The second book of our review is called Exile and the story here continues directly after the first book. Just for this, he refuses to live in the world where he belongs and he leaves his world forever to go and search for a new and better one, and before you know it, he is actually better off without the drow. This is a story that talks about a character who refuses to play the rules of his society and to act in someone else’s favor. This little act of heroism manages to put Drizzt’s entire family in trouble with the Spider Queen.Īfter that, one thing leads to another and Drizzt finds himself being tested over and over again and most of the time he acts not in the favor of others, but in his own and this very fact manages to make him hated by many. Trouble With the Spider QueenĪfter graduation, Drizzt finds himself in the middle of a surface raid and he manages to do the unthinkable, he saves the life of a child that belongs to the race of the surface elves, a most hated enemy among the drow. When Drizzt gets a little older, somewhere in his twenties, he starts patrolling the Underdark with his fellow drow, and he witnesses how his race treats other races, with cruelty and abuse and Drizzt definitely isn’t a fan of this behavior. You get to read a bit about his early years like the fact that up until he was sixteen, his big sister Briza constantly abused him, and being a male in a matriarchal drow society tends to have the same effects from the rest of the family as well.

Drizzt originally comes from the vast land of Menzoberranzan and he is born to the tenth noble House of that land.

Menzoberranzanīut for now, you get to read the story of the beginning of Drizzt’s new life on the surface.

The fact that Drizzt leaves the Underdark manages to make a lot of drow mad and some even hold very strong grudges as you will see later on in the Forgotten Realms series as one drow will have such a strong grudge against Drizzt that a huge portion of the world will change as a result of that. Homeland is the first book in the trilogy and it’s the book that shows you how the dark elf known as Drizzt manages to turn his life around and look for a new beginning on the surface, outside the Underdark where the rest of the drow rangers remain.

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