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She knew of his ridiculous dream of becoming a pure-blood wyrm, and she knew such a pathetic creature would be incapable of slaying Bhaal's avatar.Abdel Adrian would kill Abazigal, then would set off to reunite with his sniveling half sister at Amkethran, unaware that Sendai had already devoured the young woman's still-beating heart.Just as she would devour Abdel's own.She had ridden fast and far since murdering Imoen, traveling under cover of night and seeking shelter from the accursed sun during the day.She was anxious to reach the cover of the Forest of Mir before Abdel found his way through the dense woods.It was there beneath the comforting darkness of the thick branches that she wanted to set her ambush for the last remaining Bhaalspawn.Even so, it had taken her nearly four nights to reach the eastern edge and find the narrow, overgrown path she sought out.The road between Abazigal's enclave and Amkethran was little used, but Sendai suspected Abdel would find it.The trail, ill kept and treacherous as it was, provided the only viable path through the Forest of Mir's southern arm.If Abdel was heading directly from Abazigal's enclave in the Alimir Mountains toward Amkethran he was sure to stumble across this path at some point.Unaware of the events that had transpired at the monastery, Abdel would suspect nothing as he journeyed toward Amkethran.If all went as Sendai planned, he would charge headlong into her ambush.With Gorion's ward disposed of, she and Balthazar could then turn their attention to getting rid of Melissan.The drow worked quickly, littering the narrow forest path with snares and trip wires and making liberal use of her arsenal of poisons.She had chosen a spot several miles along the path, well within the dark confines of the Forest of Mir.Here the thick shadows cast by the tightly packed trees blocking out the sun made her work easier.Hiding her traps was often as simple as tossing a handful of dirt over the trigger or burying her work beneath a pile of deadfall.She spent nearly a full day setting her ambush, then retreated into the upper recesses of the branches that overhung the trail to wait for her prey.* * * * *Abdel couldn't even see the midday sun through the thick, overlapping growth of the trees that pressed in on him from all sides.The Forest of Mir was every bit as dense, dark, and foreboding as the legends had led Abdel to believe.Yesterday he had been fortunate enough to stumble across a path heading in the general direction of Amkethran.After three days of slow, plodding progress through the undergrowth, Abdel was determined to make up for lost time, but the pervasive gloom, even here on the path someone had blazed through the wood, still hampered his progress.As he raced along the narrow trail he was constantly tripping over roots hidden in the oppressive gloom.His eyes straining to pierce the darkness, Abdel never saw the trip wire stretched across his path.He felt the faint tug as his leg tore through the string, he heard the sharp snap of a spring uncoiling, and he felt the stinging bite as a dozen tiny darts pierced the thick cloth of his robe and embedded themselves in his right thigh.His leg went instantly numb, causing him to fall forward onto the small spikes hidden beneath a pile of leaves.A dozen tiny points jabbed through his cowl and into the flesh of his torso, and he felt the corrosive toxin coating the spikes as it began to dissolve his skin.He rolled to the side and ended up on his back, his hands frantically swatting at the circles of burning pain slowly spreading out from the puncture wounds in his chest and abdomen.He heard the crack of dry wood, and the ground disappeared beneath him.Abdel lashed out with a single hand and managed to grab the edge of the pit as he fell.For a second he simply dangled above the unseen bottom, imagining what atrocities lay in wait beneath him.
She knew of his ridiculous dream of becoming a pure-blood wyrm, and she knew such a pathetic creature would be incapable of slaying Bhaal's avatar.Abdel Adrian would kill Abazigal, then would set off to reunite with his sniveling half sister at Amkethran, unaware that Sendai had already devoured the young woman's still-beating heart.Just as she would devour Abdel's own.She had ridden fast and far since murdering Imoen, traveling under cover of night and seeking shelter from the accursed sun during the day.She was anxious to reach the cover of the Forest of Mir before Abdel found his way through the dense woods.It was there beneath the comforting darkness of the thick branches that she wanted to set her ambush for the last remaining Bhaalspawn.Even so, it had taken her nearly four nights to reach the eastern edge and find the narrow, overgrown path she sought out.The road between Abazigal's enclave and Amkethran was little used, but Sendai suspected Abdel would find it.The trail, ill kept and treacherous as it was, provided the only viable path through the Forest of Mir's southern arm.If Abdel was heading directly from Abazigal's enclave in the Alimir Mountains toward Amkethran he was sure to stumble across this path at some point.Unaware of the events that had transpired at the monastery, Abdel would suspect nothing as he journeyed toward Amkethran.If all went as Sendai planned, he would charge headlong into her ambush.With Gorion's ward disposed of, she and Balthazar could then turn their attention to getting rid of Melissan.The drow worked quickly, littering the narrow forest path with snares and trip wires and making liberal use of her arsenal of poisons.She had chosen a spot several miles along the path, well within the dark confines of the Forest of Mir.Here the thick shadows cast by the tightly packed trees blocking out the sun made her work easier.Hiding her traps was often as simple as tossing a handful of dirt over the trigger or burying her work beneath a pile of deadfall.She spent nearly a full day setting her ambush, then retreated into the upper recesses of the branches that overhung the trail to wait for her prey.* * * * *Abdel couldn't even see the midday sun through the thick, overlapping growth of the trees that pressed in on him from all sides.The Forest of Mir was every bit as dense, dark, and foreboding as the legends had led Abdel to believe.Yesterday he had been fortunate enough to stumble across a path heading in the general direction of Amkethran.After three days of slow, plodding progress through the undergrowth, Abdel was determined to make up for lost time, but the pervasive gloom, even here on the path someone had blazed through the wood, still hampered his progress.As he raced along the narrow trail he was constantly tripping over roots hidden in the oppressive gloom.His eyes straining to pierce the darkness, Abdel never saw the trip wire stretched across his path.He felt the faint tug as his leg tore through the string, he heard the sharp snap of a spring uncoiling, and he felt the stinging bite as a dozen tiny darts pierced the thick cloth of his robe and embedded themselves in his right thigh.His leg went instantly numb, causing him to fall forward onto the small spikes hidden beneath a pile of leaves.A dozen tiny points jabbed through his cowl and into the flesh of his torso, and he felt the corrosive toxin coating the spikes as it began to dissolve his skin.He rolled to the side and ended up on his back, his hands frantically swatting at the circles of burning pain slowly spreading out from the puncture wounds in his chest and abdomen.He heard the crack of dry wood, and the ground disappeared beneath him.Abdel lashed out with a single hand and managed to grab the edge of the pit as he fell.For a second he simply dangled above the unseen bottom, imagining what atrocities lay in wait beneath him.
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He could faintly hear the clatter of the sticks and dry branches that had camouflaged the yawning trap as they struck the pit floor far below.He heaved himself up and out of the trap.He tried to stand, but his paralyzed leg gave way, and he staggered forward.The noose tightened around his left ankle, and snatched his good leg out from beneath him.Abdel found himself hanging upside down, the robe draping down to cover his head and face and exposing the rest of his body.As he struggled to tear the cowl off so he could see, his body was peppered with tiny jolts of pain.Dozens of darts from an unseen assailant buried themselves beneath his skin.Abdel felt his struggles growing weaker, his arms and shoulders growing as numb as his leg.Within seconds, he was unable to move at all.The robe slipped from his head and fell to the forest floor below.A slim figure in black dropped down from the branches above, landing lightly on the ground a few feet away.Even though he was looking at her upside down, Abdel could clearly see she had the sharp, pointed features of an elf.Her skin was the color of ash.He tried to mouth the word "drow," but the paralyzing poison from the darts still protruding from his body had rendered him completely immobile.The drow moved toward him and pulled a runed dagger from her belt.Abdel recognized the symbols—he had seen them on the axe of Yaga Shura and the arrows of Illasera.This dark elf was one of the Five.Abdel tried to swing himself around so he could cut himself down, but his muscles refused to respond.He couldn't even make his fingers twitch, he couldn't even scream out his frustration.One of the Five was less than ten feet away, and he could do nothing.Images of violence and unbridled savagery filled his mind.He envisioned himself ripping the thin elf limb from limb.He imagined his sword splitting her skull and spraying gray matter across the thick trunks of the nearby trees.He fantasized about slicing open her stomach and watching her clutch feebly at her guts as they spilled out and onto the forest underbrush.His imaginings aside, Abdel simply hung from the noose like meat on a hook, swaying slightly from side to side.With a quick swipe of her blade Abdel's captor cut him loose.His body dropped like a stone.
He could faintly hear the clatter of the sticks and dry branches that had camouflaged the yawning trap as they struck the pit floor far below.He heaved himself up and out of the trap.He tried to stand, but his paralyzed leg gave way, and he staggered forward.The noose tightened around his left ankle, and snatched his good leg out from beneath him.Abdel found himself hanging upside down, the robe draping down to cover his head and face and exposing the rest of his body.As he struggled to tear the cowl off so he could see, his body was peppered with tiny jolts of pain.Dozens of darts from an unseen assailant buried themselves beneath his skin.Abdel felt his struggles growing weaker, his arms and shoulders growing as numb as his leg.Within seconds, he was unable to move at all.The robe slipped from his head and fell to the forest floor below.A slim figure in black dropped down from the branches above, landing lightly on the ground a few feet away.Even though he was looking at her upside down, Abdel could clearly see she had the sharp, pointed features of an elf.Her skin was the color of ash.He tried to mouth the word "drow," but the paralyzing poison from the darts still protruding from his body had rendered him completely immobile.The drow moved toward him and pulled a runed dagger from her belt.Abdel recognized the symbols—he had seen them on the axe of Yaga Shura and the arrows of Illasera.This dark elf was one of the Five.Abdel tried to swing himself around so he could cut himself down, but his muscles refused to respond.He couldn't even make his fingers twitch, he couldn't even scream out his frustration.One of the Five was less than ten feet away, and he could do nothing.Images of violence and unbridled savagery filled his mind.He envisioned himself ripping the thin elf limb from limb.He imagined his sword splitting her skull and spraying gray matter across the thick trunks of the nearby trees.He fantasized about slicing open her stomach and watching her clutch feebly at her guts as they spilled out and onto the forest underbrush.His imaginings aside, Abdel simply hung from the noose like meat on a hook, swaying slightly from side to side.With a quick swipe of her blade Abdel's captor cut him loose.His body dropped like a stone.
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Unable to even roll his shoulders to absorb his fall, Abdel slammed onto the ground, landing facedown.The fires of Bhaal's fury began to rise within Abdel's soul.Instead of quelling the flames as he had so often done, Abdel stoked the embers of hatred into an inferno of madness raging inside his impotent body.Crouching beside Abdel's motionless form, the drow rolled him over to stare into the eyes of her helpless victim."Imoen shares your fate," she whispered, determined to deliver a cruel blow to Abdel's heart before she delivered the slash to his throat."I killed her myself."Though his throat was frozen in silence, Abdel's mind screamed in protest.Not Imoen, too!Jaheira's death had ripped his soul bare.He thought the pain he felt from his lover's loss was infinite.But the knowledge that Imoen now lay dead as well, shredded new wounds in his spirit.The unbearable suffering—a pain within his heart greater than any physical injury he had ever sustained—grew even worse.Gorion, Jaheira, and Imoen.Their blood was on Abdel's hands.The drow continued to speak, but Abdel no longer even comprehended her words.Consumed by the burning darkness of Bhaal, the part of his being that was Abdel Adrian was gone.Only the vile essence of the Lord of Murder remained.As it had done once while under the spells of the sorcerer Irenicus, Abdel's body began to change.This time he urged it onward.His bones cracked, and his skin burst apart, unable to contain a skeleton four times the size of Abdel's own.His hands became claws, his head a hideous combination of mandibles and teeth.Two more arms exploded from his chest, their taloned fingers ripping and slashing at the air.His skin formed a hard, chitinous exoskeleton.
Unable to even roll his shoulders to absorb his fall, Abdel slammed onto the ground, landing facedown.The fires of Bhaal's fury began to rise within Abdel's soul.Instead of quelling the flames as he had so often done, Abdel stoked the embers of hatred into an inferno of madness raging inside his impotent body.Crouching beside Abdel's motionless form, the drow rolled him over to stare into the eyes of her helpless victim."Imoen shares your fate," she whispered, determined to deliver a cruel blow to Abdel's heart before she delivered the slash to his throat."I killed her myself."Though his throat was frozen in silence, Abdel's mind screamed in protest.Not Imoen, too!Jaheira's death had ripped his soul bare.He thought the pain he felt from his lover's loss was infinite.But the knowledge that Imoen now lay dead as well, shredded new wounds in his spirit.The unbearable suffering—a pain within his heart greater than any physical injury he had ever sustained—grew even worse.Gorion, Jaheira, and Imoen.Their blood was on Abdel's hands.The drow continued to speak, but Abdel no longer even comprehended her words.Consumed by the burning darkness of Bhaal, the part of his being that was Abdel Adrian was gone.Only the vile essence of the Lord of Murder remained.As it had done once while under the spells of the sorcerer Irenicus, Abdel's body began to change.This time he urged it onward.His bones cracked, and his skin burst apart, unable to contain a skeleton four times the size of Abdel's own.His hands became claws, his head a hideous combination of mandibles and teeth.Two more arms exploded from his chest, their taloned fingers ripping and slashing at the air.His skin formed a hard, chitinous exoskeleton.
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The Ravager had been unleashed on Faerun once more.The transformation was instantaneous.Where Abdel had once been, only an abomination remained, lying prone on its back beneath the twisted branches overhead.Sendai leaped back in horrified surprise, her finely honed instincts for self preservation saving her from a quick and violent death.The drow didn't wait to see if the creature was mobile but vanished into the trees, fleeing for her life.It was too late for her.The thing that now lay on the forest floor was not a creature of the mortal world, it was not affected by the paralyzing toxins Sendai had pumped into Abdel's body, and it was much, much quicker than the drow.Sendai's lithe form flitted in and out among the thick trunks and sturdy branches of the trees.Her desperate flight was hampered by the dense woods, but if anything the enormous creature behind her would find its own progress even more difficult.The heavy forest growth would help hide her from the monster's sight as she fled without a sound.The Ravager didn't need to hear or see her to track her.It could smell her, as it could smell all living things.The great demon leaped up from the forest floor, smashing its head and shoulders through the canopy of leaves and twigs hanging in its path.It caught the drow's scent and bounded off in pursuit.While the drow was forced to weave in and out between the trees, the Ravager took a more direct route.Crashing through the undergrowth, it left a wide path of shattered stumps, uprooted trees and trampled vegetation in its wake.The horrendous thunder of its pursuit could be heard throughout the Forest of Mir, sending birds, game animals, and far more monstrous beasts scurrying for cover.The terrible din was only cut short by the shrieks of Sendai as the beast ran her down.The Ravager ripped Sendai apart with its four arms, bathing in her blood and reveling in her suffering as it tore her into tiny bits.The beast gorged itself on her spewing innards, then cast the drow's physical shell aside as it sensed the invisible essence of Bhaal that wafted up from the corpse like the scent of rotting evil.Abdel Adrian found himself in his human form again, standing once more in the Abyssal realm of Bhaal.* * * * *Balthazar sat motionless in the secret uppermost room of the monastery's central tower.It was nothing more than a tiny chamber completely surrounded by the thick marble of the tower's roof.There were no doors or windows, no physical entrances or exits whatsoever.Accessible only through the mystical passages of an enlightened mind, the room was Balthazar's inner sanctum, inviolate and impregnable.Even his own disciples were unable to enter—only he had mastered the mental discipline that enabled him to transport his physical body through solid rock and into the secluded meditation chamber.He needed no food or water.He did not even require air.
The Ravager had been unleashed on Faerun once more.The transformation was instantaneous.Where Abdel had once been, only an abomination remained, lying prone on its back beneath the twisted branches overhead.Sendai leaped back in horrified surprise, her finely honed instincts for self preservation saving her from a quick and violent death.The drow didn't wait to see if the creature was mobile but vanished into the trees, fleeing for her life.It was too late for her.The thing that now lay on the forest floor was not a creature of the mortal world, it was not affected by the paralyzing toxins Sendai had pumped into Abdel's body, and it was much, much quicker than the drow.Sendai's lithe form flitted in and out among the thick trunks and sturdy branches of the trees.Her desperate flight was hampered by the dense woods, but if anything the enormous creature behind her would find its own progress even more difficult.The heavy forest growth would help hide her from the monster's sight as she fled without a sound.The Ravager didn't need to hear or see her to track her.It could smell her, as it could smell all living things.The great demon leaped up from the forest floor, smashing its head and shoulders through the canopy of leaves and twigs hanging in its path.It caught the drow's scent and bounded off in pursuit.While the drow was forced to weave in and out between the trees, the Ravager took a more direct route.Crashing through the undergrowth, it left a wide path of shattered stumps, uprooted trees and trampled vegetation in its wake.The horrendous thunder of its pursuit could be heard throughout the Forest of Mir, sending birds, game animals, and far more monstrous beasts scurrying for cover.The terrible din was only cut short by the shrieks of Sendai as the beast ran her down.The Ravager ripped Sendai apart with its four arms, bathing in her blood and reveling in her suffering as it tore her into tiny bits.The beast gorged itself on her spewing innards, then cast the drow's physical shell aside as it sensed the invisible essence of Bhaal that wafted up from the corpse like the scent of rotting evil.Abdel Adrian found himself in his human form again, standing once more in the Abyssal realm of Bhaal.* * * * *Balthazar sat motionless in the secret uppermost room of the monastery's central tower.It was nothing more than a tiny chamber completely surrounded by the thick marble of the tower's roof.There were no doors or windows, no physical entrances or exits whatsoever.Accessible only through the mystical passages of an enlightened mind, the room was Balthazar's inner sanctum, inviolate and impregnable.Even his own disciples were unable to enter—only he had mastered the mental discipline that enabled him to transport his physical body through solid rock and into the secluded meditation chamber.He needed no food or water.He did not even require air.
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His body had reached a state of purity, a state of awareness and existence far beyond the physical consciousness that bound all the world in chains they could not even see.Balthazar had already been in his hibernation chamber a full day before Melissan had arrived with the girl Imoen, though time had little meaning in his current state.He remained there while Sendai had slit the Bhaalspawn's throat and didn't move when Melissan made her escape.He was still there now, focusing his mind in preparation for the battle to come.From here, he could see and hear events across the entire continent: the secrets of Waterdeep nobles plotting in their high towers; the clandestine whispers of Amnian adulterers huddling beneath the sheets at a seedy inn; the laughter of Sembian commoners in a tavern; the prayers of a Daleland widower by his wife's grave.The screams of a dying drow in the Forest of Mir.They were only two now—Abdel and Balthazar, last of the Bhaalspawn.Soon there would be only one.Melissan had become inconsequential to their destiny.Bhaal's Anointed had become irrelevant.Melissan still had her part to play, but it was a minor role.She would send Abdel after Balthazar.They would fight.Balthazar would kill him.And this would all be over.Chapter NineteenAs he stood in the plane of the Abyss that had once been the home of Bhaal, Abdel could remember becoming the Ravager.He remembered the sensation of his body transforming, becoming the demon.He remembered rushing through the forest, hunting the fleeing drow.He remembered ripping into Sendai's soft, yielding form with his claws, the glorious taste of death on his teeth and tongue.The memories were distant and faint, as if they were not his own.He had not done those things.Abdel Adrian was not responsible for the bloody slaughter.It had been the Ravager."But you unleashed the Ravager."
His body had reached a state of purity, a state of awareness and existence far beyond the physical consciousness that bound all the world in chains they could not even see.Balthazar had already been in his hibernation chamber a full day before Melissan had arrived with the girl Imoen, though time had little meaning in his current state.He remained there while Sendai had slit the Bhaalspawn's throat and didn't move when Melissan made her escape.He was still there now, focusing his mind in preparation for the battle to come.From here, he could see and hear events across the entire continent: the secrets of Waterdeep nobles plotting in their high towers; the clandestine whispers of Amnian adulterers huddling beneath the sheets at a seedy inn; the laughter of Sembian commoners in a tavern; the prayers of a Daleland widower by his wife's grave.The screams of a dying drow in the Forest of Mir.They were only two now—Abdel and Balthazar, last of the Bhaalspawn.Soon there would be only one.Melissan had become inconsequential to their destiny.Bhaal's Anointed had become irrelevant.Melissan still had her part to play, but it was a minor role.She would send Abdel after Balthazar.They would fight.Balthazar would kill him.And this would all be over.Chapter NineteenAs he stood in the plane of the Abyss that had once been the home of Bhaal, Abdel could remember becoming the Ravager.He remembered the sensation of his body transforming, becoming the demon.He remembered rushing through the forest, hunting the fleeing drow.He remembered ripping into Sendai's soft, yielding form with his claws, the glorious taste of death on his teeth and tongue.The memories were distant and faint, as if they were not his own.He had not done those things.Abdel Adrian was not responsible for the bloody slaughter.It had been the Ravager."But you unleashed the Ravager."
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dnd8105
The being that had confronted him in the past materialized before him once more, its infinite voice once again responding to thoughts he had not spoken aloud.Abdel ignored the creature before him and turned his attention to the doors that would lead him away from this place and back to the material plane where he could resume his quest to avenge Jaheira's death.There were only two doors now."As you slay each of the Five, the potential fates of you and your kin become fewer."Interesting, but not interesting enough to keep Abdel from leaving."Beware, Abdel Adrian," the annoying creature warned."You risk losing yourself to the Ravager.It cannot be controlled.It will devour you from within even as it devours your enemies."The big sellsword spun to face the being preaching at him."I don't care!"he spat in anger."As long as it lets me kill the Five, I don't care what happens to me!"The being shook its glorious head."Abdel, I fear for your future—and the future of Abeir-toril.There is so much you do not know.So much I would tell you, were it not forbidden by the power I serve.""There is nothing you can say that would affect me now," Abdel assured his host with a sneer."You cannot bring back Jaheira, or Imoen, or even Gorion.My Bhaal blood has brought only suffering and loss.There is no hope for me, no chance for happiness.
The being that had confronted him in the past materialized before him once more, its infinite voice once again responding to thoughts he had not spoken aloud.Abdel ignored the creature before him and turned his attention to the doors that would lead him away from this place and back to the material plane where he could resume his quest to avenge Jaheira's death.There were only two doors now."As you slay each of the Five, the potential fates of you and your kin become fewer."Interesting, but not interesting enough to keep Abdel from leaving."Beware, Abdel Adrian," the annoying creature warned."You risk losing yourself to the Ravager.It cannot be controlled.It will devour you from within even as it devours your enemies."The big sellsword spun to face the being preaching at him."I don't care!"he spat in anger."As long as it lets me kill the Five, I don't care what happens to me!"The being shook its glorious head."Abdel, I fear for your future—and the future of Abeir-toril.There is so much you do not know.So much I would tell you, were it not forbidden by the power I serve.""There is nothing you can say that would affect me now," Abdel assured his host with a sneer."You cannot bring back Jaheira, or Imoen, or even Gorion.My Bhaal blood has brought only suffering and loss.There is no hope for me, no chance for happiness.
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dnd8106
All I have left is my vengeance.""Your bitterness is understandable, Abdel.But suffering and loss are a part of existence—mortal or immortal.Your words dishonor the memories of those who have walked by your side down the path of your destiny.Learn from their examples.""Learn?Learn what?"Abdel made no effort to hide the scorn in his voice."Sarevok showed you the potential for redemption.""And now he is dead.""Jaheira saved you through the power of her love.""And now she is dead.""Gorion sacrificed himself so that you might achieve your destiny.""And he too is dead.Is that the lesson you would have me learn?Death?I know that lesson all too well, my starry friend, and I intend to share this learning with each and every one of the Five."His adversary changed tactics."There is only one of the Five left," it said."Kill him and the blood of Bhaal will survive only in you."Abdel shrugged.
All I have left is my vengeance.""Your bitterness is understandable, Abdel.But suffering and loss are a part of existence—mortal or immortal.Your words dishonor the memories of those who have walked by your side down the path of your destiny.Learn from their examples.""Learn?Learn what?"Abdel made no effort to hide the scorn in his voice."Sarevok showed you the potential for redemption.""And now he is dead.""Jaheira saved you through the power of her love.""And now she is dead.""Gorion sacrificed himself so that you might achieve your destiny.""And he too is dead.Is that the lesson you would have me learn?Death?I know that lesson all too well, my starry friend, and I intend to share this learning with each and every one of the Five."His adversary changed tactics."There is only one of the Five left," it said."Kill him and the blood of Bhaal will survive only in you."Abdel shrugged.
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dnd8107
"So my work is almost done."He turned and stepped through the door.As the plane of Bhaal dissolved away, he heard the infinite voice call out, "There is more to your destiny than mere vengeance, Abdel.I pray you are ready for what will come."* * * * *Melissan found Abdel along the sole path cutting through the southern arm of the Forest of Mir, less than a mile away from the western edge of the woods.The big sellsword was wearing only a hooded cowl that seemed at least two sizes too small for his massive frame.In one hand he carried a heavy broadsword.In the other he held Sendai's dagger, its blade easily recognizable by the arcane symbols etched upon its surface.His body was covered in blood and gore, his feet were bare, and he was traveling on foot."Praise the gods you yet live!"the Melissan exclaimed as she pulled up her mount beside him."I came to warn that an assassin hunts you.One of the Five.""The drow is dead," Abdel said simply."And the lizard man.""Abazigal and Sendai are both .. ." Melissan muttered, then seemed to catch herself at the last second and changed topics in midsentence."We have been betrayed, Abdel.Imoen is dead.""I know."Abdel was surprised at how much the words still hurt, even now.
"So my work is almost done."He turned and stepped through the door.As the plane of Bhaal dissolved away, he heard the infinite voice call out, "There is more to your destiny than mere vengeance, Abdel.I pray you are ready for what will come."* * * * *Melissan found Abdel along the sole path cutting through the southern arm of the Forest of Mir, less than a mile away from the western edge of the woods.The big sellsword was wearing only a hooded cowl that seemed at least two sizes too small for his massive frame.In one hand he carried a heavy broadsword.In the other he held Sendai's dagger, its blade easily recognizable by the arcane symbols etched upon its surface.His body was covered in blood and gore, his feet were bare, and he was traveling on foot."Praise the gods you yet live!"the Melissan exclaimed as she pulled up her mount beside him."I came to warn that an assassin hunts you.One of the Five.""The drow is dead," Abdel said simply."And the lizard man.""Abazigal and Sendai are both .. ." Melissan muttered, then seemed to catch herself at the last second and changed topics in midsentence."We have been betrayed, Abdel.Imoen is dead.""I know."Abdel was surprised at how much the words still hurt, even now.
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The mere mention of his half sister's demise was like a knife twisting in his heart."Tell me what happened.""We sought sanctuary in Amkethran's monastery.The monks welcomed us, invited us in, and promised to protect us.They took Imoen to the central tower to guard her, but by morning she was dead.""The drow assassin," Abdel guessed.Melissan nodded."Sendai was her name.But I fear there is a yet more sinister explanation behind Imoen's death.The leader of the monastery—a monk named Balthazar—I believe he was working with Sendai.I think ...I think he is the last of the Five, Abdel."I cannot say if the other monks know of his secret.I doubt they do.They serve their master absolutely, completely oblivious to his true nature."The big sellsword bit his lip hard enough to draw blood.He felt Melissan wasn't telling him everything.She was still holding something back, she still kept her secrets well guarded.It was obvious she had known about Sendai and failed to warn either Abdel or Imoen about the drow.Abdel didn't care what games Melissan was playing anymore.She had told him more than enough.
The mere mention of his half sister's demise was like a knife twisting in his heart."Tell me what happened.""We sought sanctuary in Amkethran's monastery.The monks welcomed us, invited us in, and promised to protect us.They took Imoen to the central tower to guard her, but by morning she was dead.""The drow assassin," Abdel guessed.Melissan nodded."Sendai was her name.But I fear there is a yet more sinister explanation behind Imoen's death.The leader of the monastery—a monk named Balthazar—I believe he was working with Sendai.I think ...I think he is the last of the Five, Abdel."I cannot say if the other monks know of his secret.I doubt they do.They serve their master absolutely, completely oblivious to his true nature."The big sellsword bit his lip hard enough to draw blood.He felt Melissan wasn't telling him everything.She was still holding something back, she still kept her secrets well guarded.It was obvious she had known about Sendai and failed to warn either Abdel or Imoen about the drow.Abdel didn't care what games Melissan was playing anymore.She had told him more than enough.
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"Give me your horse," he demanded."I want to be fresh when I reach Amkethran."He thought Melissan would try to dissuade him or suggest some type of plan other than a frontal assault.At the very least he thought she might even offer her help.Instead she only said, "Good luck, Abdel."* * * * *Abdel leaped from his horse once he reached the tents and ramshackle mud buildings of Amkethran.He ripped the cowl from his body—he wanted nothing to slow him down when he faced Balthazar.The sight of a naked, seven-foot-tall, heavily muscled man drenched in dried blood and wielding a heavy broadsword in one hand and a cruel, rune covered dagger in the other sent the few people he encountered scurrying for cover.The great iron doors of the monastery were barred against him, but Abdel ripped them from their hinges.With each death of the Five he had become stronger and more powerful, growing ever closer to his father's immortal existence.Abdel believed he now had the strength to smash right through the marble walls if necessary.He stepped through the torn gates and was immediately attacked by an army of the monastery's guardians.The warrior monks fought without weapons, delivering lightning-fast kicks to his knees, punching their fists in a blur at his throat, driving their knees to his groin.Their attacks would have shattered the bones of any mortal.Abdel shrugged off the blows as meaningless.He slashed out with his sword and Sendai's dagger, driving the monks back as they dodged his cuts and stabs or fell injured to the ground.But he didn't follow up his initial attacks.His efforts were merely meant to clear a path through the mob.The deaths of these mindless followers of Balthazar were inconsequential to Abdel, and pursuing the injured to finish them off would only cost him precious time.Had he wished for slaughter, it would have been a simple task to unleash the Ravager on his enemies.But the demon lusted only for indiscriminate death, it cared nothing for Abdel's desire for revenge.If Abdel set the Ravager free now, Balthazar might escape unnoticed in the ensuing carnage.So Abdel quelled the rising fire of his father's evil, and he pressed on with grim, passionless determination.The monks threw themselves at him, willing—even eager—to sacrifice themselves to halt his progress, but their adversary was immune to their fists and feet.Despite their overwhelming numbers and despite the fact that Abdel couldn't even be bothered to kill them, they were unable to slow his relentless advance toward the tall tower in the center of the compound.Somehow Abdel knew Balthazar was inside the tower.
"Give me your horse," he demanded."I want to be fresh when I reach Amkethran."He thought Melissan would try to dissuade him or suggest some type of plan other than a frontal assault.At the very least he thought she might even offer her help.Instead she only said, "Good luck, Abdel."* * * * *Abdel leaped from his horse once he reached the tents and ramshackle mud buildings of Amkethran.He ripped the cowl from his body—he wanted nothing to slow him down when he faced Balthazar.The sight of a naked, seven-foot-tall, heavily muscled man drenched in dried blood and wielding a heavy broadsword in one hand and a cruel, rune covered dagger in the other sent the few people he encountered scurrying for cover.The great iron doors of the monastery were barred against him, but Abdel ripped them from their hinges.With each death of the Five he had become stronger and more powerful, growing ever closer to his father's immortal existence.Abdel believed he now had the strength to smash right through the marble walls if necessary.He stepped through the torn gates and was immediately attacked by an army of the monastery's guardians.The warrior monks fought without weapons, delivering lightning-fast kicks to his knees, punching their fists in a blur at his throat, driving their knees to his groin.Their attacks would have shattered the bones of any mortal.Abdel shrugged off the blows as meaningless.He slashed out with his sword and Sendai's dagger, driving the monks back as they dodged his cuts and stabs or fell injured to the ground.But he didn't follow up his initial attacks.His efforts were merely meant to clear a path through the mob.The deaths of these mindless followers of Balthazar were inconsequential to Abdel, and pursuing the injured to finish them off would only cost him precious time.Had he wished for slaughter, it would have been a simple task to unleash the Ravager on his enemies.But the demon lusted only for indiscriminate death, it cared nothing for Abdel's desire for revenge.If Abdel set the Ravager free now, Balthazar might escape unnoticed in the ensuing carnage.So Abdel quelled the rising fire of his father's evil, and he pressed on with grim, passionless determination.The monks threw themselves at him, willing—even eager—to sacrifice themselves to halt his progress, but their adversary was immune to their fists and feet.Despite their overwhelming numbers and despite the fact that Abdel couldn't even be bothered to kill them, they were unable to slow his relentless advance toward the tall tower in the center of the compound.Somehow Abdel knew Balthazar was inside the tower.
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He could sense the taint of Bhaal on his quarry glowing like a beacon, calling to the evil taint within his own soul.He continued to swat away the pestering gnats who rained blow after blow down on his invulnerable body, his eyes focused intently on the tower's heavily guarded entrance.Two figures emerged from the door, their arms weaving strange patterns in the air and their voices chanting unfamiliar sounds that rang out above the din of battle.These mages were sent to stop him where the warriors had failed.The crush of humanity surrounding Abdel fell back, anxious to avoid the effects of the spells about to be unleashed upon him.Fire erupted all around him, the flames engulfing his body.Lightning flashed down from the sky to split his skull.Clouds of noxious fumes obscured bis vision.Walls of ice materialized before him.Enchanted arrows appeared from nowhere to unerringly strike his body, splashing corrosive acid across his skin wherever they hit.Abdel's stride never faltered.The magic of Abazigal had nearly ended his existence, but with the death of the half-dragon and the drow Sendai, Abdel had evolved yet again.The magically summoned elements of the mages were as ineffective as the physical blows of the warrior monks.Abdel was an unstoppable messenger of death.The mages stepped aside, and a single, black-skinned figure stood in the tower's entrance.Like Abdel, this man was naked—though it was difficult to tell.His ebony skin was covered head to toe in tattoos.The colors and designs seemed to shift and writhe beneath the man's dark flesh, as if the symbols were alive with power.Though nearly a foot shorter than Abdel, the tattooed man's body similarly rippled with knotted, corded muscle.The tattooed man called out, "Stop!This is not your battle."Bowing respectfully, the warrior monks and mages alike stepped back and cleared a path for Abdel to approach.Not even caring if it was a trap, Abdel rushed at the black-skinned man, certain he was none other than Balthazar.The man disappeared inside the door, and Abdel followed.As he leaped across the threshold he heard the horrible shriek of stone being warped and twisted.Glancing back over his shoulder, Abdel wasn't surprised to find the door had been magically sealed behind him, the rock of the tower walls closing over the opening.He turned his attention back to the tower's interior.
He could sense the taint of Bhaal on his quarry glowing like a beacon, calling to the evil taint within his own soul.He continued to swat away the pestering gnats who rained blow after blow down on his invulnerable body, his eyes focused intently on the tower's heavily guarded entrance.Two figures emerged from the door, their arms weaving strange patterns in the air and their voices chanting unfamiliar sounds that rang out above the din of battle.These mages were sent to stop him where the warriors had failed.The crush of humanity surrounding Abdel fell back, anxious to avoid the effects of the spells about to be unleashed upon him.Fire erupted all around him, the flames engulfing his body.Lightning flashed down from the sky to split his skull.Clouds of noxious fumes obscured bis vision.Walls of ice materialized before him.Enchanted arrows appeared from nowhere to unerringly strike his body, splashing corrosive acid across his skin wherever they hit.Abdel's stride never faltered.The magic of Abazigal had nearly ended his existence, but with the death of the half-dragon and the drow Sendai, Abdel had evolved yet again.The magically summoned elements of the mages were as ineffective as the physical blows of the warrior monks.Abdel was an unstoppable messenger of death.The mages stepped aside, and a single, black-skinned figure stood in the tower's entrance.Like Abdel, this man was naked—though it was difficult to tell.His ebony skin was covered head to toe in tattoos.The colors and designs seemed to shift and writhe beneath the man's dark flesh, as if the symbols were alive with power.Though nearly a foot shorter than Abdel, the tattooed man's body similarly rippled with knotted, corded muscle.The tattooed man called out, "Stop!This is not your battle."Bowing respectfully, the warrior monks and mages alike stepped back and cleared a path for Abdel to approach.Not even caring if it was a trap, Abdel rushed at the black-skinned man, certain he was none other than Balthazar.The man disappeared inside the door, and Abdel followed.As he leaped across the threshold he heard the horrible shriek of stone being warped and twisted.Glancing back over his shoulder, Abdel wasn't surprised to find the door had been magically sealed behind him, the rock of the tower walls closing over the opening.He turned his attention back to the tower's interior.
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At the far end was a steep staircase leading to the second floor, but otherwise the first floor was empty.It resembled an arena, or perhaps a training ring.In the center of this circle stood the black-skinned Balthazar."This must end here," the monk said, his voice neither threatening nor afraid."This must end now."Abdel couldn't have agreed more.Chapter TwentyAbdel rushed the monk.Balthazar waited until his enemy was nearly on him, then turned to the side.His left hand slapped the tip of the thrusting broadsword down and away from his body.His right forearm smacked the wrist of Abdel's left hand, redirecting the path of Sendai's dagger as it sliced down from above.His leg shot out, tripping Abdel's feet so that the charging sellsword's momentum carried him stumbling past Balthazar to slam into the hard stone of the far wall.Unharmed but burning with angry embarrassment at his foolishly ineffective attack, Abdel spun around to face his opponent once more.Balthazar still stood in the very center of the room, casually awaiting Abdel's next move."You do understand why your death must come to pass?"he asked nonchalantly."I know you want to bring Bhaal back to life, but that's not why I'm here."With that Abdel rushed forward again, crouching low and keeping his feet wide, bringing his center of gravity close to the ground.This time the monk wouldn't be able to redirect his momentum with a simple twist of his body.Balthazar also crouched down, then sprang up into the air as Abdel approached, flipping and twisting above the head of his surprised opponent.Balthazar's left heel caught Abdel in the back of his skull, momentarily stunning him.The monk's right foot delivered a stiff kick in the middle of Abdel's back, sending him sprawling face down on the hard floor.Abdel flopped on his stomach gasping for breath.His head and back stung from Balthazar's kicks—he could already feel his body beginning to swell and bruise from the vicious blows.Unlike the army of monks he had waded through in the courtyard, Balthazar was able to inflict real injury.It was the tattoos, Abdel realized.
At the far end was a steep staircase leading to the second floor, but otherwise the first floor was empty.It resembled an arena, or perhaps a training ring.In the center of this circle stood the black-skinned Balthazar."This must end here," the monk said, his voice neither threatening nor afraid."This must end now."Abdel couldn't have agreed more.Chapter TwentyAbdel rushed the monk.Balthazar waited until his enemy was nearly on him, then turned to the side.His left hand slapped the tip of the thrusting broadsword down and away from his body.His right forearm smacked the wrist of Abdel's left hand, redirecting the path of Sendai's dagger as it sliced down from above.His leg shot out, tripping Abdel's feet so that the charging sellsword's momentum carried him stumbling past Balthazar to slam into the hard stone of the far wall.Unharmed but burning with angry embarrassment at his foolishly ineffective attack, Abdel spun around to face his opponent once more.Balthazar still stood in the very center of the room, casually awaiting Abdel's next move."You do understand why your death must come to pass?"he asked nonchalantly."I know you want to bring Bhaal back to life, but that's not why I'm here."With that Abdel rushed forward again, crouching low and keeping his feet wide, bringing his center of gravity close to the ground.This time the monk wouldn't be able to redirect his momentum with a simple twist of his body.Balthazar also crouched down, then sprang up into the air as Abdel approached, flipping and twisting above the head of his surprised opponent.Balthazar's left heel caught Abdel in the back of his skull, momentarily stunning him.The monk's right foot delivered a stiff kick in the middle of Abdel's back, sending him sprawling face down on the hard floor.Abdel flopped on his stomach gasping for breath.His head and back stung from Balthazar's kicks—he could already feel his body beginning to swell and bruise from the vicious blows.Unlike the army of monks he had waded through in the courtyard, Balthazar was able to inflict real injury.It was the tattoos, Abdel realized.
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Like the runes on the weapons of the other members of the Five, the designs and symbols covering the arms and legs of Balthazar gave him the power to harm Abdel's body.Knowing he was vulnerable forced Abdel to change his tactics.He would have to approach with more caution.Slowly Abdel rose and turned to face the monk again.Balthazar had landed nimbly on his feet after his gravity-defying maneuver and stood once again in the center of the room.He continued the conversation as if nothing had happened."I have no intention of bringing Bhaal back to life,'' the monk explained."The evil of Bhaal must be purged from Faerun forever, Abdel.His taint must be wiped from the face of Abeir-toril.That is why you must die."The sound of Abdel's bitter laugh echoed off the stone walls encircling them."I know you are one of the Five!You hunted your own Bhaalspawn kin so that you might use their essence to resurrect our father!""I was one of the Five," Balthazar admitted as Abdel cautiously approached, his twin blades weaving hypnotic patterns in the air, "though I never shared their vision.They wanted to bring Bhaal back, and I want to ensure he stays dead forever.Killing those who shared our tainted blood was common to both their end and mine, so I aided them in the hunting of the Bhaalspawn.But all along I intended to betray them at the end, Abdel."Abdel was barely even listening to the lies spilling from his enemy's mouth.He wouldn't let the words distract him from the task at hand.If the monk wanted to jabber away while the sellsword inched ever closer, Abdel would let him speak—until he silenced Balthazar by slitting his throat.Although he rarely fought with a weapon in each hand, Abdel knew how to use twin blades to maximize his offensive advantage.He led with a series of high offensive thrusts and slashes from the broadsword, designed to drive the monk back and throw him off balance.
