Way of the Drow - Böcker

The epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore’s electrifying trilogy, The Way of the Drow, finds Drizzt Do’Urden coming to understand his role as a friend, a father, and a man caught between the darkness and the light.The drow city of Menzoberranzan has fallen into discontent, sowed by the growing legend of the one who escaped: Drizzt Do’Urden. Now many of the drow—including the city’s most powerful house, led by the Matron Mother—are questioning the influence of the Spider Queen and the very history of the city’s founding.What secrets lie ahead? The drow are determined to find out, and they’ll stop at nothing to dismantle the very structure they’ve called home.As social tensions rise and the demands for answers boom, a fight erupts between the adherents of Lolth’s chaotic evil and those drow who demand more, demand better. In the Underdark there are only absolutes and no compromise will be found. With winner taking all, Drizzt Do’Urden cannot and will not remain on the sidelines anymore. This will be an uprising Menzoberranzan will never forget, and the rest of the Forgotten Realms won’t be able to look away.

From New York Times bestselling author R. A.Salvatore comes a new trilogy and adventure of Drizzt and fantasy’s belovedcharacters from Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms.After the settling dust of the demon uprising and two yearsof peace, rumblings from the Menzoberranzan drow have Jarlaxle nervous. Worriedhis allies may be pulled into a Civil War between the great Houses, he is eagerto ensure Zaknafein is armed with weapons befitting his skill, including one inparticular: Khazid’hea. A powerful artifact, the sword known as “Cutter”has started wars, corrupted its users, and spilled the blood of many, manypeople. Nonetheless—or maybe because of that—the rogue Jarlaxle and a smallgroup of friends will go on an expedition looking for the weapon’s lastwielder, Doum’wielle, in the freezing north, for she may be the key tounlocking the sword’s potential…and perhaps the key to preventing the bloodshedlooming over the Underdark. And as they explore the top of the world, Drizzt is on ajourney of his own—both spiritual and physical. He wants to introduce hisdaughter Brie to Grandmaster Kane and the practices that have been so centralto his beliefs. But, having only recently come back from true transcendence,the drow ranger is no longer sure what his beliefs mean anymore. He is on apath to determining the future, not just for his family, but perhaps the entirenorthlands of the Realms themselves.Two different roads. On one, Jarlaxle and Zaknefein are on aquest to find pieces that could offer salvation to Menzoberranzan. On theother, Drizzt seeks answers that could offer salvation to not just his soul,but all souls. And no matter the outcome of either journey, the Realms willnever be the same again.

From New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore comes the follow-up to Starlight Enclave and thrilling second novel in his newest epic fantasy trilogy, The Way of the Drow, expanding the Forgotten Realms through the adventures of Drizzt, Catti-brie, Jarlaxle, Artemis Entreri, and Zaknefein…and a society of drow unlike one any elf from Menzoberranzan could possibly imagine.There’s a lot that Jarlaxle doesn’t know: is he the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, can he even find a way to get out of the treacherous ice caverns, and beyond his immediate predicament, could he possibly escape and get help for his friends?However, what Jarlaxle does know is that if he plans to come back—if Catti-brie, Entreri, and Zaknafein are to have any hope of surviving—he’s going to have to bring back far more firepower. An army of aevendrow seems unlikely, so he must go home and pull together a team of sword and sorcery heroes with great skill and unimaginable power.But how will he get home? Will such a collection of warriors and mages come to his aid? And even if he manages all that, will it be enough? For Jarlaxle has seen the slaadi’s power and their god in a most personal and terrifying way.Trapped in the ice while the world is on fire, Jarlaxle is in a race against time—and burdened with a magical secret—to save a peaceful city and his companions.And he’s running out of tricks in his bag of holding…