflict betwixt them and the forces rebuilding Myth Drannor, after the Crusade. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
I am the Giant Space Hamster of Ill Omen! |
Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 18 Jan 2012 04:47:26 |
|
|
|
Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 05:48:21
|
| 3 for Other (Drow of Cormanthor) |
Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
Green Dragonscale Dice Bag by Crystalsidyll - check it out
|
Edited by - Fellfire on 18 Jan 2012 05:49:42 |
|
|
|
CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
USA
2708 Posts |
Posted - 06 Nov 2012 : 23:22:48
|
| Jaezred! I'd like to read more about him, and how House Jaelre (sp?) is fairing, now that Vhaeraun is dead (hopefully 5e remedies that). I'd also like to know what Q'arlynd is up to, and how that drow mage school in Ssamath (again, sp?) is doing. |
Sweet water and light laughter |
|
|
|
Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2012 : 04:26:58
|
None of the choices. I'd like to see more drow novels, but I don't want them to be deity-centric. There's much potential for independent adventure for the drow. Gods don't necessarily make it cool, IMO. |
Every beginning has an end. |
|
|
|
Topic |
|
Drow Novels Other Than Lloth-Based