Like the runes on the weapons of the other members of the Five, the designs and symbols covering the arms and legs of Balthazar gave him the power to harm Abdel's body.Knowing he was vulnerable forced Abdel to change his tactics.He would have to approach with more caution.Slowly Abdel rose and turned to face the monk again.Balthazar had landed nimbly on his feet after his gravity-defying maneuver and stood once again in the center of the room.He continued the conversation as if nothing had happened."I have no intention of bringing Bhaal back to life,'' the monk explained."The evil of Bhaal must be purged from Faerun forever, Abdel.His taint must be wiped from the face of Abeir-toril.That is why you must die."The sound of Abdel's bitter laugh echoed off the stone walls encircling them."I know you are one of the Five!You hunted your own Bhaalspawn kin so that you might use their essence to resurrect our father!""I was one of the Five," Balthazar admitted as Abdel cautiously approached, his twin blades weaving hypnotic patterns in the air, "though I never shared their vision.They wanted to bring Bhaal back, and I want to ensure he stays dead forever.Killing those who shared our tainted blood was common to both their end and mine, so I aided them in the hunting of the Bhaalspawn.But all along I intended to betray them at the end, Abdel."Abdel was barely even listening to the lies spilling from his enemy's mouth.He wouldn't let the words distract him from the task at hand.If the monk wanted to jabber away while the sellsword inched ever closer, Abdel would let him speak—until he silenced Balthazar by slitting his throat.Although he rarely fought with a weapon in each hand, Abdel knew how to use twin blades to maximize his offensive advantage.He led with a series of high offensive thrusts and slashes from the broadsword, designed to drive the monk back and throw him off balance.
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He'd follow up by stabbing the dagger in toward his foe's kidney, forcing him to turn away from the tiny blade—and right into the heavy edge of the broadsword cutting down from the other side.Something went wrong, Balthazar did not retreat beneath the first savage assault.He parried the sword with his bare left hand, turning his wrist so that the palm met the flat of the blade and deflected its arc harmlessly away.Abdel's second thrust was similarly met and turned aside.In desperation he tried to bring the dagger up, but a stiff kick from Balthazar's leg caught him in the elbow and knocked the knife from his numb grasp.Balthazar ducked down and away from what Abdel had expected to be the finishing blow, letting the heavy broadsword slice harmlessly through the air less than an inch above his head.Before Abdel could reverse the momentum of his attack he was doubled over by a knee slamming into his groin.An instant later he was straightened up as the knee slammed into his chin.Blinded by stars of pain, Abdel never saw the rapid flurry of punches to his midsection, though he did feel several of his ribs crack in quick succession.He felt a pair of firm hands wrap themselves around his wrist and heave on his arm, and Abdel was hurled through the air to land hard on his back."As long as even a single drop of Bhaal-tainted blood courses through living veins, there is a chance someone will find a way to bring Bhaal back to life," Balthazar calmly explained, not even breathing heavily after their confrontation."Like all the other Bhaalspawn, you have the taint of Bhaal within you, and you must be killed for the good of the world."The ceiling slowly came into focus as Abdel's vision cleared.His left hand was paralyzed.He couldn't even clench his fingers into a fist.Every breath brought agonizing pain as his cracked rib cage was forced to expand and contract.He coughed and choked as a trickle of blood crawled up his throat.He could feel his body struggling to restore itself, fighting to overcome the powerful sorcery contained in every punch and kick Balthazar delivered.His body was healing—slowly."What about you?"Abdel croaked, stalling for time."You are also a Bhaalspawn.Must you die for your tainted blood?
He'd follow up by stabbing the dagger in toward his foe's kidney, forcing him to turn away from the tiny blade—and right into the heavy edge of the broadsword cutting down from the other side.Something went wrong, Balthazar did not retreat beneath the first savage assault.He parried the sword with his bare left hand, turning his wrist so that the palm met the flat of the blade and deflected its arc harmlessly away.Abdel's second thrust was similarly met and turned aside.In desperation he tried to bring the dagger up, but a stiff kick from Balthazar's leg caught him in the elbow and knocked the knife from his numb grasp.Balthazar ducked down and away from what Abdel had expected to be the finishing blow, letting the heavy broadsword slice harmlessly through the air less than an inch above his head.Before Abdel could reverse the momentum of his attack he was doubled over by a knee slamming into his groin.An instant later he was straightened up as the knee slammed into his chin.Blinded by stars of pain, Abdel never saw the rapid flurry of punches to his midsection, though he did feel several of his ribs crack in quick succession.He felt a pair of firm hands wrap themselves around his wrist and heave on his arm, and Abdel was hurled through the air to land hard on his back."As long as even a single drop of Bhaal-tainted blood courses through living veins, there is a chance someone will find a way to bring Bhaal back to life," Balthazar calmly explained, not even breathing heavily after their confrontation."Like all the other Bhaalspawn, you have the taint of Bhaal within you, and you must be killed for the good of the world."The ceiling slowly came into focus as Abdel's vision cleared.His left hand was paralyzed.He couldn't even clench his fingers into a fist.Every breath brought agonizing pain as his cracked rib cage was forced to expand and contract.He coughed and choked as a trickle of blood crawled up his throat.He could feel his body struggling to restore itself, fighting to overcome the powerful sorcery contained in every punch and kick Balthazar delivered.His body was healing—slowly."What about you?"Abdel croaked, stalling for time."You are also a Bhaalspawn.Must you die for your tainted blood?
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""I have learned to control the evil within me, Abdel," Balthazar replied."These markings on my body contain my vile essence with powerful magics.I have devoted my entire life to mastering the mental discipline that enables me to keep Bhaal's fury caged within my body and soul.But as long as I live," the monk continued, "there will be those who would seek to release what I have worked so hard to imprison.The chances of them succeeding are infinitesimal, but even that risk is too great.Once you are dead, Abdel, I also must die.We are the last two.With your death and my ritual suicide we will forever free the world from the threat of Bhaal's return."The bones in Abdel's chest were mending.He could feel sensation and strength returning to the fingers of his left hand.Throughout the savage beating he had managed to hang on to his broadsword, but he still needed a few more seconds."You're mad, Balthazar.""That is an inevitable consequence of who and what we both are," the monk said."Bhaal's essence brings madness and death.No matter how we try to avoid it, no matter our intentions, we cannot help but manifest the darkest of our father's traits.And all those around us suffer."His body was whole once more, but Abdel did not leap up to attack right away.Something in Balthazar's words rang true.Had not Abdel always been a harbinger of death and suffering?How many men and women had he slain in his career as a blade for hire?
""I have learned to control the evil within me, Abdel," Balthazar replied."These markings on my body contain my vile essence with powerful magics.I have devoted my entire life to mastering the mental discipline that enables me to keep Bhaal's fury caged within my body and soul.But as long as I live," the monk continued, "there will be those who would seek to release what I have worked so hard to imprison.The chances of them succeeding are infinitesimal, but even that risk is too great.Once you are dead, Abdel, I also must die.We are the last two.With your death and my ritual suicide we will forever free the world from the threat of Bhaal's return."The bones in Abdel's chest were mending.He could feel sensation and strength returning to the fingers of his left hand.Throughout the savage beating he had managed to hang on to his broadsword, but he still needed a few more seconds."You're mad, Balthazar.""That is an inevitable consequence of who and what we both are," the monk said."Bhaal's essence brings madness and death.No matter how we try to avoid it, no matter our intentions, we cannot help but manifest the darkest of our father's traits.And all those around us suffer."His body was whole once more, but Abdel did not leap up to attack right away.Something in Balthazar's words rang true.Had not Abdel always been a harbinger of death and suffering?How many men and women had he slain in his career as a blade for hire?
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dnd8115
Hundreds?Thousands?There were those who sought to turn him away from a life of bloodshed.Those who loved him despite his violent nature.Gorion, Jaheira, and what had become of them?Dead, like Imoen, and like Sarevok, like everyone he came in contact with."Is there no way to rid ourselves of Bhaal's taint?''Abdel asked, praying Balthazar would give him an answer that offered even the faintest glimmer of hope before he ended the monk's existence."The curse of our father cannot be avoided."Balthazar's voice was somber, even regretful."Many of our kin simply submitted to Bhaal's foulness and let the essence consume them.Sarevok was once one of those.The other members of the Five were also of that kind.Others tried to resist the Lord of Murder's darkness, as you and I have done.But we are doomed to failure.Despite our efforts, death follows in our wake.Our footsteps are left in a trail of blood, Abdel.Even I, with all my training, have not been able to resist the killing urges of Bhaal."The implications of Balthazar's words were too much for Abdel to bear.If the monk was right, Jaheira's death was his fault.His unholy heritage had doomed her from the start.
Hundreds?Thousands?There were those who sought to turn him away from a life of bloodshed.Those who loved him despite his violent nature.Gorion, Jaheira, and what had become of them?Dead, like Imoen, and like Sarevok, like everyone he came in contact with."Is there no way to rid ourselves of Bhaal's taint?''Abdel asked, praying Balthazar would give him an answer that offered even the faintest glimmer of hope before he ended the monk's existence."The curse of our father cannot be avoided."Balthazar's voice was somber, even regretful."Many of our kin simply submitted to Bhaal's foulness and let the essence consume them.Sarevok was once one of those.The other members of the Five were also of that kind.Others tried to resist the Lord of Murder's darkness, as you and I have done.But we are doomed to failure.Despite our efforts, death follows in our wake.Our footsteps are left in a trail of blood, Abdel.Even I, with all my training, have not been able to resist the killing urges of Bhaal."The implications of Balthazar's words were too much for Abdel to bear.If the monk was right, Jaheira's death was his fault.His unholy heritage had doomed her from the start.
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dnd8116
Abdel wouldn't accept that.He couldn't.How could he avenge her death if he was the one to blame?He clung to his vengeance like a drowning man to a rope tossed from the shore.It was all he had left, the only thing that could fill the emptiness inside.The Five had killed Jaheira, not he, and the Five would pay.Abdel leaped to his feet, struggling to keep the inferno inside from overwhelming him.He didn't want to release the Ravager.Not unless he had to.He wanted the pleasure of killing Balthazar himself.This time Abdel came in slowly, giving his opponent a wide berth as he circled.In their first confrontations Abdel had been the aggressor.Each time he had lunged in Balthazar had countered by using the big sellsword's aggressiveness and momentum against him.Abdel was about to turn the tables on his enemy, taking away his advantage.This time, Abdel would wait for the monk to make the first move.For several long seconds Abdel held his ground, staying well out of range.Waiting, hoping to lure his opponent in.Balthazar took the offensive.The monk came straight at him, moving fast.He came in low, trying to sweep Abdel's legs out from under him.Abdel leaped back and brought his sword chopping down with both hands to cleave Balthazar's skull.The monk was already gone, twisting and spinning clear of the blade.Abdel tried to retreat and reset himself.Balthazar had moved in too close for him to use his weapon effectively.The monk pressed forward, refusing to give Abdel the space he needed.A fist to the jaw, an elbow to the throat, a spinning roundhouse kick to the temple and Abdel collapsed groggily to one knee.
Abdel wouldn't accept that.He couldn't.How could he avenge her death if he was the one to blame?He clung to his vengeance like a drowning man to a rope tossed from the shore.It was all he had left, the only thing that could fill the emptiness inside.The Five had killed Jaheira, not he, and the Five would pay.Abdel leaped to his feet, struggling to keep the inferno inside from overwhelming him.He didn't want to release the Ravager.Not unless he had to.He wanted the pleasure of killing Balthazar himself.This time Abdel came in slowly, giving his opponent a wide berth as he circled.In their first confrontations Abdel had been the aggressor.Each time he had lunged in Balthazar had countered by using the big sellsword's aggressiveness and momentum against him.Abdel was about to turn the tables on his enemy, taking away his advantage.This time, Abdel would wait for the monk to make the first move.For several long seconds Abdel held his ground, staying well out of range.Waiting, hoping to lure his opponent in.Balthazar took the offensive.The monk came straight at him, moving fast.He came in low, trying to sweep Abdel's legs out from under him.Abdel leaped back and brought his sword chopping down with both hands to cleave Balthazar's skull.The monk was already gone, twisting and spinning clear of the blade.Abdel tried to retreat and reset himself.Balthazar had moved in too close for him to use his weapon effectively.The monk pressed forward, refusing to give Abdel the space he needed.A fist to the jaw, an elbow to the throat, a spinning roundhouse kick to the temple and Abdel collapsed groggily to one knee.
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A knee to the face, and Abdel's nose exploded in a bloody geyser.He thrust out blindly with his broadsword, hoping to get lucky.Balthazar seized his wrist, braced Abdel's arm and snapped it backward at the elbow, shattering the joint.Abdel screamed in pain and tried to roll clear.He came to his feet just in time to feel Balthazar's foot driving through the side of his knee, dislocating it and ripping the ligaments and tendons from the bone now protruding just beneath Abdel's thigh.Balthazar stepped back, leaving his crippled opponent writhing on the floor."Even now I relish the pain I am inflicting," he said, almost by way of apology."We cannot deny what we are Abdel, no matter how much we try.I suppose that is why Bhaal's Anointed recruited you to eliminate the Five.No matter which side eventually triumphed, Bhaal's evil would still reign supreme in the victor's soul.When this is all over, Bhaal's Anointed can use that evil to resurrect the Lord of Murder."Abdel shook his head, trying to ignore the all consuming agony of his two mangled limbs while he struggled to follow the words of Balthazar."Bhaal's Anointed?"he asked, gritting his teeth against the pain.The monk gave him a sympathetic smile."You have no idea, do you?You are a pawn, Abdel.A puppet on a string.Melissan has been manipulating you this whole time."Chapter Twenty-OneMelissan breathed deep of the dank, musty air as she slowly walked toward the abandoned temple.It smelled of empty decay and rotting death—a smell she had become all too familiar with over the last thirty years.Beneath the stale, fetid stench she caught a hint of something else: smoke and fire.The scent of burning hatred, the perfume of violent, living, palpable fury.
A knee to the face, and Abdel's nose exploded in a bloody geyser.He thrust out blindly with his broadsword, hoping to get lucky.Balthazar seized his wrist, braced Abdel's arm and snapped it backward at the elbow, shattering the joint.Abdel screamed in pain and tried to roll clear.He came to his feet just in time to feel Balthazar's foot driving through the side of his knee, dislocating it and ripping the ligaments and tendons from the bone now protruding just beneath Abdel's thigh.Balthazar stepped back, leaving his crippled opponent writhing on the floor."Even now I relish the pain I am inflicting," he said, almost by way of apology."We cannot deny what we are Abdel, no matter how much we try.I suppose that is why Bhaal's Anointed recruited you to eliminate the Five.No matter which side eventually triumphed, Bhaal's evil would still reign supreme in the victor's soul.When this is all over, Bhaal's Anointed can use that evil to resurrect the Lord of Murder."Abdel shook his head, trying to ignore the all consuming agony of his two mangled limbs while he struggled to follow the words of Balthazar."Bhaal's Anointed?"he asked, gritting his teeth against the pain.The monk gave him a sympathetic smile."You have no idea, do you?You are a pawn, Abdel.A puppet on a string.Melissan has been manipulating you this whole time."Chapter Twenty-OneMelissan breathed deep of the dank, musty air as she slowly walked toward the abandoned temple.It smelled of empty decay and rotting death—a smell she had become all too familiar with over the last thirty years.Beneath the stale, fetid stench she caught a hint of something else: smoke and fire.The scent of burning hatred, the perfume of violent, living, palpable fury.
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She smiled.After giving Abdel her horse, she had been forced to journey here on foot.The trip had taken many days, but that was a minor inconvenience when compared to the decades she had been patiently waiting, and now her patience was about to be rewarded.The hot glow of the flames bathed her body as she entered the door and gazed up at the grinning skull that was the symbol of her god.She felt the heat from the flames lick her skin, caressing her tingling flesh as Bhaal himself had done while he had walked the land before the Time of Troubles.The inferno in the pit flared up as she approached, as if the collected essence of the dead god burning within recognized her: Melissan, High Priestess of the Lord of Murder, Bhaal's Anointed.Long ago, Melissan had enacted the sacrifices and gruesome rituals that fed her god's hungers.She had led Bhaal's followers in bloody devotion, slaying enemies and victims alike and tossing their bodies and souls onto the evil, eternal fire at the center of the temple.For her faith, Bhaal had rewarded her with the secrets of ascension so that she might bring the Lord of Murder back to life after his inevitable death.The time for the ritual had come, the essence of Bhaal's offspring had been collected through the Five's war of bloody sacrifice.All was ripe for the dead god's return.But Melissan now had other plans.The tall woman slowly removed the fine chain mesh she wore over her clothes and let it drop to the floor.She removed her silver gloves and boots and peeled off her long black sleeves and her tight leggings.She stripped away the tight black cloth undergarments that clung to the curves of her shapely form, revealing the horribly disfigured skin beneath.Thirty years ago, Bhaal's anointing baptism of fire had burned his mark onto every inch of her body, except her face, leaving her flesh a mass of ugly, twisted scar tissue that would never heal.She had undergone the transformation willingly, knowing the rewards would be well worth the suffering when the time for retribution came, and that time was nearly at hand.Melissan, naked and exposed, stepped into the roaring blaze at the center of Bhaal's temple.The torment was bearable.Temperatures beyond the scope of mortal fathoming incinerated her spirit, though her mutilated, repulsive body was unharmed.The shrieks of tortured souls, the Bhaalspawn trapped within the conflagration, flooded her ears, splitting her eardrums and piercing her brain.She welcomed the pain.She embraced it, and the hellish fire embraced her in return.Orange fingers crept up her skin, crawling inside her mouth and nostrils like a living entity seeking to devour her from the inside out.The flames engulfed her, slowly and painfully purging her mortal existence and opening the way for Melissan's own ascension to immortality."This must stop!"Instinctively, Melissan had closed her eyes as she had entered the sacred fire.
She smiled.After giving Abdel her horse, she had been forced to journey here on foot.The trip had taken many days, but that was a minor inconvenience when compared to the decades she had been patiently waiting, and now her patience was about to be rewarded.The hot glow of the flames bathed her body as she entered the door and gazed up at the grinning skull that was the symbol of her god.She felt the heat from the flames lick her skin, caressing her tingling flesh as Bhaal himself had done while he had walked the land before the Time of Troubles.The inferno in the pit flared up as she approached, as if the collected essence of the dead god burning within recognized her: Melissan, High Priestess of the Lord of Murder, Bhaal's Anointed.Long ago, Melissan had enacted the sacrifices and gruesome rituals that fed her god's hungers.She had led Bhaal's followers in bloody devotion, slaying enemies and victims alike and tossing their bodies and souls onto the evil, eternal fire at the center of the temple.For her faith, Bhaal had rewarded her with the secrets of ascension so that she might bring the Lord of Murder back to life after his inevitable death.The time for the ritual had come, the essence of Bhaal's offspring had been collected through the Five's war of bloody sacrifice.All was ripe for the dead god's return.But Melissan now had other plans.The tall woman slowly removed the fine chain mesh she wore over her clothes and let it drop to the floor.She removed her silver gloves and boots and peeled off her long black sleeves and her tight leggings.She stripped away the tight black cloth undergarments that clung to the curves of her shapely form, revealing the horribly disfigured skin beneath.Thirty years ago, Bhaal's anointing baptism of fire had burned his mark onto every inch of her body, except her face, leaving her flesh a mass of ugly, twisted scar tissue that would never heal.She had undergone the transformation willingly, knowing the rewards would be well worth the suffering when the time for retribution came, and that time was nearly at hand.Melissan, naked and exposed, stepped into the roaring blaze at the center of Bhaal's temple.The torment was bearable.Temperatures beyond the scope of mortal fathoming incinerated her spirit, though her mutilated, repulsive body was unharmed.The shrieks of tortured souls, the Bhaalspawn trapped within the conflagration, flooded her ears, splitting her eardrums and piercing her brain.She welcomed the pain.She embraced it, and the hellish fire embraced her in return.Orange fingers crept up her skin, crawling inside her mouth and nostrils like a living entity seeking to devour her from the inside out.The flames engulfed her, slowly and painfully purging her mortal existence and opening the way for Melissan's own ascension to immortality."This must stop!"Instinctively, Melissan had closed her eyes as she had entered the sacred fire.
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dnd8119
At the sound of a seeming multitude of voices speaking in unison, they popped open.Through the hazy orange veil of dancing flames she saw an enormous figure towering over her, its head nearly scraping against the roof of Bhaal's temple.It spread its massive black, celestial robe, dwarfing the naked woman.Melissan recognized this being—a solar, servant and messenger of Ao, the strange being that ruled over even the gods themselves.Despite the all-consuming heat, Melissan trembled."This is not permitted!"the being warned."You cannot do this."But the creature made no move to intercede.It stood motionless while the ascension ritual progressed, taking no action to disrupt the sacrament.Melissan's fear slowly vanished as the truth dawned on her.This was no divine guardian of fate and destiny, no all-powerful entity sent to smite her down.This was a mere projection, a harmless spirit from another plane."You have no place here!"she screamed above the roaring conflagration."And you have no power here!""A mortal may not ascend in Bhaal's place," the creature stated ominously."Only one of Bhaal's lineage must be permitted to fulfill this destiny.""What of Cyric?"Melissan challenged."Was he not a mortal who ascended to the pantheon?""Cyric was a mistake," the entity admitted, "an exception that will not be permitted a second time.""Then unleash the wrath of your master upon me," Melissan dared, made bold by her knowledge of the history of Faerun.
At the sound of a seeming multitude of voices speaking in unison, they popped open.Through the hazy orange veil of dancing flames she saw an enormous figure towering over her, its head nearly scraping against the roof of Bhaal's temple.It spread its massive black, celestial robe, dwarfing the naked woman.Melissan recognized this being—a solar, servant and messenger of Ao, the strange being that ruled over even the gods themselves.Despite the all-consuming heat, Melissan trembled."This is not permitted!"the being warned."You cannot do this."But the creature made no move to intercede.It stood motionless while the ascension ritual progressed, taking no action to disrupt the sacrament.Melissan's fear slowly vanished as the truth dawned on her.This was no divine guardian of fate and destiny, no all-powerful entity sent to smite her down.This was a mere projection, a harmless spirit from another plane."You have no place here!"she screamed above the roaring conflagration."And you have no power here!""A mortal may not ascend in Bhaal's place," the creature stated ominously."Only one of Bhaal's lineage must be permitted to fulfill this destiny.""What of Cyric?"Melissan challenged."Was he not a mortal who ascended to the pantheon?""Cyric was a mistake," the entity admitted, "an exception that will not be permitted a second time.""Then unleash the wrath of your master upon me," Melissan dared, made bold by her knowledge of the history of Faerun.
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dnd8120
Only once in recorded memory had Ao ever intervened in the events of Abeir-toril, during the Time of Troubles.But that era was over, and Ao had long since retreated once more into the mists of philosophical legend.When nothing happened Melissan cackled with mad relief.She had called the solar's bluff and she had won."Your master is as disinterested as ever.Soon Balthazar will kill Abdel, or perhaps the other way around.It makes no matter.With either death I will gain access to enough of Bhaal's immortal essence to begin my transformation."Powerless to intervene, unable to even dispute Melissan's bold words, the solar simply vanished.The triumphant laugh of Melissan reverberated off the walls of the abandoned temple.The sacred fire intensified, and Melissan felt her flesh begin to melt.Her laughter turned to screams as her body turned to ash.Melissan found herself standing in Bhaal's Abyssal realm.Her physical body was gone, devoured by the flames raging in the center of Bhaal's temple back on the material plane.Here in this nether realm she had form once again.She was beautiful once more, the scars and disfigurements of her initiation as Bhaal's Anointed had been cleansed from her body.She ran her fingers in wonder over her now-smooth, unblemished skin, marveling at her own perfection.The heavy rumble of thunder drew her attention skyward.Above her dark clouds roiled and churned, riding the chill wind.Stretching as far as she could see in every direction was dark, rich earth.The gathering essence of Bhaal had brought malevolent life back to the sterile void.The Abyssal plane was now ripe with potential, simply waiting for a powerful hand to shape its growth.Closing her eyes and tilting her head back, Melissan raised her arms and began a soft chant.In response the ground began to tremble, and the soil began to bubble and burst as tendrils of diseased vegetation struggled into existence, crawling across the dirt to fawn at the feet of Bhaal's Anointed.Mountains of stone erupted like jagged teeth on the horizon, encircling the realm with a forbidding, impassable border.Melissan opened her eyes to witness the rapid terra-forming of what she already considered her domain.
Only once in recorded memory had Ao ever intervened in the events of Abeir-toril, during the Time of Troubles.But that era was over, and Ao had long since retreated once more into the mists of philosophical legend.When nothing happened Melissan cackled with mad relief.She had called the solar's bluff and she had won."Your master is as disinterested as ever.Soon Balthazar will kill Abdel, or perhaps the other way around.It makes no matter.With either death I will gain access to enough of Bhaal's immortal essence to begin my transformation."Powerless to intervene, unable to even dispute Melissan's bold words, the solar simply vanished.The triumphant laugh of Melissan reverberated off the walls of the abandoned temple.The sacred fire intensified, and Melissan felt her flesh begin to melt.Her laughter turned to screams as her body turned to ash.Melissan found herself standing in Bhaal's Abyssal realm.Her physical body was gone, devoured by the flames raging in the center of Bhaal's temple back on the material plane.Here in this nether realm she had form once again.She was beautiful once more, the scars and disfigurements of her initiation as Bhaal's Anointed had been cleansed from her body.She ran her fingers in wonder over her now-smooth, unblemished skin, marveling at her own perfection.The heavy rumble of thunder drew her attention skyward.Above her dark clouds roiled and churned, riding the chill wind.Stretching as far as she could see in every direction was dark, rich earth.The gathering essence of Bhaal had brought malevolent life back to the sterile void.The Abyssal plane was now ripe with potential, simply waiting for a powerful hand to shape its growth.Closing her eyes and tilting her head back, Melissan raised her arms and began a soft chant.In response the ground began to tremble, and the soil began to bubble and burst as tendrils of diseased vegetation struggled into existence, crawling across the dirt to fawn at the feet of Bhaal's Anointed.Mountains of stone erupted like jagged teeth on the horizon, encircling the realm with a forbidding, impassable border.Melissan opened her eyes to witness the rapid terra-forming of what she already considered her domain.
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This world obeyed her every whim and desire, yet something was lacking.Melissan felt the power of Bhaal's immortal essence pulsing through the ground at her feet.It hung like a static charge in the air.She was able to bend that essence to her will, but she herself was not yet part of that essence.She was still a mortal in a god's realm.It was only then that she noticed the single door, standing without walls or frame in the middle of the world.Cautious and curious, the mortal who would be a god approached the odd portal.Chapter Twenty-Two"Melissan has been using you, Abdel," Balthazar patiently explained to his helpless opponent."Perhaps she suspected the Five now saw her as no longer necessary and were plotting against her.Perhaps she learned of my desire to betray her cause.Or perhaps she simply realized the Five were becoming too powerful for her to control."Whatever the reason, she played us off against each other.When you came to Saradush she manipulated you into killing Yaga Shura, and she tricked Gromnir into opening the gates of the besieged town.In one fell swoop she slaughtered nearly all the remaining Bhaalspawn and managed to turn you against the Five."Balthazar paused to gauge Abdel's reaction.The crippled warrior shook his head in denial."No," he said through gritted teeth, "I don't believe you.""What you believe does not matter.Once we are both dead there will be none of Bhaal's offspring left for Melissan to manipulate, no one to listen to her promises of glory, and no way for Melissan to bring the Lord of Murder back to life."The pain from his demolished joints made cogent thought difficult for Abdel.Balthazar had to be lying, but why?What could the monk possibly gain by spinning such a web of deceit?
This world obeyed her every whim and desire, yet something was lacking.Melissan felt the power of Bhaal's immortal essence pulsing through the ground at her feet.It hung like a static charge in the air.She was able to bend that essence to her will, but she herself was not yet part of that essence.She was still a mortal in a god's realm.It was only then that she noticed the single door, standing without walls or frame in the middle of the world.Cautious and curious, the mortal who would be a god approached the odd portal.Chapter Twenty-Two"Melissan has been using you, Abdel," Balthazar patiently explained to his helpless opponent."Perhaps she suspected the Five now saw her as no longer necessary and were plotting against her.Perhaps she learned of my desire to betray her cause.Or perhaps she simply realized the Five were becoming too powerful for her to control."Whatever the reason, she played us off against each other.When you came to Saradush she manipulated you into killing Yaga Shura, and she tricked Gromnir into opening the gates of the besieged town.In one fell swoop she slaughtered nearly all the remaining Bhaalspawn and managed to turn you against the Five."Balthazar paused to gauge Abdel's reaction.The crippled warrior shook his head in denial."No," he said through gritted teeth, "I don't believe you.""What you believe does not matter.Once we are both dead there will be none of Bhaal's offspring left for Melissan to manipulate, no one to listen to her promises of glory, and no way for Melissan to bring the Lord of Murder back to life."The pain from his demolished joints made cogent thought difficult for Abdel.Balthazar had to be lying, but why?What could the monk possibly gain by spinning such a web of deceit?
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The big sellsword shook his head, trying to clear away the indecision.Unraveling Melissan's role in the events of his recent life would have to wait.Abdel pushed his confusion down, burying it beneath simpler, purer thoughts.The Five had killed Jaheira.Balthazar was one of the Five.Balthazar must die.Abdel knew he was overmatched.The monk was too skilled for the warrior to defeat in combat.He had wanted to avenge Jaheira himself, but looking at his horribly mangled sword arm and the bone jutting from his lower leg Abdel now knew that was not to be.Yet vengeance was still possible.The fires of Bhaal flared up within him, and Abdel abandoned himself to his father's evil.His body exploded, sending bits of flesh spewing around the room as the Ravager broke free.The roof of the building wasn't tall enough for the demon to stand to its full height, but the beast simply hunched forward and braced itself by placing two of its arms on the stone floor.The other pair of clawed limbs extended out before the creature as it scuttled toward the doomed monk.The sight of Abdel's transformation into the hideous manifestation of Bhaal's evil did not surprise Balthazar.He had expected this.He was prepared.Balthazar ducked beneath the swiping talons of his enemy.He spun away from the gnashing, snapping jaws and delivered a series of hard kicks and punches to one of the abomination's back legs.His blows bounced harmlessly off the hard exoskeleton of the monster.The Ravager kicked out its leg, moving so fast Balthazar never even saw the attack coming.A gigantic foot caught the monk in the chest with enough force to turn his bones to dust.But Balthazar's body was able to absorb the force and roll backward with the blow.Instead of shattering every bone in the monk's torso, the kick simply sent him tumbling backward in a series of backward somersaults that stopped just short of the stone wall.The Ravager spun toward the monk again, its immense size effectively cornering Balthazar against the wall.The beast lunged in with all four claws this time, each hand slashing in at a different height and from a different angle.Balthazar ducked and dodged, his body bending and twisting in ways that would have snapped the spine of an ordinary man.The Ravager was relentless in its attacks.Its claws were nothing but blurs of horrible, grasping, gashing death.Yet somehow the monk continued to evade the lethal talons, deflecting, parrying, and redirecting a half dozen attacks in a single second.The Ravager was faster and stronger than any creature that Balthazar had encountered, but he knew it was but a beast, an untrained animal.
The big sellsword shook his head, trying to clear away the indecision.Unraveling Melissan's role in the events of his recent life would have to wait.Abdel pushed his confusion down, burying it beneath simpler, purer thoughts.The Five had killed Jaheira.Balthazar was one of the Five.Balthazar must die.Abdel knew he was overmatched.The monk was too skilled for the warrior to defeat in combat.He had wanted to avenge Jaheira himself, but looking at his horribly mangled sword arm and the bone jutting from his lower leg Abdel now knew that was not to be.Yet vengeance was still possible.The fires of Bhaal flared up within him, and Abdel abandoned himself to his father's evil.His body exploded, sending bits of flesh spewing around the room as the Ravager broke free.The roof of the building wasn't tall enough for the demon to stand to its full height, but the beast simply hunched forward and braced itself by placing two of its arms on the stone floor.The other pair of clawed limbs extended out before the creature as it scuttled toward the doomed monk.The sight of Abdel's transformation into the hideous manifestation of Bhaal's evil did not surprise Balthazar.He had expected this.He was prepared.Balthazar ducked beneath the swiping talons of his enemy.He spun away from the gnashing, snapping jaws and delivered a series of hard kicks and punches to one of the abomination's back legs.His blows bounced harmlessly off the hard exoskeleton of the monster.The Ravager kicked out its leg, moving so fast Balthazar never even saw the attack coming.A gigantic foot caught the monk in the chest with enough force to turn his bones to dust.But Balthazar's body was able to absorb the force and roll backward with the blow.Instead of shattering every bone in the monk's torso, the kick simply sent him tumbling backward in a series of backward somersaults that stopped just short of the stone wall.The Ravager spun toward the monk again, its immense size effectively cornering Balthazar against the wall.The beast lunged in with all four claws this time, each hand slashing in at a different height and from a different angle.Balthazar ducked and dodged, his body bending and twisting in ways that would have snapped the spine of an ordinary man.The Ravager was relentless in its attacks.Its claws were nothing but blurs of horrible, grasping, gashing death.Yet somehow the monk continued to evade the lethal talons, deflecting, parrying, and redirecting a half dozen attacks in a single second.The Ravager was faster and stronger than any creature that Balthazar had encountered, but he knew it was but a beast, an untrained animal.
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It attacked with simple brute force and fury, it had no concept of tactics or strategy.Decades of study in the arts of combat allowed Balthazar to anticipate and defend against each and every attack.As Balthazar learned the rhythms and patterns of the monster's assaults, he slowly began to take the offensive.Mixed in with the dodges and parries were vicious counter-thrusts, punches, and kicks to the bulging, faceted, insect eyes of the demon.The beast seemed oblivious to the damage Balthazar was inflicting.It was as if pain had no meaning for this monster.But as the monk continued to gouge and brutalize the demon's ocular organs, the Ravager's attacks became wilder and more frenzied, and less and less accurate.Soon the creature was thrashing madly, swinging blind in the fervent hope it could somehow find its opponent by touch alone and rip him to shreds.The mad, chaotic efforts of the sightless Ravager were as ineffective as its previous attempts to destroy the monk.In desperation, the beast slammed its entire body against the wall in a wild effort to crush its elusive foe.Balthazar sensed the desperate move and easily ducked under the Ravager's widespread legs as it coiled itself for the leap.The demon threw itself against the magically reinforced stone, sending great cracks through the very foundation of the indestructible tower.The monster was up an instant after slamming into the stone, turning and flailing around with its arms as it tried to locate the monk.Balthazar stood calmly at the far side of the room, gathering all of his power into a single hand.The blind beast smelled or heard or simply sensed where the tattooed man stood and charged forward.Balthazar held his ground, letting the monster come to him.He crouched beneath the Ravager's talon grasping for his throat.He leaped over a claw that slashed at his legs.Balthazar calmly stepped toward the beast and thrust his open palm into the beast's massive chest.The Ravager reeled backward, screaming in frustration and confusion.It stumbled back, waving its four arms in a futile attempt to regain its balance.Halfway across the room it collapsed to the floor, its entire body trembling with vibrations from Balthazar's quivering touch like a tuning fork struck with a hammer.Still shrieking its impotent rage, the demon struggled to its feet.It stood unsteadily, its body quaking and shuddering as the vibrations intensified.There was a horrendous crack as a million spiderweb thin fissures appeared all at once in the chitinous shell that was the Ravager's skin.The trembling continued, wracking the monster's form with violent convulsions.The hairline cracks spread and widened, and a viscous green liquid oozed out.The Ravager screeched one final time, then collapsed in silence on its back as great chunks of its body began to shake free, dropping to the earth with sticky thuds.A single crack wound its way up the entire length of the demon's torso, and the two halves split wide apart.The massive body of Abdel Adrian crawled free of the mucous and slime that encased him.
It attacked with simple brute force and fury, it had no concept of tactics or strategy.Decades of study in the arts of combat allowed Balthazar to anticipate and defend against each and every attack.As Balthazar learned the rhythms and patterns of the monster's assaults, he slowly began to take the offensive.Mixed in with the dodges and parries were vicious counter-thrusts, punches, and kicks to the bulging, faceted, insect eyes of the demon.The beast seemed oblivious to the damage Balthazar was inflicting.It was as if pain had no meaning for this monster.But as the monk continued to gouge and brutalize the demon's ocular organs, the Ravager's attacks became wilder and more frenzied, and less and less accurate.Soon the creature was thrashing madly, swinging blind in the fervent hope it could somehow find its opponent by touch alone and rip him to shreds.The mad, chaotic efforts of the sightless Ravager were as ineffective as its previous attempts to destroy the monk.In desperation, the beast slammed its entire body against the wall in a wild effort to crush its elusive foe.Balthazar sensed the desperate move and easily ducked under the Ravager's widespread legs as it coiled itself for the leap.The demon threw itself against the magically reinforced stone, sending great cracks through the very foundation of the indestructible tower.The monster was up an instant after slamming into the stone, turning and flailing around with its arms as it tried to locate the monk.Balthazar stood calmly at the far side of the room, gathering all of his power into a single hand.The blind beast smelled or heard or simply sensed where the tattooed man stood and charged forward.Balthazar held his ground, letting the monster come to him.He crouched beneath the Ravager's talon grasping for his throat.He leaped over a claw that slashed at his legs.Balthazar calmly stepped toward the beast and thrust his open palm into the beast's massive chest.The Ravager reeled backward, screaming in frustration and confusion.It stumbled back, waving its four arms in a futile attempt to regain its balance.Halfway across the room it collapsed to the floor, its entire body trembling with vibrations from Balthazar's quivering touch like a tuning fork struck with a hammer.Still shrieking its impotent rage, the demon struggled to its feet.It stood unsteadily, its body quaking and shuddering as the vibrations intensified.There was a horrendous crack as a million spiderweb thin fissures appeared all at once in the chitinous shell that was the Ravager's skin.The trembling continued, wracking the monster's form with violent convulsions.The hairline cracks spread and widened, and a viscous green liquid oozed out.The Ravager screeched one final time, then collapsed in silence on its back as great chunks of its body began to shake free, dropping to the earth with sticky thuds.A single crack wound its way up the entire length of the demon's torso, and the two halves split wide apart.The massive body of Abdel Adrian crawled free of the mucous and slime that encased him.
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Balthazar could see the man's injured arm and leg had been restored during the transformation, but the big warrior seemed oblivious to his healed limbs.He flailed his hands and feet in primal revulsion, struggling to break free of the crumbling shell and the sticky, oozing substance that clung to his body like foul syrup.Balthazar watched in curious fascination as Abdel emerged naked from the husk that had been the Ravager.Then he stepped forward and delivered a savage kick to Abdel's chest as the sellsword was wiping the repulsive slime from his eyes.The monk's blow lifted Abdel from the ground and sent the sellsword sailing through the air to slam into the stone walls of the tower, crushing the back of his skull and pulverizing his brain.The monk walked purposefully forward to deliver the killing blow to Abdel's twitching, brain-dead corpse.He pulled up short when a tall, ethereal form materialized in his path."Balthazar, I am here to warn you of Melissan's plans."The creature's voice seemed to come from everywhere at once, as if an invisible chorus spoke in unison with its voice.Wary of further treachery from Melissan, Balthazar took a step backward."I will thwart Bhaal's Anointed," he assured the entity, not certain if it was friend or foe."Once Abdel is slain I shall end my own life and forever remove the threat of Bhaal's return."Much to Balthazar's surprise, the glorious being suddenly appeared nervous."I should not tell you this ...I should not even be here.The Hidden One disapproves of this-----But Melissan has gone far beyond the bounds of what was foreseen.She has made it necessary for me to break my oath of noninterference."The monk shook his head."I do not understand you, creature.""Melissan does not seek to restore Bhaal—she seeks to supplant him.Even now she walks Bhaal's Abyssal plane.If she learns how to become one with Bhaal's immortal essence she will ascend to godhood."There was silence as Balthazar mulled over the implications of the messenger's words.
Balthazar could see the man's injured arm and leg had been restored during the transformation, but the big warrior seemed oblivious to his healed limbs.He flailed his hands and feet in primal revulsion, struggling to break free of the crumbling shell and the sticky, oozing substance that clung to his body like foul syrup.Balthazar watched in curious fascination as Abdel emerged naked from the husk that had been the Ravager.Then he stepped forward and delivered a savage kick to Abdel's chest as the sellsword was wiping the repulsive slime from his eyes.The monk's blow lifted Abdel from the ground and sent the sellsword sailing through the air to slam into the stone walls of the tower, crushing the back of his skull and pulverizing his brain.The monk walked purposefully forward to deliver the killing blow to Abdel's twitching, brain-dead corpse.He pulled up short when a tall, ethereal form materialized in his path."Balthazar, I am here to warn you of Melissan's plans."The creature's voice seemed to come from everywhere at once, as if an invisible chorus spoke in unison with its voice.Wary of further treachery from Melissan, Balthazar took a step backward."I will thwart Bhaal's Anointed," he assured the entity, not certain if it was friend or foe."Once Abdel is slain I shall end my own life and forever remove the threat of Bhaal's return."Much to Balthazar's surprise, the glorious being suddenly appeared nervous."I should not tell you this ...I should not even be here.The Hidden One disapproves of this-----But Melissan has gone far beyond the bounds of what was foreseen.She has made it necessary for me to break my oath of noninterference."The monk shook his head."I do not understand you, creature.""Melissan does not seek to restore Bhaal—she seeks to supplant him.Even now she walks Bhaal's Abyssal plane.If she learns how to become one with Bhaal's immortal essence she will ascend to godhood."There was silence as Balthazar mulled over the implications of the messenger's words.
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He had sworn himself to preventing the return of Bhaal, but to allow Melissan to become the Lord of Murder herself was an equally reprehensible solution."I will stop her," Balthazar declared."Take me to her.""I can open the path to Bhaal's realm," the magnificent being explained, "but once there you must follow Melissan through the final door yourself."Balthazar nodded in understanding, then waited for the way to become clear.After nearly a minute the angelic being spoke again."Why do you hesitate, Balthazar?Time is of the essence.""I am ready," Balthazar replied, slightly confused."Show me the path and I shall begin the journey.""The gate is open."There was deep concern in the entity's infinite voice."Simply pass through to enter Bhaal's Abyssal plane.Once there, you must follow Melissan through the final door."Balthazar turned his head from side to side."Where?I see no gate.I see no door.I see nothing."The shadowy being was beginning to dissolve.
He had sworn himself to preventing the return of Bhaal, but to allow Melissan to become the Lord of Murder herself was an equally reprehensible solution."I will stop her," Balthazar declared."Take me to her.""I can open the path to Bhaal's realm," the magnificent being explained, "but once there you must follow Melissan through the final door yourself."Balthazar nodded in understanding, then waited for the way to become clear.After nearly a minute the angelic being spoke again."Why do you hesitate, Balthazar?Time is of the essence.""I am ready," Balthazar replied, slightly confused."Show me the path and I shall begin the journey.""The gate is open."There was deep concern in the entity's infinite voice."Simply pass through to enter Bhaal's Abyssal plane.Once there, you must follow Melissan through the final door."Balthazar turned his head from side to side."Where?I see no gate.I see no door.I see nothing."The shadowy being was beginning to dissolve.
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"Melissan is within Bhaal's realm.She has passed through the final door.Enter the realm and follow her through the door.I will keep the gate open as long as I am able."And the creature was gone.Knowing time was short, Balthazar rushed back and forth around the obviously empty room, trying to find the gate that was supposedly there.The inner peace Balthazar had cultivated with a lifetime of study and contemplation was rapidly disintegrating, lost in the frantic, futile search for a gate he could not see.He could feel the purpose of his very existence slipping from his grasp.Melissan was about to become the Lord of Murder, and his life's work to prevent Bhaal's return would be meaningless if he did not stop her, but he still could not see the way to his father's Abyssal realm.Understanding dawned slowly on the monk.His mind resisted the truth, and tried to bury it in an inescapable fortress of mental will and discipline.Just as it had resisted and buried the essence of Bhaal for so many years.Balthazar could no longer deny the truth, not if he wanted to stop Melissan.Forced to accept his own impotence, he turned his attention back to the comatose Bhaalspawn on the floor.* * * * *The empty, gray existence of unconsciousness slipped away as Abdel's awareness returned.He felt the warmth of magical healing spreading throughout his body, bolstering his own regenerative powers with their tingling touch.Someone cradled his head in his lap, chanting the soft words of the restoring spell.He opened his eyes, expecting to see Jaheira.Instead, he found himself staring up into the tattooed face of the black-skinned Balthazar.Before he could react, the monk jabbed the fingers of his right hand into the side of Abdel's neck, just below the line of his jaw.Balthazar's left hand had a firm grip on the other side of Abdel's jaw, almost as if the monk was about to twist his head clean off his spine."If you move, Abdel, I will be forced to kill you."Abdel knew this was no idle threat.He was unfamiliar with the particular nuances of the maneuver Balthazar seemed poised to unleash, but Abdel had no doubt it would be instantly fatal.
"Melissan is within Bhaal's realm.She has passed through the final door.Enter the realm and follow her through the door.I will keep the gate open as long as I am able."And the creature was gone.Knowing time was short, Balthazar rushed back and forth around the obviously empty room, trying to find the gate that was supposedly there.The inner peace Balthazar had cultivated with a lifetime of study and contemplation was rapidly disintegrating, lost in the frantic, futile search for a gate he could not see.He could feel the purpose of his very existence slipping from his grasp.Melissan was about to become the Lord of Murder, and his life's work to prevent Bhaal's return would be meaningless if he did not stop her, but he still could not see the way to his father's Abyssal realm.Understanding dawned slowly on the monk.His mind resisted the truth, and tried to bury it in an inescapable fortress of mental will and discipline.Just as it had resisted and buried the essence of Bhaal for so many years.Balthazar could no longer deny the truth, not if he wanted to stop Melissan.Forced to accept his own impotence, he turned his attention back to the comatose Bhaalspawn on the floor.* * * * *The empty, gray existence of unconsciousness slipped away as Abdel's awareness returned.He felt the warmth of magical healing spreading throughout his body, bolstering his own regenerative powers with their tingling touch.Someone cradled his head in his lap, chanting the soft words of the restoring spell.He opened his eyes, expecting to see Jaheira.Instead, he found himself staring up into the tattooed face of the black-skinned Balthazar.Before he could react, the monk jabbed the fingers of his right hand into the side of Abdel's neck, just below the line of his jaw.Balthazar's left hand had a firm grip on the other side of Abdel's jaw, almost as if the monk was about to twist his head clean off his spine."If you move, Abdel, I will be forced to kill you."Abdel knew this was no idle threat.He was unfamiliar with the particular nuances of the maneuver Balthazar seemed poised to unleash, but Abdel had no doubt it would be instantly fatal.
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"Why not just kill me now and end this?"he asked.Even the slight movement caused by speaking sent jolts of pain through Abdel's neck and skull.Balthazar must have sensed the sellsword's discomfort because he loosened his grip ever so slightly."I must speak with you, Abdel," Balthazar said, still cradling the sellsword's head in his lap even as his hands maintained a firm and ominous pressure."I must know if you see a gate or a door in this room."Realizing he was at the mercy of his foe, Abdel could do little but answer honestly.Though he was unable to turn his head, Abdel cast his eyes around the circular first floor of the tower.The entrance to the building was still sealed, the only exit was the stairway to the second floor."I see no gate.I see no door.""It is as I feared," the monk muttered, "I have waited too long.The messenger's power has waned, and the path is no longer open."Balthazar sighed, a sound of despondent resignation.Almost as an afterthought he asked, "Have you ever visited the plane of our father?"Still uncertain what the monk was insinuating, Abdel could see no reason to lie."I have seen Bhaal's Abyssal realm."The pressure on his neck increased momentarily, causing Abdel to wince in pain."How?"the monk demanded, his voice unable to mask his excitement."How do you enter this realm?
"Why not just kill me now and end this?"he asked.Even the slight movement caused by speaking sent jolts of pain through Abdel's neck and skull.Balthazar must have sensed the sellsword's discomfort because he loosened his grip ever so slightly."I must speak with you, Abdel," Balthazar said, still cradling the sellsword's head in his lap even as his hands maintained a firm and ominous pressure."I must know if you see a gate or a door in this room."Realizing he was at the mercy of his foe, Abdel could do little but answer honestly.Though he was unable to turn his head, Abdel cast his eyes around the circular first floor of the tower.The entrance to the building was still sealed, the only exit was the stairway to the second floor."I see no gate.I see no door.""It is as I feared," the monk muttered, "I have waited too long.The messenger's power has waned, and the path is no longer open."Balthazar sighed, a sound of despondent resignation.Almost as an afterthought he asked, "Have you ever visited the plane of our father?"Still uncertain what the monk was insinuating, Abdel could see no reason to lie."I have seen Bhaal's Abyssal realm."The pressure on his neck increased momentarily, causing Abdel to wince in pain."How?"the monk demanded, his voice unable to mask his excitement."How do you enter this realm?
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"Abdel hesitated before answering.If Balthazar knew the secret to reaching Bhaal's world, he might very well end Abdel's life in an effort to open the passage.However, if Abdel didn't answer, Balthazar would kill him for sure.And in the end it didn't matter.Even if he could somehow break free from his current compromising position, Abdel realized he would never be able to avenge Jaheira's death.Balthazar was too great an opponent.Abdel could never defeat the tattooed warrior."I cannot control it," the big sellsword said carefully, resigned to his inevitable fate."It has happened whenever I have killed one of the Five.As they die, I suddenly find myself in the plane once ruled by Bhaal.""Of course," Balthazar whispered."The essence of Bhaal would return to its planar home.If the essence was great, as it was in each of the Five, your own essence would be drawn with it."The monk's hands suddenly shifted, and Abdel braced himself for his own death.But instead of wrenching his neck, the monk's hands released their grip.Abdel felt something cold and hard slap into the palm of his right hand.He glanced down and saw he was holding Sendai's dagger.Instinctively his fingers wrapped around the grip."You must kill me, Abdel," Balthazar demanded."Kill me and enter our father's world.
"Abdel hesitated before answering.If Balthazar knew the secret to reaching Bhaal's world, he might very well end Abdel's life in an effort to open the passage.However, if Abdel didn't answer, Balthazar would kill him for sure.And in the end it didn't matter.Even if he could somehow break free from his current compromising position, Abdel realized he would never be able to avenge Jaheira's death.Balthazar was too great an opponent.Abdel could never defeat the tattooed warrior."I cannot control it," the big sellsword said carefully, resigned to his inevitable fate."It has happened whenever I have killed one of the Five.As they die, I suddenly find myself in the plane once ruled by Bhaal.""Of course," Balthazar whispered."The essence of Bhaal would return to its planar home.If the essence was great, as it was in each of the Five, your own essence would be drawn with it."The monk's hands suddenly shifted, and Abdel braced himself for his own death.But instead of wrenching his neck, the monk's hands released their grip.Abdel felt something cold and hard slap into the palm of his right hand.He glanced down and saw he was holding Sendai's dagger.Instinctively his fingers wrapped around the grip."You must kill me, Abdel," Balthazar demanded."Kill me and enter our father's world.
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"Abdel hesitated, unsure if this was some type of trick or test."Why?""Melissan has entered the Abyssal plane," the monk explained hastily."She seeks to become the new Lord of Murder.You must enter the plane and pass through the final door to stop her."Still on his back with his head on Balthazar's lap, Abdel pressed the point of Sendai's blade against the monk's throat.He didn't know if Balthazar was telling him the truth about Melissan, but he couldn't see any reason for the monk to lie.Abdel finally had his chance to avenge Jaheira.But for some reason, his hand still refused to draw the rune-covered edge across Balthazar's neck."Why me?"Abdel asked."Why not just kill me and do this yourself?""I cannot," Balthazar replied, his voice sounding almost ashamed."I have caged the Bhaal essence within me so thoroughly that I am no longer able to enter the realm of our father.The enchanted markings on my body keep the foul essence contained, the years of mental discipline reinforce the bars of the prison within my soul so that I am unable to access the power of my own tainted blood."It must be you, Abdel.You are the last of our kind.You are the only one who can follow Melissan now."The monk tilted his head back, exposing his throat to Abdel's blade.Earlier the sellsword had lusted for just such an opportunity, but now he found he was unwilling to deliver the final cut."Time is of the essence," Balthazar reminded him, his voice placid and serene.Abdel sliced the knife across the monk's neck.
"Abdel hesitated, unsure if this was some type of trick or test."Why?""Melissan has entered the Abyssal plane," the monk explained hastily."She seeks to become the new Lord of Murder.You must enter the plane and pass through the final door to stop her."Still on his back with his head on Balthazar's lap, Abdel pressed the point of Sendai's blade against the monk's throat.He didn't know if Balthazar was telling him the truth about Melissan, but he couldn't see any reason for the monk to lie.Abdel finally had his chance to avenge Jaheira.But for some reason, his hand still refused to draw the rune-covered edge across Balthazar's neck."Why me?"Abdel asked."Why not just kill me and do this yourself?""I cannot," Balthazar replied, his voice sounding almost ashamed."I have caged the Bhaal essence within me so thoroughly that I am no longer able to enter the realm of our father.The enchanted markings on my body keep the foul essence contained, the years of mental discipline reinforce the bars of the prison within my soul so that I am unable to access the power of my own tainted blood."It must be you, Abdel.You are the last of our kind.You are the only one who can follow Melissan now."The monk tilted his head back, exposing his throat to Abdel's blade.Earlier the sellsword had lusted for just such an opportunity, but now he found he was unwilling to deliver the final cut."Time is of the essence," Balthazar reminded him, his voice placid and serene.Abdel sliced the knife across the monk's neck.
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The warm blood rained down from the jagged wound to coat Abdel's hand and wrist.It pumped forth, splashing across the sellsword's face and chest.Balthazar's body slumped forward across Abdel's own.Chapter Twenty-ThreeAbdel recognized the Abyssal home of Bhaal through some innate feeling of familiarity.Perhaps it was his own immortal essence that drew him to this place, perhaps it was simply the fact that he had been here so many times before.Whatever the explanation, Abdel instinctively knew he was once again in his father's realm.But he couldn't tell by looking at the surroundings.Each time he had visited Bhaal's corner of the Abyss Abdel had noticed the subtle changes.From empty void, to parched desert, to fertile, rain-soaked earth Abdel had been witness to the evolution of a dead, forgotten world.What he saw now, however, boggled his mind.He was standing in a jungle—diseased, rotting, moribund—but a jungle nonetheless.Gnarled trees the color of deadwood arced up to disappear in the canopy of wide, yellow-splotched leaves overhead.Sickly gray vines hung down from the trees, putrid brown flowers bloomed among the infected flora.There was no sound in the plague-filled tangle of trees and foliage, merely a heavy, oppressive silence that seemed to press in on Abdel from all sides with an almost physical presence.Even more overpowering was the pungent, cloying odor of gangrenous growth that hung in the air like a noxious cloud.With every breath Abdel was forced to fight against the urge to disgorge his last meal.The moldering jungle grew so thick around him, Abdel could barely see five feet in front of him, but he knew the door he sought was somewhere in the murky, mildewed forest.Despite his revulsion to even touch the diseased plant life, he would have to hack his way through the growth to find the door.Abdel took a hesitant step forward, and his bare foot sank an inch deep into the dark lichens and fungi that carpeted the ground.The decomposing moss squelched up between his toes in a dark green mush of liquid and vegetable matter.As if reacting to his movements, slime coated vines dropped down from overhead to wrap themselves around his head and bare shoulders.He shrugged them off in disgust only to discover thick, deformed weeds had sprouted up from the earth beneath his feet and were entwining themselves around his naked legs.Abdel kicked them loose, their malnourished, sickly stalks far too feeble to offer much resistance.Gagging at the fetid stench of decomposition wafting up from the mulch beneath his feet, Abdel pressed onward.Shuddering at the mucky feel of the vegetation against every inch of his exposed skin, Abdel snapped off branches and tore through thick jungle leaves.A blade would have made his progress far less distasteful, but Abdel was completely weaponless.Again and again he reached out with his bare hands to rip his way through the dense growth.His fingers became discolored and sticky with the foul-smelling sap leaking from the plants surrounding him.It didn't take him long to realize that the plants were pressing in on all sides—literally.
The warm blood rained down from the jagged wound to coat Abdel's hand and wrist.It pumped forth, splashing across the sellsword's face and chest.Balthazar's body slumped forward across Abdel's own.Chapter Twenty-ThreeAbdel recognized the Abyssal home of Bhaal through some innate feeling of familiarity.Perhaps it was his own immortal essence that drew him to this place, perhaps it was simply the fact that he had been here so many times before.Whatever the explanation, Abdel instinctively knew he was once again in his father's realm.But he couldn't tell by looking at the surroundings.Each time he had visited Bhaal's corner of the Abyss Abdel had noticed the subtle changes.From empty void, to parched desert, to fertile, rain-soaked earth Abdel had been witness to the evolution of a dead, forgotten world.What he saw now, however, boggled his mind.He was standing in a jungle—diseased, rotting, moribund—but a jungle nonetheless.Gnarled trees the color of deadwood arced up to disappear in the canopy of wide, yellow-splotched leaves overhead.Sickly gray vines hung down from the trees, putrid brown flowers bloomed among the infected flora.There was no sound in the plague-filled tangle of trees and foliage, merely a heavy, oppressive silence that seemed to press in on Abdel from all sides with an almost physical presence.Even more overpowering was the pungent, cloying odor of gangrenous growth that hung in the air like a noxious cloud.With every breath Abdel was forced to fight against the urge to disgorge his last meal.The moldering jungle grew so thick around him, Abdel could barely see five feet in front of him, but he knew the door he sought was somewhere in the murky, mildewed forest.Despite his revulsion to even touch the diseased plant life, he would have to hack his way through the growth to find the door.Abdel took a hesitant step forward, and his bare foot sank an inch deep into the dark lichens and fungi that carpeted the ground.The decomposing moss squelched up between his toes in a dark green mush of liquid and vegetable matter.As if reacting to his movements, slime coated vines dropped down from overhead to wrap themselves around his head and bare shoulders.He shrugged them off in disgust only to discover thick, deformed weeds had sprouted up from the earth beneath his feet and were entwining themselves around his naked legs.Abdel kicked them loose, their malnourished, sickly stalks far too feeble to offer much resistance.Gagging at the fetid stench of decomposition wafting up from the mulch beneath his feet, Abdel pressed onward.Shuddering at the mucky feel of the vegetation against every inch of his exposed skin, Abdel snapped off branches and tore through thick jungle leaves.A blade would have made his progress far less distasteful, but Abdel was completely weaponless.Again and again he reached out with his bare hands to rip his way through the dense growth.His fingers became discolored and sticky with the foul-smelling sap leaking from the plants surrounding him.It didn't take him long to realize that the plants were pressing in on all sides—literally.
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dnd8131
The foliage reached out to brush against him like the begging hands of lepers huddled in front of Ilmater's temple.The vines continued to drop down from above, coating him with their stringy, tangled tendrils.Roots and weeds hounded his every step, writhing in and about his legs and feet as if they would trip him up.The clutching, grasping forest of living disease quickly became more than mere inconvenience.Abdel found himself struggling to maintain his balance beneath the heavy net of sickly, wet vines from above.The malevolent undergrowth became more insistent, tugging and yanking at his feet and ankles and quickly wrapping itself up as high as his knees if Abdel kept his foot in place for more than a few seconds.The realm of Bhaal was opposing him, trying to prevent him from blazing through the jungle in his search for the door through which Melissan herself had passed.It was succeeding.Abdel became frantic, swatting and kicking furiously in his efforts to dislodge the aggressive plants, but no matter how much he struggled he could not break free.Abdel reached down deep inside himself, trying to summon the Ravager once more.Balthazar might have bested the gigantic beast, but Abdel knew his demonic form could easily tear a savage path through the vegetation.The fires of his father's fury began to rise, and Abdel braced himself for the terrible transformation.It never came.Abdel could feel the inferno blazing within his soul, but it had no effect on him.The jungle, however, responded emphatically.Like some enormous spider spinning a cocoon, the plant life wrapped itself in spirals around him.The trees bent down to entwine their branches around Abdel's limbs, caressing and clinging to him like a long-abandoned lover.Abdel realized Bhaal's world was indeed alive, but it wasn't attacking him or impeding him.It was drawn to him.It recognized the immortal essence within Abdel, and it wanted to fawn and fondle him.In trying to summon the Ravager, Abdel had only intensified the yearning of the jungle.With awareness came mastery.Abdel stopped resisting the plants and instead focused his will on shaping them.He imagined the thick vegetation retreating, drawing away like respectful servants retreating after their master had dismissed them.The vines, roots, and branches encasing his body receded in response to the will of one of Bhaal's children.Abdel envisioned the jungle parting before him, clearing a path to the hidden door that led to Melissan, and again his mere desire made it so.The way before him was obvious now, a narrow corridor knifing through the dense growth that led straight to a single wooden door standing untouched by the forest.The leaves rustled as he walked past, like subjects waving at the procession of a new king's coronation.
The foliage reached out to brush against him like the begging hands of lepers huddled in front of Ilmater's temple.The vines continued to drop down from above, coating him with their stringy, tangled tendrils.Roots and weeds hounded his every step, writhing in and about his legs and feet as if they would trip him up.The clutching, grasping forest of living disease quickly became more than mere inconvenience.Abdel found himself struggling to maintain his balance beneath the heavy net of sickly, wet vines from above.The malevolent undergrowth became more insistent, tugging and yanking at his feet and ankles and quickly wrapping itself up as high as his knees if Abdel kept his foot in place for more than a few seconds.The realm of Bhaal was opposing him, trying to prevent him from blazing through the jungle in his search for the door through which Melissan herself had passed.It was succeeding.Abdel became frantic, swatting and kicking furiously in his efforts to dislodge the aggressive plants, but no matter how much he struggled he could not break free.Abdel reached down deep inside himself, trying to summon the Ravager once more.Balthazar might have bested the gigantic beast, but Abdel knew his demonic form could easily tear a savage path through the vegetation.The fires of his father's fury began to rise, and Abdel braced himself for the terrible transformation.It never came.Abdel could feel the inferno blazing within his soul, but it had no effect on him.The jungle, however, responded emphatically.Like some enormous spider spinning a cocoon, the plant life wrapped itself in spirals around him.The trees bent down to entwine their branches around Abdel's limbs, caressing and clinging to him like a long-abandoned lover.Abdel realized Bhaal's world was indeed alive, but it wasn't attacking him or impeding him.It was drawn to him.It recognized the immortal essence within Abdel, and it wanted to fawn and fondle him.In trying to summon the Ravager, Abdel had only intensified the yearning of the jungle.With awareness came mastery.Abdel stopped resisting the plants and instead focused his will on shaping them.He imagined the thick vegetation retreating, drawing away like respectful servants retreating after their master had dismissed them.The vines, roots, and branches encasing his body receded in response to the will of one of Bhaal's children.Abdel envisioned the jungle parting before him, clearing a path to the hidden door that led to Melissan, and again his mere desire made it so.The way before him was obvious now, a narrow corridor knifing through the dense growth that led straight to a single wooden door standing untouched by the forest.The leaves rustled as he walked past, like subjects waving at the procession of a new king's coronation.
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Unimpeded, Abdel marched to the door and opened it without hesitating.The realm of Bhaal vanished, and Abdel found himself in the void once again.But this void was already occupied.Melissan hovered in the emptiness, her body encased in a pillar of glowing power.The ends of the shining column stretched to infinity in every direction, but its width was barely enough for a single person.At least, Abdel assumed it was Melissan in the light.The tall, attractive woman he remembered from previous meetings was gone.In her place floated a hairless, smooth skinned being who was neither male nor female.Melissan had become both ageless and sexless.She had shed all previous identities, and was in the process of being reborn, remade, and rebuilt as an immortal.The new Melissan noticed Abdel hovering in the void beside her.When she spoke Abdel was not surprised to discover her voice had already begun to adopt the infinite depth of an immortal."So the Avatar of Bhaal has triumphed over Balthazar.I am impressed."Despite her words, Abdel knew she was mocking him."Have you come to stop me, Abdel?Come to strip me of my destiny?"Abdel said nothing, but simply nodded.Melissan drifted free from the column of power, gasping slightly for air as if she had been taking a long drink."If you want Bhaal's power, all you have to do is come and get it," she taunted.Angry, vengeful thoughts propelled Abdel through the void as he flew at her throat.His outstretched hands clasped themselves around the entity's neck and squeezed.Melissan disintegrated into sparkling dust, then reformed a few feet away."Your ignorance is amusing," she chuckled.
Unimpeded, Abdel marched to the door and opened it without hesitating.The realm of Bhaal vanished, and Abdel found himself in the void once again.But this void was already occupied.Melissan hovered in the emptiness, her body encased in a pillar of glowing power.The ends of the shining column stretched to infinity in every direction, but its width was barely enough for a single person.At least, Abdel assumed it was Melissan in the light.The tall, attractive woman he remembered from previous meetings was gone.In her place floated a hairless, smooth skinned being who was neither male nor female.Melissan had become both ageless and sexless.She had shed all previous identities, and was in the process of being reborn, remade, and rebuilt as an immortal.The new Melissan noticed Abdel hovering in the void beside her.When she spoke Abdel was not surprised to discover her voice had already begun to adopt the infinite depth of an immortal."So the Avatar of Bhaal has triumphed over Balthazar.I am impressed."Despite her words, Abdel knew she was mocking him."Have you come to stop me, Abdel?Come to strip me of my destiny?"Abdel said nothing, but simply nodded.Melissan drifted free from the column of power, gasping slightly for air as if she had been taking a long drink."If you want Bhaal's power, all you have to do is come and get it," she taunted.Angry, vengeful thoughts propelled Abdel through the void as he flew at her throat.His outstretched hands clasped themselves around the entity's neck and squeezed.Melissan disintegrated into sparkling dust, then reformed a few feet away."Your ignorance is amusing," she chuckled.
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"You cannot kill me here, Abdel.This is Bhaal's world, and I am now a part of it.Not just a part of it, Abdel.I am this world!This world is me!I have become one with the immortal essence!"Abdel recalled how his encounter with Sarevok in the Abyss had been similarly ineffective.He realized it might truly be impossible to kill Melissan in this world, but somehow, he vowed, he would make her pay for Jaheira's and Imoen's deaths.He hurtled toward her again, but Melissan simply raised a smooth hand and repelled his assault with a flick of her wrist.Abdel felt himself spiraling toward the glowing column in the center of the empty universe.Melissan watched with interest as the big sellsword was sucked into the pillar.Abdel felt the euphoria of infinite power washing over him.He felt the endless possibilities of immortality, the unlimited potential of being a god.He was drowning in the essence of Bhaal.His euphoria turned to panic.Abdel could feel himself dissolving.He was becoming incorporeal, his form washing away in the river of energy raging through him.His physical manifestation was being wiped away, buried beneath the all-consuming identity of the immortal.Like Melissan he was becoming one with the sum of Bhaal's essence.Unlike Melissan, Abdel was not prepared for it."Good," Melissan cooed, "give yourself over to Bhaal's power.Mingle your essence with that of your father and your siblings that I may devour you all."Abdel tried to break free of the glowing pillar.
"You cannot kill me here, Abdel.This is Bhaal's world, and I am now a part of it.Not just a part of it, Abdel.I am this world!This world is me!I have become one with the immortal essence!"Abdel recalled how his encounter with Sarevok in the Abyss had been similarly ineffective.He realized it might truly be impossible to kill Melissan in this world, but somehow, he vowed, he would make her pay for Jaheira's and Imoen's deaths.He hurtled toward her again, but Melissan simply raised a smooth hand and repelled his assault with a flick of her wrist.Abdel felt himself spiraling toward the glowing column in the center of the empty universe.Melissan watched with interest as the big sellsword was sucked into the pillar.Abdel felt the euphoria of infinite power washing over him.He felt the endless possibilities of immortality, the unlimited potential of being a god.He was drowning in the essence of Bhaal.His euphoria turned to panic.Abdel could feel himself dissolving.He was becoming incorporeal, his form washing away in the river of energy raging through him.His physical manifestation was being wiped away, buried beneath the all-consuming identity of the immortal.Like Melissan he was becoming one with the sum of Bhaal's essence.Unlike Melissan, Abdel was not prepared for it."Good," Melissan cooed, "give yourself over to Bhaal's power.Mingle your essence with that of your father and your siblings that I may devour you all."Abdel tried to break free of the glowing pillar.
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dnd8134
It was like swimming from the center of a whirlpool.The currents drawing him back to the center were too strong to resist."Do not struggle, Abdel," Melissan advised."This is what must be.From Bhaal's common seed all the Children were born, and to a single pool you must all return.You are all one and the same.Bhaalspawn, offspring of the Lord of Murder.It is what you are.It is what defines you.""No," Abdel said weakly, his very will to resist vanishing beneath the onslaught, his identity and sense of self eroding.His memories were vanishing despite his efforts to hang on to them, spilling through his clenched fists like grains of sand.Imoen, Gorion.The names meant nothing to him now, and then even the names were gone, swept away by the irresistible currents of the collective infinite identity surrounding him.Everything he had been was being stripped away, until only the essence of his father remained.Even his own name was lost now.All he had left was the face of a woman, her slightly pointed ears and violet eyes hinting at the elf side of her parentage.Jaheira.He clung to her memory, refusing to lose the last spark of his individuality.He drew strength from her name.Jaheira.He managed to conjure up recollections of not just her face but her voice.Jaheira.
It was like swimming from the center of a whirlpool.The currents drawing him back to the center were too strong to resist."Do not struggle, Abdel," Melissan advised."This is what must be.From Bhaal's common seed all the Children were born, and to a single pool you must all return.You are all one and the same.Bhaalspawn, offspring of the Lord of Murder.It is what you are.It is what defines you.""No," Abdel said weakly, his very will to resist vanishing beneath the onslaught, his identity and sense of self eroding.His memories were vanishing despite his efforts to hang on to them, spilling through his clenched fists like grains of sand.Imoen, Gorion.The names meant nothing to him now, and then even the names were gone, swept away by the irresistible currents of the collective infinite identity surrounding him.Everything he had been was being stripped away, until only the essence of his father remained.Even his own name was lost now.All he had left was the face of a woman, her slightly pointed ears and violet eyes hinting at the elf side of her parentage.Jaheira.He clung to her memory, refusing to lose the last spark of his individuality.He drew strength from her name.Jaheira.He managed to conjure up recollections of not just her face but her voice.Jaheira.
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dnd8135
Abdel could feel substance returning to his body.He could hear his lover's laugh, he could feel her warm touch.Jaheira."Your submission to the collective essence is inevitable," Melissan declared."You are a Bhaalspawn."Jaheira.He could remember her clearly now, the half-elf druid who had stood by him during his darkest times.The lover who had even resisted the call of death to spend one last night by his side.He remembered everything about her: the feel of her soft touch, the smell of her long hair, the sound of her laugh.And he remembered what she had told him.Remember who you are.At last he understood.They were all wrong—Gorion, Sarevok, Melissan, the Five, Balthazar.Even Jaheira had been wrong, though it was her words and love that had saved him and led him to true understanding."No!"Abdel's voice resonated with renewed strength."I am not just some speck floating in this infinite whole!I am not just a Bhaalspawn!"I am Abdel Adrian!Hero of Baldur's Gate!Savior of the Tree of Life!Son of Bhaal, ward of Gorion, lover of Jaheira!"Abdel finally understood.He stopped trying to deny the part of him that was his father's legacy.
Abdel could feel substance returning to his body.He could hear his lover's laugh, he could feel her warm touch.Jaheira."Your submission to the collective essence is inevitable," Melissan declared."You are a Bhaalspawn."Jaheira.He could remember her clearly now, the half-elf druid who had stood by him during his darkest times.The lover who had even resisted the call of death to spend one last night by his side.He remembered everything about her: the feel of her soft touch, the smell of her long hair, the sound of her laugh.And he remembered what she had told him.Remember who you are.At last he understood.They were all wrong—Gorion, Sarevok, Melissan, the Five, Balthazar.Even Jaheira had been wrong, though it was her words and love that had saved him and led him to true understanding."No!"Abdel's voice resonated with renewed strength."I am not just some speck floating in this infinite whole!I am not just a Bhaalspawn!"I am Abdel Adrian!Hero of Baldur's Gate!Savior of the Tree of Life!Son of Bhaal, ward of Gorion, lover of Jaheira!"Abdel finally understood.He stopped trying to deny the part of him that was his father's legacy.
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dnd8136
The taint of Bhaal was within him, it was a part of who he was.Gorion and Jaheira had tried to suppress that part of him, and to please them Abdel had tried to separate himself from it.Balthazar had succeeded in accomplishing what Abdel could not.He had cut himself completely off from his immortal taint, caging it so completely that he was not able to call upon it when he needed it.That was not the answer.By denying that part of his soul, Abdel left a hole in his own identity.But Sarevok, the Five and even Melissan had gone too far in acknowledging the essence of the Lord of Murder within the Bhaalspawn.They had fed and nurtured the small bit of evil within them, until it became consuming and they lost themselves to their father's fury.That was not the answer either.He was a Child of Bhaal.It was a part of him.But only a part, nothing more.It did not define him—he would not let it define him.He was who he was, nothing more, nothing less.He was Abdel Adrian."I am Abdel Adrian."he declared once more, affirming his individuality against the force drawing him in toward a single, collective existence.The current sucking him down toward the center of the pillar was suddenly gone, and Abdel was able to float back out into the void to confront Melissan again.Surprised, she watched him emerge from the glowing column of divinity.Abdel casually swung his fist at Melissan's face.As before, her form simply dissolved and reformed, completely unharmed by his punch."Your fortitude and persistence surprise me, Bhaalspawn," she admitted."But no matter.I have no need of your essence to complete my ascension.
The taint of Bhaal was within him, it was a part of who he was.Gorion and Jaheira had tried to suppress that part of him, and to please them Abdel had tried to separate himself from it.Balthazar had succeeded in accomplishing what Abdel could not.He had cut himself completely off from his immortal taint, caging it so completely that he was not able to call upon it when he needed it.That was not the answer.By denying that part of his soul, Abdel left a hole in his own identity.But Sarevok, the Five and even Melissan had gone too far in acknowledging the essence of the Lord of Murder within the Bhaalspawn.They had fed and nurtured the small bit of evil within them, until it became consuming and they lost themselves to their father's fury.That was not the answer either.He was a Child of Bhaal.It was a part of him.But only a part, nothing more.It did not define him—he would not let it define him.He was who he was, nothing more, nothing less.He was Abdel Adrian."I am Abdel Adrian."he declared once more, affirming his individuality against the force drawing him in toward a single, collective existence.The current sucking him down toward the center of the pillar was suddenly gone, and Abdel was able to float back out into the void to confront Melissan again.Surprised, she watched him emerge from the glowing column of divinity.Abdel casually swung his fist at Melissan's face.As before, her form simply dissolved and reformed, completely unharmed by his punch."Your fortitude and persistence surprise me, Bhaalspawn," she admitted."But no matter.I have no need of your essence to complete my ascension.
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And once I am a god I will crush you without a second thought.""You are no god," Abdel said simply."You are Melissan, nothing more."He reached out again and swung his fist through his foe's insubstantial form.But this time he felt a hint of resistance as he made contact.From the expression on her face as her spirit reformed, he knew Melissan felt it too."You are Melissan, Bhaal's Anointed," he insisted, "False protector of the Bhaalspawn.Betrayer of the Five.Manipulator.Liar.Deceiver.But you, Melissan, are no god.You are an invader in this realm.You are not a part of this world.You do not belong!"Abdel's fist caught Melissan beneath a suddenly solid chin, and he felt the jaw bone crack beneath the force of his blow.Her hairless head snapped back, and her mouth twisted into an O of shock and pain.Long before he had met Melissan or even Jaheira, long before he had any hint of his immortal heritage, Abdel had been a brawler.A blade for hire.A mercenary and a sellsword.He settled his disputes with fists and weapons, and all his problems could be solved with simple brute force.With the knowledge of who and what he truly was, Abdel's life had become much more complicated.
And once I am a god I will crush you without a second thought.""You are no god," Abdel said simply."You are Melissan, nothing more."He reached out again and swung his fist through his foe's insubstantial form.But this time he felt a hint of resistance as he made contact.From the expression on her face as her spirit reformed, he knew Melissan felt it too."You are Melissan, Bhaal's Anointed," he insisted, "False protector of the Bhaalspawn.Betrayer of the Five.Manipulator.Liar.Deceiver.But you, Melissan, are no god.You are an invader in this realm.You are not a part of this world.You do not belong!"Abdel's fist caught Melissan beneath a suddenly solid chin, and he felt the jaw bone crack beneath the force of his blow.Her hairless head snapped back, and her mouth twisted into an O of shock and pain.Long before he had met Melissan or even Jaheira, long before he had any hint of his immortal heritage, Abdel had been a brawler.A blade for hire.A mercenary and a sellsword.He settled his disputes with fists and weapons, and all his problems could be solved with simple brute force.With the knowledge of who and what he truly was, Abdel's life had become much more complicated.
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The responsibilities and challenges facing the son of a god were convoluted and complex, and required more than mere fisticuffs to solve.But now, on the cusp of immortality, facing the greatest challenge of his life, Abdel had returned to his simple roots."I am Abdel Adrian," he declared, slamming his heavy hands into Melissan again and again, "and you are no god."He pummeled the suddenly all too physically real spirit of Melissan with his bare hands, pounding her body into submission as it feebly tried to ward off his fists.He beat the woman who had betrayed and manipulated him since Saradush until she was nothing but a bloody, bruised pulp of physical, mortal existence.Then he grabbed the thing that would be a god by its shoulders and hurled it into the glowing, pulsating pillar.The column flared momentarily as Melissan's screaming form was consumed by the light.The essence of Bhaal that she had already managed to steal became one with the greater whole.The insignificant physical shell that remained—the part of Melissan that was still Melissan—was instantly and totally obliterated by the divine power.Abdel waited for an eternity to be sure his enemy was truly gone.Once he was confident Melissan's existence had been completely annihilated, he willed himself back through the door between the void of Bhaal's true essence and the realm of the Abyss Bhaal had chosen to make his own.EpilogueHe emerged from the door and found himself amid the thick, decaying vegetation once again.Abdel waved his hand, dispelling the entire jungle with a single thought.In the distance he could see a ring of sharp, forbidding mountains.These also vanished on nothing more than a whim."You have done well, Abdel Adrian."Hearing the infinite voice of the celestial entity did not surprise Abdel.He doubted anything would surprise him for a very, very long time."Now what?"he asked, his voice betraying the weariness he felt in his very soul."You stand on the edge of godhood," the creature explained."You are the last heir to Bhaal's immortality.It is yours to take.
The responsibilities and challenges facing the son of a god were convoluted and complex, and required more than mere fisticuffs to solve.But now, on the cusp of immortality, facing the greatest challenge of his life, Abdel had returned to his simple roots."I am Abdel Adrian," he declared, slamming his heavy hands into Melissan again and again, "and you are no god."He pummeled the suddenly all too physically real spirit of Melissan with his bare hands, pounding her body into submission as it feebly tried to ward off his fists.He beat the woman who had betrayed and manipulated him since Saradush until she was nothing but a bloody, bruised pulp of physical, mortal existence.Then he grabbed the thing that would be a god by its shoulders and hurled it into the glowing, pulsating pillar.The column flared momentarily as Melissan's screaming form was consumed by the light.The essence of Bhaal that she had already managed to steal became one with the greater whole.The insignificant physical shell that remained—the part of Melissan that was still Melissan—was instantly and totally obliterated by the divine power.Abdel waited for an eternity to be sure his enemy was truly gone.Once he was confident Melissan's existence had been completely annihilated, he willed himself back through the door between the void of Bhaal's true essence and the realm of the Abyss Bhaal had chosen to make his own.EpilogueHe emerged from the door and found himself amid the thick, decaying vegetation once again.Abdel waved his hand, dispelling the entire jungle with a single thought.In the distance he could see a ring of sharp, forbidding mountains.These also vanished on nothing more than a whim."You have done well, Abdel Adrian."Hearing the infinite voice of the celestial entity did not surprise Abdel.He doubted anything would surprise him for a very, very long time."Now what?"he asked, his voice betraying the weariness he felt in his very soul."You stand on the edge of godhood," the creature explained."You are the last heir to Bhaal's immortality.It is yours to take.
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dnd8139
"Abdel shook his head."It's not mine.It never was."The creature tilted its head slightly."There is much you can do with this power," it reminded him."Your greatest desires can be achieved in an instant.""Can I bring Jaheira back?Or Imoen?Or Gorion?""No," the being admitted."Even a god must accept certain events as things that cannot be undone.But there is much you might accomplish as an immortal, Abdel.""There is still much I can accomplish as a mere mortal," Abdel pointed out."Your wisdom is most unexpected in a Child of Bhaal."Abdel shrugged.'There is more to me than my bloodline.""You understand that if you reject this destiny you will lose the essence of those you have absorbed within you.You will cease to be an avatar, and you will become a normal human male, with all the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of other men.""I understand."With a rueful smile, Abdel added, "I'm looking forward to it.
"Abdel shook his head."It's not mine.It never was."The creature tilted its head slightly."There is much you can do with this power," it reminded him."Your greatest desires can be achieved in an instant.""Can I bring Jaheira back?Or Imoen?Or Gorion?""No," the being admitted."Even a god must accept certain events as things that cannot be undone.But there is much you might accomplish as an immortal, Abdel.""There is still much I can accomplish as a mere mortal," Abdel pointed out."Your wisdom is most unexpected in a Child of Bhaal."Abdel shrugged.'There is more to me than my bloodline.""You understand that if you reject this destiny you will lose the essence of those you have absorbed within you.You will cease to be an avatar, and you will become a normal human male, with all the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of other men.""I understand."With a rueful smile, Abdel added, "I'm looking forward to it.
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dnd8140
I was not meant to be a god, or even an avatar.It is not who I am.""Then I shall free you from this burden."Deep within his body Abdel felt the faintest pull.It lasted but a moment, and was completely painless.He peered into his soul and discovered only the tiniest ember of Bhaal's spirit within himself.This minuscule portion of immortal essence was his to keep.It had been a part of him at his birth and it would be a part of him when he died.But it was simply that.A part of him.A small, virtually insignificant piece of a much greater puzzle.The big warrior turned his attention back to the celestial being who had guided him through this bizarre journey.Abdel couldn't read any emotion on the face of the man, but he sensed this was not the end the entity had anticipated."You seem disappointed.""Not disappointed, merely surprised.This possible destiny was foreseen by the one I serve, but certainly it was not expected.""What happens now?""I shall disperse the essence of Bhaal throughout the world," the celestial entity promised."The Lord of Murder will disappear forever."The words should have filled Abdel with joy, but he had lost too much, paid too dearly, to feel any happiness within his soul.Gorion, his foster father.
I was not meant to be a god, or even an avatar.It is not who I am.""Then I shall free you from this burden."Deep within his body Abdel felt the faintest pull.It lasted but a moment, and was completely painless.He peered into his soul and discovered only the tiniest ember of Bhaal's spirit within himself.This minuscule portion of immortal essence was his to keep.It had been a part of him at his birth and it would be a part of him when he died.But it was simply that.A part of him.A small, virtually insignificant piece of a much greater puzzle.The big warrior turned his attention back to the celestial being who had guided him through this bizarre journey.Abdel couldn't read any emotion on the face of the man, but he sensed this was not the end the entity had anticipated."You seem disappointed.""Not disappointed, merely surprised.This possible destiny was foreseen by the one I serve, but certainly it was not expected.""What happens now?""I shall disperse the essence of Bhaal throughout the world," the celestial entity promised."The Lord of Murder will disappear forever."The words should have filled Abdel with joy, but he had lost too much, paid too dearly, to feel any happiness within his soul.Gorion, his foster father.
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dnd8141
Imoen, his sister.Jaheira, his true love.Even the death of the reborn Sarevok added to the seemingly infinite list of those who had stood by Abdel, and fallen."You are not responsible for those deaths, Abdel," the divine messenger assured him."You cannot carry the guilt of their blood on your shoulders.""And what of the pain?"Abdel asked."Regardless of guilt, the pain is still there.""Your wounds go deep," the being admitted, "but in time even your scars will heal, Abdel Adrian."Abdel nodded, knowing it was true.But there was still something he needed to know."So what happens to me?What is my destiny now?"The great figure standing before him vanished.The Abyssal realm of Bhaal dissolved, and Abdel found himself standing on a trail he had crossed many times before.A half mile to the north the road led to his childhood home of Candlekeep.To the south it met up with the trade routes that wound throughout the width and breadth of the Sword Coast, down into the Southlands and across the entire continent of Faerun.Your destiny, the infinite voice said inside Abdel's head in answer to his question, is whatever you choose to make it.Realizing he was once again wandering around completely naked, Abdel could only sigh.He hesitated a brief second, then started up the path toward the mountaintop silhouette of Candlekeep, just barely visible in the rapidly fading sun.PreludePart 1StationStation: In all the world of the drow, there is no more important word.It is the calling of their, of our religion, the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings.Ambition over rides good sense and compassion is thrown away in its face, all in the name of Lloth, the Spider Queen.Ascension to power in drow society is a simple process of assassination.
Imoen, his sister.Jaheira, his true love.Even the death of the reborn Sarevok added to the seemingly infinite list of those who had stood by Abdel, and fallen."You are not responsible for those deaths, Abdel," the divine messenger assured him."You cannot carry the guilt of their blood on your shoulders.""And what of the pain?"Abdel asked."Regardless of guilt, the pain is still there.""Your wounds go deep," the being admitted, "but in time even your scars will heal, Abdel Adrian."Abdel nodded, knowing it was true.But there was still something he needed to know."So what happens to me?What is my destiny now?"The great figure standing before him vanished.The Abyssal realm of Bhaal dissolved, and Abdel found himself standing on a trail he had crossed many times before.A half mile to the north the road led to his childhood home of Candlekeep.To the south it met up with the trade routes that wound throughout the width and breadth of the Sword Coast, down into the Southlands and across the entire continent of Faerun.Your destiny, the infinite voice said inside Abdel's head in answer to his question, is whatever you choose to make it.Realizing he was once again wandering around completely naked, Abdel could only sigh.He hesitated a brief second, then started up the path toward the mountaintop silhouette of Candlekeep, just barely visible in the rapidly fading sun.PreludePart 1StationStation: In all the world of the drow, there is no more important word.It is the calling of their, of our religion, the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings.Ambition over rides good sense and compassion is thrown away in its face, all in the name of Lloth, the Spider Queen.Ascension to power in drow society is a simple process of assassination.
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The Spider Queen is a deity of chaos, and she and her high priestesses, the true rulers of the drow world, do not look with ill favor upon ambitious individuals wielding poisoned daggers.Of course, there are rules of behavior, every society must boast of these.To openly commit murder or wage war invites the pretense of justice, and penalties exacted in the name of drow justice are merciless.To stick a dagger in the back of a rival during the chaos of a larger battle or in the quiet shadows of an alley, howeveI, is quite acceptable, even applauded.Investigation is not the forte of drow justice.No one cares enough to botherStation is the way of Lloth, the ambition she bestows to further the chaos, to keep her drow "children" along their appointed course of self imprisonment.Children?Pawns more likely, dancing dolls for the Spider Queen, puppets on the imperceptible but impervious strands of her web.All climb the Spider Queen's ladders; all hunt for her pleasure, and all fall to the hunters of her pleasure.Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power.It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it.Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defendingagainst the daggers that would find their backs.Their deaths usually come from the front.-Drizzt Do'UrdenPart 1Chapter 1MenzoberranzanTo a surface dweller, he might have passed undetected only a foot away.The padded footfalls of his lizard mount were too light to be heard, and the pliable and perfectly crafted mesh armor that both rider and mount wore bent and creased with their movements as well as if the suits had grown over their skin.Dinin's lizard trotted along in an easy but swift gait, floating over the broken floor, up the walls, and even across the long tunnel's ceiling.Subterranean lizards, with their sticky and soft three-toed feet, were preferred mounts for just this ability to scale stone as easily as a spider.Crossing hard ground left no damning tracks in the lighted surface world, but nearly all of the creatures of the Underdark possessed infravision, the ability to see in the infrared spectrum.Foot-falls left heat residue that could easily be tracked if they fol-lowed a predictable course along a corridor's floor.Dinin clamped tight to his saddle as the lizard plodded along a stretch of the ceiling, then sprang out in a twisting descent to a point farther along the wall.Dinin did not want to be tracked.He had no light to guide him, but he needed none.He was a dark elf, a drow, an ebon-skinned cousin of those sylvan folk who danced under the stars on the world's surface.To Dinin's superior eyes, which translated subtle variations of heat into vivid and colorful images, the Underdark was far from a lightless place.Colors all across the spectrum swirled before him in the stone of the walls and the floor, heated by some distant fissure or hot stream.The heat of living things was the most distinctive, letting the dark elf view his enemies in details as intricate as any surface dweller would find in brilliant daylight.Normally Dinin would not have left the city alone, the world of the Underdark was too dangerous for solo treks, even for a drow elf.This day was different, though.
The Spider Queen is a deity of chaos, and she and her high priestesses, the true rulers of the drow world, do not look with ill favor upon ambitious individuals wielding poisoned daggers.Of course, there are rules of behavior, every society must boast of these.To openly commit murder or wage war invites the pretense of justice, and penalties exacted in the name of drow justice are merciless.To stick a dagger in the back of a rival during the chaos of a larger battle or in the quiet shadows of an alley, howeveI, is quite acceptable, even applauded.Investigation is not the forte of drow justice.No one cares enough to botherStation is the way of Lloth, the ambition she bestows to further the chaos, to keep her drow "children" along their appointed course of self imprisonment.Children?Pawns more likely, dancing dolls for the Spider Queen, puppets on the imperceptible but impervious strands of her web.All climb the Spider Queen's ladders; all hunt for her pleasure, and all fall to the hunters of her pleasure.Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power.It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it.Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defendingagainst the daggers that would find their backs.Their deaths usually come from the front.-Drizzt Do'UrdenPart 1Chapter 1MenzoberranzanTo a surface dweller, he might have passed undetected only a foot away.The padded footfalls of his lizard mount were too light to be heard, and the pliable and perfectly crafted mesh armor that both rider and mount wore bent and creased with their movements as well as if the suits had grown over their skin.Dinin's lizard trotted along in an easy but swift gait, floating over the broken floor, up the walls, and even across the long tunnel's ceiling.Subterranean lizards, with their sticky and soft three-toed feet, were preferred mounts for just this ability to scale stone as easily as a spider.Crossing hard ground left no damning tracks in the lighted surface world, but nearly all of the creatures of the Underdark possessed infravision, the ability to see in the infrared spectrum.Foot-falls left heat residue that could easily be tracked if they fol-lowed a predictable course along a corridor's floor.Dinin clamped tight to his saddle as the lizard plodded along a stretch of the ceiling, then sprang out in a twisting descent to a point farther along the wall.Dinin did not want to be tracked.He had no light to guide him, but he needed none.He was a dark elf, a drow, an ebon-skinned cousin of those sylvan folk who danced under the stars on the world's surface.To Dinin's superior eyes, which translated subtle variations of heat into vivid and colorful images, the Underdark was far from a lightless place.Colors all across the spectrum swirled before him in the stone of the walls and the floor, heated by some distant fissure or hot stream.The heat of living things was the most distinctive, letting the dark elf view his enemies in details as intricate as any surface dweller would find in brilliant daylight.Normally Dinin would not have left the city alone, the world of the Underdark was too dangerous for solo treks, even for a drow elf.This day was different, though.
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Dinin had to be certain that no unfriendly drow eyes marked his passage.A soft blue magical glow beyond a sculpted archway told the drow that he neared the city's entrance, and he slowed the lizard's pace accordingly.Few used this narrow tunnel, which opened into Tier Breche, the northern section of Menzoberranzan devoted to the Academy, and none but the mistresses and masters, the instructors of the Academy, could pass through here without attracting suspicion.Dinin was always nervous when he came to this point.Of the hundred tunnels that opened off the main cavern of Menzoberranzan, this one was the best guarded.Beyond the archway, twin statues of gigantic spiders sat in quiet defense.If an enemy crossed through, the spiders would animate and attack, and alarms would be sounded all throughout the Academy.Dinin dismounted, leaving his lizard clinging comfortably to a wall at his chest level.He reached under the collar of his piwafwi, his magical, shielding cloak, and took out his neck.purse.From this Dinin produced the insignia of House Do'Urden, a spider wielding various weapons in each of its eight legs and emblazoned with the letters "DN"' for Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, the ancient and formal name of House Do'Urden."You will await my return" Dinin whispered to the lizard as he waved the insignia before it.As with all the drow houses, the insignia of House Do'Urden held several magical dweomers, one of which gave family members absolute control over the house pets.The lizard would obey unfailingly, holding its position as though it were rooted to the stone, even if a scurry rat, its favorite morsel, napped a few feet from its maw.Dinin took a deep breath and gingerly stepped to the archway.He could see the spiders leering down at him from their fifteen-foot height.He was a drow of the city, not an enemy, and could pass through any other tunnel unconcerned, but the Academy was an unpredictable place, Dininhad heard that the spiders often refused entry viciously,even to uninvited drow.He could not be delayed by fears and possibilities, Dinin reminded himself.His business was of the utmost importance to his family's battle plans.Looking straight ahead, away from the towering spiders, he strode between them and onto the floor of Tier Breche.He moved to the side and paused, first to be certain that no one lurked nearby, and then to admire the sweeping view of Menzoberranzan.No one, drow or otherwise, had ever looked out from this spot without a sense of wonder at the drow city.Tier Breche was the highest point on the floor of the two-mile cavern, affording a panoramic view to the rest of Menzoberranzan.The cubby of the Academy was narrow, holding only the three structures that comprised the drow school: Arach Tinilith, the spider-shaped school of Lloth, Sorcere, the gracefully curving, many-spired towerof wizardry, and Melee Magthere, the somewhat plain pyramidal structure where male fighters learned their trade.Beyond Tier Breche, through the ornate stalagmite columns that marked the entrance to the Academy, the cavern dropped away quickly and spread wide, going far beyond Dinin's line of vision to either side and farther back then his keen eyes could possibly see.The colors of Menzoberranzan were threefold to the sensitive eyes of the drow.
Dinin had to be certain that no unfriendly drow eyes marked his passage.A soft blue magical glow beyond a sculpted archway told the drow that he neared the city's entrance, and he slowed the lizard's pace accordingly.Few used this narrow tunnel, which opened into Tier Breche, the northern section of Menzoberranzan devoted to the Academy, and none but the mistresses and masters, the instructors of the Academy, could pass through here without attracting suspicion.Dinin was always nervous when he came to this point.Of the hundred tunnels that opened off the main cavern of Menzoberranzan, this one was the best guarded.Beyond the archway, twin statues of gigantic spiders sat in quiet defense.If an enemy crossed through, the spiders would animate and attack, and alarms would be sounded all throughout the Academy.Dinin dismounted, leaving his lizard clinging comfortably to a wall at his chest level.He reached under the collar of his piwafwi, his magical, shielding cloak, and took out his neck.purse.From this Dinin produced the insignia of House Do'Urden, a spider wielding various weapons in each of its eight legs and emblazoned with the letters "DN"' for Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, the ancient and formal name of House Do'Urden."You will await my return" Dinin whispered to the lizard as he waved the insignia before it.As with all the drow houses, the insignia of House Do'Urden held several magical dweomers, one of which gave family members absolute control over the house pets.The lizard would obey unfailingly, holding its position as though it were rooted to the stone, even if a scurry rat, its favorite morsel, napped a few feet from its maw.Dinin took a deep breath and gingerly stepped to the archway.He could see the spiders leering down at him from their fifteen-foot height.He was a drow of the city, not an enemy, and could pass through any other tunnel unconcerned, but the Academy was an unpredictable place, Dininhad heard that the spiders often refused entry viciously,even to uninvited drow.He could not be delayed by fears and possibilities, Dinin reminded himself.His business was of the utmost importance to his family's battle plans.Looking straight ahead, away from the towering spiders, he strode between them and onto the floor of Tier Breche.He moved to the side and paused, first to be certain that no one lurked nearby, and then to admire the sweeping view of Menzoberranzan.No one, drow or otherwise, had ever looked out from this spot without a sense of wonder at the drow city.Tier Breche was the highest point on the floor of the two-mile cavern, affording a panoramic view to the rest of Menzoberranzan.The cubby of the Academy was narrow, holding only the three structures that comprised the drow school: Arach Tinilith, the spider-shaped school of Lloth, Sorcere, the gracefully curving, many-spired towerof wizardry, and Melee Magthere, the somewhat plain pyramidal structure where male fighters learned their trade.Beyond Tier Breche, through the ornate stalagmite columns that marked the entrance to the Academy, the cavern dropped away quickly and spread wide, going far beyond Dinin's line of vision to either side and farther back then his keen eyes could possibly see.The colors of Menzoberranzan were threefold to the sensitive eyes of the drow.
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Heat patterns from various fissures and hot springs swirled about the entire cavern.Purple and red, bright yellow and subtle blue, crossed and merged, climbed the walls andstalagmite mounds, or ran off singularly in cutting lines against the backdrop of dim gray stone.More confined than these generalized and natural gradations of color in the infrared spectrum were the regions of intense magic, like the spiders Dinin had walked between, virtually glowing with energy.Finally there were the actual lights of the city, faerie fire and highlighted sculptures on the houses.The drow were proud of the beauty of their designs, and especially ornate columns or perfectly crafted gargoyles were almost always limned in permanent magical lights.Even from this distance Dinin could make out House Baenre, First House of Menzoberranzan.It encompassed twenty stalagmite pillars and half again that number of gigantic stalactites.House Baenre had existed for five thousand years, since the founding of Menzoberranzan, and inthat time the work to perfect the house's art had never ceased.Practically every inch of the immense structure glowed in faerie fire, blue at the outlying towers and brilliant purple at the huge central dome.The sharp light of candles, foreign to the Underdark, glared through some of the windows of the distant houses.Only clerics or wizards would light the fires, Dinin knew, as necessary pains in their world of scrolls and parchments.This was Menzoberranzan, the city of drow.Threnty thousand dark elves lived there, twenty thousand soldiers in the army of evil.A wicked smile spread across Dinin's thin lips when he thought of some of those soldiers who would fall this night.Dinin studied Narbondel, the huge central pillar that served as the timeclock of Menzoberranzan.Narbondel was, the only way the drow had to mark the passage of time in aworld that otherwise knew no days and no seasons.At the end of each day, the city's appointed Archmage cast his magical fires into the base of the stone pillar.There the spell lingered throughout the cycle a full day on the surface and gradually spread its warmth up the structure of Narbondel until the whole of it glowed red in the infrared spectrum.The pillar was fully dark now, cooled since the dweomer's fires had expired.The wizard was even now at the base, Dinin reasoned, ready to begin the cycle anew.It was midnight, the appointed hour.Dinin moved away from the spiders and the tunnel exit and crept along the side of Tier Breche, seeking the "shadows" of heat patterns in the wall, which would effectively hide the distinct outline of his own body temperatures.He came at last to Sorcere, the school of wizardry, and slipped into the narrow alley between the tower's curving base and Tier Breche's outer wall."Student or master?"came the expected whisper."Only a master may walk out of house in Tier Breche inthe black death of Narbondel” Dinin responded.A heavily robed figure moved around the arc of the structure to stand before Dinin.The stranger remained in the customary posture of a master of the drow Academy, his arms out before him and bent at the elbows, his hands tight together, one on top of the other in front of his chest.That pose was the only thing about this one that seemed normal to Dinin.
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"Greetings, Faceless One" he signaled in the silent hand code of the drow, a language as detailed as the spoken word.The quiver of Dinin's hands belied his calm face, though, for the sight of this wizard put him as far on the edge of his nerves as he had ever been."Secondboy Do'Urden" the wizard replied in the gesturedcode."Have you my payment?""You will be compensated" Dinin signaled pointedly, regaining his composure in the first swelling bubbles of his temper."Do you dare to doubt the promise of Malice Do'Urden, Matron Mother of Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, Tenth House of Menzoberranzan?"The Faceless One slumped back, knowing he had erred."My apologies, Secondboy of House Do'Urden” he answered, dropping to one knee in a gesture of surrender.Since he had entered this conspiracy, the wizard had feared that his impatience might cost him his life.He had been caught in the violent throes of one of his own magical experiments, the tragedy melting away all of his facial features and leaving behind a blank hot spot of white and green goo.Matron Malice Do'Urden, reputedly as skilled as anyone in all the vast city in mixing potions and salves, had offered him a sliver of hope that he could not pass by.No pity found its way into Dinin's callous heart, but House Do'Urden needed the wizard."You will get your salve” Dinin promised calmly, "when Alton DeVir is dead”"Of course” the wizard agreed."This night?"Dinin crossed his arms and considered the question.Matron Malice had instructed him that Alton DeVir should die even as their families' battle commenced.That scenario now seemed too clean, too easy, to Dinin.The Faceless One did not miss the sparkle that suddenly brightened the scarlet glow in the young Do'Urden's heat-sensing eyes."Wait for Narbondel's light to approach its zenith” Dinin replied, his hands working through the signals excitedly and his grimace seeming more of a twisted grin."Should the doomed boy know of his house's fate before he dies?"the wizard asked, guessing the wicked intentions behind Dinin's instructions.
"Greetings, Faceless One" he signaled in the silent hand code of the drow, a language as detailed as the spoken word.The quiver of Dinin's hands belied his calm face, though, for the sight of this wizard put him as far on the edge of his nerves as he had ever been."Secondboy Do'Urden" the wizard replied in the gesturedcode."Have you my payment?""You will be compensated" Dinin signaled pointedly, regaining his composure in the first swelling bubbles of his temper."Do you dare to doubt the promise of Malice Do'Urden, Matron Mother of Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, Tenth House of Menzoberranzan?"The Faceless One slumped back, knowing he had erred."My apologies, Secondboy of House Do'Urden” he answered, dropping to one knee in a gesture of surrender.Since he had entered this conspiracy, the wizard had feared that his impatience might cost him his life.He had been caught in the violent throes of one of his own magical experiments, the tragedy melting away all of his facial features and leaving behind a blank hot spot of white and green goo.Matron Malice Do'Urden, reputedly as skilled as anyone in all the vast city in mixing potions and salves, had offered him a sliver of hope that he could not pass by.No pity found its way into Dinin's callous heart, but House Do'Urden needed the wizard."You will get your salve” Dinin promised calmly, "when Alton DeVir is dead”"Of course” the wizard agreed."This night?"Dinin crossed his arms and considered the question.Matron Malice had instructed him that Alton DeVir should die even as their families' battle commenced.That scenario now seemed too clean, too easy, to Dinin.The Faceless One did not miss the sparkle that suddenly brightened the scarlet glow in the young Do'Urden's heat-sensing eyes."Wait for Narbondel's light to approach its zenith” Dinin replied, his hands working through the signals excitedly and his grimace seeming more of a twisted grin."Should the doomed boy know of his house's fate before he dies?"the wizard asked, guessing the wicked intentions behind Dinin's instructions.
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"As the killing blow falls” answered Dinin."Let AltonDeVir die without hope”Dinin retrieved his mount and sped off down the empty corridors, finding an intersecting route that would take him in through a different entrance to the city proper.He came in along the eastern end of the great cavern, Menzoberranzan's produce section, where no drow families would see that he had been outside the city limits and where only a few unremarkable stalagmite pillars rose up from the flat stone.Dinin spurred his mount along the banks of Donigarten, the city's small pond with its moss-covered island that housed a fair-sized herd of cattlelike creatures called rothe.A hundred goblins and orcs looked up from their herding and fishing duties to mark the drow soldier's swift passage.Knowing their restrictions as slaves, they took care not to look Dinin in the eye.Dinin would have paid them no heed anyway.He was too consumed by the urgency of the moment.He kicked his lizard to even greater speeds when he again was on the flat and curving avenues between the glowing drow castles.He moved toward the south-central region of the city, towardthe grove of giant mushrooms that marked the section of the finest houses in Menzoberranzan.As he came around one blind turn, he nearly ran over a group of four wandering bugbears.The giant hairy goblin things paused a moment to consider the drow, then moved slowly but purposefully out of his way.The bugbears recognized him as a member of House Do'Urden, Dinin knew.He was a noble, a son of a high priestess, and his surname, Do'Urden, was the name of his house.Of the twenty thousand dark elves in Menzoberranzan, only a thousand or so were nobles, actually the chil.dren of the sixty-seven recognized families of the city.Therest were common soldiers.Bugbears were not stupid creatures.They knew a noble from a commoner, and though drow elves did not carry their family insignia in plain view, the pointed and tailed cut of Dinin's stark white hair and the distinctive pattern of purple and red lines in his black piwafwi told them well enough who he was.The mission's urgency pressed upon Dinin, but he could not ignore the bugbears' slight.How fast would they have scampered away if he had been a member of House Baenre or one of the other seven ruling houses?he wondered."You will learn respect of House Do'Urden soon enough!"the dark elf whispered under his breath, as he turned and charged his lizard at the group.The bugbears broke into a run, turning down an alley strewn with stones and debris.Dinin found his satisfaction by calling on the innate powers of his race.He summoned a globe of darkness impervious to both infravision and normal sight in the fleeing creatures' path.He supposed that it was unwise to call such attention to himself, but a moment later, when he heard crashing and sputtered curses as the bugbears stumbled blindly over the stones, he felt it was worth the risk.His anger sated, he moved off again, picking a more careful route through the heat shadows.
"As the killing blow falls” answered Dinin."Let AltonDeVir die without hope”Dinin retrieved his mount and sped off down the empty corridors, finding an intersecting route that would take him in through a different entrance to the city proper.He came in along the eastern end of the great cavern, Menzoberranzan's produce section, where no drow families would see that he had been outside the city limits and where only a few unremarkable stalagmite pillars rose up from the flat stone.Dinin spurred his mount along the banks of Donigarten, the city's small pond with its moss-covered island that housed a fair-sized herd of cattlelike creatures called rothe.A hundred goblins and orcs looked up from their herding and fishing duties to mark the drow soldier's swift passage.Knowing their restrictions as slaves, they took care not to look Dinin in the eye.Dinin would have paid them no heed anyway.He was too consumed by the urgency of the moment.He kicked his lizard to even greater speeds when he again was on the flat and curving avenues between the glowing drow castles.He moved toward the south-central region of the city, towardthe grove of giant mushrooms that marked the section of the finest houses in Menzoberranzan.As he came around one blind turn, he nearly ran over a group of four wandering bugbears.The giant hairy goblin things paused a moment to consider the drow, then moved slowly but purposefully out of his way.The bugbears recognized him as a member of House Do'Urden, Dinin knew.He was a noble, a son of a high priestess, and his surname, Do'Urden, was the name of his house.Of the twenty thousand dark elves in Menzoberranzan, only a thousand or so were nobles, actually the chil.dren of the sixty-seven recognized families of the city.Therest were common soldiers.Bugbears were not stupid creatures.They knew a noble from a commoner, and though drow elves did not carry their family insignia in plain view, the pointed and tailed cut of Dinin's stark white hair and the distinctive pattern of purple and red lines in his black piwafwi told them well enough who he was.The mission's urgency pressed upon Dinin, but he could not ignore the bugbears' slight.How fast would they have scampered away if he had been a member of House Baenre or one of the other seven ruling houses?he wondered."You will learn respect of House Do'Urden soon enough!"the dark elf whispered under his breath, as he turned and charged his lizard at the group.The bugbears broke into a run, turning down an alley strewn with stones and debris.Dinin found his satisfaction by calling on the innate powers of his race.He summoned a globe of darkness impervious to both infravision and normal sight in the fleeing creatures' path.He supposed that it was unwise to call such attention to himself, but a moment later, when he heard crashing and sputtered curses as the bugbears stumbled blindly over the stones, he felt it was worth the risk.His anger sated, he moved off again, picking a more careful route through the heat shadows.
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As a member of the tenth house of the city, Dinin could go as he pleased within the giant cavern without question, but Matron Malice had made it clear that no one connected to House Do'Urden was to be caught anywhere near the mushroom grove.Matron Malice, Dinin's mother, was not to be crossed, but it was only a rule, after all.In Menzoberranzan, one rule, took precedence over all of the petty others, Don't get caught.At the mushroom grove's southern end, the impetuous drow found what he was looking for: a cluster of five huge floor-to-ceiling pillars that were hollowed into a network of chambers and connected with metal and stone parapets and bridges.Red-glowing gargoyles, the standard of the house, glared down from a hundred perches like silent sentries.This was House DeVir, Fourth House of Menzoberranzan.A stockade of tall mushrooms ringed the place, every fifth one a shrieker, a sentient fungus named (and favored as guardians) for the shrill cries of alarm it emitted whenever a living being passed it by.Dinin kept a cautious distance, not wanting to set off one of the shriekers and knowing also that other, more deadly wards protected the fortress.Matron Malice would see to those.An expectant hush permeated the air of this city section.It was general knowledge throughout Menzoberranzan that Matron Ginafae of House DeVir had fallen out of favor with Loth, the Spider Queen deity to all drow and the true source of every house's strength.Such circumstances werenever openly discussed among the drow, but everyone who knew fully expected that some family lower in the city hierarchy soon would strike out against the crippled House DeVir.Matron Ginafae and her family had been the last to learn of the Spider Queen's displeasure ever was that Lloth's devious way and Dinin could tell just by scanning the outside of House DeVir that the doomed family had not found ample time to erect proper defenses.DeVir sported nearlyfour hundred soldiers, many female, but those that Dinin could now see at their posts along the parapets seemed nervous and unsure.Dinin's smile spread even wider when he thought of his own house, which grew in power daily under the cunning guidance of Matron Malice.With all three of his sisters rapidly approaching the status of high priestess, his brother an accomplished wizard, and his uncle Zaknafein, the finest weapon master in all of Menzoberranzan, busily trainingthe three hundred soldiers, House Do'Urden was a complete force.And, Matron Malice, unlike Ginafae, was in the Spider Queen's full favor."Daermon N'a'shezbaernon," Dinin muttered under his breath, using the formal and ancestral reference to House Do'Urden."Ninth House of Menzoberranzan!"He liked the sound of it.Halfway across the city, beyond the silver-glowing balcony and the arched doorway twenty feet up the cavern's west wall, sat the principals of House Do'Urden, gathered to outline the final plans of the night's work.On the raised dais at the back of the small audience chamber sat venerable Matron Malice, her belly swollen in the final hours of pregnancy.Flanking her in their places of honor were her three daughters, Maya, Vierna, and the eldest, Briza, a newly ordained high priestess of Lloth.Maya and Vierna appeared as younger versions of their mother, slender and deceptively small, though possessing great strength.Briza, though, hardly carried the family resemblance.She wasbig-l:tuge by drow standards-and rounded in the shoulders and hips.Those who knew Briza well figured that her size was merely a circumstance of her temperament, a smaller body could not have contained the anger and brutal streak of House Do'Urden's newest high priestess.
As a member of the tenth house of the city, Dinin could go as he pleased within the giant cavern without question, but Matron Malice had made it clear that no one connected to House Do'Urden was to be caught anywhere near the mushroom grove.Matron Malice, Dinin's mother, was not to be crossed, but it was only a rule, after all.In Menzoberranzan, one rule, took precedence over all of the petty others, Don't get caught.At the mushroom grove's southern end, the impetuous drow found what he was looking for: a cluster of five huge floor-to-ceiling pillars that were hollowed into a network of chambers and connected with metal and stone parapets and bridges.Red-glowing gargoyles, the standard of the house, glared down from a hundred perches like silent sentries.This was House DeVir, Fourth House of Menzoberranzan.A stockade of tall mushrooms ringed the place, every fifth one a shrieker, a sentient fungus named (and favored as guardians) for the shrill cries of alarm it emitted whenever a living being passed it by.Dinin kept a cautious distance, not wanting to set off one of the shriekers and knowing also that other, more deadly wards protected the fortress.Matron Malice would see to those.An expectant hush permeated the air of this city section.It was general knowledge throughout Menzoberranzan that Matron Ginafae of House DeVir had fallen out of favor with Loth, the Spider Queen deity to all drow and the true source of every house's strength.Such circumstances werenever openly discussed among the drow, but everyone who knew fully expected that some family lower in the city hierarchy soon would strike out against the crippled House DeVir.Matron Ginafae and her family had been the last to learn of the Spider Queen's displeasure ever was that Lloth's devious way and Dinin could tell just by scanning the outside of House DeVir that the doomed family had not found ample time to erect proper defenses.DeVir sported nearlyfour hundred soldiers, many female, but those that Dinin could now see at their posts along the parapets seemed nervous and unsure.Dinin's smile spread even wider when he thought of his own house, which grew in power daily under the cunning guidance of Matron Malice.With all three of his sisters rapidly approaching the status of high priestess, his brother an accomplished wizard, and his uncle Zaknafein, the finest weapon master in all of Menzoberranzan, busily trainingthe three hundred soldiers, House Do'Urden was a complete force.And, Matron Malice, unlike Ginafae, was in the Spider Queen's full favor."Daermon N'a'shezbaernon," Dinin muttered under his breath, using the formal and ancestral reference to House Do'Urden."Ninth House of Menzoberranzan!"He liked the sound of it.Halfway across the city, beyond the silver-glowing balcony and the arched doorway twenty feet up the cavern's west wall, sat the principals of House Do'Urden, gathered to outline the final plans of the night's work.On the raised dais at the back of the small audience chamber sat venerable Matron Malice, her belly swollen in the final hours of pregnancy.Flanking her in their places of honor were her three daughters, Maya, Vierna, and the eldest, Briza, a newly ordained high priestess of Lloth.Maya and Vierna appeared as younger versions of their mother, slender and deceptively small, though possessing great strength.Briza, though, hardly carried the family resemblance.She wasbig-l:tuge by drow standards-and rounded in the shoulders and hips.Those who knew Briza well figured that her size was merely a circumstance of her temperament, a smaller body could not have contained the anger and brutal streak of House Do'Urden's newest high priestess.
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"Dinin should return soon" remarked Rizzen, the present patron of the family, "to let us know if the time is right for the assault.""We go before Narbondel finds its morning glow!"Briza snapped at him in her thick but razor-sharp voice.She turned a crooked smile to her mother, seeking approval for putting the male in his place."The child comes this night” Matron Malice explained to her anxious husband."We go no matter what news Dinin bears.""It will be a boy child” groaned Briza, making no effort to hide her disappointment, "third living son of House Do'Orden.""To be sacrificed to Lloth” put in Zaknafein, a former patron of the house who now held the important position of weapon master.The skilled drow fighter seelJled quite pleased at the thought of sacrifice, as did Nalfein, the family's eldest son, who stood at Zak's side.Nalfein was the elderboy, and he needed no more competition beyond Dinin within the ranks of House Do'Orden."In accord with custom” Briza glowered and the red of her eyes brightened."Th aid in our victory!"Rizzen shifted uncomfortably."Matron Malice” he dared to speak, "you know well the difficulties of birthing.Might the pain distract you""You dare to question the matron mother?"Briza started sharply, reaching for the snake-headed whip so comfortably strapped and writhing on her belt.Matron Malice stopped her with an outstretched hand."Attend to the fighting” the matron said to Rizzen."Let the females of the house see to the important matters of this battle."Rizzen shifted again and dropped his gaze.Dinin came to the magically wrought fence that connected the keep within the city's west wall with the two small stalagmite towers of House Do'Orden, and which formed the courtyard to the compound.
"Dinin should return soon" remarked Rizzen, the present patron of the family, "to let us know if the time is right for the assault.""We go before Narbondel finds its morning glow!"Briza snapped at him in her thick but razor-sharp voice.She turned a crooked smile to her mother, seeking approval for putting the male in his place."The child comes this night” Matron Malice explained to her anxious husband."We go no matter what news Dinin bears.""It will be a boy child” groaned Briza, making no effort to hide her disappointment, "third living son of House Do'Orden.""To be sacrificed to Lloth” put in Zaknafein, a former patron of the house who now held the important position of weapon master.The skilled drow fighter seelJled quite pleased at the thought of sacrifice, as did Nalfein, the family's eldest son, who stood at Zak's side.Nalfein was the elderboy, and he needed no more competition beyond Dinin within the ranks of House Do'Orden."In accord with custom” Briza glowered and the red of her eyes brightened."Th aid in our victory!"Rizzen shifted uncomfortably."Matron Malice” he dared to speak, "you know well the difficulties of birthing.Might the pain distract you""You dare to question the matron mother?"Briza started sharply, reaching for the snake-headed whip so comfortably strapped and writhing on her belt.Matron Malice stopped her with an outstretched hand."Attend to the fighting” the matron said to Rizzen."Let the females of the house see to the important matters of this battle."Rizzen shifted again and dropped his gaze.Dinin came to the magically wrought fence that connected the keep within the city's west wall with the two small stalagmite towers of House Do'Orden, and which formed the courtyard to the compound.
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The fence was adamantite, the hardest metal in all the world, and adorning it were a hundred weapon-wielding spider carvings, each ensorcelled with deadly glyphs and wards.The mighty gate of House Do'Orden was the envy of many a drow house, but so soon after viewing the spectacular houses in the mushroom grove, Dinin could only find disappointment when looking upon his own abode.The compound was plain and somewhat bare, as was the section of wall, with the notable exception of the mithril-and-adamantite balcony running along the second level, by the arched doorway reserved for the nobility of the family.Each baluster of that balcony sported a thousand carvings, all of which blended into a single piece of art.House Do'Urden, unlike the great majority of the houses in Menzoberranzan, did not stand free within groves of stalactites and stalagmites.The bulk of the structure was within a cave, and while this setup was indisputably defensible, Dinin found himself wishing that his family could show a bit more grandeur.An excited soldier rushed to open the gate for the returning secondboy.Dinin swept past him without so much as a word of greeting and moved across the courtyard, conscious of the hundred and more curious glances that fell upon him.The soldiers and slaves knew that Dinin's missionthis night had something to do with the anticipated battle.No stairway led to the silvery balcony of House Do'Urden's second level.This, too, was a precautionary measure designed to segregate the leaders of the house from the rabble and the slaves.Drow nobles needed no stairs, another manifestation of their innate magical abilities allowed them the power of levitation.With hardly a conscious thought to the act, Dinin drifted easily through the air and dropped onto the balcony.He rushed through the archway and down the house's main central corridor, which was dimly lit in the soft hues of faerie fire, allowing for sight in the normal light spectrum but not bright enough to defeat the use of infravision.The ornate brass door at the corridor's end marked the second boy's destination, and he paused before it to allow his eyes to shift back to the infrared spectrum.Unlike the corridor, the room beyond the door had no light source.It was the audience hall of the high priestesses, the anteroom to House Do'Urden's grand chapel.The drow clerical rooms, in accord with the dark rites of the Spider Queen, were not places of light.When he felt he was prepared, Dinin pushed straight through the door, shoving past the two shocked female guards without hesitation and moving boldly to stand before his mother.All three of the family daughters narrowed their eyes at their brash and pretentious brother.You enterwithout permission!he knew they were thinking.Would that it was he who was to be sacrificed this night!As much as he enjoyed testing the limitations of his inferior station as a male, Dinin could not ignore the threatening glances of Vierna, Maya, and Briza.Being female, they were bigger and stronger than Dinin and had trained all of their lives in the use of wicked drow clerical powers and weapons.Dinin watched as enchanted extensions of theclerics, the dreaded snake-headed whips on his sisters' belts, began writhing in anticipation of the punishment they would exact.
The fence was adamantite, the hardest metal in all the world, and adorning it were a hundred weapon-wielding spider carvings, each ensorcelled with deadly glyphs and wards.The mighty gate of House Do'Orden was the envy of many a drow house, but so soon after viewing the spectacular houses in the mushroom grove, Dinin could only find disappointment when looking upon his own abode.The compound was plain and somewhat bare, as was the section of wall, with the notable exception of the mithril-and-adamantite balcony running along the second level, by the arched doorway reserved for the nobility of the family.Each baluster of that balcony sported a thousand carvings, all of which blended into a single piece of art.House Do'Urden, unlike the great majority of the houses in Menzoberranzan, did not stand free within groves of stalactites and stalagmites.The bulk of the structure was within a cave, and while this setup was indisputably defensible, Dinin found himself wishing that his family could show a bit more grandeur.An excited soldier rushed to open the gate for the returning secondboy.Dinin swept past him without so much as a word of greeting and moved across the courtyard, conscious of the hundred and more curious glances that fell upon him.The soldiers and slaves knew that Dinin's missionthis night had something to do with the anticipated battle.No stairway led to the silvery balcony of House Do'Urden's second level.This, too, was a precautionary measure designed to segregate the leaders of the house from the rabble and the slaves.Drow nobles needed no stairs, another manifestation of their innate magical abilities allowed them the power of levitation.With hardly a conscious thought to the act, Dinin drifted easily through the air and dropped onto the balcony.He rushed through the archway and down the house's main central corridor, which was dimly lit in the soft hues of faerie fire, allowing for sight in the normal light spectrum but not bright enough to defeat the use of infravision.The ornate brass door at the corridor's end marked the second boy's destination, and he paused before it to allow his eyes to shift back to the infrared spectrum.Unlike the corridor, the room beyond the door had no light source.It was the audience hall of the high priestesses, the anteroom to House Do'Urden's grand chapel.The drow clerical rooms, in accord with the dark rites of the Spider Queen, were not places of light.When he felt he was prepared, Dinin pushed straight through the door, shoving past the two shocked female guards without hesitation and moving boldly to stand before his mother.All three of the family daughters narrowed their eyes at their brash and pretentious brother.You enterwithout permission!he knew they were thinking.Would that it was he who was to be sacrificed this night!As much as he enjoyed testing the limitations of his inferior station as a male, Dinin could not ignore the threatening glances of Vierna, Maya, and Briza.Being female, they were bigger and stronger than Dinin and had trained all of their lives in the use of wicked drow clerical powers and weapons.Dinin watched as enchanted extensions of theclerics, the dreaded snake-headed whips on his sisters' belts, began writhing in anticipation of the punishment they would exact.
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dnd8150
The handles were adamantite and ordinary enough, but the whips' lengths and multiple heads were living serpents.Briza's whip, in particular, a wicked six-headed device, danced and squirmed, tying itself into knots around the belt that held it.Briza was always the quickest to punish.Matron Malice, however, seemed pleased by Dinin's swagger.The secondboy knew his place well enough by her measure and he followed her commands fearlessly and without question.Dinin took comfort in the calmness of his mother's face, quite the opposite of the shining white-hot faces of his three sisters."All is ready” he said to her."House DeVir huddles within its fence-except for Alton, of course, foolishly attending his studies in Sorcere.""You have met with the Faceless One?"Matron Malice asked."The Academy was quiet this night” Dinin replied."Our meeting went off perfectly.""He has agreed to our contract?""Alton DeVir will be dealt with accordingly," Dinin chuckled.He then remembered the slight alteration he had made in Matron Malice's plans, delaying Alton's execution for the sake of his own lust for added cruelty.Dinin's thought evoked another recollection as well: high priestesses of Lloth had an unnerving talent for reading thoughts."Alton will die this night” Dinin quickly completed the answer, assuring the others before they could probe him for more definite details."Excellent," Briza growled.Dinin breathed a little easier."To the meld," Matron Malice ordered.The four drow males moved to kneel before the matron and her daughters: Rizzen to Malice, Zaknafein to Briza, Nalfein to Maya, and Dinin to Vierna.The clerics chanted in unison, placing one hand delicately upon the forehead of their respective soldier, tuning in to his passions."You know your places” Matron Malice said when the ceremony was completed.
The handles were adamantite and ordinary enough, but the whips' lengths and multiple heads were living serpents.Briza's whip, in particular, a wicked six-headed device, danced and squirmed, tying itself into knots around the belt that held it.Briza was always the quickest to punish.Matron Malice, however, seemed pleased by Dinin's swagger.The secondboy knew his place well enough by her measure and he followed her commands fearlessly and without question.Dinin took comfort in the calmness of his mother's face, quite the opposite of the shining white-hot faces of his three sisters."All is ready” he said to her."House DeVir huddles within its fence-except for Alton, of course, foolishly attending his studies in Sorcere.""You have met with the Faceless One?"Matron Malice asked."The Academy was quiet this night” Dinin replied."Our meeting went off perfectly.""He has agreed to our contract?""Alton DeVir will be dealt with accordingly," Dinin chuckled.He then remembered the slight alteration he had made in Matron Malice's plans, delaying Alton's execution for the sake of his own lust for added cruelty.Dinin's thought evoked another recollection as well: high priestesses of Lloth had an unnerving talent for reading thoughts."Alton will die this night” Dinin quickly completed the answer, assuring the others before they could probe him for more definite details."Excellent," Briza growled.Dinin breathed a little easier."To the meld," Matron Malice ordered.The four drow males moved to kneel before the matron and her daughters: Rizzen to Malice, Zaknafein to Briza, Nalfein to Maya, and Dinin to Vierna.The clerics chanted in unison, placing one hand delicately upon the forehead of their respective soldier, tuning in to his passions."You know your places” Matron Malice said when the ceremony was completed.
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She grimaced through the pain of another contraction."Let our work begin”Less than an hour later, Zaknafein and Briza stood together on the balcony outside the upper entrance to House Do'Urden.Below them, on the cavern floor, the second and third brigades of the family army, Rizzen's and Nalfein's, bustled about, fitting on heated leather straps and metal patches-camouflage against a distinctive elven form to heat-seeing drow eyes.Dinin's group, the initial strike force that included a hundred goblin slaves, had long since departed."We will be known after this night” Briza said."None would have suspected that a tenth house would dare to move against one as powerful as DeVir.When the whispers ripple out after this night's bloody work, even Baenre will take note of Daermon N'a'shezbaernon!"She leaned outover the balcony to watch as the two brigades formed into lines and started-out, silently, along separate paths that would bring them through the winding city to the mushroom grove and the five-pillared structure of House DeVir.Zaknafein eyed the back of Matron Malice's eldest daughter, wanting nothing more than to put a dagger into herspine.As always, though, good judgment kept Zak's practiced hand in its place."Have you the articles?"Briza inquired, showing Zak considerably more respect than she had when Matron Malice sat protectively at her side.Zak was only a male, a commoner allowe to don the family name as his own because he sometimes served Matron Malice in a husbandly manner an had once been the patron of the house.Still, Briza feared to anger him.Zak was the weapon master of House Do'Urden, a tall and muscular male, stronger than most females, and those who had witnessed his fighting wrath considered him among the finest warriors of either sex in all of Menzoberranzan.Besides Briza and her mother, both high priestesses of the Spider Queen, Zaknafein, with his unrivaled swordsmanship, was House Do'Urden's trump.Zak held up the black hood and opened the small pouch on his belt, revealing several tiny ceramic spheres.Briza smiled evilly and rubbed her slender hands together."Matron Ginafae will not be pleased” she whispered.Zak returned the smile and turned to view the departing soldiers.Nothing gave the weapon master more pleasure than killing drow elves, particularly clerics of Lloth."Prepare yourself” Briza said after a few minutes.Zak shook his thick hair back from his face and stood rigid, eyes tightly closed.
She grimaced through the pain of another contraction."Let our work begin”Less than an hour later, Zaknafein and Briza stood together on the balcony outside the upper entrance to House Do'Urden.Below them, on the cavern floor, the second and third brigades of the family army, Rizzen's and Nalfein's, bustled about, fitting on heated leather straps and metal patches-camouflage against a distinctive elven form to heat-seeing drow eyes.Dinin's group, the initial strike force that included a hundred goblin slaves, had long since departed."We will be known after this night” Briza said."None would have suspected that a tenth house would dare to move against one as powerful as DeVir.When the whispers ripple out after this night's bloody work, even Baenre will take note of Daermon N'a'shezbaernon!"She leaned outover the balcony to watch as the two brigades formed into lines and started-out, silently, along separate paths that would bring them through the winding city to the mushroom grove and the five-pillared structure of House DeVir.Zaknafein eyed the back of Matron Malice's eldest daughter, wanting nothing more than to put a dagger into herspine.As always, though, good judgment kept Zak's practiced hand in its place."Have you the articles?"Briza inquired, showing Zak considerably more respect than she had when Matron Malice sat protectively at her side.Zak was only a male, a commoner allowe to don the family name as his own because he sometimes served Matron Malice in a husbandly manner an had once been the patron of the house.Still, Briza feared to anger him.Zak was the weapon master of House Do'Urden, a tall and muscular male, stronger than most females, and those who had witnessed his fighting wrath considered him among the finest warriors of either sex in all of Menzoberranzan.Besides Briza and her mother, both high priestesses of the Spider Queen, Zaknafein, with his unrivaled swordsmanship, was House Do'Urden's trump.Zak held up the black hood and opened the small pouch on his belt, revealing several tiny ceramic spheres.Briza smiled evilly and rubbed her slender hands together."Matron Ginafae will not be pleased” she whispered.Zak returned the smile and turned to view the departing soldiers.Nothing gave the weapon master more pleasure than killing drow elves, particularly clerics of Lloth."Prepare yourself” Briza said after a few minutes.Zak shook his thick hair back from his face and stood rigid, eyes tightly closed.
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Briza drew her wand slowly, beginning the chant that would activate the device.She tapped Zak on one shoulder, then the other, then held the wand motionless over his head.Zak felt the frosty sprinkles falling down on him, permeating his clothes and armor, even his flesh, until he and all of his possessions had cooled to a uniform temperature and hue.Zak hated the magical chill, it felt as he imagined death would feel but he knew that under the influence of the wand's sprinkles he was, to the heat-sensing eyes of the creatures of the Underdark, as gray as common stone, unremarkable and undetectable.Zak opened his eyes and shuddered, flexing his fingers to be sure they could still perform the fine-edge of his craft.He looked back to Briza, already in the midst of the second spell, the summoning.This one would take a while, so Zak leaned back against the wall and considered again the pleasant, though dangerous, task before him.How thoughtful of Matron Malice to leave all of House DeVir's clerics to him!"It is done” Briza announced after a few minutes.She led Zak's gaze upward, to the darkness beneath the unseen ceiling of the immense cavern.Zak spotted Briza's handiwork first, an approaching current of air, yellow-tinted and warmer than the normal air of the cavern.A living current of air.The creature, a conjuration from an elemental plane, swirled to hover just beyond the lip of the balcony, obediently awaiting its summoner's commands.Zak didn't hesitate.He leaped out into the thing's midst, letting it hold him suspended above the floor.Briza offered him a final salute and motioned her servant away."Good fighting” she called to Zak, though he was already invisible in the air above her.Zak chuckled at the irony of her words as the twisting city of Menzoberranzan rolled out below him.She wanted the clerics of House DeVir dead as surely as Zak did, but for very different reasons.All complications aside, Zak would have been just as happy killing clerics of House Do'Urden.The weapon master took up one of his adamantite swords, a drow weapon magically crafted and unbelievably sharp with the edge of killing dweomers."Good fighting indeed” he whispered.If only Briza knew how good.Chapter 2The Fall of House DeViRDinin noted with satisfaction that any of the meandering bugbears, or any other of the multitude of races that composed Menzoberranzan, drow included, now made great haste to scurry out of his way.This time the secondboy of House Do'Urden was not alone.Nearly sixty soldiers of the house walked in tight lines behind him.Behind these, in similar order though with far less enthusiasm for the adventure, came a hundred armed slaves of lesser races, goblins, orcs, and bugbears.There could be no doubt for onlookers, a drow house was on a march to war.This was not an everyday event in Menzoberranzan but neither was it unexpected.At least once every decade a house decided that its position within the city hierarchy could be improved by another house's elimination.
Briza drew her wand slowly, beginning the chant that would activate the device.She tapped Zak on one shoulder, then the other, then held the wand motionless over his head.Zak felt the frosty sprinkles falling down on him, permeating his clothes and armor, even his flesh, until he and all of his possessions had cooled to a uniform temperature and hue.Zak hated the magical chill, it felt as he imagined death would feel but he knew that under the influence of the wand's sprinkles he was, to the heat-sensing eyes of the creatures of the Underdark, as gray as common stone, unremarkable and undetectable.Zak opened his eyes and shuddered, flexing his fingers to be sure they could still perform the fine-edge of his craft.He looked back to Briza, already in the midst of the second spell, the summoning.This one would take a while, so Zak leaned back against the wall and considered again the pleasant, though dangerous, task before him.How thoughtful of Matron Malice to leave all of House DeVir's clerics to him!"It is done” Briza announced after a few minutes.She led Zak's gaze upward, to the darkness beneath the unseen ceiling of the immense cavern.Zak spotted Briza's handiwork first, an approaching current of air, yellow-tinted and warmer than the normal air of the cavern.A living current of air.The creature, a conjuration from an elemental plane, swirled to hover just beyond the lip of the balcony, obediently awaiting its summoner's commands.Zak didn't hesitate.He leaped out into the thing's midst, letting it hold him suspended above the floor.Briza offered him a final salute and motioned her servant away."Good fighting” she called to Zak, though he was already invisible in the air above her.Zak chuckled at the irony of her words as the twisting city of Menzoberranzan rolled out below him.She wanted the clerics of House DeVir dead as surely as Zak did, but for very different reasons.All complications aside, Zak would have been just as happy killing clerics of House Do'Urden.The weapon master took up one of his adamantite swords, a drow weapon magically crafted and unbelievably sharp with the edge of killing dweomers."Good fighting indeed” he whispered.If only Briza knew how good.Chapter 2The Fall of House DeViRDinin noted with satisfaction that any of the meandering bugbears, or any other of the multitude of races that composed Menzoberranzan, drow included, now made great haste to scurry out of his way.This time the secondboy of House Do'Urden was not alone.Nearly sixty soldiers of the house walked in tight lines behind him.Behind these, in similar order though with far less enthusiasm for the adventure, came a hundred armed slaves of lesser races, goblins, orcs, and bugbears.There could be no doubt for onlookers, a drow house was on a march to war.This was not an everyday event in Menzoberranzan but neither was it unexpected.At least once every decade a house decided that its position within the city hierarchy could be improved by another house's elimination.
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dnd8153
It was a risky proposition, for all of the nobles of the "victim" house had to be disposed of quickly and quietly.If even one survived to lay an accusation upon the perpetrator, the attacking house would be eradicated by Menzoberranzan's merciless system of "justice”If the raid was executed to devious perfection, though, no recourse would be forthcoming.All of the city, even the ruling council of the top eight matron mothers, would secretly applaud the attackers for their courage and intelligence and no more would ever be said of the incident.Dinin took a roundabout route, not wanting to lay a direct trail between House Do'Urden and House DeVir.A half-hour later, for the second time that night, he crept to the mushroom grove's southern end, to the cluster of stalagmites that held House DeVir.His soldiers streamed out behind him eagerly, readying weapons and taking full measure of the structure before them.The slaves were slower in their movements.Many of them looked about for some escape, for they knew in their hearts that they were doomed in this battle.They feared the wrath of the dark elves more than death itself, though, and would not attempt to flee.With every exit out of Menzoberranzan protected by devious drow magic, where could they possibly go?Every one of them had witnessed the brutal punishments the drow elves exacted on recaptured slaves.At Dinin's command, they jumped into their positions around the mushroom fence.Dinin reached into his large pouch and pulled out a heated sheet of metal.He flashed the object, brightened in the infrared spectrum, three times behind him to signal the approaching brigades of Nalfein and Rizzen.Then, with his usual cockiness, Dinin spun it quickly into the air, caught it, and replaced it in the secrecy of his heat shielding pouch.On cue with the twirling signal, Dinin's drow brigade fitted enchanted darts to their tiny hand-held crossbows and took aim on the appointed targets.Every fifth mushroom was a shrieker, and every dart held a magical dweomer that could silence the roar of a dragon." .. . two.. . three” Dinin counted, his hand signaling the tempo since no words could be heard within the sphere of magical silence cast about his troops.He imagined the "click" as the drawn string on his little weapon released, loosing the dart into the nearest shrieker.So it went all around the cluster of House DeVir, the first line of alarm systematically silenced by three-dozen enchanted darts.Halfway across Menzoberranzan, Matron Malice, her daughters, and four of the house's common clerics were gathered in Lloth's unholy circle of eight.They ringed an idol of their wicked deity, a gemstone carving of a drow faced spider, and called to Lloth for aid in their struggles.Malice sat at the head, propped in a chair angled for birthing.Briza and Vierna flanked her, Briza clutching her hand.The select group chanted in unison, combining their energies into a single offensive.
It was a risky proposition, for all of the nobles of the "victim" house had to be disposed of quickly and quietly.If even one survived to lay an accusation upon the perpetrator, the attacking house would be eradicated by Menzoberranzan's merciless system of "justice”If the raid was executed to devious perfection, though, no recourse would be forthcoming.All of the city, even the ruling council of the top eight matron mothers, would secretly applaud the attackers for their courage and intelligence and no more would ever be said of the incident.Dinin took a roundabout route, not wanting to lay a direct trail between House Do'Urden and House DeVir.A half-hour later, for the second time that night, he crept to the mushroom grove's southern end, to the cluster of stalagmites that held House DeVir.His soldiers streamed out behind him eagerly, readying weapons and taking full measure of the structure before them.The slaves were slower in their movements.Many of them looked about for some escape, for they knew in their hearts that they were doomed in this battle.They feared the wrath of the dark elves more than death itself, though, and would not attempt to flee.With every exit out of Menzoberranzan protected by devious drow magic, where could they possibly go?Every one of them had witnessed the brutal punishments the drow elves exacted on recaptured slaves.At Dinin's command, they jumped into their positions around the mushroom fence.Dinin reached into his large pouch and pulled out a heated sheet of metal.He flashed the object, brightened in the infrared spectrum, three times behind him to signal the approaching brigades of Nalfein and Rizzen.Then, with his usual cockiness, Dinin spun it quickly into the air, caught it, and replaced it in the secrecy of his heat shielding pouch.On cue with the twirling signal, Dinin's drow brigade fitted enchanted darts to their tiny hand-held crossbows and took aim on the appointed targets.Every fifth mushroom was a shrieker, and every dart held a magical dweomer that could silence the roar of a dragon." .. . two.. . three” Dinin counted, his hand signaling the tempo since no words could be heard within the sphere of magical silence cast about his troops.He imagined the "click" as the drawn string on his little weapon released, loosing the dart into the nearest shrieker.So it went all around the cluster of House DeVir, the first line of alarm systematically silenced by three-dozen enchanted darts.Halfway across Menzoberranzan, Matron Malice, her daughters, and four of the house's common clerics were gathered in Lloth's unholy circle of eight.They ringed an idol of their wicked deity, a gemstone carving of a drow faced spider, and called to Lloth for aid in their struggles.Malice sat at the head, propped in a chair angled for birthing.Briza and Vierna flanked her, Briza clutching her hand.The select group chanted in unison, combining their energies into a single offensive.
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spell.A moment later, when Vierna, mentally linked to Dinin, understood that the first attack group was in position, the Do'Urden circle of eight sent the first insinuating waves of mental energy into the rival house.Matron Ginafae, her two daughters, and the five principal clerics of the common troops of House DeVir huddled together in the darkened anteroom of the five-stalagmite house's main chapel.They had gathered there in solemn prayer every night since Matron Ginafae had learned that she had fallen into Lloth's disfavor.Ginafae understood how vulnerable her house remained until she could find a way to appease the Spider Queen.There were sixty-six other houses in Menzoberranzan, fully twenty of which might dare to attack House DeVir at such an obvious disadvantage.The eight clerics were anxious now, somehow suspecting that this night would be eventful.Ginafae felt it first, a chilling blast of confusing perceptions that caused her to stutter over her prayer of forgiveness.The other clerics of House DeVir glanced nervously at the matron's uncharacteristic slip of words, looking for confirmation."We are under attack” Ginafae breathed to them, her head already pounding with a dull ache under the growing assault of the formidable clerics of House Do'Urden.A second signal from Dinin put the slave troops into motion.Still using stealth as their ally, they quietly rushed to the mushroom fence and cut through with wide-bladed swords.The secondboy of House Do'Urden watched and enjoyed as the courtyard of House DeVir was easily penetrated."Not such a prepared guard” he whispered in silent sarcasm to the red-glowing gargoyles on the high walls.The statues had seemed such an ominous guard earlier that night.Now they just watched helplessly.Dinin recognized the measured but growing anticipation in the soldiers around him, their drow battle-lust was barely contained.Every now and then came a killing flash as one of the slaves stumbled over a warding glyph, but the secondboy and the other drow only laughed at the specta-cle.The lesser races were the expendable "fodder" of House Do'Urden's army.The only purpose in bringing the goblinoids to House DeVir was to trigger the deadly traps and defenses along the perimeter, to lead the way for the drow elves, the true soldiers.The fence was now opened and secrecy was thrown away.House DeVir's soldiers met the invading slaves head on within the compound.Dinin barely had his hand up to begin the attack command when his sixty anxious drow warriors jumped up and charged, their faces twisted inwicked glee and their weapons waving menacingly.They halted their approach on cue, though, remembering one final task set out to them.Every drow, noble or commoner, possessed certain magical abilities.Bringing forth a globe of darkness, as Dinin had done to the bugbears in the street earlier that night, came easily to even the lowliest of the dark elves.So it went now, with sixty Do'Urden soldiers blotting out the perimeter of House DeVir above the mushroom fence in ball after ball of blackness.For all of their stealth and precautions, House Do'Urden knew that many eyes were watching the raid.
spell.A moment later, when Vierna, mentally linked to Dinin, understood that the first attack group was in position, the Do'Urden circle of eight sent the first insinuating waves of mental energy into the rival house.Matron Ginafae, her two daughters, and the five principal clerics of the common troops of House DeVir huddled together in the darkened anteroom of the five-stalagmite house's main chapel.They had gathered there in solemn prayer every night since Matron Ginafae had learned that she had fallen into Lloth's disfavor.Ginafae understood how vulnerable her house remained until she could find a way to appease the Spider Queen.There were sixty-six other houses in Menzoberranzan, fully twenty of which might dare to attack House DeVir at such an obvious disadvantage.The eight clerics were anxious now, somehow suspecting that this night would be eventful.Ginafae felt it first, a chilling blast of confusing perceptions that caused her to stutter over her prayer of forgiveness.The other clerics of House DeVir glanced nervously at the matron's uncharacteristic slip of words, looking for confirmation."We are under attack” Ginafae breathed to them, her head already pounding with a dull ache under the growing assault of the formidable clerics of House Do'Urden.A second signal from Dinin put the slave troops into motion.Still using stealth as their ally, they quietly rushed to the mushroom fence and cut through with wide-bladed swords.The secondboy of House Do'Urden watched and enjoyed as the courtyard of House DeVir was easily penetrated."Not such a prepared guard” he whispered in silent sarcasm to the red-glowing gargoyles on the high walls.The statues had seemed such an ominous guard earlier that night.Now they just watched helplessly.Dinin recognized the measured but growing anticipation in the soldiers around him, their drow battle-lust was barely contained.Every now and then came a killing flash as one of the slaves stumbled over a warding glyph, but the secondboy and the other drow only laughed at the specta-cle.The lesser races were the expendable "fodder" of House Do'Urden's army.The only purpose in bringing the goblinoids to House DeVir was to trigger the deadly traps and defenses along the perimeter, to lead the way for the drow elves, the true soldiers.The fence was now opened and secrecy was thrown away.House DeVir's soldiers met the invading slaves head on within the compound.Dinin barely had his hand up to begin the attack command when his sixty anxious drow warriors jumped up and charged, their faces twisted inwicked glee and their weapons waving menacingly.They halted their approach on cue, though, remembering one final task set out to them.Every drow, noble or commoner, possessed certain magical abilities.Bringing forth a globe of darkness, as Dinin had done to the bugbears in the street earlier that night, came easily to even the lowliest of the dark elves.So it went now, with sixty Do'Urden soldiers blotting out the perimeter of House DeVir above the mushroom fence in ball after ball of blackness.For all of their stealth and precautions, House Do'Urden knew that many eyes were watching the raid.
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Witnesses were not too much of a problem, they could not, or would not, care enough to identify the attacking house.But custom and rules demanded that certain attempts at secrecy beenacted, the etiquette of drow warfare.In the blink of a red glowing drow eye, House DeVir became, to the rest of the city, a dark blot on Menzoberranzan's landscape.Rizzen came up behind his youngest son."Well done” he signaled in the intricate finger language of the drow.uNalfein is in through the back”"An easy victory” the cocky Dinin signaled back, "if Matron Ginafae and her clerics are held at bay”"Trust in Matron Malice” was Rizzen's response.He clapped his son's shoulder and followed his troops in through the breached mushroom fence.High above the cluster of House DeVir, Zaknafein rested comfortably in the current-arms of Briza's aerial servant, watching the drama unfold.From this vantage, Zak could see within the ring of darkness and could hear within the ring of magical silence.Dinin's troops, the first drow soldiers in, had met resistance at every door and were being beaten badly.Nalfein and his brigade, the troops of House Do'Urden most practiced in the ways of wizardry, came through the fence at the rear of the complex.Lightning strikes and magical balls of acid thundered into the courtyard at the base of the DeVir structures, cutting down Do'Urden fodder andDeVir defenses alike.In the front courtyard, Rizzen and Dinin commanded the finest fighters of House Do'Urden.The blessings of Lloth were with his house, Zak could see when the battle was fully joined, for the strikes of the soldiers of House Do'Urden came faster than those of their enemies, and their aimproved more deadly.In minutes, the battle had been taken fully inside the five pillars.Zak stretched the incessant chill out of his arms and willed the aerial servant to action.Down he plummeted on his windy bed, and then he fell free the last few feet to the terrace along the top chambers of the central pillar.At once, two guards, one a female, rushed out to greet him.They hesitated in confusion, though, trying to sort out the true form of this unremarkable gray blur too long.They had never heard of Zaknafein Do'Urden.They didn't know that death was upon them.Zak's whip flashed out, catching and gashing the female's throat, while his other hand walked his sword through a series of masterful thrusts and parries that put the male off balance.Zak finished both in a single, blurring movement, snapping the whip-entwined female from the terrace with a twist of his wrist and spinning a kick into the male's face that likewise dropped him to the cavern floor.Zak was then inside, where another guard rose up to meet him.. . but fell at his feet.Zak slipped along the curving wall of the stalactite tower, his cooled body blending perfectly with the stone.Soldiers of House DeVir rushed all about him, trying to formulate some defense agenst the host of intruders who had already won out the lowest level of every structure and had taken two of the pillars completely.Zak was not concerned with them.He blocked out the clanging ring of adamantite weapons, the cries of command, and the screams of death, concentrating instead on a singular sound that would lead him to his destination: a unified, frantic chant.He found an empty corridor covered with spider carvings and running into the center of the pillar.As in House Do'Urden, this corridor ended in a large set of ornate double doors, their decorations dominated by arachnid forms.
Witnesses were not too much of a problem, they could not, or would not, care enough to identify the attacking house.But custom and rules demanded that certain attempts at secrecy beenacted, the etiquette of drow warfare.In the blink of a red glowing drow eye, House DeVir became, to the rest of the city, a dark blot on Menzoberranzan's landscape.Rizzen came up behind his youngest son."Well done” he signaled in the intricate finger language of the drow.uNalfein is in through the back”"An easy victory” the cocky Dinin signaled back, "if Matron Ginafae and her clerics are held at bay”"Trust in Matron Malice” was Rizzen's response.He clapped his son's shoulder and followed his troops in through the breached mushroom fence.High above the cluster of House DeVir, Zaknafein rested comfortably in the current-arms of Briza's aerial servant, watching the drama unfold.From this vantage, Zak could see within the ring of darkness and could hear within the ring of magical silence.Dinin's troops, the first drow soldiers in, had met resistance at every door and were being beaten badly.Nalfein and his brigade, the troops of House Do'Urden most practiced in the ways of wizardry, came through the fence at the rear of the complex.Lightning strikes and magical balls of acid thundered into the courtyard at the base of the DeVir structures, cutting down Do'Urden fodder andDeVir defenses alike.In the front courtyard, Rizzen and Dinin commanded the finest fighters of House Do'Urden.The blessings of Lloth were with his house, Zak could see when the battle was fully joined, for the strikes of the soldiers of House Do'Urden came faster than those of their enemies, and their aimproved more deadly.In minutes, the battle had been taken fully inside the five pillars.Zak stretched the incessant chill out of his arms and willed the aerial servant to action.Down he plummeted on his windy bed, and then he fell free the last few feet to the terrace along the top chambers of the central pillar.At once, two guards, one a female, rushed out to greet him.They hesitated in confusion, though, trying to sort out the true form of this unremarkable gray blur too long.They had never heard of Zaknafein Do'Urden.They didn't know that death was upon them.Zak's whip flashed out, catching and gashing the female's throat, while his other hand walked his sword through a series of masterful thrusts and parries that put the male off balance.Zak finished both in a single, blurring movement, snapping the whip-entwined female from the terrace with a twist of his wrist and spinning a kick into the male's face that likewise dropped him to the cavern floor.Zak was then inside, where another guard rose up to meet him.. . but fell at his feet.Zak slipped along the curving wall of the stalactite tower, his cooled body blending perfectly with the stone.Soldiers of House DeVir rushed all about him, trying to formulate some defense agenst the host of intruders who had already won out the lowest level of every structure and had taken two of the pillars completely.Zak was not concerned with them.He blocked out the clanging ring of adamantite weapons, the cries of command, and the screams of death, concentrating instead on a singular sound that would lead him to his destination: a unified, frantic chant.He found an empty corridor covered with spider carvings and running into the center of the pillar.As in House Do'Urden, this corridor ended in a large set of ornate double doors, their decorations dominated by arachnid forms.
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"This must be the place” Zak muttered under his breath, fitting his hood to the top of his head.A giant spider rushed out of its concealment to his side.Zak dove to his belly and kicked out under the thing, spinning into a roll that plunged his sword deep into the monster's bulbous body.Sticky fluids gushed out over the weapon master, and the spider shuddered to a quick death."Yes” Zak whispered, wiping the spider juices from his face, "this must be the place” He pulled the dead monster back into its hidden cubby and slipped in beside the thing, hoping that no one had noticed the brief struggle.By the sounds of ringing weapons, Zak could tell that the fighting had almost reached this floor.House DeVir now seemed to have its defenses in place, though, and was finally holding its ground."Now, Malice” Zak whispered, hoping that Briza, attuned to him in the meld, would sense his anxiety."Let us not be late!"Back in the clerical anteroom of House Do'Urden, Malice and her subordinates continued their brutal mental assault on the clerics of House DeVir.Lloth heard their prayers louder than those of their counterparts, giving the clerics of House Do'Urden the stronger spells in their mental combat.Already they had easily put their enemies into a defensive posture.One of the lesser priestesses in DeVir's circle ofeight had been crushed by Briza's mental insinuations and now lay dead on the floor barely inches from Matron Ginafae's feet.But the momentum had slowed suddenly and the battle seemed to be swinging back to an even level.Matron Malice, struggling with the impending birth, could not hold her concentration, and without her voice, the spells of her unholy circle weakened.At her mother's side, powerful Briza clutched her mother's hand so tightly that all the blood was squeezed from it, leaving it cool-the only cool spot on the laboring female to the eyes of the others.Briza studied the contractions and the crowning cap of the coming child's white hair, and calculated the time to the moment of birth.This technique of translating the pain of birth into an offensive spell attack had never been tried before, except in legend, and Briza knew that timing would be the critical factor.She whispered into her mother's ear, coaxing out the words of a deadly incantation.Matron Malice echoed back the beginnings of the spell, sublimating her gasps, and transforming her rage of agony into offensive power."Dinnen douward ma brechen tol” Briza implored."Dinnen douward .. . maaa .. . brechen to" Malice growled, so determined to focus through the pain that she bit through one of her thin lips.The baby's head appeared, more fully this time, and this time to stay.Briza trembled and could barely remember the incantation herself.She whispered the final rune into the matron's ear, almost fearing the consequences.Malice gathered her breath and her courage.She could feel the tingling of the spell as clearly as the pain of the birth.To her daughters standing around the idol, staring at her in disbelief, she appeared as a red blur of heated fury, streaking sweat lines that shone as brightly as the heat of boiling-water.
"This must be the place” Zak muttered under his breath, fitting his hood to the top of his head.A giant spider rushed out of its concealment to his side.Zak dove to his belly and kicked out under the thing, spinning into a roll that plunged his sword deep into the monster's bulbous body.Sticky fluids gushed out over the weapon master, and the spider shuddered to a quick death."Yes” Zak whispered, wiping the spider juices from his face, "this must be the place” He pulled the dead monster back into its hidden cubby and slipped in beside the thing, hoping that no one had noticed the brief struggle.By the sounds of ringing weapons, Zak could tell that the fighting had almost reached this floor.House DeVir now seemed to have its defenses in place, though, and was finally holding its ground."Now, Malice” Zak whispered, hoping that Briza, attuned to him in the meld, would sense his anxiety."Let us not be late!"Back in the clerical anteroom of House Do'Urden, Malice and her subordinates continued their brutal mental assault on the clerics of House DeVir.Lloth heard their prayers louder than those of their counterparts, giving the clerics of House Do'Urden the stronger spells in their mental combat.Already they had easily put their enemies into a defensive posture.One of the lesser priestesses in DeVir's circle ofeight had been crushed by Briza's mental insinuations and now lay dead on the floor barely inches from Matron Ginafae's feet.But the momentum had slowed suddenly and the battle seemed to be swinging back to an even level.Matron Malice, struggling with the impending birth, could not hold her concentration, and without her voice, the spells of her unholy circle weakened.At her mother's side, powerful Briza clutched her mother's hand so tightly that all the blood was squeezed from it, leaving it cool-the only cool spot on the laboring female to the eyes of the others.Briza studied the contractions and the crowning cap of the coming child's white hair, and calculated the time to the moment of birth.This technique of translating the pain of birth into an offensive spell attack had never been tried before, except in legend, and Briza knew that timing would be the critical factor.She whispered into her mother's ear, coaxing out the words of a deadly incantation.Matron Malice echoed back the beginnings of the spell, sublimating her gasps, and transforming her rage of agony into offensive power."Dinnen douward ma brechen tol” Briza implored."Dinnen douward .. . maaa .. . brechen to" Malice growled, so determined to focus through the pain that she bit through one of her thin lips.The baby's head appeared, more fully this time, and this time to stay.Briza trembled and could barely remember the incantation herself.She whispered the final rune into the matron's ear, almost fearing the consequences.Malice gathered her breath and her courage.She could feel the tingling of the spell as clearly as the pain of the birth.To her daughters standing around the idol, staring at her in disbelief, she appeared as a red blur of heated fury, streaking sweat lines that shone as brightly as the heat of boiling-water.
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"Abec” the matron began, feeling the pressure building to a crescendo."Abec” She felt the hot tear of her skin, the sudden slippery release as the baby's head pushed through, the sudden ecstacy of birthing."Abec dj'n'a'BREG DOUWARD."Malice screamed, pushing away all of the agoony in a final explosion of magical power that knocked even the clerics of her own house from their feet.Carried on the thrust of Matron Malice's exultation, the dweomer thundered into the chapel of House DeVir, shattered the gemstone idol of Lloth, sundered the double doors into heaps of twisted metal, and threw Matron Ginafae and her overmatched subordinates to the floor.Zak shook his head in disbelief as the chapel doors flew past him."Quite a kick, Malice” He chuckled and spun around the entryway, into the chapel.Using his infravision, he took a quick survey and head count of the lightless room's seven living occupants, all struggling back to their feet, their robes tattered.Again shaking his head at the bared power of Matron Malice, Zak pulled his hood down over his face.A snap of his whip was the only explanation he offered as he smashed a tiny ceramic globe at his feet.The sphere shattered, dropping out a pellet that Briza had enchanted for just such occasions, a pellet glowing with the brightness of daylight.For eyes accustomed to blackness, tuned in to heat emanations, the intrusion of such radiance came in a blinding flash of agony.The clerics' cries of pain only aided Zak in his systematic trek around the room, and he smiled widely under his hood every time he felt his sword bite into drow flesh.He heard the beginnings of a spell across the way and knew that one of the DeVirs had recovered enough from the assault to be dangerous.The weapon master did not need his eyes to aim, however, and the crack of his whip took Matron Ginafae's tongue right out of her mouth.Briza placed the newborn on the back of the spider idol and lifted the ceremonial dagger, pausing to admire its cruel workmanship.Its hilt was a spider's body sporting eight legs, barbed so as to appear furred, but angled down to serve as blades.Briza lifted the instrument above the baby's chest."Name the child” she implored her mother."The Spi-der Queen will not accept the sacrifice until the child isnamed!"Matron Malice lolled her head, trying to fathom her daughter's meaning.The matron mother had thrown every thing into the moment of the spell and the birth, and she was now barely coherent."Name the child!"Briza commanded, anxious to feed herhungry goddess."It nears its end” Dinin said to his bl'othel' when they met in a lower hall of one of the lesser pillars of House DeVir."Rizzen is winning through to the top, and it is believed that Zaknafein's dark work has been completed”"Two score of House DeVir's soldiers have already turned allegiance to us” Nalfein replied.
"Abec” the matron began, feeling the pressure building to a crescendo."Abec” She felt the hot tear of her skin, the sudden slippery release as the baby's head pushed through, the sudden ecstacy of birthing."Abec dj'n'a'BREG DOUWARD."Malice screamed, pushing away all of the agoony in a final explosion of magical power that knocked even the clerics of her own house from their feet.Carried on the thrust of Matron Malice's exultation, the dweomer thundered into the chapel of House DeVir, shattered the gemstone idol of Lloth, sundered the double doors into heaps of twisted metal, and threw Matron Ginafae and her overmatched subordinates to the floor.Zak shook his head in disbelief as the chapel doors flew past him."Quite a kick, Malice” He chuckled and spun around the entryway, into the chapel.Using his infravision, he took a quick survey and head count of the lightless room's seven living occupants, all struggling back to their feet, their robes tattered.Again shaking his head at the bared power of Matron Malice, Zak pulled his hood down over his face.A snap of his whip was the only explanation he offered as he smashed a tiny ceramic globe at his feet.The sphere shattered, dropping out a pellet that Briza had enchanted for just such occasions, a pellet glowing with the brightness of daylight.For eyes accustomed to blackness, tuned in to heat emanations, the intrusion of such radiance came in a blinding flash of agony.The clerics' cries of pain only aided Zak in his systematic trek around the room, and he smiled widely under his hood every time he felt his sword bite into drow flesh.He heard the beginnings of a spell across the way and knew that one of the DeVirs had recovered enough from the assault to be dangerous.The weapon master did not need his eyes to aim, however, and the crack of his whip took Matron Ginafae's tongue right out of her mouth.Briza placed the newborn on the back of the spider idol and lifted the ceremonial dagger, pausing to admire its cruel workmanship.Its hilt was a spider's body sporting eight legs, barbed so as to appear furred, but angled down to serve as blades.Briza lifted the instrument above the baby's chest."Name the child” she implored her mother."The Spi-der Queen will not accept the sacrifice until the child isnamed!"Matron Malice lolled her head, trying to fathom her daughter's meaning.The matron mother had thrown every thing into the moment of the spell and the birth, and she was now barely coherent."Name the child!"Briza commanded, anxious to feed herhungry goddess."It nears its end” Dinin said to his bl'othel' when they met in a lower hall of one of the lesser pillars of House DeVir."Rizzen is winning through to the top, and it is believed that Zaknafein's dark work has been completed”"Two score of House DeVir's soldiers have already turned allegiance to us” Nalfein replied.
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dnd8158
"They see the end” laughed Dinin."One house serves them as well as another, and in the eyes of commoners no house is worth dying for.Our task will be finished soon”"Too quickly for anyone to take note” Nalfein said."Now Do'Urden, Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, is the Ninth House of Menzoberranzan, and DeVir be damned!""Alert!"Dinin cried suddenly, eyes widening in feigned horror as he looked over his brother's shoulder.Nalfein reacted immediately, spinning to face the danger at his back, only to put the true danger at his back.For even as Nalfein realized the deception, Dinin's sword slipped into his spine.Dinin put his head to his brother's shoulder and pressed his cheek to Nalfein's, watching the red sparkle of heat leave his brother's eyes."Tho quickly for anyone to take note” Dinin teased, echoing his brother's earlier words.He dropped the lifeless form to his feet."Now Dinin is elderboy of House Do'Urden, and Nalfein be damned”"Drizzt” breathed Matron Malice."The child's name is Drizzt!"Briza tightened her grip on the knife and began the ritual."Queen of Spiders, take this babe” she began.She raised the dagger to strike."Drizzt Do'Urden we give to you in payment for our glorious vic-""Wait!"called Maya from the side of the room.Her melding with her brother Nalfein had abruptly ceased.It could only mean one thing."Nalfein is dead” she announced."The baby is no longer the third living son”Vierna glanced curiously at her sister.At the same instant that Maya had sensed Nalfein's death, Vierna, melded with Dinin, had felt a strong emotive surge.
"They see the end” laughed Dinin."One house serves them as well as another, and in the eyes of commoners no house is worth dying for.Our task will be finished soon”"Too quickly for anyone to take note” Nalfein said."Now Do'Urden, Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, is the Ninth House of Menzoberranzan, and DeVir be damned!""Alert!"Dinin cried suddenly, eyes widening in feigned horror as he looked over his brother's shoulder.Nalfein reacted immediately, spinning to face the danger at his back, only to put the true danger at his back.For even as Nalfein realized the deception, Dinin's sword slipped into his spine.Dinin put his head to his brother's shoulder and pressed his cheek to Nalfein's, watching the red sparkle of heat leave his brother's eyes."Tho quickly for anyone to take note” Dinin teased, echoing his brother's earlier words.He dropped the lifeless form to his feet."Now Dinin is elderboy of House Do'Urden, and Nalfein be damned”"Drizzt” breathed Matron Malice."The child's name is Drizzt!"Briza tightened her grip on the knife and began the ritual."Queen of Spiders, take this babe” she began.She raised the dagger to strike."Drizzt Do'Urden we give to you in payment for our glorious vic-""Wait!"called Maya from the side of the room.Her melding with her brother Nalfein had abruptly ceased.It could only mean one thing."Nalfein is dead” she announced."The baby is no longer the third living son”Vierna glanced curiously at her sister.At the same instant that Maya had sensed Nalfein's death, Vierna, melded with Dinin, had felt a strong emotive surge.
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dnd8159
Elation?Vierna brought a slender finger up to her pursed lips, wondering if Dinin had successfully pulled off the assassination.Briza still held the spider-shaped knife over the babe's chest, wanting to give this one to Lloth."We promised the Spider Queen the third living son”Maya warned."And that has been given”"But not in sacrifice” argued Briza.Vierna shrugged, at a loss."If Lloth accepted Nalfein, thenhe has been given.To give another might evoke the SpiderQueen's anger”"But to not give what we have promised would be worsestill!"Briza insisted."Then finish the deed” said Maya.Briza clenched down tight on the dagger and began theritual again."Stay your hand” Matron Malice commanded, propping herself up in the chair."Lloth is content, our victory is won.Welcome, then, your brother, the newest member of House Do'Urden”"Just a male” Briza commented in obvious disgust, walking away from the idol and the child."Next time we shall do better” Matron Malice chuckled, though she wondered if there would be a next time.She approached the end of her fifth century of life, and drow elves, even young ones, were not a particularly fruitful lot.Briza had been born to Malice at the youthful age of one hundred, but in the almost four centuries since, Malice hadproduced only five other children.Even this baby, Drizzt, had come as a surprise, and Malice hardly expected that she would ever conceive again."Enough of such contemplations” Malice whispered to herself exhausted."There will be ample time. . “ She sank back into her chair and fell into fitful, though wickedly pleasant, dreams of heightening power.Zaknafein walked through the central pillar of the DeVir complex, his hood in his hand and his whip and sword comfortably replaced on his belt.Every now and then a ring of battle sounded, only to be quickly ended.House Do'Urden had rolled through to victory, the tenth house had taken the fourth, and now all that remained was to remove evidenceand witnesses.One group of lesser female clerics marched through, tending to the wounded Do'Urdens and animating the corpses of those beyond their ability, so that the bodies could walk away from the crime scene.
Elation?Vierna brought a slender finger up to her pursed lips, wondering if Dinin had successfully pulled off the assassination.Briza still held the spider-shaped knife over the babe's chest, wanting to give this one to Lloth."We promised the Spider Queen the third living son”Maya warned."And that has been given”"But not in sacrifice” argued Briza.Vierna shrugged, at a loss."If Lloth accepted Nalfein, thenhe has been given.To give another might evoke the SpiderQueen's anger”"But to not give what we have promised would be worsestill!"Briza insisted."Then finish the deed” said Maya.Briza clenched down tight on the dagger and began theritual again."Stay your hand” Matron Malice commanded, propping herself up in the chair."Lloth is content, our victory is won.Welcome, then, your brother, the newest member of House Do'Urden”"Just a male” Briza commented in obvious disgust, walking away from the idol and the child."Next time we shall do better” Matron Malice chuckled, though she wondered if there would be a next time.She approached the end of her fifth century of life, and drow elves, even young ones, were not a particularly fruitful lot.Briza had been born to Malice at the youthful age of one hundred, but in the almost four centuries since, Malice hadproduced only five other children.Even this baby, Drizzt, had come as a surprise, and Malice hardly expected that she would ever conceive again."Enough of such contemplations” Malice whispered to herself exhausted."There will be ample time. . “ She sank back into her chair and fell into fitful, though wickedly pleasant, dreams of heightening power.Zaknafein walked through the central pillar of the DeVir complex, his hood in his hand and his whip and sword comfortably replaced on his belt.Every now and then a ring of battle sounded, only to be quickly ended.House Do'Urden had rolled through to victory, the tenth house had taken the fourth, and now all that remained was to remove evidenceand witnesses.One group of lesser female clerics marched through, tending to the wounded Do'Urdens and animating the corpses of those beyond their ability, so that the bodies could walk away from the crime scene.
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Back at the Do'Urden compound, those corpses not beyond repair would be resurrected and put back to work.Zak turned away with a visible shudder as the clerics moved from room to room, the marching line of Do'Urden zombies growing ever longer at their backs.As distasteful as Zaknafein found this troupe, the one that followed was even worse.The Do'Urden clerics led a contingent of soldiers through the structure, using detection spells to determine hiding places of surviving DeVirs.One stopped in the hallway just a few steps from Zak, her eyes turned inward as she felt the emanations of her spell.She held her fingers out in front of her, tracing a slow line, like some macabre divining rod, toward drow flesh."In there!"she declared, pointing to a panel at the base of the wall.The soldiers jumped to it like a pack of ravenous wolves and tore through the secret door.Inside a hidden cubby huddled the children of House DeVir.These were nobles, not commoners, and could not be taken alive.Zak quickened his pace to get beyond the scene, but he heard vividly the children's helpless screams as the hungry Do'Urden soldiers finished their job.Zak found himself in a run now.He rushed around a bend in the hallway, nearly bowling over Dinin and Rizzen."Nalfein is dead” Rizzen declared impassively.Zak immediately turned a suspicious eye on the younger Do'Urden son."I killed the DeVir soldier who committed the deed” Dillin assured him, not even hiding his cocky smile.Zak had been around for nearly four centuries, and he was certainly not ignorant of the ways of his ambitious race.The brother princes had come in defensively at the back of the lines, with a host of Do'Urden soldiers between them and the enemy.By the time they even encountered a drow that was not of their own house, the majority of the DeVirs' surviving soldiers had already switched allegiance to House Do'Urden.Zak doubted that either of the Do'Urden brothers had even seen action against a DeVir."The description of the carnage in the prayer room has been spread throughout the ranks” Rizzen said to the weapon master."You performed with your usual excellence as we have come to expect”Zak shot the patron a glare of contempt and kept on his way, down though the structure's main doors and out beyond the magical darkness and silence into Menzoberranzan's dark dawn.Rizzen was Matron Malice's present partner in a long line of partners, and no more.
Back at the Do'Urden compound, those corpses not beyond repair would be resurrected and put back to work.Zak turned away with a visible shudder as the clerics moved from room to room, the marching line of Do'Urden zombies growing ever longer at their backs.As distasteful as Zaknafein found this troupe, the one that followed was even worse.The Do'Urden clerics led a contingent of soldiers through the structure, using detection spells to determine hiding places of surviving DeVirs.One stopped in the hallway just a few steps from Zak, her eyes turned inward as she felt the emanations of her spell.She held her fingers out in front of her, tracing a slow line, like some macabre divining rod, toward drow flesh."In there!"she declared, pointing to a panel at the base of the wall.The soldiers jumped to it like a pack of ravenous wolves and tore through the secret door.Inside a hidden cubby huddled the children of House DeVir.These were nobles, not commoners, and could not be taken alive.Zak quickened his pace to get beyond the scene, but he heard vividly the children's helpless screams as the hungry Do'Urden soldiers finished their job.Zak found himself in a run now.He rushed around a bend in the hallway, nearly bowling over Dinin and Rizzen."Nalfein is dead” Rizzen declared impassively.Zak immediately turned a suspicious eye on the younger Do'Urden son."I killed the DeVir soldier who committed the deed” Dillin assured him, not even hiding his cocky smile.Zak had been around for nearly four centuries, and he was certainly not ignorant of the ways of his ambitious race.The brother princes had come in defensively at the back of the lines, with a host of Do'Urden soldiers between them and the enemy.By the time they even encountered a drow that was not of their own house, the majority of the DeVirs' surviving soldiers had already switched allegiance to House Do'Urden.Zak doubted that either of the Do'Urden brothers had even seen action against a DeVir."The description of the carnage in the prayer room has been spread throughout the ranks” Rizzen said to the weapon master."You performed with your usual excellence as we have come to expect”Zak shot the patron a glare of contempt and kept on his way, down though the structure's main doors and out beyond the magical darkness and silence into Menzoberranzan's dark dawn.Rizzen was Matron Malice's present partner in a long line of partners, and no more.
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When Malice was finished with him, she would either relegate him back to the ranks of the common soldiery, stripping him of the name Do'Urden and all the rights that accompanied it, or she would dispose of him.Zak owed him no respect.Zak moved out beyond the mushroom fence to the high-est vantage point he could find, then fell to the ground.He watched, amazed, a few moments later, when the proces-sion of the Do’Urden army, patron and son, soldiers and clerics, and the slow-moving line of two dozen drow zom-bies, made its way back home.They had lost, and left be-hind, nearly all of their slave fodder in the attack, but the line leaving the wreckage of House DeVir was longer than the line that had come in earlier that night.The slaves had been replaced twofold by captured DeVir slaves, and fifty,!or more of the DeVir common troops, showing typical drow loyalty, had willingly joined the attackers.These traitorous’ draw would be interrogated-magically interrogated-by the Do’Urden clerics to ensure their sincerity.They would pass the test to a one, Zak knew.Drow elves were creatures of survival, not of principle.The soldiers would be given new identities and would be kept within the privacy of the Do’Urden compound for a few months, until the fall of House DeVir became an old and forgotten tale.Zak did not follow immediately.Rather, he cut through the rows of mushroom trees and found a secluded dell, where he plopped down on a patch of mossy carpet and!raised his gaze to the eternal darkness of the cavern’s ceiling-and the eternal darkness of his existence.It would have been prudent for him to remain silent at that time; he was an invader to the most powerful section of the vast city.He thought of the possible witnesses to his words, the same dark elves who had watched the fall of House DeVir, who had wholeheartedly enjoyed the specta-cle.In the face of such behavior and such carnage as this night had seen, Zak could not contain his emotions.His la-ment came out as a plea to some god beyond his experience.”What place is this that is my world; what dark coil has my spirit embodied?” he whispered the angry disclaimer that had always been a part of him.”In light, I see my skin as black; in darkness, it glows white in the heat of this rage cannot dismiss.”Would that I had the courage to depart, this place or this life, or to stand openly against the wrongness that is the world of these, my kin.1b seek an existence that does not run afoul to that which I believe, and to that which I hold dear faith is truth.”Zaknafein Do’Urden, I am called, yet a drow I am not, by choice or by deed.Let them discover this being that I am, then.Let them rain their wrath on these old shoulders already burdened by the hopelessness of Menzoberranzan” Ignoring the consequences, the weapon master rose to his feet and yelled, ”Menzoberranzan, what hell are you?”A moment later, when no answer echoed back out of the quiet city, Zak flexed the remaining chill of Briza’s wand from his weary muscles.He found some comfort as he pat-ted the whip on his belt-the instrument that had taken the tongue from the mouth of a matron mother.Chapter 3The Eyes of the ChildMasoj, the young apprentice-which at this point in his magic-using career meant that he was no more than a clean-ing attendant-leaned on his broom and watched as Alton DeVir moved through the door into the highest chamber of the spire.Masoj almost felt sympathy for the student, who had to go in and face the Faceless One.Masoj felt excitement as well, though, knowing that the ensuing fireworks between Alton and the faceless master would be well worth the watching.
When Malice was finished with him, she would either relegate him back to the ranks of the common soldiery, stripping him of the name Do'Urden and all the rights that accompanied it, or she would dispose of him.Zak owed him no respect.Zak moved out beyond the mushroom fence to the high-est vantage point he could find, then fell to the ground.He watched, amazed, a few moments later, when the proces-sion of the Do’Urden army, patron and son, soldiers and clerics, and the slow-moving line of two dozen drow zom-bies, made its way back home.They had lost, and left be-hind, nearly all of their slave fodder in the attack, but the line leaving the wreckage of House DeVir was longer than the line that had come in earlier that night.The slaves had been replaced twofold by captured DeVir slaves, and fifty,!or more of the DeVir common troops, showing typical drow loyalty, had willingly joined the attackers.These traitorous’ draw would be interrogated-magically interrogated-by the Do’Urden clerics to ensure their sincerity.They would pass the test to a one, Zak knew.Drow elves were creatures of survival, not of principle.The soldiers would be given new identities and would be kept within the privacy of the Do’Urden compound for a few months, until the fall of House DeVir became an old and forgotten tale.Zak did not follow immediately.Rather, he cut through the rows of mushroom trees and found a secluded dell, where he plopped down on a patch of mossy carpet and!raised his gaze to the eternal darkness of the cavern’s ceiling-and the eternal darkness of his existence.It would have been prudent for him to remain silent at that time; he was an invader to the most powerful section of the vast city.He thought of the possible witnesses to his words, the same dark elves who had watched the fall of House DeVir, who had wholeheartedly enjoyed the specta-cle.In the face of such behavior and such carnage as this night had seen, Zak could not contain his emotions.His la-ment came out as a plea to some god beyond his experience.”What place is this that is my world; what dark coil has my spirit embodied?” he whispered the angry disclaimer that had always been a part of him.”In light, I see my skin as black; in darkness, it glows white in the heat of this rage cannot dismiss.”Would that I had the courage to depart, this place or this life, or to stand openly against the wrongness that is the world of these, my kin.1b seek an existence that does not run afoul to that which I believe, and to that which I hold dear faith is truth.”Zaknafein Do’Urden, I am called, yet a drow I am not, by choice or by deed.Let them discover this being that I am, then.Let them rain their wrath on these old shoulders already burdened by the hopelessness of Menzoberranzan” Ignoring the consequences, the weapon master rose to his feet and yelled, ”Menzoberranzan, what hell are you?”A moment later, when no answer echoed back out of the quiet city, Zak flexed the remaining chill of Briza’s wand from his weary muscles.He found some comfort as he pat-ted the whip on his belt-the instrument that had taken the tongue from the mouth of a matron mother.Chapter 3The Eyes of the ChildMasoj, the young apprentice-which at this point in his magic-using career meant that he was no more than a clean-ing attendant-leaned on his broom and watched as Alton DeVir moved through the door into the highest chamber of the spire.Masoj almost felt sympathy for the student, who had to go in and face the Faceless One.Masoj felt excitement as well, though, knowing that the ensuing fireworks between Alton and the faceless master would be well worth the watching.
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He went back to his sweeping, using the broom as an excuse to get farther around the curve of the room’s floor, closer to the door.”You requested my presence, Master Faceless One” Alton DeVir said again, keeping one hand in front of his face and squinting to fight the brilliant glare of the room’s three lighted candles.Alton shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other just inside the shadowy room’s door.Hunched across the way, the Faceless One kept his back to the young DeVir.Better to be done with this cleanly, the master reminded himself.He knew, though, that the spell he was now preparing would kill Alton before the student could learn his family’s fate, before the Faceless One could fully complete Dinin Do’Urden’s final instructions.Tho much was at stake.Better to be done with this cleanly.”You..” Alton began again, but he prudently held his words and tried to sort out the situation before him.How unusual to be summoned to the private chambers of a mas-ter of the Academy before the day’s lessons had even begun.When he had first received the summons, Alton feared that he had somehow failed one of his lessons.That could be a fa-tal mistake in Sorcere.Alton was close to graduation, but the disdain of a single master could put an end to that.He had done quite well in his lessons with the Faceless One, had even believed that this mysterious master favored him.Could this call be simply a courtesy of congratulations on his impending graduation?Unlikely, Alton realized against his hopes.Masters of the drow Academy did not of-ten congratulate students.Alton then heard quiet chanting and noticed that the mas-ter was in the midst of spellcasting.Something cried out as very wrong to him now; something about this whole situa-tion did not fit the strict ways of the Academy.Alton set his feet firmly and tensed his muscles, following the advice of the motto that had been drilled into the thoughts of every student at the Academy, the precept that kept drow elves alive in a society so devoted to chaos: Be prepared.The doors exploded before him, showering the room with stone splinters and throwing Masoj back against the wall.He felt the show well worth both the inconvenience and the new bruise on his shoulder when Alton DeVir scrambled out of the room.The student’s back and left arm trailed wisps of smoke, and the most exquisite expression of terror and pain that Masoj had ever seen was etched on the DeVir noble’s face.Alton stumbled to the floor and kicked into a roll, desper-ate to put some ground between himself and the murder-ous master.He made it down and around the descending arc of the room’s floor and through the door that led into the next lower chamber just as the Faceless One made his appearance at the sundered door.The master stopped to spit a curse at his misfire, and to consider the best way to replace his door.”Clean it up!” he snapped at Masoj, who was again leaning casually with his hands atop his broomstick and his chin atop his hands.Masoj obediently dropped his head and started sweeping the stone splinters.He looked up as the Faceless One stalked past, however, and cautiously started after the master.
He went back to his sweeping, using the broom as an excuse to get farther around the curve of the room’s floor, closer to the door.”You requested my presence, Master Faceless One” Alton DeVir said again, keeping one hand in front of his face and squinting to fight the brilliant glare of the room’s three lighted candles.Alton shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other just inside the shadowy room’s door.Hunched across the way, the Faceless One kept his back to the young DeVir.Better to be done with this cleanly, the master reminded himself.He knew, though, that the spell he was now preparing would kill Alton before the student could learn his family’s fate, before the Faceless One could fully complete Dinin Do’Urden’s final instructions.Tho much was at stake.Better to be done with this cleanly.”You..” Alton began again, but he prudently held his words and tried to sort out the situation before him.How unusual to be summoned to the private chambers of a mas-ter of the Academy before the day’s lessons had even begun.When he had first received the summons, Alton feared that he had somehow failed one of his lessons.That could be a fa-tal mistake in Sorcere.Alton was close to graduation, but the disdain of a single master could put an end to that.He had done quite well in his lessons with the Faceless One, had even believed that this mysterious master favored him.Could this call be simply a courtesy of congratulations on his impending graduation?Unlikely, Alton realized against his hopes.Masters of the drow Academy did not of-ten congratulate students.Alton then heard quiet chanting and noticed that the mas-ter was in the midst of spellcasting.Something cried out as very wrong to him now; something about this whole situa-tion did not fit the strict ways of the Academy.Alton set his feet firmly and tensed his muscles, following the advice of the motto that had been drilled into the thoughts of every student at the Academy, the precept that kept drow elves alive in a society so devoted to chaos: Be prepared.The doors exploded before him, showering the room with stone splinters and throwing Masoj back against the wall.He felt the show well worth both the inconvenience and the new bruise on his shoulder when Alton DeVir scrambled out of the room.The student’s back and left arm trailed wisps of smoke, and the most exquisite expression of terror and pain that Masoj had ever seen was etched on the DeVir noble’s face.Alton stumbled to the floor and kicked into a roll, desper-ate to put some ground between himself and the murder-ous master.He made it down and around the descending arc of the room’s floor and through the door that led into the next lower chamber just as the Faceless One made his appearance at the sundered door.The master stopped to spit a curse at his misfire, and to consider the best way to replace his door.”Clean it up!” he snapped at Masoj, who was again leaning casually with his hands atop his broomstick and his chin atop his hands.Masoj obediently dropped his head and started sweeping the stone splinters.He looked up as the Faceless One stalked past, however, and cautiously started after the master.
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Alton couldn’t possibly escape, and this show would be too good to miss.The third room, the Faceless One’s private library, was the brightest of the four in the spire, with dozens of candles burning on each wall.”Damn this light!” Alton spat, stumbling his way down through the dizzying blur to the door that led to the Face-less One’s entry hall, the lowest room of the master’s quar-ters.If he could get down from this spire and outside of the tower to the courtyard of the Academy, he might be able to turn the momentum against the master.Alton’s world remained the darkness of Menzoberranzan, but the Faceless One, who had spent so many decades in the candlelight of Sorcere, had grown accustomed to using his eyes to see shades of light, not heat.The entry hall was cluttered with chairs and chests, but only one candle burned there, and Alton could see clearly enough to dodge or leap any obstacles.He rushed to the door and grabbed the heavy latch.It turned easily enough, but when Alton tried to shoulder through, the door did not budge and a burst of sparkling blue energy threw him back to the floor.”Curse this place” Alton spat.The portal was magically held.He knew a spell to open such enchanted doors but doubted whether his magic would be strong enough to dis-pel the castings of a master.In his haste and fear, the words of the dweomer floated through Alton’s thoughts in an un-decipherable jumble.”Do not run, DeVir” came the Faceless One’s call from the previous chamber.”You only lengthen your torment!””A curse upon you, too” Alton replied under his breath.Alton forgot about the stupid spell; it would never come to him in time.He glanced around the room for an option.His eyes found something unusual halfway up the side wall, in an opening between two large cabinets.Alton scrambled back a few steps to get a better angle but found himself caught within the range of the candlelight, within the deceptive field where his eyes registered both heat and light.He could only discern that this section of the wall showed a uniform glow in the heat spectrum and that its hue was subtly different from the stone of the walls.Another door-way?Alton could only hope his guess to be right.He rushed back to the center of the room, stood directly across from the object, and forced his eyes away from the infrared spec-trum, fully back into the world of light.As his eyes adjusted, what came into view both startled and confused the young DeVir.He saw no doorway, nor any opening with another chamber behind it.What he looked upon was a reflection of himself, and a portion of the room he now stood in.Alton had never, in his fifty-five years of life, witnessed such a spectacle, but he had heard the mas-ters of Sorcere speak of these devices.It was a mirror.A movement in the upper doorway of the chamber re-minded Alton that the Faceless One was almost upon him.He couldn’t hesitate to ponder his options.He put his head down and charged the mirror.Perhaps it was a teleportation door to another section of the city, perhaps a simple door to a room beyond.
Alton couldn’t possibly escape, and this show would be too good to miss.The third room, the Faceless One’s private library, was the brightest of the four in the spire, with dozens of candles burning on each wall.”Damn this light!” Alton spat, stumbling his way down through the dizzying blur to the door that led to the Face-less One’s entry hall, the lowest room of the master’s quar-ters.If he could get down from this spire and outside of the tower to the courtyard of the Academy, he might be able to turn the momentum against the master.Alton’s world remained the darkness of Menzoberranzan, but the Faceless One, who had spent so many decades in the candlelight of Sorcere, had grown accustomed to using his eyes to see shades of light, not heat.The entry hall was cluttered with chairs and chests, but only one candle burned there, and Alton could see clearly enough to dodge or leap any obstacles.He rushed to the door and grabbed the heavy latch.It turned easily enough, but when Alton tried to shoulder through, the door did not budge and a burst of sparkling blue energy threw him back to the floor.”Curse this place” Alton spat.The portal was magically held.He knew a spell to open such enchanted doors but doubted whether his magic would be strong enough to dis-pel the castings of a master.In his haste and fear, the words of the dweomer floated through Alton’s thoughts in an un-decipherable jumble.”Do not run, DeVir” came the Faceless One’s call from the previous chamber.”You only lengthen your torment!””A curse upon you, too” Alton replied under his breath.Alton forgot about the stupid spell; it would never come to him in time.He glanced around the room for an option.His eyes found something unusual halfway up the side wall, in an opening between two large cabinets.Alton scrambled back a few steps to get a better angle but found himself caught within the range of the candlelight, within the deceptive field where his eyes registered both heat and light.He could only discern that this section of the wall showed a uniform glow in the heat spectrum and that its hue was subtly different from the stone of the walls.Another door-way?Alton could only hope his guess to be right.He rushed back to the center of the room, stood directly across from the object, and forced his eyes away from the infrared spec-trum, fully back into the world of light.As his eyes adjusted, what came into view both startled and confused the young DeVir.He saw no doorway, nor any opening with another chamber behind it.What he looked upon was a reflection of himself, and a portion of the room he now stood in.Alton had never, in his fifty-five years of life, witnessed such a spectacle, but he had heard the mas-ters of Sorcere speak of these devices.It was a mirror.A movement in the upper doorway of the chamber re-minded Alton that the Faceless One was almost upon him.He couldn’t hesitate to ponder his options.He put his head down and charged the mirror.Perhaps it was a teleportation door to another section of the city, perhaps a simple door to a room beyond.
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Or per-haps, Alton dared to imagine in those few desperate sec-onds, this was some interplanar gate that would bring him into a strange and unknown plane of existence!He felt the tingling excitement of adventure pulling him on as he neared the wondrous thing-then he felt only the impact, the shattering glass, and the unyielding stone wall behind it.Perhaps it was just a mirror.”Look at his eyes” Vierna whispered to Maya as they ex-amined the newest member of House Do’Urden.Truly the babe’s eyes were remarkable.Although the child had been out of the womb for less than an hour, the pupils of his orbs darted back and forth inquisitively.While they showed the expected radiating glow of eyes seeing into the infrared spectrum, the familiar redness was tinted by a shade of blue, giving them a violet hue.”Blind?” wondered Maya.”Perhaps this one will be given to the Spider Queen still” Briza looked back to them anxiously.Dark elves did not al-low children showing any physical deficiency to live.”Not blind” replied Vierna, passing her hand over the child and casting an angry glare at both of her eager sisters.”He follows my fingers”Maya saw that Vierna spoke the truth.She leaned closer to the babe, studying his face and strange eyes.”What do you see, Drizzt Do’Urden?” she asked softly, not in an act of gentleness toward the babe, but so that she would not dis-turb her mother, resting in the chair at the head of the spi-der idol.”What do you see that the rest of us cannot?” Glass crunched under Alton, digging deeper wounds as he shifted his weight in an effort to rise to his feet.What would it matter?he thought.”My mirror!” he heard the Faceless One groan, and he looked up to see the outraged master towering over him.How huge he seemed to Alton!How great and powerful, fully blocking the candlelight from this little alcove between the cabinets, his form enhanced tenfold to the eyes of the helpless victim by the mere implications of his presence.Alton then felt a gooey substance floating down around him, detached webbing finding a sticky hold on the cabi.nets, on the wall, and on Alton.The young DeVir tried to leap up and roll away, but the Faceless One’s spell already held him fast, trapped him as a dirgit fly would be trapped in the strands of a spider’s home.”First my door” the Faceless One growled at him, ”and now this, my mirror!Do you know the pains I suffered to acquire such a rare device?”Alton turned his head from side to side, not in answer, but to free at least his face from the binding substance.”Why did you not just stand still and let the deed be fin-ished cleanly?” the Faceless One roared, thoroughly dis-gusted..”Why?” Alton lisped, spitting some of the webbing from his thin lips.”Why would you want to kill me?””Because you broke my mirror!” the Faceless One shot back.It didn’t make any sense, of course-the mirror had only been shattered after the initial attack-but to the master, AI.ton supposed, it didn’t have to make sense.Alton knew his cause to be hopeless, but he continued on in his efforts to dissuade his opponent.”You know of my house, of House DeVir” he said, indig-nant, ”fourth in the city.Matron Ginafae will not be pleased.A high priestess has ways to learn the truth of such situa-tions!””House DeVir?” The Faceless One laughed.
Or per-haps, Alton dared to imagine in those few desperate sec-onds, this was some interplanar gate that would bring him into a strange and unknown plane of existence!He felt the tingling excitement of adventure pulling him on as he neared the wondrous thing-then he felt only the impact, the shattering glass, and the unyielding stone wall behind it.Perhaps it was just a mirror.”Look at his eyes” Vierna whispered to Maya as they ex-amined the newest member of House Do’Urden.Truly the babe’s eyes were remarkable.Although the child had been out of the womb for less than an hour, the pupils of his orbs darted back and forth inquisitively.While they showed the expected radiating glow of eyes seeing into the infrared spectrum, the familiar redness was tinted by a shade of blue, giving them a violet hue.”Blind?” wondered Maya.”Perhaps this one will be given to the Spider Queen still” Briza looked back to them anxiously.Dark elves did not al-low children showing any physical deficiency to live.”Not blind” replied Vierna, passing her hand over the child and casting an angry glare at both of her eager sisters.”He follows my fingers”Maya saw that Vierna spoke the truth.She leaned closer to the babe, studying his face and strange eyes.”What do you see, Drizzt Do’Urden?” she asked softly, not in an act of gentleness toward the babe, but so that she would not dis-turb her mother, resting in the chair at the head of the spi-der idol.”What do you see that the rest of us cannot?” Glass crunched under Alton, digging deeper wounds as he shifted his weight in an effort to rise to his feet.What would it matter?he thought.”My mirror!” he heard the Faceless One groan, and he looked up to see the outraged master towering over him.How huge he seemed to Alton!How great and powerful, fully blocking the candlelight from this little alcove between the cabinets, his form enhanced tenfold to the eyes of the helpless victim by the mere implications of his presence.Alton then felt a gooey substance floating down around him, detached webbing finding a sticky hold on the cabi.nets, on the wall, and on Alton.The young DeVir tried to leap up and roll away, but the Faceless One’s spell already held him fast, trapped him as a dirgit fly would be trapped in the strands of a spider’s home.”First my door” the Faceless One growled at him, ”and now this, my mirror!Do you know the pains I suffered to acquire such a rare device?”Alton turned his head from side to side, not in answer, but to free at least his face from the binding substance.”Why did you not just stand still and let the deed be fin-ished cleanly?” the Faceless One roared, thoroughly dis-gusted..”Why?” Alton lisped, spitting some of the webbing from his thin lips.”Why would you want to kill me?””Because you broke my mirror!” the Faceless One shot back.It didn’t make any sense, of course-the mirror had only been shattered after the initial attack-but to the master, AI.ton supposed, it didn’t have to make sense.Alton knew his cause to be hopeless, but he continued on in his efforts to dissuade his opponent.”You know of my house, of House DeVir” he said, indig-nant, ”fourth in the city.Matron Ginafae will not be pleased.A high priestess has ways to learn the truth of such situa-tions!””House DeVir?” The Faceless One laughed.
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Perhaps the torments that Dinin Do’Urden had requested would be in line after all.Alton had broken his mirror!”Fourth house!” Alton spat.”Foolish youth” the Faceless One cackled.”House DeVir isno more-not fourth, not fifty-fourth, nothing”Alton slumped, though the webbing did its best to hold his body erect.What could the master be babbling about?”They all are dead” the Faceless One taunted.”Matron Ginafae sees Lloth more clearly this day” Alton’s expression of horror pleased the disfigured master.”All dead” he snarled one more time.”Except for poor Alton, who lives on to hear of his family’s misfortune.That oversight shall be remedied now!” The Faceless One raised his hands to cast a spell.”Who?” Alton cried.The Faceless One paused and seemed not to understand.”What house did this?” the doomed student clarified.”Or what conspiracy of houses brought down DeVir?””Ah, you should be told” replied the Faceless One, obvi-ously enjoying the situation.”I suppose it is your right to know before you join your kin in the realm of death” A smile widened across the opening where his lips once had been.”But you broke my mirror!” the master growled.”Die stu.pid, stupid boy!Find your own answers!”The Faceless One’s chest jerked out suddenly, and he shuddered in convulsions, babbling curses in a tongue far beyond the terrified student’s comprehension.What vile spell did this disfigured master have prepared for him, so wretched that its chant sounded in an arcane language for-eign to learned Alton’s ears, so unspeakably evil that.its se-mantics jerked on the very edge of its caster’s control?The Faceless One then fell forward to the floor and expired.Stunned, Alton followed the line of the master’s hood down to his back-to the tail of a protruding dart.Alton watched the poisoned thing as it continued to shudder from the body’s impact, then he turned his scan upward to the center of the room, where the young cleaning attendant stood calmly.”Nice weapon, Faceless One!” Masoj beamed, rolling a two-handed, crafted crossbow over in his hands.He threw a wicked smile at Alton and fitted another dart.Matron Malice hoisted herself out of her chair and willed herself to her feet.”Out of the way!” she snapped at her daughters.Maya and Vierna scooted away from the spider idol andthe baby.”See his eyes, Matron Mother” Vierna dared to re-mark.
Perhaps the torments that Dinin Do’Urden had requested would be in line after all.Alton had broken his mirror!”Fourth house!” Alton spat.”Foolish youth” the Faceless One cackled.”House DeVir isno more-not fourth, not fifty-fourth, nothing”Alton slumped, though the webbing did its best to hold his body erect.What could the master be babbling about?”They all are dead” the Faceless One taunted.”Matron Ginafae sees Lloth more clearly this day” Alton’s expression of horror pleased the disfigured master.”All dead” he snarled one more time.”Except for poor Alton, who lives on to hear of his family’s misfortune.That oversight shall be remedied now!” The Faceless One raised his hands to cast a spell.”Who?” Alton cried.The Faceless One paused and seemed not to understand.”What house did this?” the doomed student clarified.”Or what conspiracy of houses brought down DeVir?””Ah, you should be told” replied the Faceless One, obvi-ously enjoying the situation.”I suppose it is your right to know before you join your kin in the realm of death” A smile widened across the opening where his lips once had been.”But you broke my mirror!” the master growled.”Die stu.pid, stupid boy!Find your own answers!”The Faceless One’s chest jerked out suddenly, and he shuddered in convulsions, babbling curses in a tongue far beyond the terrified student’s comprehension.What vile spell did this disfigured master have prepared for him, so wretched that its chant sounded in an arcane language for-eign to learned Alton’s ears, so unspeakably evil that.its se-mantics jerked on the very edge of its caster’s control?The Faceless One then fell forward to the floor and expired.Stunned, Alton followed the line of the master’s hood down to his back-to the tail of a protruding dart.Alton watched the poisoned thing as it continued to shudder from the body’s impact, then he turned his scan upward to the center of the room, where the young cleaning attendant stood calmly.”Nice weapon, Faceless One!” Masoj beamed, rolling a two-handed, crafted crossbow over in his hands.He threw a wicked smile at Alton and fitted another dart.Matron Malice hoisted herself out of her chair and willed herself to her feet.”Out of the way!” she snapped at her daughters.Maya and Vierna scooted away from the spider idol andthe baby.”See his eyes, Matron Mother” Vierna dared to re-mark.
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”They are so unusual”Matron Malice studied the child.Everything seemed in place, and a good thing, too, for Nalfein, elderboy of House Do’Urden, was dead, and this boy, Drizzt, would have a dif.ficult job replacing the valuable son.”His eyes” Vierna said again.The matron shot her a venomous look but bent low to see what the fuss was about.”Purple?” Malice said, startled.Never had she heard of such a thing.”He is not blind” Maya was quick to put in, seeing the dis-dain spreading across her mother’s face.”Fetch the candle” Matron Malice ordered.”Let us seehow these eyes appear in the world of light”Maya and Vierna reflexively headed for the sacred cabi-net, but Briza cut them off.”Only a high priestess may touch the holy items” she reminded them in a tone that carried the weight of a threat.She spun around haughtily, reached into the cabinet, and produced a single half-used red candle.The clerics hid their eyes and Matron Malice put a prudent hand over the baby’s face as Briza lit the sacred candle.It produced only a tiny flame, but to drow eyes it came as a brilliant intrusion.”Bring it” said Matron Malice after several moments of ad-justing.Briza moved the candle near Drizzt, and Malice gradually slid her hand away.”He does not cry” Briza remarked, amazed that the babe could quietly accept such a stinging light.”Purple again” whispered the matron, paying no heed toher daughter’s rambling.”In both worlds, the child’s eyesshow as purple”Vierna gasped audibly when she looked again upon her tiny brother and his striking lavender orbs.”He is your brother” Matron Malice reminded her, view-ing Vierna’s gasp as a hint of what might come.”When hegrows older and those eyes pierce you so, remember, onyour life, that he is your brother”Vierna turned away, almost blurting a reply she would have regretted making.Matron Malice’s exploits with nearly every male soldier of the Do’Urden house-and many others that the seductive matron managed to sneak away from other houses-were almost legendary in Menzo-berranzan.Who was she to be spouting reminders of pru-dent and proper behavior?Vierna bit her lip and hoped that neither Briza nor Malice had been reading her thoughts at that moment.In Menzoberranzan, thinking such gossip about a high priestess, whether or not it was true, got you painfully exe-cuted.Her mother’s eyes narrowed, and Vierna thought she had been discovered.”He is yours to prepare” Matron Malice said to her.”Maya is younger” Vierna dared to protest.”I could attainthe level of high priestess in but a few years if I may keep tomy studies””Or never” the matron sternly reminded her.”Thke thechild to the chapel proper.Wean him to words and teachhim all that he will need to know to properly serve as a pageprince of House Do’Urden””I will see to him” Briza offered, one hand subconsciouslyslipping to her snake-headed whip.”I do so enjoy teachingmales their place in our world”Malice glared at her.
”They are so unusual”Matron Malice studied the child.Everything seemed in place, and a good thing, too, for Nalfein, elderboy of House Do’Urden, was dead, and this boy, Drizzt, would have a dif.ficult job replacing the valuable son.”His eyes” Vierna said again.The matron shot her a venomous look but bent low to see what the fuss was about.”Purple?” Malice said, startled.Never had she heard of such a thing.”He is not blind” Maya was quick to put in, seeing the dis-dain spreading across her mother’s face.”Fetch the candle” Matron Malice ordered.”Let us seehow these eyes appear in the world of light”Maya and Vierna reflexively headed for the sacred cabi-net, but Briza cut them off.”Only a high priestess may touch the holy items” she reminded them in a tone that carried the weight of a threat.She spun around haughtily, reached into the cabinet, and produced a single half-used red candle.The clerics hid their eyes and Matron Malice put a prudent hand over the baby’s face as Briza lit the sacred candle.It produced only a tiny flame, but to drow eyes it came as a brilliant intrusion.”Bring it” said Matron Malice after several moments of ad-justing.Briza moved the candle near Drizzt, and Malice gradually slid her hand away.”He does not cry” Briza remarked, amazed that the babe could quietly accept such a stinging light.”Purple again” whispered the matron, paying no heed toher daughter’s rambling.”In both worlds, the child’s eyesshow as purple”Vierna gasped audibly when she looked again upon her tiny brother and his striking lavender orbs.”He is your brother” Matron Malice reminded her, view-ing Vierna’s gasp as a hint of what might come.”When hegrows older and those eyes pierce you so, remember, onyour life, that he is your brother”Vierna turned away, almost blurting a reply she would have regretted making.Matron Malice’s exploits with nearly every male soldier of the Do’Urden house-and many others that the seductive matron managed to sneak away from other houses-were almost legendary in Menzo-berranzan.Who was she to be spouting reminders of pru-dent and proper behavior?Vierna bit her lip and hoped that neither Briza nor Malice had been reading her thoughts at that moment.In Menzoberranzan, thinking such gossip about a high priestess, whether or not it was true, got you painfully exe-cuted.Her mother’s eyes narrowed, and Vierna thought she had been discovered.”He is yours to prepare” Matron Malice said to her.”Maya is younger” Vierna dared to protest.”I could attainthe level of high priestess in but a few years if I may keep tomy studies””Or never” the matron sternly reminded her.”Thke thechild to the chapel proper.Wean him to words and teachhim all that he will need to know to properly serve as a pageprince of House Do’Urden””I will see to him” Briza offered, one hand subconsciouslyslipping to her snake-headed whip.”I do so enjoy teachingmales their place in our world”Malice glared at her.
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”You are a high priestess.You have other duties more important than word-weaning a male child” Then to Vierna, she said, ”The babe is yours; do not disappoint me in this!The lessons you teach Drizzt will rein-force your own understanding of our ways.This exercise at ’mothering’ will aid you in your quest to become a high priestess” She let Vierna take a moment to view the task in a more positive light, then her tone became unmistakably threatening once again.”It may aid you, but it surely can de-stroy you!”Vierna sighed but kept her thoughts silent.The chore that Matron Malice had dropped on her shoulders would con-sume the bulk of her time for at least ten years.Vierna didn’t like the prospects, she and this purple-eyed child together for ten long years.The alternative, however, the wrath of Ma-tron Malice Do’Urden, seemed a worse thing by far.Alton blew another web from his mouth.”You are just e boy, an apprentice” he stammered.”Why would YOu-?””Kill him?” Masoj finished the thought.”Not to save you, if that is your hope” He spat down at the Faceless One’s body.”Look at me, a prince of the sixth house, a cleaning stewardfor that wretched-””Hun’ett” Alton cut in.”House Hun’ett is the sixth house”The younger drow put a finger to pursed lips.”Wait” he remarked with a widening smile, an evil smile of sarcasm.”We are the fifth house now, 1 suppose, with DeVir wipedout””Not yet!” Alton growled.”Momentarily” Masoj assured him, fingering the cross-bow quarrel.Alton slumped even farther back in the web.1b be killed by a master was bad enough, but the indignity of being shot down by a boy.. . .”I suppose 1 should thank you” Masoj said.”I had plannedto kill that one for many weeks””Why?” Alton pressed his new assailant.”You would dare to kill a master of Sorcere simply because your family put you in servitude to him?””Because he would snub me!” Masoj yelled.”Four years 1 have slaved for him, that back end of a carrion crawler.Cleaned his boots.Prepared salve for his disgusting face!Was it ever enough?
”You are a high priestess.You have other duties more important than word-weaning a male child” Then to Vierna, she said, ”The babe is yours; do not disappoint me in this!The lessons you teach Drizzt will rein-force your own understanding of our ways.This exercise at ’mothering’ will aid you in your quest to become a high priestess” She let Vierna take a moment to view the task in a more positive light, then her tone became unmistakably threatening once again.”It may aid you, but it surely can de-stroy you!”Vierna sighed but kept her thoughts silent.The chore that Matron Malice had dropped on her shoulders would con-sume the bulk of her time for at least ten years.Vierna didn’t like the prospects, she and this purple-eyed child together for ten long years.The alternative, however, the wrath of Ma-tron Malice Do’Urden, seemed a worse thing by far.Alton blew another web from his mouth.”You are just e boy, an apprentice” he stammered.”Why would YOu-?””Kill him?” Masoj finished the thought.”Not to save you, if that is your hope” He spat down at the Faceless One’s body.”Look at me, a prince of the sixth house, a cleaning stewardfor that wretched-””Hun’ett” Alton cut in.”House Hun’ett is the sixth house”The younger drow put a finger to pursed lips.”Wait” he remarked with a widening smile, an evil smile of sarcasm.”We are the fifth house now, 1 suppose, with DeVir wipedout””Not yet!” Alton growled.”Momentarily” Masoj assured him, fingering the cross-bow quarrel.Alton slumped even farther back in the web.1b be killed by a master was bad enough, but the indignity of being shot down by a boy.. . .”I suppose 1 should thank you” Masoj said.”I had plannedto kill that one for many weeks””Why?” Alton pressed his new assailant.”You would dare to kill a master of Sorcere simply because your family put you in servitude to him?””Because he would snub me!” Masoj yelled.”Four years 1 have slaved for him, that back end of a carrion crawler.Cleaned his boots.Prepared salve for his disgusting face!Was it ever enough?
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Not for that one” He spat at the corpseagain and continued, talking more to himself than to thetrapped student.”Nobles aspiring to wizardry have the ad-vantage of being trained as apprentices before they reachthe proper age for entry into Sorcere””Of course” Alton said.”I myself trained under-””He meant to keep me out of Sorcere!” Masoj rambled, ig-noring Alton altogether.”He \’Jould have forced me intoMelee-Magthere, the fighters’ school, instead.The fighters’school!My twenty-fifth birthday is only two weeks away”Masoj looked up, as though he suddenly remembered that he was not alone in the room.”I knew 1 must kill him” he continued, now speaking di-rectly to Alton.”Then you come along and make it all so con-venient.A student and master killing each other in a fight?It has happened before.Who would question it?I suppose,then, that I should thank you, Alton DeVir of No HouseWorth Mentioning; Masoj chided with a low, sweepingbow.”Before I kill you, I mean””Wait!” cried Alton.”Kill me to what gain?”” Alibi””But you have your alibi, and we can make it better!””Explain; said Masoj, who, admittedly, was in no particu-lar hurry.The Faceless One was a high-level wizard; the webs weren’t going anywhere anytime soon.”Free me” Alton said earnestly.”Can you be as stupid as the Faceless One proclaimed you?”Alton took the insult stoically-the kid had the crossbow.”Free me so that I may assume the Faceless One’s identity”he explained.”The death of a master arouses suspicion, butif no master is believed dead. . “”And what of this?” Masoj asked, kicking the corpse.”Burn it” said Alton, his desperate plan coming fully into focus.”Let it be Alton DeVir.House DeVir is no more, so there will be no retaliation, no questions” Masoj seemed skeptical.”The Faceless One was practically a hermit” Alton rea-soned.”And I am near to graduation; certainly I can handlethe simple chores of basic teaching after thirty years ofstudy””And what is my gain?”Alton gawked, nearly burying himself in webbing, as ifthe answer were obvious.”A master in Sorcere to call men-tor.One who can ease your way through your years ofstudy”” And one who can dispose of a witness at his earliest con-venience” Masoj added slyly.”And what then would be my gain?” Alton shot back.”Thanger House Hun’ett, fifth in all the city, and I with no familyat my back?
Not for that one” He spat at the corpseagain and continued, talking more to himself than to thetrapped student.”Nobles aspiring to wizardry have the ad-vantage of being trained as apprentices before they reachthe proper age for entry into Sorcere””Of course” Alton said.”I myself trained under-””He meant to keep me out of Sorcere!” Masoj rambled, ig-noring Alton altogether.”He \’Jould have forced me intoMelee-Magthere, the fighters’ school, instead.The fighters’school!My twenty-fifth birthday is only two weeks away”Masoj looked up, as though he suddenly remembered that he was not alone in the room.”I knew 1 must kill him” he continued, now speaking di-rectly to Alton.”Then you come along and make it all so con-venient.A student and master killing each other in a fight?It has happened before.Who would question it?I suppose,then, that I should thank you, Alton DeVir of No HouseWorth Mentioning; Masoj chided with a low, sweepingbow.”Before I kill you, I mean””Wait!” cried Alton.”Kill me to what gain?”” Alibi””But you have your alibi, and we can make it better!””Explain; said Masoj, who, admittedly, was in no particu-lar hurry.The Faceless One was a high-level wizard; the webs weren’t going anywhere anytime soon.”Free me” Alton said earnestly.”Can you be as stupid as the Faceless One proclaimed you?”Alton took the insult stoically-the kid had the crossbow.”Free me so that I may assume the Faceless One’s identity”he explained.”The death of a master arouses suspicion, butif no master is believed dead. . “”And what of this?” Masoj asked, kicking the corpse.”Burn it” said Alton, his desperate plan coming fully into focus.”Let it be Alton DeVir.House DeVir is no more, so there will be no retaliation, no questions” Masoj seemed skeptical.”The Faceless One was practically a hermit” Alton rea-soned.”And I am near to graduation; certainly I can handlethe simple chores of basic teaching after thirty years ofstudy””And what is my gain?”Alton gawked, nearly burying himself in webbing, as ifthe answer were obvious.”A master in Sorcere to call men-tor.One who can ease your way through your years ofstudy”” And one who can dispose of a witness at his earliest con-venience” Masoj added slyly.”And what then would be my gain?” Alton shot back.”Thanger House Hun’ett, fifth in all the city, and I with no familyat my back?
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No, young Mas01 I am not as stupid as the Face-less One named me”Masoj ticked a long and pointed fingernail against his teeth and considered the possibilities.An ally among the masters of Sorcere?This held possibilities.Another thought popped into Masoj’s mind, and he pulled open the cabinet to Alton’s side and began rummaging through the contents.Alton flinched when he heard some ceramic and glass containers crashing together, thinking of the components, possibly even completed potions, that might be lost by the apprentice’s carelessness.Perhaps Melee-Magthere would be a better choice for this one, he thought.A moment later, though, the younger drow reappeared, and Alton remembered that he was in no position to make such judgments.”This is mine” Masoj demanded, showing Alton a smallblack object: a remarkably detailed onyx figurine of a hunt-ing panther.”A gift from a denizen of the lower planes forsome help I gave to him””You aided such a creature?” Alton had to ask, finding it difficult to believe that a mere apprentice had the resources necessary to even survive an encounter with such an un-predictable and mighty foe.”The Faceless One-” Masoj kicked the corpse again-”took the credit and the statue, but they are mine!Every-thing else in here will go to you, of course.I know themagical dweomers of most and will show you what is what”Brightening at the hope that he would indeed survive this dreadful day, Alton cared little about the figurine at that moment.All he wanted was to be freed of the webs so that he could find out the truth of his house’s fate.Then Masoj, ever a confusing young drow, turned suddenly and started away.”Where are you going?” Alton asked.”to get the acid””Acid?” Alton hid his panic well, though he had a terrible feeling that he understood what Masoj meant to do.”You want the disguise to appear authentic” Masoj ex-plained matter-of-factly.”Otherwise, it would not be muchof a disguise.We should take advantage of the web while itlasts.It will hold you still””No” Alton started to protest, but Masoj wheeled on him, the evil grin wide on his face.”It does seem a bit of pain, and a lot of trouble to gothrough” Masoj admitted.”You have no family and will findno allies in Sorcere, since the Faceless One was so despisedby the other masters” He brought the crossbow up levelwith Alton’s eyes and fitted another poisoned dart.”Per-haps you would prefer death””Get the acid!” Alton cried.”to what end?” Masoj teased, waving the crossbow.”What have you to live for, Alton DeVir of No House Worth Men-tioning’?””Revenge” Alton sneered, the sheer wrath of his tone set-ting the confident Masoj on his heels.”You have not learned this yet-though you will, my young student-but nothing in life gives more purpose than the hunger for revenge!”Masoj lowered the bow and eyed the trapped drow withrespect, almost fear.Still, the apprentice Hun’ett could notappreciate the gravity of Alton’s proclamation until Altonreiterated, this time with an eager smile on his face, ”Get theacid”Chapter 4Tbe First HouseFour cycles of Narbondel-four days-later, a glowing blue disk floated up the mushroom-lined stone path to the spider-covered gate of House Do’Urden.The sentries watched it from the windows of the two outer towers and from the compound as it hovered patiently three feet off the ground.Word came to the ruling family only seconds later.”What can it be?” Briza asked Zaknafein when she, the weapon master, Dinin, and Maya assembled on the balcony of the upper level.”A summons?” Zak asked as much as answered.
No, young Mas01 I am not as stupid as the Face-less One named me”Masoj ticked a long and pointed fingernail against his teeth and considered the possibilities.An ally among the masters of Sorcere?This held possibilities.Another thought popped into Masoj’s mind, and he pulled open the cabinet to Alton’s side and began rummaging through the contents.Alton flinched when he heard some ceramic and glass containers crashing together, thinking of the components, possibly even completed potions, that might be lost by the apprentice’s carelessness.Perhaps Melee-Magthere would be a better choice for this one, he thought.A moment later, though, the younger drow reappeared, and Alton remembered that he was in no position to make such judgments.”This is mine” Masoj demanded, showing Alton a smallblack object: a remarkably detailed onyx figurine of a hunt-ing panther.”A gift from a denizen of the lower planes forsome help I gave to him””You aided such a creature?” Alton had to ask, finding it difficult to believe that a mere apprentice had the resources necessary to even survive an encounter with such an un-predictable and mighty foe.”The Faceless One-” Masoj kicked the corpse again-”took the credit and the statue, but they are mine!Every-thing else in here will go to you, of course.I know themagical dweomers of most and will show you what is what”Brightening at the hope that he would indeed survive this dreadful day, Alton cared little about the figurine at that moment.All he wanted was to be freed of the webs so that he could find out the truth of his house’s fate.Then Masoj, ever a confusing young drow, turned suddenly and started away.”Where are you going?” Alton asked.”to get the acid””Acid?” Alton hid his panic well, though he had a terrible feeling that he understood what Masoj meant to do.”You want the disguise to appear authentic” Masoj ex-plained matter-of-factly.”Otherwise, it would not be muchof a disguise.We should take advantage of the web while itlasts.It will hold you still””No” Alton started to protest, but Masoj wheeled on him, the evil grin wide on his face.”It does seem a bit of pain, and a lot of trouble to gothrough” Masoj admitted.”You have no family and will findno allies in Sorcere, since the Faceless One was so despisedby the other masters” He brought the crossbow up levelwith Alton’s eyes and fitted another poisoned dart.”Per-haps you would prefer death””Get the acid!” Alton cried.”to what end?” Masoj teased, waving the crossbow.”What have you to live for, Alton DeVir of No House Worth Men-tioning’?””Revenge” Alton sneered, the sheer wrath of his tone set-ting the confident Masoj on his heels.”You have not learned this yet-though you will, my young student-but nothing in life gives more purpose than the hunger for revenge!”Masoj lowered the bow and eyed the trapped drow withrespect, almost fear.Still, the apprentice Hun’ett could notappreciate the gravity of Alton’s proclamation until Altonreiterated, this time with an eager smile on his face, ”Get theacid”Chapter 4Tbe First HouseFour cycles of Narbondel-four days-later, a glowing blue disk floated up the mushroom-lined stone path to the spider-covered gate of House Do’Urden.The sentries watched it from the windows of the two outer towers and from the compound as it hovered patiently three feet off the ground.Word came to the ruling family only seconds later.”What can it be?” Briza asked Zaknafein when she, the weapon master, Dinin, and Maya assembled on the balcony of the upper level.”A summons?” Zak asked as much as answered.
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”We will not know until we investigate” Zak stepped up on the rail-ing and out into the empty air, then levitated down to the compound floor.Briza motioned to Maya, and the youngest Do’Urden daughter followed Zak.”It bears the standard of House Baenre” Zak called up af-ter he had moved closer.He and Maya opened the large gates, and the disk slipped in, showing no hostile move-ments.”Baenre” Briza repeated over her shoulder, down the house’s corridor to where Matron Malice and Rizzen waited.”It seems that you are requested in audience, Matron Mother” Dinin put in nervously.Malice moved out to the balcony, and her husband obedi-ently followed.”Do they know of our attack?” Briza asked in the silent code, and every member of House Do’Urden, noble and commoner alike, shared that unpleasant thought.House DeVir had been eliminated only a few days before, and a calling card from the First Matron Mother of Menzoberran-zan could hardly be viewed as a coincidence.”Every house knows” Malice replied aloud, not believing the silence to be a necessary precaution within the bounda-ries of her own complex.”Is the evidence against us so over-whelming that the ruling council will be forced to action?” She stared hard at Briza, her dark eyes alternating between the red glow of infra vision and the deep green they showed in the aura of normal light.”That is the question we must ask” Malice stepped up onto the balcony, but Briza grabbed the back of her heavy black robe to stay her.”You do not mean to go with the thing?” Briza asked.Malice’s answering look showed even more startlement.”Of course” she replied.”Matron Baenre would not openlycall upon me if she meant me harm.Even her power is notso great that she can ignore the tenets of the city””You are certain that you will be safe?” Rizzen asked, truly concerned.If Malice was killed, Briza would take over the house, and Rizzen doubted that the eldest daughter would want any male by her side.Even if the vicious female did de-sire a patron, Rizzen would not want to be the one in that position.He was not Briza’s father, was not even as old as Briza.Clearly, the present patron of the house had a lot at stake in Matron Malice’s continued good health.”Your concern touches me” Malice replied, knowing her husband’s true fears.She pulled out of Briza’s grasp and stepped off the railing, straightening her robes as she slowly descended.Briza shook her head disdainfully and motioned Rizzen to follow her back inside the house, not thinking it wise that the bulk of the family be so exposed to unfriendly eyes.”Do you want an escort?” Zak asked as Malice sat on the disk.”I am certain that I will find one as soon as I am beyond theperimeter of our compound” Malice replied.”MatronBaenre would not risk exposing me to any danger while Iam in the care of her house””Agreed” said Zak, ”but do you want an escort frem”~ House Do’Urden?””If one was wanted, two disks would have floated in” Mal.ice said in a tone of finality.The matron was beginning to find the concerns of those around her stifling.She was the matron mother, after all, the strongest, the oldest, and the wisest, and did not appreciate others second-guessing her.To the disk, Malice said, ”Execute your appointed task, and let us be done with it!”Zak nearly snickered at Malice’s choice of words.”Matron Malice Do’Urden” came a magical voice from thedisk, ”Matron Baenre offers her greetings.Tho long has itbeen since last you two have sat in audience””Never” Malice signaled to Zak.
”We will not know until we investigate” Zak stepped up on the rail-ing and out into the empty air, then levitated down to the compound floor.Briza motioned to Maya, and the youngest Do’Urden daughter followed Zak.”It bears the standard of House Baenre” Zak called up af-ter he had moved closer.He and Maya opened the large gates, and the disk slipped in, showing no hostile move-ments.”Baenre” Briza repeated over her shoulder, down the house’s corridor to where Matron Malice and Rizzen waited.”It seems that you are requested in audience, Matron Mother” Dinin put in nervously.Malice moved out to the balcony, and her husband obedi-ently followed.”Do they know of our attack?” Briza asked in the silent code, and every member of House Do’Urden, noble and commoner alike, shared that unpleasant thought.House DeVir had been eliminated only a few days before, and a calling card from the First Matron Mother of Menzoberran-zan could hardly be viewed as a coincidence.”Every house knows” Malice replied aloud, not believing the silence to be a necessary precaution within the bounda-ries of her own complex.”Is the evidence against us so over-whelming that the ruling council will be forced to action?” She stared hard at Briza, her dark eyes alternating between the red glow of infra vision and the deep green they showed in the aura of normal light.”That is the question we must ask” Malice stepped up onto the balcony, but Briza grabbed the back of her heavy black robe to stay her.”You do not mean to go with the thing?” Briza asked.Malice’s answering look showed even more startlement.”Of course” she replied.”Matron Baenre would not openlycall upon me if she meant me harm.Even her power is notso great that she can ignore the tenets of the city””You are certain that you will be safe?” Rizzen asked, truly concerned.If Malice was killed, Briza would take over the house, and Rizzen doubted that the eldest daughter would want any male by her side.Even if the vicious female did de-sire a patron, Rizzen would not want to be the one in that position.He was not Briza’s father, was not even as old as Briza.Clearly, the present patron of the house had a lot at stake in Matron Malice’s continued good health.”Your concern touches me” Malice replied, knowing her husband’s true fears.She pulled out of Briza’s grasp and stepped off the railing, straightening her robes as she slowly descended.Briza shook her head disdainfully and motioned Rizzen to follow her back inside the house, not thinking it wise that the bulk of the family be so exposed to unfriendly eyes.”Do you want an escort?” Zak asked as Malice sat on the disk.”I am certain that I will find one as soon as I am beyond theperimeter of our compound” Malice replied.”MatronBaenre would not risk exposing me to any danger while Iam in the care of her house””Agreed” said Zak, ”but do you want an escort frem”~ House Do’Urden?””If one was wanted, two disks would have floated in” Mal.ice said in a tone of finality.The matron was beginning to find the concerns of those around her stifling.She was the matron mother, after all, the strongest, the oldest, and the wisest, and did not appreciate others second-guessing her.To the disk, Malice said, ”Execute your appointed task, and let us be done with it!”Zak nearly snickered at Malice’s choice of words.”Matron Malice Do’Urden” came a magical voice from thedisk, ”Matron Baenre offers her greetings.Tho long has itbeen since last you two have sat in audience””Never” Malice signaled to Zak.
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”Then take me to House Baenre!” Malice demanded.”I do not wish to waste my time conversing with a magical mouth!” Apparently, Matron Baenre had anticipated Malice’s impatience, for without an.other word, the disk floated back out of the Do’Urden com.pound.Zak shut the gate as it left, then quickly signaled his sok diers into motion.Malice did not want any open company, but the Do’Urden spy network would covertly track every movement of the Baenre sled, to the very gates of the ruling house’s grand compound.Malice’s guess about an escort was correct.As soon as the disk swept down from the pathway to the Do’Urden com-pound, twenty soldiers of House Baenre, all female, moved out from concealment along the sides of the boulevard.They formed a defensive diamond around the guest matron mother.The guard at each point of the formation wore black robes emblazoned on the back with Ii large purple-and-red spider design-the robes of a high priestess.”Baenre’s own daughters” Malice mused, for only the daughters of a noble could attain such a rank.How careful the First Matron Mother had been to ensure Malice’s safety on the trip!Slaves and drow commoners tripped over themselves in a frantic effort to get far out of the way of the approaching entourage as the group made its way through the curving streets toward the mushroom grove.The soldiers of House Baenre alone wore their house insignia in open view, and no one wanted to invoke the anger of Matron Baenre in any way.Malice just rolled her eyes in disbelief and hoped that she might know such power before she died.She rolled her eyes again a few minutes later, when the group approached the ruling house.House Baenre encom-passed twenty tall and majestic stalagmites, all intercon-nected with gracefully sweeping and arching bridges and parapets.Magic and faerie fire glowed from a thousand sep-arate sculptures and a hundred regally adorned guardsmen paced about in perfect formations.Even more striking were the inverse structures, the thirty smaller stalactites of House Baenre.They hung down from the ceiling of the cavern, their roots lost in the high dark-ness.Some of them connected tip-to-tip with the stalagmite mounds, while others hung freely like poised spears.Ring-ing balconies, curving up like the edging of a screw, had been built along the length of all of these, glowing with an overabundance of magic and highlighted design.Magic, too, was the fence that connected the bases of the outer stalagmites, encircling the whole of the compound.It was a giant web, silver against the general blue of the rest of the outer compound.Some said it had been a gift from Lloth herself, with iron-strong strands as thick as a drow elf’s arm.Anything touching Baenre’s fence, even the sharpest of drow weapons, would simply stick fast until the matron mother willed the fence to let it free.Malice and her escorts moved straight toward a symmet-rical and circular section of this fence, between the tallest of the outer towers.As they neared, the gate spiraled and wound out, leaving a gap large enough for the caravan to step through.Malice sat through it all, trying to appear unimpressed.Hundreds of curious soldiers watched the procession as it made its way to the central structure of House Baenre, the great purple-glowing chapel dome.The common soldiers left the entourage, leaving only the four high priestesses to: escort Matron Malice inside.The sights beyond the great doors to the chapel did not disappoint her.
”Then take me to House Baenre!” Malice demanded.”I do not wish to waste my time conversing with a magical mouth!” Apparently, Matron Baenre had anticipated Malice’s impatience, for without an.other word, the disk floated back out of the Do’Urden com.pound.Zak shut the gate as it left, then quickly signaled his sok diers into motion.Malice did not want any open company, but the Do’Urden spy network would covertly track every movement of the Baenre sled, to the very gates of the ruling house’s grand compound.Malice’s guess about an escort was correct.As soon as the disk swept down from the pathway to the Do’Urden com-pound, twenty soldiers of House Baenre, all female, moved out from concealment along the sides of the boulevard.They formed a defensive diamond around the guest matron mother.The guard at each point of the formation wore black robes emblazoned on the back with Ii large purple-and-red spider design-the robes of a high priestess.”Baenre’s own daughters” Malice mused, for only the daughters of a noble could attain such a rank.How careful the First Matron Mother had been to ensure Malice’s safety on the trip!Slaves and drow commoners tripped over themselves in a frantic effort to get far out of the way of the approaching entourage as the group made its way through the curving streets toward the mushroom grove.The soldiers of House Baenre alone wore their house insignia in open view, and no one wanted to invoke the anger of Matron Baenre in any way.Malice just rolled her eyes in disbelief and hoped that she might know such power before she died.She rolled her eyes again a few minutes later, when the group approached the ruling house.House Baenre encom-passed twenty tall and majestic stalagmites, all intercon-nected with gracefully sweeping and arching bridges and parapets.Magic and faerie fire glowed from a thousand sep-arate sculptures and a hundred regally adorned guardsmen paced about in perfect formations.Even more striking were the inverse structures, the thirty smaller stalactites of House Baenre.They hung down from the ceiling of the cavern, their roots lost in the high dark-ness.Some of them connected tip-to-tip with the stalagmite mounds, while others hung freely like poised spears.Ring-ing balconies, curving up like the edging of a screw, had been built along the length of all of these, glowing with an overabundance of magic and highlighted design.Magic, too, was the fence that connected the bases of the outer stalagmites, encircling the whole of the compound.It was a giant web, silver against the general blue of the rest of the outer compound.Some said it had been a gift from Lloth herself, with iron-strong strands as thick as a drow elf’s arm.Anything touching Baenre’s fence, even the sharpest of drow weapons, would simply stick fast until the matron mother willed the fence to let it free.Malice and her escorts moved straight toward a symmet-rical and circular section of this fence, between the tallest of the outer towers.As they neared, the gate spiraled and wound out, leaving a gap large enough for the caravan to step through.Malice sat through it all, trying to appear unimpressed.Hundreds of curious soldiers watched the procession as it made its way to the central structure of House Baenre, the great purple-glowing chapel dome.The common soldiers left the entourage, leaving only the four high priestesses to: escort Matron Malice inside.The sights beyond the great doors to the chapel did not disappoint her.
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A central altar dominated the place with a row of benches spiraling out in several dozen circuits to the perimeter of the great hall.1\’0’0 thousand drow could sit there with room to stretch.Statues and idols too numerous to count stood all about the place, glowing in a quiet black light.In the air high above the altar loomed a gigantic glow-ing image, a red-and-black illusion that slowly and contin-ually shifted between the forms of a spider and a beautiful drow female.” A work of Gomph, my principal wizard” Matron Baenre explained from her perch on the altar, guessing that Malice, like everyone else who ever came to Chapel Baenre, was awestruck by the sight.”Even wizards have their place” ”As long as they remember their place” Malice replied;;::slipping down from the now stationary disk.”Agreed” said Matron Baenre.”Males can get so presump-tuous at times} especially wizards!Still, I wish that I hadGomph at my side more often these days.He has been ap-pointed Archmage of Menzoberranzan, you know, andseems always at work on Narbondel or some other suchtasks”Malice just nodded and held her tongue.Of course, she knew that Baenre’s son was the city’s chief wizard.Every-body knew.Everybody knew, too, that Baenre’s daughter Triel was the Matron Mistress of the Academy, a position of honor in Menzoberranzan second only to the title of ma-tron mother of an individual family.Malice had little doubt that Matron Baenre would somehow work that fact into the conversation before too long.Before Malice took a step toward the stairs to the altar, her newest escort stepped out from the shadows.Malice scowled openly when she saw the thing, a creature known as an illithid, a mind fIayer.It stood about six feet tall, fully a foot taller than Malice, most of the difference being the re-sult of the creature’s enormous head.Glistening with slime, he head resembled an octopus with pupil-less, milky white eyes.Malice composed herself quickly.Mind fIayers were not mknown in Menzoberranzan, and rumors said that one 1ad befriended Matron Baenre.These creatures, though, nore intelligent and more evil than even the drow, almost Ilways inspired shudders of revulsion.”You may call him Methil” Matron Baenre explained.”His true name is beyond my pronunciation.He is a friend!’Before Malice could reply, Baenre added, ”Of course, Methil gives me the advantage in our discussion, and you are not accustomed to illithids!’ Then, as Malice’s mouth drooped open in disbelief, Matron Baenre dismissed the il.ithid.”You read my thought” Malice protested.
A central altar dominated the place with a row of benches spiraling out in several dozen circuits to the perimeter of the great hall.1\’0’0 thousand drow could sit there with room to stretch.Statues and idols too numerous to count stood all about the place, glowing in a quiet black light.In the air high above the altar loomed a gigantic glow-ing image, a red-and-black illusion that slowly and contin-ually shifted between the forms of a spider and a beautiful drow female.” A work of Gomph, my principal wizard” Matron Baenre explained from her perch on the altar, guessing that Malice, like everyone else who ever came to Chapel Baenre, was awestruck by the sight.”Even wizards have their place” ”As long as they remember their place” Malice replied;;::slipping down from the now stationary disk.”Agreed” said Matron Baenre.”Males can get so presump-tuous at times} especially wizards!Still, I wish that I hadGomph at my side more often these days.He has been ap-pointed Archmage of Menzoberranzan, you know, andseems always at work on Narbondel or some other suchtasks”Malice just nodded and held her tongue.Of course, she knew that Baenre’s son was the city’s chief wizard.Every-body knew.Everybody knew, too, that Baenre’s daughter Triel was the Matron Mistress of the Academy, a position of honor in Menzoberranzan second only to the title of ma-tron mother of an individual family.Malice had little doubt that Matron Baenre would somehow work that fact into the conversation before too long.Before Malice took a step toward the stairs to the altar, her newest escort stepped out from the shadows.Malice scowled openly when she saw the thing, a creature known as an illithid, a mind fIayer.It stood about six feet tall, fully a foot taller than Malice, most of the difference being the re-sult of the creature’s enormous head.Glistening with slime, he head resembled an octopus with pupil-less, milky white eyes.Malice composed herself quickly.Mind fIayers were not mknown in Menzoberranzan, and rumors said that one 1ad befriended Matron Baenre.These creatures, though, nore intelligent and more evil than even the drow, almost Ilways inspired shudders of revulsion.”You may call him Methil” Matron Baenre explained.”His true name is beyond my pronunciation.He is a friend!’Before Malice could reply, Baenre added, ”Of course, Methil gives me the advantage in our discussion, and you are not accustomed to illithids!’ Then, as Malice’s mouth drooped open in disbelief, Matron Baenre dismissed the il.ithid.”You read my thought” Malice protested.
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Few could insin.Jate themselves through the mental barriers of a high priestess well enough to read her thoughts, and the practice was a crime of the highest order in drow society.”No!” Matron Baenre explained, immediately on the de-fensive.”Your pardon, Matron Malice.Methil reads thoughts, even the thoughts of a high priestess, as easily as you or I hear words.He communicates telepathically.On my word, I did not even realize that you had not yet spoken your thoughts!’Malice waited to watch the creature depart the great hall, then walked up the steps to the altar.In spite of her efforts Igainst the action, she could not help peeking up at the transforming spider-and-drow image every now and then.”How fares House Do’Urden?” Matron Baenre asked, Feigning politeness.”Well enough” replied Malice, more interested at that mo-ment in studying her counterpart than in conversing.They were alone atop the altar, though no doubt a dozen or so clerics wandered through the shadows of the great hall, keeping a watchful eye on the situation.Malice had all that she could handle in hiding her con-tempt for Matron Baenre.Malice was old, nearly five hun-dred, but Matron Baenre was ancient.Her eyes had seen the rise and fall of a millennium, by some accounts, though drow rarely lived past their seventh-and certainly not their eighth-century.While drow normally did not show their age-Malice was as beautiful and vibrant now as she had been on her one-hundredth birthday-Matron Baenre was withered and worn.The wrinkles surrounding her mouth resembled a spider’s web, and she could hardly keep the heavy lids of her eyes from dropping altogether.Matron Baenre should be dead, Malice noted, but still she lives.Matron Baenre, seeming so beyond her time of life, was pregnant, and due in only a few weeks.In this aspect, too, Matron Baenre defied the norm of the dark elves.She had given birth twenty times, twice as often as any others in Menzoberranzan, and fifteen of those she bore were female, everyone a high priestess!Thn of Baenre’s children were older than Malice!”How many soldiers do you now command?” Matron Baenre asked, leaning closer to show her interest.”Three hundred” Malice replied.”Oh,” mused the withered old drow, pursing a finger toher lips.”I had heard the count at three-hundred fifty”Malice grimaced in spite of herself.Baenre was teasing her, referring to the soldiers House Do’Urden had added in its raid on House DeVir:”Three hundred” Malice said again.”Of course” replied Baenre, resting back.”And House Baenre holds a thousand?” Malice asked for no better reason than to keep herself on even terms in the discussion.”That has been our number for many years”Malice wondered again why this old decrepit thing was still alive.Surely more than one of Baenre’s daughters as-pired to the position of matron mother.Why hadn’t they conspired and finished Matron Baenre off?Or why hadn’t any of them, some in the later stages of life, struck out on their own to form separate houses, as was the norm for no-ble daughters when they passed their fifth century?
Few could insin.Jate themselves through the mental barriers of a high priestess well enough to read her thoughts, and the practice was a crime of the highest order in drow society.”No!” Matron Baenre explained, immediately on the de-fensive.”Your pardon, Matron Malice.Methil reads thoughts, even the thoughts of a high priestess, as easily as you or I hear words.He communicates telepathically.On my word, I did not even realize that you had not yet spoken your thoughts!’Malice waited to watch the creature depart the great hall, then walked up the steps to the altar.In spite of her efforts Igainst the action, she could not help peeking up at the transforming spider-and-drow image every now and then.”How fares House Do’Urden?” Matron Baenre asked, Feigning politeness.”Well enough” replied Malice, more interested at that mo-ment in studying her counterpart than in conversing.They were alone atop the altar, though no doubt a dozen or so clerics wandered through the shadows of the great hall, keeping a watchful eye on the situation.Malice had all that she could handle in hiding her con-tempt for Matron Baenre.Malice was old, nearly five hun-dred, but Matron Baenre was ancient.Her eyes had seen the rise and fall of a millennium, by some accounts, though drow rarely lived past their seventh-and certainly not their eighth-century.While drow normally did not show their age-Malice was as beautiful and vibrant now as she had been on her one-hundredth birthday-Matron Baenre was withered and worn.The wrinkles surrounding her mouth resembled a spider’s web, and she could hardly keep the heavy lids of her eyes from dropping altogether.Matron Baenre should be dead, Malice noted, but still she lives.Matron Baenre, seeming so beyond her time of life, was pregnant, and due in only a few weeks.In this aspect, too, Matron Baenre defied the norm of the dark elves.She had given birth twenty times, twice as often as any others in Menzoberranzan, and fifteen of those she bore were female, everyone a high priestess!Thn of Baenre’s children were older than Malice!”How many soldiers do you now command?” Matron Baenre asked, leaning closer to show her interest.”Three hundred” Malice replied.”Oh,” mused the withered old drow, pursing a finger toher lips.”I had heard the count at three-hundred fifty”Malice grimaced in spite of herself.Baenre was teasing her, referring to the soldiers House Do’Urden had added in its raid on House DeVir:”Three hundred” Malice said again.”Of course” replied Baenre, resting back.”And House Baenre holds a thousand?” Malice asked for no better reason than to keep herself on even terms in the discussion.”That has been our number for many years”Malice wondered again why this old decrepit thing was still alive.Surely more than one of Baenre’s daughters as-pired to the position of matron mother.Why hadn’t they conspired and finished Matron Baenre off?Or why hadn’t any of them, some in the later stages of life, struck out on their own to form separate houses, as was the norm for no-ble daughters when they passed their fifth century?
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While they lived under Matron Baenre’s rule, their children would not even be considered nobles but would be relegated to the ranks of the commoners.”You have heard of the fate of House DeVir?” Matron Baenre asked directly, growing as tired of the hesitant small talk as her counterpart.”Of what house?” Malice asked pointedly.At this time, there was no such thing as House DeVir in Menzoberran-zan.1b drow reckoning, the house no longer existed; the house never existed.Matron Baenre cackled.”Of course” she replied.”You are matron mother of the ninth house now.That is quite an honor!’Malice nodded.”But not as great an honor as matron mother of the eighth house!’”Yes” agreed Baenre, ”but ninth is only one position away from a seat on the ruling council!’”That would be an honor indeed” Malice replied.She was beginning to understand that Baenre was not simply teasing her, but was congratulating her as well, and prodding her on to greater glories.Malice brightened at the thought.Baenre was in the highest favor of the Spider Queen.If she was pleased with House Do’Urden’s ascension, then so was Lloth.”Not as much of an honor as you would believe” said Baenre.”We are a group of meddling old females, gathering every so often to find new ways to put our hands into places they do not belong!’”The city recognizes your rule!’”Does it have a choice?” Baenre laughed.”Still, drow busi-ness is better left to the matron mothers of the individual houses.Lloth would not stand for a presiding council exact-jng anything that even remotely resembled total rule.Do you not believe that House Baenre would have conquered all of Menzoberranzan long ago if that was the Spider Queen’s will?”Malice shifted proudly in her chair, appalled by such arro-gant words.”Not now, of course” Matron Baenre explained.”The city is too large for such an action in this age.But long ago, be-fore you were even born, House Baenre would not have found such a conquest difficult.But that is not our way.Lloth encourages diversity.She is pleased that houses standto balance each other, ready to fight beside each other intimes of common need” She paused a moment and let asmile appear on her wrinkled lips.”And ready to pounceupon any that fall out of her favor”Another direct reference to House DeVir, Malice noted, this time directly connected to the Spider Queen’s pleasure.
While they lived under Matron Baenre’s rule, their children would not even be considered nobles but would be relegated to the ranks of the commoners.”You have heard of the fate of House DeVir?” Matron Baenre asked directly, growing as tired of the hesitant small talk as her counterpart.”Of what house?” Malice asked pointedly.At this time, there was no such thing as House DeVir in Menzoberran-zan.1b drow reckoning, the house no longer existed; the house never existed.Matron Baenre cackled.”Of course” she replied.”You are matron mother of the ninth house now.That is quite an honor!’Malice nodded.”But not as great an honor as matron mother of the eighth house!’”Yes” agreed Baenre, ”but ninth is only one position away from a seat on the ruling council!’”That would be an honor indeed” Malice replied.She was beginning to understand that Baenre was not simply teasing her, but was congratulating her as well, and prodding her on to greater glories.Malice brightened at the thought.Baenre was in the highest favor of the Spider Queen.If she was pleased with House Do’Urden’s ascension, then so was Lloth.”Not as much of an honor as you would believe” said Baenre.”We are a group of meddling old females, gathering every so often to find new ways to put our hands into places they do not belong!’”The city recognizes your rule!’”Does it have a choice?” Baenre laughed.”Still, drow busi-ness is better left to the matron mothers of the individual houses.Lloth would not stand for a presiding council exact-jng anything that even remotely resembled total rule.Do you not believe that House Baenre would have conquered all of Menzoberranzan long ago if that was the Spider Queen’s will?”Malice shifted proudly in her chair, appalled by such arro-gant words.”Not now, of course” Matron Baenre explained.”The city is too large for such an action in this age.But long ago, be-fore you were even born, House Baenre would not have found such a conquest difficult.But that is not our way.Lloth encourages diversity.She is pleased that houses standto balance each other, ready to fight beside each other intimes of common need” She paused a moment and let asmile appear on her wrinkled lips.”And ready to pounceupon any that fall out of her favor”Another direct reference to House DeVir, Malice noted, this time directly connected to the Spider Queen’s pleasure.
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Malice eased out of her angry posture and found the rest of her discussion-fully two hours long-with Matron Baenre quite enjoyable.Still, when she was back on the disk and floating out through the compound, past the grandest and strongest house in all of Menzoberranzan, Malice was not smiling.In the face of such an open display of power, she could not for-get that Matron Baenre’s purpose in summoning her had been twofold: to privately and cryptically congratulate her on her perfect coup, and to vividly remind her not to get too ambitious.Chapter 5WeaningFor five long years Vierna devoted almost every waking moment to the care of baby Drizzt.In drow society, this was not so much a nurturing time as an indoctrinating time.The child had to learn basic motor and language skills, as did children of all the intelligent races, but a drow elf also had to be grilled on the precepts that bound the chaotic society together.In the case of a male child such as Drizzt, Vierna spent hour after endless hour reminding him that he was inferior to the drow females.Since almost all of this portion of Drizzt’s life was spent in the family chapel, he encountered no males except during times of communal worship.Even when all in the house gathered for the unholy ceremonies, Drizzt remained silent at Vierna’s side, with his gaze obedi-ently on the floor.When Drizzt was old enough to follow commands, Vierna’s workload lessened.Still, she spent many hours teaching her younger brother-presently they were work-ing on the intricate facial, hand, and body movements of the silent code.Often, though, she just set Drizzt about the endless task of cleaning the domed chapel.The room was barely a fifth the size of the great hall in House Baenre, but it could hold all the dark elves of House Do’Urden with a hundred seats to spare.Being a wean-mother was not so bad now, Vierna thought, but still she wished that she could devote more of her time to her studies.If Matron Malice had appointed Maya to the task of rearing the child, Vierna might already have been ordained as a high priestess.Vierna still had an-other five years in her duties with Drizzt; Maya might attain high priestesshood before her!Vierna dismissed that possibility.She could not afford to worry about such problems.She would finish her tenure as wean-mother in just a few short years.On or around his tenth birthday, Drizzt would be appointed page prince of the family and would serve all the household equally.If her work with Drizzt did not disappoint Matron Malice, Vierna knew that she would get her due.”Go up the wall.” Vierna instructed.”Tend to that statue.” She pointed to a sculpture of a naked drow female about twenty feet from the floor.Young Drizzt looked up at it, con-fused.He couldn’t possibly climb up to the sculpture and wipe it clean while holding any secure perch.Drizzt knew the high price of disobedience, though-even of hesitation-and he reached up, searching for his first hand-hold.”Not like that!” Vierna scolded.”How?” Drizzt dared to ask, for he had no idea of what his sister was hinting at.”Will yourself up to the gargoyle” Vierna explained.Drizzt’s small face crinkled in confusion.”You are a noble of House Do’Urden!” Vierna shouted at him.”Or at least you will one day earn that distinction.In your neck-purse you possess the emblem of the house, an item of considerable magic” Vierna still wasn’t certain if Drizzt was ready for such a task; levitation was a high mani-festation of innate drow magic, certainly more difficult that limning objects in faerie fire or summoning globes of dark-ness.
Malice eased out of her angry posture and found the rest of her discussion-fully two hours long-with Matron Baenre quite enjoyable.Still, when she was back on the disk and floating out through the compound, past the grandest and strongest house in all of Menzoberranzan, Malice was not smiling.In the face of such an open display of power, she could not for-get that Matron Baenre’s purpose in summoning her had been twofold: to privately and cryptically congratulate her on her perfect coup, and to vividly remind her not to get too ambitious.Chapter 5WeaningFor five long years Vierna devoted almost every waking moment to the care of baby Drizzt.In drow society, this was not so much a nurturing time as an indoctrinating time.The child had to learn basic motor and language skills, as did children of all the intelligent races, but a drow elf also had to be grilled on the precepts that bound the chaotic society together.In the case of a male child such as Drizzt, Vierna spent hour after endless hour reminding him that he was inferior to the drow females.Since almost all of this portion of Drizzt’s life was spent in the family chapel, he encountered no males except during times of communal worship.Even when all in the house gathered for the unholy ceremonies, Drizzt remained silent at Vierna’s side, with his gaze obedi-ently on the floor.When Drizzt was old enough to follow commands, Vierna’s workload lessened.Still, she spent many hours teaching her younger brother-presently they were work-ing on the intricate facial, hand, and body movements of the silent code.Often, though, she just set Drizzt about the endless task of cleaning the domed chapel.The room was barely a fifth the size of the great hall in House Baenre, but it could hold all the dark elves of House Do’Urden with a hundred seats to spare.Being a wean-mother was not so bad now, Vierna thought, but still she wished that she could devote more of her time to her studies.If Matron Malice had appointed Maya to the task of rearing the child, Vierna might already have been ordained as a high priestess.Vierna still had an-other five years in her duties with Drizzt; Maya might attain high priestesshood before her!Vierna dismissed that possibility.She could not afford to worry about such problems.She would finish her tenure as wean-mother in just a few short years.On or around his tenth birthday, Drizzt would be appointed page prince of the family and would serve all the household equally.If her work with Drizzt did not disappoint Matron Malice, Vierna knew that she would get her due.”Go up the wall.” Vierna instructed.”Tend to that statue.” She pointed to a sculpture of a naked drow female about twenty feet from the floor.Young Drizzt looked up at it, con-fused.He couldn’t possibly climb up to the sculpture and wipe it clean while holding any secure perch.Drizzt knew the high price of disobedience, though-even of hesitation-and he reached up, searching for his first hand-hold.”Not like that!” Vierna scolded.”How?” Drizzt dared to ask, for he had no idea of what his sister was hinting at.”Will yourself up to the gargoyle” Vierna explained.Drizzt’s small face crinkled in confusion.”You are a noble of House Do’Urden!” Vierna shouted at him.”Or at least you will one day earn that distinction.In your neck-purse you possess the emblem of the house, an item of considerable magic” Vierna still wasn’t certain if Drizzt was ready for such a task; levitation was a high mani-festation of innate drow magic, certainly more difficult that limning objects in faerie fire or summoning globes of dark-ness.
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The Do’Urden emblem heightened these innate powers of drow elves, magic that usually emerged as a drow matured.Whereas most drow nobles could summon the magical energy to levitate once every day or so, the no-bles of House Do’Urden, with their insignia tool, could do so repeatedly.Normally, Vierna would never have tried this on a malechild younger than ten, but Drizzt had shown her so muchpotential in the last couple of years that she saw no harm inthe attempt.”Just put yourself in line with the statue” sheexplained, ”and will yourself to rise”Drizzt looked up at the female carving, then lined his feet just out in front of the thing’s angled and delicate face.He put a hand to his collar, trying to attune himself to the em-blem.He had sensed before that the magic coin possessed some type of power, but it was only a raw sensation, a child’s intuition.Now that Drizzt had some focus and confir-mation to his suspicions, he clearly felt the vibrations of magical energy.A series of deep breaths cleared distracting thoughts from the young drow’s mind.He blocked out the other sights of the room; all he saw was the statue, the destina-tion.He felt himself grow lighter, his heels went up, and then he was on one toe, though he felt no weight upon it.Drizzt looked over at Vierna, his smile wide in amazement .. . then he tumbled to a heap.”Foolish male!” Vierna scolded.”1ry again!1ry a thousand times if you must!” She reached for the snake-headed whip on her belt.”If you fail, . . ”Drizzt looked away from her, cursing himself.His own elation had caused the spell to falter.He knew that he could do it now, though, and he was not afraid of being beaten.He concentrated again on the sculpture and let the magical en-ergy gather within his body.Vierna, too, knew that Drizzt would eventually succeed.His mind was keen, as sharp as any Vierna had ever known, including those of the other females of House Do’Urden.The child was stubborn, too; Drizzt would not let the magic defeat him.She knew he would stand under the sculpture until he fainted from hunger if need be.Vierna watched him go through a series of small suc-cesses and failures, the last one dropping Drizzt from a height of nearly ten feet.Vierna flinched, wondering if he was seriously hurt.
The Do’Urden emblem heightened these innate powers of drow elves, magic that usually emerged as a drow matured.Whereas most drow nobles could summon the magical energy to levitate once every day or so, the no-bles of House Do’Urden, with their insignia tool, could do so repeatedly.Normally, Vierna would never have tried this on a malechild younger than ten, but Drizzt had shown her so muchpotential in the last couple of years that she saw no harm inthe attempt.”Just put yourself in line with the statue” sheexplained, ”and will yourself to rise”Drizzt looked up at the female carving, then lined his feet just out in front of the thing’s angled and delicate face.He put a hand to his collar, trying to attune himself to the em-blem.He had sensed before that the magic coin possessed some type of power, but it was only a raw sensation, a child’s intuition.Now that Drizzt had some focus and confir-mation to his suspicions, he clearly felt the vibrations of magical energy.A series of deep breaths cleared distracting thoughts from the young drow’s mind.He blocked out the other sights of the room; all he saw was the statue, the destina-tion.He felt himself grow lighter, his heels went up, and then he was on one toe, though he felt no weight upon it.Drizzt looked over at Vierna, his smile wide in amazement .. . then he tumbled to a heap.”Foolish male!” Vierna scolded.”1ry again!1ry a thousand times if you must!” She reached for the snake-headed whip on her belt.”If you fail, . . ”Drizzt looked away from her, cursing himself.His own elation had caused the spell to falter.He knew that he could do it now, though, and he was not afraid of being beaten.He concentrated again on the sculpture and let the magical en-ergy gather within his body.Vierna, too, knew that Drizzt would eventually succeed.His mind was keen, as sharp as any Vierna had ever known, including those of the other females of House Do’Urden.The child was stubborn, too; Drizzt would not let the magic defeat him.She knew he would stand under the sculpture until he fainted from hunger if need be.Vierna watched him go through a series of small suc-cesses and failures, the last one dropping Drizzt from a height of nearly ten feet.Vierna flinched, wondering if he was seriously hurt.
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Drizzt, whatever his wounds, did not even cry out but moved back into position and started con-centrating allover again.”He is young for that” came a comment from behind Vierna.She turned in her seat to see Briza standing over Iher, a customary scowl on the older sister’s face.”Perhaps” Vierna replied, ”but I’ll not know until I let himtry””Whip him when he fails” Briza suggested, pulling hercruel six-headed instrument from her belt.She gave thewhip a loving look-as if it were some sort of pet-and let asnake’s head writhe about her neck and face.”Inspiration””Put it away” Vierna retorted.”Drizzt is mine to rear, and I need no help from you!””You should watch how you speak to a high priestess,” Briza warned, and all of the snake heads, extensions of her thoughts, turned menacingly toward Vierna.” As Matron Malice will watch how you interfere with my tasks” Vierna was quick to reply.Briza put her whip away at the mention of Matron Malice.”Your tasks” she echoed scornfully.”You are too yielding for such a chore.Male children must be disciplined; they must ?be taught their place” Realizing that Vierna’s threat held dir consequences, the older sister turned and left.Vlerna let BrlZa have the last word.The wean-mother looked back to Drizzt, still trying to get up to the statue.”Enough!” she ordered, recognizing that the child was tir-ing; he could barely get his feet off the ground.”I will do it!” Drizzt snapped back at her.Vierna liked his determination, but not the tone of his re-ply.Perhaps there was some truth to Briza’s words.Vierna snapped the snake-headed whip from her belt.A little inspi-ration might go a long way.Vierna sat in the chapel the next day, watching Drizzt hard at work polishing the s1atue of the naked female.He had levitated the full twenty feet in his first attempt this day.Vierna could not help but be disappointed when Drizzt did not look back to her and smile at the success.She saw him now, hovering up in the air, his hands a blur as they worked the brushes.Most vividly of all, though, Vierna saw the scars on her brother’s naked back, the legacy of their ”inspirational” discussion.In the infrared spectrum, the whip lines showed clearly, trails of warmth where the insu-lating layers of skin had been stripped away.Vierna understood the gain in beating a child, particularly a male child.Few drow males ever raised a weapon against a female, unless under the order of some other female.”How much do we lose?” Vierna wondered aloud.
Drizzt, whatever his wounds, did not even cry out but moved back into position and started con-centrating allover again.”He is young for that” came a comment from behind Vierna.She turned in her seat to see Briza standing over Iher, a customary scowl on the older sister’s face.”Perhaps” Vierna replied, ”but I’ll not know until I let himtry””Whip him when he fails” Briza suggested, pulling hercruel six-headed instrument from her belt.She gave thewhip a loving look-as if it were some sort of pet-and let asnake’s head writhe about her neck and face.”Inspiration””Put it away” Vierna retorted.”Drizzt is mine to rear, and I need no help from you!””You should watch how you speak to a high priestess,” Briza warned, and all of the snake heads, extensions of her thoughts, turned menacingly toward Vierna.” As Matron Malice will watch how you interfere with my tasks” Vierna was quick to reply.Briza put her whip away at the mention of Matron Malice.”Your tasks” she echoed scornfully.”You are too yielding for such a chore.Male children must be disciplined; they must ?be taught their place” Realizing that Vierna’s threat held dir consequences, the older sister turned and left.Vlerna let BrlZa have the last word.The wean-mother looked back to Drizzt, still trying to get up to the statue.”Enough!” she ordered, recognizing that the child was tir-ing; he could barely get his feet off the ground.”I will do it!” Drizzt snapped back at her.Vierna liked his determination, but not the tone of his re-ply.Perhaps there was some truth to Briza’s words.Vierna snapped the snake-headed whip from her belt.A little inspi-ration might go a long way.Vierna sat in the chapel the next day, watching Drizzt hard at work polishing the s1atue of the naked female.He had levitated the full twenty feet in his first attempt this day.Vierna could not help but be disappointed when Drizzt did not look back to her and smile at the success.She saw him now, hovering up in the air, his hands a blur as they worked the brushes.Most vividly of all, though, Vierna saw the scars on her brother’s naked back, the legacy of their ”inspirational” discussion.In the infrared spectrum, the whip lines showed clearly, trails of warmth where the insu-lating layers of skin had been stripped away.Vierna understood the gain in beating a child, particularly a male child.Few drow males ever raised a weapon against a female, unless under the order of some other female.”How much do we lose?” Vierna wondered aloud.
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”What more could one such as Drizzt become?”When she heard the words spoken aloud, Vierna quickly brushed the blasphemous thoughts from her mind.She as-pired to become a high priestess of the Spider Queen, Lloth the Merciless.Such thoughts were not in accord with the rules of her station.She cast an angry glare on her little brother, transferring her guilt, and again took out her in-strument of punishment.She would have to whip Drizzt again this day, for the sac-rilegious thoughts he had inspired within her.So the relationship continued for another five years, with Drizzt learning the basic lessons of life in drow society while endlessly cleaning the chapel of House Do’Urden.Be-yond the supremacy of female drow (a lesson always accen-tuated by the wicked snake-headed whip), the most compelling lessons were those concerning the surface elves, the faeries.Evil empires often bound themselves in webs of hate toward fabricated enemies, and none in the history of the world were better at it than the drow.From the first day they were able to understand the spoken word, drow children were taught that whatever was wrong in their lives could be blamed on the surface elves.Whenever the fangs of Vierna’s whip sliced into Drizzt’s back, he cried out for the death of a faerie.Conditioned ha.tred was rarely a rational emotion.Part 2The Weapon MasterEmpty hours, empty days.I find that I have few memories of that first period of my - life, those first sixteen years when I labored as a servant.Minutes blended into hours, hours into days, and so on, un-til the whole of it seemed one long and barren moment.Sev-eral times I managed to sneak out onto the balcony of House Do’Urden and look out over the magical lights of Menzober-ranzan.On all of those secret journeys, I found myself en-tranced by the growing, and then dissipating, heat-light of Narbondel, the time-clock pilla!: Looking back on that now, on those long hours watching the glow of the wizard’s fire slowly walk its way up and then down the pillar; I am amazed at the emptiness of my early days.I clearly remember my excitement, tingling excitement, each time I got out of the house and set myself into position to observe the pilla!: Such a simple thing it was, yet so fulfill.ing compared to the rest of my existence.Whenever I hear the crack of a whip, another memory-more a sensation than a memory actually-sends a shiver through my spine.The shocking jolt and the ensuing numb-ness from those snake-headed weapons is not something that any person would soon forget.They bite under your skin, sending waves of magical energy through your body, waves that make your muscles snap and pull beyond their limits.Yet I was luckier than most.My sister Vierna was near to becoming a high priestess when she was assigned the task of rearing me and was at a period of her life where she pos-sessed far more energy than such a job required.Perhaps, then, there was more to those first ten years under her care than I now recall.Vierna never showed the intense wicked-ness of our mother-oJ; more particularly; of our oldest sis-ter Briza.
”What more could one such as Drizzt become?”When she heard the words spoken aloud, Vierna quickly brushed the blasphemous thoughts from her mind.She as-pired to become a high priestess of the Spider Queen, Lloth the Merciless.Such thoughts were not in accord with the rules of her station.She cast an angry glare on her little brother, transferring her guilt, and again took out her in-strument of punishment.She would have to whip Drizzt again this day, for the sac-rilegious thoughts he had inspired within her.So the relationship continued for another five years, with Drizzt learning the basic lessons of life in drow society while endlessly cleaning the chapel of House Do’Urden.Be-yond the supremacy of female drow (a lesson always accen-tuated by the wicked snake-headed whip), the most compelling lessons were those concerning the surface elves, the faeries.Evil empires often bound themselves in webs of hate toward fabricated enemies, and none in the history of the world were better at it than the drow.From the first day they were able to understand the spoken word, drow children were taught that whatever was wrong in their lives could be blamed on the surface elves.Whenever the fangs of Vierna’s whip sliced into Drizzt’s back, he cried out for the death of a faerie.Conditioned ha.tred was rarely a rational emotion.Part 2The Weapon MasterEmpty hours, empty days.I find that I have few memories of that first period of my - life, those first sixteen years when I labored as a servant.Minutes blended into hours, hours into days, and so on, un-til the whole of it seemed one long and barren moment.Sev-eral times I managed to sneak out onto the balcony of House Do’Urden and look out over the magical lights of Menzober-ranzan.On all of those secret journeys, I found myself en-tranced by the growing, and then dissipating, heat-light of Narbondel, the time-clock pilla!: Looking back on that now, on those long hours watching the glow of the wizard’s fire slowly walk its way up and then down the pillar; I am amazed at the emptiness of my early days.I clearly remember my excitement, tingling excitement, each time I got out of the house and set myself into position to observe the pilla!: Such a simple thing it was, yet so fulfill.ing compared to the rest of my existence.Whenever I hear the crack of a whip, another memory-more a sensation than a memory actually-sends a shiver through my spine.The shocking jolt and the ensuing numb-ness from those snake-headed weapons is not something that any person would soon forget.They bite under your skin, sending waves of magical energy through your body, waves that make your muscles snap and pull beyond their limits.Yet I was luckier than most.My sister Vierna was near to becoming a high priestess when she was assigned the task of rearing me and was at a period of her life where she pos-sessed far more energy than such a job required.Perhaps, then, there was more to those first ten years under her care than I now recall.Vierna never showed the intense wicked-ness of our mother-oJ; more particularly; of our oldest sis-ter Briza.
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Perhaps there were good times in the solitude of the house chapel; it is possible that Vierna allowed a more gentle side of herself to show through to her baby brothel:Maybe not.Even though I count Vierna as the kindest of my sisters, her words drip in the venom of Uoth as surely as those of any cleric in Menzoberranzan.It seems unlikely that she would risk her aspirations toward high priestes-shood for the sake of a mere child, a mere male child.Whether there were indeed joys in those years, obscured in the unrelenting assault of Menzoberranzan’s wicked-ness, or whether that earliest period of my life was even more painful than the years that followed-so painful that my mind hides the memories-I cannot be certain.For all my efforts, I cannot remember them.I have more insight into the next six years, but the most prominent recollection of the days I spent serving the court of Matron Malice-aside from the secret trips outside the house-is the image of my own feet.A page prince is never allowed to raise his gaze.-Drizzt Do’UrdenChapter 6”Two-Hands”Drizzt promptly answered the call to his matron mother’s side, not needing the whip Briza used to hurry him along.How often he had felt the sting of that dreaded weapon!Drizzt held no thoughts of revenge against his vicious oldest sister.With all of the conditioning he had received, he feared the consequences of striking her-or any female-far too much to entertain such notions.”Do you know what this day marks?” Malice asked him as he arrived at the side of her great throne in the chapel’s darkened anteroom.”No, Matron Mother” Drizzt answered, unconsciously keeping his gaze on his toes.A resigned sigh rose in his throat as he noticed the unending view of his own feet.There had to be more to life than blank stone and ten wig.gling toes, he thought.He slipped one foot out of his low boot and began doodling on the stone floor.Body heat left discernable tracings in the infrared spectrum, and Drizzt was quick and agile enough to complete simple drawings before the initial lines had cooled.”Sixteen years” Matron Malice said to him.”You havebreathed the air of Menzoberranzan for sixteen years.Animportant period of your life has passed”Drizzt did not react, did not see any importance or signifi-cance to the declaration.His life was an unending and un-changing routine.One day, sixteen years, what differencedid it make?If his mother considered important the thingshe had been put through since his earliest recollections,Drizzt shuddered to think of what the next decades might hold.He had nearly completed his picture of a round-shouldered drow-Briza-being bitten on the behind by an enormous viper.”Look at me” Matron Malice commanded.Drizzt felt at a loss.His natural tendency once had been to look upon a person with whom he was talking, but Briza had wasted no time in beating that instinct out of him.The place of a page prince was servitude, and the only eyes a page prince’s were worthy of meeting were those of the creatures that scurried across the stone floor-except the eyes of a spider, of course; Drizzt had to avert his gaze whenever one of the eight-legged things crawled into his vi-sion.Spiders were too good for the likes of a page prince.”Look at me” Malice said again, her tone hinting at volatile impatience.Drizzt had witnessed the explosions before, a wrath so incredibly vile that it swept aside anything and everything in its path.
Perhaps there were good times in the solitude of the house chapel; it is possible that Vierna allowed a more gentle side of herself to show through to her baby brothel:Maybe not.Even though I count Vierna as the kindest of my sisters, her words drip in the venom of Uoth as surely as those of any cleric in Menzoberranzan.It seems unlikely that she would risk her aspirations toward high priestes-shood for the sake of a mere child, a mere male child.Whether there were indeed joys in those years, obscured in the unrelenting assault of Menzoberranzan’s wicked-ness, or whether that earliest period of my life was even more painful than the years that followed-so painful that my mind hides the memories-I cannot be certain.For all my efforts, I cannot remember them.I have more insight into the next six years, but the most prominent recollection of the days I spent serving the court of Matron Malice-aside from the secret trips outside the house-is the image of my own feet.A page prince is never allowed to raise his gaze.-Drizzt Do’UrdenChapter 6”Two-Hands”Drizzt promptly answered the call to his matron mother’s side, not needing the whip Briza used to hurry him along.How often he had felt the sting of that dreaded weapon!Drizzt held no thoughts of revenge against his vicious oldest sister.With all of the conditioning he had received, he feared the consequences of striking her-or any female-far too much to entertain such notions.”Do you know what this day marks?” Malice asked him as he arrived at the side of her great throne in the chapel’s darkened anteroom.”No, Matron Mother” Drizzt answered, unconsciously keeping his gaze on his toes.A resigned sigh rose in his throat as he noticed the unending view of his own feet.There had to be more to life than blank stone and ten wig.gling toes, he thought.He slipped one foot out of his low boot and began doodling on the stone floor.Body heat left discernable tracings in the infrared spectrum, and Drizzt was quick and agile enough to complete simple drawings before the initial lines had cooled.”Sixteen years” Matron Malice said to him.”You havebreathed the air of Menzoberranzan for sixteen years.Animportant period of your life has passed”Drizzt did not react, did not see any importance or signifi-cance to the declaration.His life was an unending and un-changing routine.One day, sixteen years, what differencedid it make?If his mother considered important the thingshe had been put through since his earliest recollections,Drizzt shuddered to think of what the next decades might hold.He had nearly completed his picture of a round-shouldered drow-Briza-being bitten on the behind by an enormous viper.”Look at me” Matron Malice commanded.Drizzt felt at a loss.His natural tendency once had been to look upon a person with whom he was talking, but Briza had wasted no time in beating that instinct out of him.The place of a page prince was servitude, and the only eyes a page prince’s were worthy of meeting were those of the creatures that scurried across the stone floor-except the eyes of a spider, of course; Drizzt had to avert his gaze whenever one of the eight-legged things crawled into his vi-sion.Spiders were too good for the likes of a page prince.”Look at me” Malice said again, her tone hinting at volatile impatience.Drizzt had witnessed the explosions before, a wrath so incredibly vile that it swept aside anything and everything in its path.
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Even Briza, so pompous and cruel, ran for hiding when the matron mother grew angry.Drizzt forced his gaze up tentatively, scanning his moth-er’s black robes, using the familiar spider pattern along the garment’s back and sides to judge the angle of his gaze.He fully expected, as every inch passed, a smack on his head, or a lashing on his back-Briza was behind him, always with her snake-headed whip near her anxious hand.Then he saw her, the mighty Matron Malice Do’Urden, her heat-sensing eyes flashing red and her face cool, not flushed with angry heat.Drizzt kept tense, still expecting a punishing blow.”Your tenure as page prince is ended” Malice explained.”You are secondboy of House Do’Urden now and are ac-corded all the. . “Drizzt’s gaze unconsciously slipped back to the floor.”Look at me!” his mother screamed in sudden rage.Terrified, Drizzt snapped his gaze back to her face, which now was glowing a hot red.On the edge of his vision he saw the wavering heat of Malice’s swinging hand, though he was not foolish enough to try to dodge the blow.He was on the floor then, the side of his face bruised.Even in the fall, though, Drizzt was alert and wise enough to keep his gaze locked on to that of Matron Malice.”No more a servant!” the matron mother roared.”Th con-tinue acting like one would bring disgrace to our family” She grabbed Drizzt by the throat and dragged him roughly to his feet.”If you dishonor House Do’Urden” she promised, her face an inch from his, ”I will put needles into your purple eyes.”Drizzt didn’t blink.In the six years since Vierna had relin-quished care of him, putting him into general servitude to all the family, he had come to know Matron Malice well enough to understand all of the subtle connotations of her threats.She was his mother-for whatever that was worth-but Drizzt did not doubt that she would enjoy stick.ing needles in his eyes.”This one is different” Vierna said, ”in more than theshade of his eyes””In what way, then?” Zaknafein asked, trying to keep his curiosity at a professional level.Zak had always liked Vierna better than the others, but she recently had been ordained a high priestess, and had since become too eager for her own good.Vierna slowed the pace of her gait-the door to thechapel’s antechamber was in sight now.”It is hard to say”she admitted.”Drizzt is as intelligent as any male child Ihave ever known; he could levitate by the age of five.Yet, af.ter he became the page prince, it took weeks of punishmentto teach him the duty of keeping his gaze to the floor, as ifsuch a simple act ran unnaturally counter to his constitu-tion”Zaknafein paused and let Vierna move ahead of him.”Un-natural?” he whispered under his breath, considering the implications of Vierna’s observations.Unusual, perhaps, for a drow, but exactly what Zaknafein would expect-and hope for-from a child of his loins.He moved behind Vierna into the lightless anteroom.Mal-ice, as always, sat in her throne at the head of the spider idol, but all the other chairs in the room had been moved to the walls, even though the entire family was present.This was to be a formal meeting, Zak realized, for only the ma-tronmother was accorded the comfort of a seat.”Matron Malice” Vierna began in her most reverent voice,”I present to you Zaknafein, as you requested”Zak moved up beside Vierna and exchanged nods with Malice, but he was more intent on the youngest Do’Urden, standing naked to the waist at the matron mother’s side.Malice held up one hand to silence the others, then mo-tioned for Briza, holding a house piwafwi, to continue.An expression of elation brightened Drizzt’s childish face as Briza, chanting through the appropriate incantations, placed the magical cloak, black and shot with streaks of pur-ple and red, over his shoulders.”Greetings, Zaknafein Do’Urden” Drizzt said heartily, drawing stunned looks from all in the room.Matron Malice had not granted him privilege to speak; he hadn’t even asked her permission!”I am Drizzt, secondboy of House Do’Urden, no more the page prince.1 can look at you now-1 mean at your eyes and not your boots.Mother told me so” Drizzt’s smile disap-peared when he looked up at the burning scowl of Matron Malice.Vierna stood as if turned to stone, her jaw hanging open and her eyes wide in disbelief.Zak, too, was amazed, but in a different manner.
Even Briza, so pompous and cruel, ran for hiding when the matron mother grew angry.Drizzt forced his gaze up tentatively, scanning his moth-er’s black robes, using the familiar spider pattern along the garment’s back and sides to judge the angle of his gaze.He fully expected, as every inch passed, a smack on his head, or a lashing on his back-Briza was behind him, always with her snake-headed whip near her anxious hand.Then he saw her, the mighty Matron Malice Do’Urden, her heat-sensing eyes flashing red and her face cool, not flushed with angry heat.Drizzt kept tense, still expecting a punishing blow.”Your tenure as page prince is ended” Malice explained.”You are secondboy of House Do’Urden now and are ac-corded all the. . “Drizzt’s gaze unconsciously slipped back to the floor.”Look at me!” his mother screamed in sudden rage.Terrified, Drizzt snapped his gaze back to her face, which now was glowing a hot red.On the edge of his vision he saw the wavering heat of Malice’s swinging hand, though he was not foolish enough to try to dodge the blow.He was on the floor then, the side of his face bruised.Even in the fall, though, Drizzt was alert and wise enough to keep his gaze locked on to that of Matron Malice.”No more a servant!” the matron mother roared.”Th con-tinue acting like one would bring disgrace to our family” She grabbed Drizzt by the throat and dragged him roughly to his feet.”If you dishonor House Do’Urden” she promised, her face an inch from his, ”I will put needles into your purple eyes.”Drizzt didn’t blink.In the six years since Vierna had relin-quished care of him, putting him into general servitude to all the family, he had come to know Matron Malice well enough to understand all of the subtle connotations of her threats.She was his mother-for whatever that was worth-but Drizzt did not doubt that she would enjoy stick.ing needles in his eyes.”This one is different” Vierna said, ”in more than theshade of his eyes””In what way, then?” Zaknafein asked, trying to keep his curiosity at a professional level.Zak had always liked Vierna better than the others, but she recently had been ordained a high priestess, and had since become too eager for her own good.Vierna slowed the pace of her gait-the door to thechapel’s antechamber was in sight now.”It is hard to say”she admitted.”Drizzt is as intelligent as any male child Ihave ever known; he could levitate by the age of five.Yet, af.ter he became the page prince, it took weeks of punishmentto teach him the duty of keeping his gaze to the floor, as ifsuch a simple act ran unnaturally counter to his constitu-tion”Zaknafein paused and let Vierna move ahead of him.”Un-natural?” he whispered under his breath, considering the implications of Vierna’s observations.Unusual, perhaps, for a drow, but exactly what Zaknafein would expect-and hope for-from a child of his loins.He moved behind Vierna into the lightless anteroom.Mal-ice, as always, sat in her throne at the head of the spider idol, but all the other chairs in the room had been moved to the walls, even though the entire family was present.This was to be a formal meeting, Zak realized, for only the ma-tronmother was accorded the comfort of a seat.”Matron Malice” Vierna began in her most reverent voice,”I present to you Zaknafein, as you requested”Zak moved up beside Vierna and exchanged nods with Malice, but he was more intent on the youngest Do’Urden, standing naked to the waist at the matron mother’s side.Malice held up one hand to silence the others, then mo-tioned for Briza, holding a house piwafwi, to continue.An expression of elation brightened Drizzt’s childish face as Briza, chanting through the appropriate incantations, placed the magical cloak, black and shot with streaks of pur-ple and red, over his shoulders.”Greetings, Zaknafein Do’Urden” Drizzt said heartily, drawing stunned looks from all in the room.Matron Malice had not granted him privilege to speak; he hadn’t even asked her permission!”I am Drizzt, secondboy of House Do’Urden, no more the page prince.1 can look at you now-1 mean at your eyes and not your boots.Mother told me so” Drizzt’s smile disap-peared when he looked up at the burning scowl of Matron Malice.Vierna stood as if turned to stone, her jaw hanging open and her eyes wide in disbelief.Zak, too, was amazed, but in a different manner.
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He brought a hand up to pinch his lips together, to prevent them from spreading into a smile that would have inevita-bly erupted into belly-shaking laughter.Zak couldn’t re-member the last time he had seen the matron mother’s face so very bright!Briza, in her customary position behind Malice, fumbled with her whip, too confounded by her young brother’s actions to even know what in the Nine Hells she should do.That was a first, Zak knew, for Malice’s eldest daughter rarely hesitated when punishment was in order.At the matron’s side, but now prudently a step farther away, Drizzt quieted and stood perfectly still, biting down on his bottom lip.Zak could see, though, that the smile re-mained in the young drow’s eyes.Drizzt’s informality and disrespect of station had been more than an unconscious slip of the tongue and more than the innocence of inexperi-ence.The weapon master took a long step forward to deflectthe matron mother’s attention from Drizzt.”Secondboy?”he asked, sounding impressed, both for the sake of Drizzt’sswelling pride and to placate and distract Malice.”Then it istime for you to train”Malice let her anger slip away, a rare event.”Only the ba-sics at your hand, Zaknafein.If Drizzt is to replace Nalfein,his place at the Academy will be in Sorcere.Thus the bulk ofhis preparation will fall upon Rizzen and his knowledge,limited though it may be, of the magical arts””Are you so certain that wizardry is his lot, Matron?” Zak was quick to ask.”He appears intelligent” Malice replied.She shot an angryglare at Drizzt.”At least, some of the time.Vierna reportedgreat progress with his command of the innate powers.Ourhouse needs a new wizard” Malice snarled reflexively, re-minded of Matron Baenre’s pride in her wizard son, theArchmage of the city.It had been sixteen years since Mal-ice’s meeting with the First Matron Mother of Menzober-ranzan, but she had never forgotten even the tiniest detailof that encounter.”Sorcere seems the natural course”Zak took a flat coin from his neck-purse, flipped it into a spin, and snatched it out of the air.”Might we see?” he asked.”As you will” Malice agreed, not surprised at Zak’s desire to prove her wrong.Zak placed little value in wizardry, pre-ferring the hilt of a blade to the crystal rod component of a lightning bolt.Zak moved to stand before Drizzt and handed him thecoin.”Flip it”Drizzt shrugged, wondering what this vague conversa-tion between his mother and the weapon master was all about.Until now, he had heard nothing of any future pro-fession being planned for him, or of this place called Sor-cere.
He brought a hand up to pinch his lips together, to prevent them from spreading into a smile that would have inevita-bly erupted into belly-shaking laughter.Zak couldn’t re-member the last time he had seen the matron mother’s face so very bright!Briza, in her customary position behind Malice, fumbled with her whip, too confounded by her young brother’s actions to even know what in the Nine Hells she should do.That was a first, Zak knew, for Malice’s eldest daughter rarely hesitated when punishment was in order.At the matron’s side, but now prudently a step farther away, Drizzt quieted and stood perfectly still, biting down on his bottom lip.Zak could see, though, that the smile re-mained in the young drow’s eyes.Drizzt’s informality and disrespect of station had been more than an unconscious slip of the tongue and more than the innocence of inexperi-ence.The weapon master took a long step forward to deflectthe matron mother’s attention from Drizzt.”Secondboy?”he asked, sounding impressed, both for the sake of Drizzt’sswelling pride and to placate and distract Malice.”Then it istime for you to train”Malice let her anger slip away, a rare event.”Only the ba-sics at your hand, Zaknafein.If Drizzt is to replace Nalfein,his place at the Academy will be in Sorcere.Thus the bulk ofhis preparation will fall upon Rizzen and his knowledge,limited though it may be, of the magical arts””Are you so certain that wizardry is his lot, Matron?” Zak was quick to ask.”He appears intelligent” Malice replied.She shot an angryglare at Drizzt.”At least, some of the time.Vierna reportedgreat progress with his command of the innate powers.Ourhouse needs a new wizard” Malice snarled reflexively, re-minded of Matron Baenre’s pride in her wizard son, theArchmage of the city.It had been sixteen years since Mal-ice’s meeting with the First Matron Mother of Menzober-ranzan, but she had never forgotten even the tiniest detailof that encounter.”Sorcere seems the natural course”Zak took a flat coin from his neck-purse, flipped it into a spin, and snatched it out of the air.”Might we see?” he asked.”As you will” Malice agreed, not surprised at Zak’s desire to prove her wrong.Zak placed little value in wizardry, pre-ferring the hilt of a blade to the crystal rod component of a lightning bolt.Zak moved to stand before Drizzt and handed him thecoin.”Flip it”Drizzt shrugged, wondering what this vague conversa-tion between his mother and the weapon master was all about.Until now, he had heard nothing of any future pro-fession being planned for him, or of this place called Sor-cere.
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With a consenting shrug of his shoulders, he slid the coin onto his curled index finger and snapped it into the air with his thumb, easily catching it.He then held it back out to Zak and gave the weapon master a confused look, as if to ask what was so important about such an easy task.Instead of taking the coin, the weapon master pulled an-other from his neck-purse.”1ry both hands” he said to Drizzt, handing it to him.Drizzt shrugged again, and in one easy motion, put the coins up and caught them.Zak turned an eye on Matron Malice.Any drow could have performed that feat, but the ease with which this one executed the catch was a pleasure to observe.Keeping a sly eye on the matron, Zak produced two more coins.”Stack two on each hand and send all four up together” he in-structed Drizzt.Four coins went up.Four coins were caught.The only parts of Drizzt’s body that had even flinched were his arms.”Two-hands” Zak said to Malice.”This one is a fighter.Hebelongs in Melee-Magthere””I have seen wizards perform such feats” Malice retorted, not pleased by the look of satisfaction on the troublesome weapon master’s face.Zak once had been Malice’s pro-claimed husband, and quite often since that distant time she took him as her lover.His skills and agility were not con-fined to the use of weapons.But along with the pleasures that Zaknafein gave to Malice, sensual skills that had prompted Malice to spare Zak’s life on more than a dozen occasions, came a multitude of headaches.He was the finest weapon master in Menzoberranzan, another fact that Mal-ice could not ignore, but his disdain, even contempt, for the Spider Queen had often landed House Do’Urden into trou- ble.Zak handed two more coins to Drizzt.Now enjoying the game, Drizzt put them into motion.Six went up.Six came down, the correct three landing in each hand.”Two-hands” Zak said more emphatically.Matron Malice motioned for him to continue, unable to deny the grace of her youngest son’s display.”Could you do it again?” Zak asked Drizzt.With each hand working independently, Drizzt soon had the coins stacked atop his index fingers, ready to flip.Zak stopped him there and pulled out four more coins, building each of the piles five high.
With a consenting shrug of his shoulders, he slid the coin onto his curled index finger and snapped it into the air with his thumb, easily catching it.He then held it back out to Zak and gave the weapon master a confused look, as if to ask what was so important about such an easy task.Instead of taking the coin, the weapon master pulled an-other from his neck-purse.”1ry both hands” he said to Drizzt, handing it to him.Drizzt shrugged again, and in one easy motion, put the coins up and caught them.Zak turned an eye on Matron Malice.Any drow could have performed that feat, but the ease with which this one executed the catch was a pleasure to observe.Keeping a sly eye on the matron, Zak produced two more coins.”Stack two on each hand and send all four up together” he in-structed Drizzt.Four coins went up.Four coins were caught.The only parts of Drizzt’s body that had even flinched were his arms.”Two-hands” Zak said to Malice.”This one is a fighter.Hebelongs in Melee-Magthere””I have seen wizards perform such feats” Malice retorted, not pleased by the look of satisfaction on the troublesome weapon master’s face.Zak once had been Malice’s pro-claimed husband, and quite often since that distant time she took him as her lover.His skills and agility were not con-fined to the use of weapons.But along with the pleasures that Zaknafein gave to Malice, sensual skills that had prompted Malice to spare Zak’s life on more than a dozen occasions, came a multitude of headaches.He was the finest weapon master in Menzoberranzan, another fact that Mal-ice could not ignore, but his disdain, even contempt, for the Spider Queen had often landed House Do’Urden into trou- ble.Zak handed two more coins to Drizzt.Now enjoying the game, Drizzt put them into motion.Six went up.Six came down, the correct three landing in each hand.”Two-hands” Zak said more emphatically.Matron Malice motioned for him to continue, unable to deny the grace of her youngest son’s display.”Could you do it again?” Zak asked Drizzt.With each hand working independently, Drizzt soon had the coins stacked atop his index fingers, ready to flip.Zak stopped him there and pulled out four more coins, building each of the piles five high.
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Zak paused a moment to study the concentration of the young drow (and also to keep his hands over the coins and ensure that they were brightened enough by the warmth of his body heat for Drizzt to prop-erly see them in their flight).”Catch them all, Secondboy” he said in all seriousness.”Catch them all, or you will land in Sorcere, the school of magic.That is not wher~ you belong!”Drizzt still had only a vague idea of what Zak was talking about, but he could tell from the weapon master’s intensity that it must be important.He took a deep breath to steady himself, then snapped the coins up.He sorted their glow quickly, discerning each individual item.The first two fell easily into his hands, but Drizzt saw that the scattering pat-tern of the rest would not drop them so readily in line.Drizzt exploded into action, spinning a complete circle, his hands an undecipherable blur of motion.Then he straightened suddenly and stood before Zak.His hands were in fists at his sides and a grim look lay on his face.Zak and Matron Malice exchanged glances, neither quite sure of what had happened.Drizzt held his fists out to Zak and slowly opened them, a confident smile widening across his childish face.Five coins in each hand.Zak blew a silent whistle.It had taken him, the weapon master of the house, a dozen tries to complete that maneu-ver with ten coins.He walked over to Matron Malice.”Two-hands” he said a third time.”He is a fighter, and I amout of coins””How many could he do?” Malice breathed, obviously im-pressed in spite of herself.”How many could we stack?” Zaknafein shot back with a triumphant smile.Matron Malice chuckled out loud and shook her head.Shehad wanted Drizzt to replace Nalfein as the house wizard,but her stubborn weapon master had, as always, deflectedher course.”Very well, Zaknafein” she said, admitting herdefeat.”The secondboy is a fighter”Zak nodded and started back to Drizzt.”Perhaps one day soon to be the weapon master of House Do’Urden” Matron Malice added to Zak’s back.Her sarcasm stopped Zak short, and he eyed her over his shoulder.”With this one” Matron Malice continued wryly, wrench-ing back the upper hand with her usual lack of shame, ”could we expect anything less?”Rizzen, the present patron of the family shifted uncom-fortably.He knew, and so did everyone-even the slaves of House Do’Urden-that Drizzt was not his child.”Three rooms?” Drizzt asked when he and Zak entered the large training hall at the southernmost end of the Do’Ur-den complex.Balls of multicolored magical light had been spaced along the length of the high-ceilinged stone room, basking the entirety in a comfortably dim glow.The hall had only three doors: one to the east, which led to an outer chamber that opened onto the balcony of the house; one di-rectly across from Drizzt, on the south wall, leading into the last room in the house; and the one from the main hallway that they had just passed through.Drizzt knew from the many locks Zak was now fastening behind them that he wouldn’t often be going back that way.”One room” Zak corrected.”But two more doors” Drizzt reasoned, looking out acrossthe room.
Zak paused a moment to study the concentration of the young drow (and also to keep his hands over the coins and ensure that they were brightened enough by the warmth of his body heat for Drizzt to prop-erly see them in their flight).”Catch them all, Secondboy” he said in all seriousness.”Catch them all, or you will land in Sorcere, the school of magic.That is not wher~ you belong!”Drizzt still had only a vague idea of what Zak was talking about, but he could tell from the weapon master’s intensity that it must be important.He took a deep breath to steady himself, then snapped the coins up.He sorted their glow quickly, discerning each individual item.The first two fell easily into his hands, but Drizzt saw that the scattering pat-tern of the rest would not drop them so readily in line.Drizzt exploded into action, spinning a complete circle, his hands an undecipherable blur of motion.Then he straightened suddenly and stood before Zak.His hands were in fists at his sides and a grim look lay on his face.Zak and Matron Malice exchanged glances, neither quite sure of what had happened.Drizzt held his fists out to Zak and slowly opened them, a confident smile widening across his childish face.Five coins in each hand.Zak blew a silent whistle.It had taken him, the weapon master of the house, a dozen tries to complete that maneu-ver with ten coins.He walked over to Matron Malice.”Two-hands” he said a third time.”He is a fighter, and I amout of coins””How many could he do?” Malice breathed, obviously im-pressed in spite of herself.”How many could we stack?” Zaknafein shot back with a triumphant smile.Matron Malice chuckled out loud and shook her head.Shehad wanted Drizzt to replace Nalfein as the house wizard,but her stubborn weapon master had, as always, deflectedher course.”Very well, Zaknafein” she said, admitting herdefeat.”The secondboy is a fighter”Zak nodded and started back to Drizzt.”Perhaps one day soon to be the weapon master of House Do’Urden” Matron Malice added to Zak’s back.Her sarcasm stopped Zak short, and he eyed her over his shoulder.”With this one” Matron Malice continued wryly, wrench-ing back the upper hand with her usual lack of shame, ”could we expect anything less?”Rizzen, the present patron of the family shifted uncom-fortably.He knew, and so did everyone-even the slaves of House Do’Urden-that Drizzt was not his child.”Three rooms?” Drizzt asked when he and Zak entered the large training hall at the southernmost end of the Do’Ur-den complex.Balls of multicolored magical light had been spaced along the length of the high-ceilinged stone room, basking the entirety in a comfortably dim glow.The hall had only three doors: one to the east, which led to an outer chamber that opened onto the balcony of the house; one di-rectly across from Drizzt, on the south wall, leading into the last room in the house; and the one from the main hallway that they had just passed through.Drizzt knew from the many locks Zak was now fastening behind them that he wouldn’t often be going back that way.”One room” Zak corrected.”But two more doors” Drizzt reasoned, looking out acrossthe room.
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”With no locks””Ah” Zak corrected, ”their locks are made of common sense” Drizzt was beginning to get the picture.”That door” Zak continued, pointing to the south, ”opens into my private chambers.You do not ever want me to find you in there.The other one leads to the tactics room, reserved for timesof war.When-if-you ever prove yourself to my satisfac-tion, I might invite you to join me there.That day is yearsaway, so consider this single magnificent hall-” he swepthis arm out in a wide arc-”your home”Drizzt looked around, not overly thrilled.He had dared to hope that he had left this kind of treatment behind him with his page prince days.This setup, though, brought him back even to before his six years of servitude in the house, back to that decade when he had been locked away in the family chapel with Vierna.This room wasn’t even as large as the chapel, and was too tight for the likings of the spirited young drow.His next question came out as a growl.”Where do I sleep?””Your home” Zak answered matter-of-factly.”Where do I take meals?””Your home”Drizzt’s eyes narrowed to slits and his face flushed in glowing heat.”Where do I . . “ he began stubbornly, deter-mined to foil the weapon master’s logic.”Your home” Zak replied in the same measured and weighted timbre before Drizzt could finish the thought.Drizzt planted his feet firmly and crossed his arms over his chest.”It sounds messy” he growled.”It had better not be” Zak growled back.”Then what is the purpose?” Drizzt began.”You pull meaway from my mother-””You will address her as Matron Malice” Zak warned.”Youwill always address her as Matron Malice””From my mother-”Zak’s next interruption came not with words but with the swing of a curled fist.Drizzt awoke about twenty minutes later.”First lesson” Zak explained, casually leaning against thewall a few feet away.”For your own good.You will alwaysaddress her as Matron Malice”Drizzt rolled to his side and tried to prop himself up on his elbow but found his head reeling as soon as it left the black-rugged floor.Zak grabbed him and hoisted him up.”Not as easy as catching coins” the weapon master re-marked.”What?””Parrying a blow””What blow?””Just agree, you stubborn child””Secondboy!” Drizzt corrected, his voice again a growl, and his arms defiantly back over his chest.Zak’s fist curled at his side, a not-tao-subtle point that Drizzt did not miss.”Do you need another nap?” the weapon master asked calmly.”Secondboys can be children” Drizzt wisely conceded.Zak shook his head in disbelief.This was going to be inter-esting.”You may find your time here enjoyable” he said, leading Drizzt over to a long, thick, and colorfully (though most of the colors were somber) decorated curtain.
”With no locks””Ah” Zak corrected, ”their locks are made of common sense” Drizzt was beginning to get the picture.”That door” Zak continued, pointing to the south, ”opens into my private chambers.You do not ever want me to find you in there.The other one leads to the tactics room, reserved for timesof war.When-if-you ever prove yourself to my satisfac-tion, I might invite you to join me there.That day is yearsaway, so consider this single magnificent hall-” he swepthis arm out in a wide arc-”your home”Drizzt looked around, not overly thrilled.He had dared to hope that he had left this kind of treatment behind him with his page prince days.This setup, though, brought him back even to before his six years of servitude in the house, back to that decade when he had been locked away in the family chapel with Vierna.This room wasn’t even as large as the chapel, and was too tight for the likings of the spirited young drow.His next question came out as a growl.”Where do I sleep?””Your home” Zak answered matter-of-factly.”Where do I take meals?””Your home”Drizzt’s eyes narrowed to slits and his face flushed in glowing heat.”Where do I . . “ he began stubbornly, deter-mined to foil the weapon master’s logic.”Your home” Zak replied in the same measured and weighted timbre before Drizzt could finish the thought.Drizzt planted his feet firmly and crossed his arms over his chest.”It sounds messy” he growled.”It had better not be” Zak growled back.”Then what is the purpose?” Drizzt began.”You pull meaway from my mother-””You will address her as Matron Malice” Zak warned.”Youwill always address her as Matron Malice””From my mother-”Zak’s next interruption came not with words but with the swing of a curled fist.Drizzt awoke about twenty minutes later.”First lesson” Zak explained, casually leaning against thewall a few feet away.”For your own good.You will alwaysaddress her as Matron Malice”Drizzt rolled to his side and tried to prop himself up on his elbow but found his head reeling as soon as it left the black-rugged floor.Zak grabbed him and hoisted him up.”Not as easy as catching coins” the weapon master re-marked.”What?””Parrying a blow””What blow?””Just agree, you stubborn child””Secondboy!” Drizzt corrected, his voice again a growl, and his arms defiantly back over his chest.Zak’s fist curled at his side, a not-tao-subtle point that Drizzt did not miss.”Do you need another nap?” the weapon master asked calmly.”Secondboys can be children” Drizzt wisely conceded.Zak shook his head in disbelief.This was going to be inter-esting.”You may find your time here enjoyable” he said, leading Drizzt over to a long, thick, and colorfully (though most of the colors were somber) decorated curtain.
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”But only if you can learn some control over that wagging tongue of yours” A sharp tug sent the curtain floating down, re-vealing the most magnificent weapons rack the young drow (and many older drow as well) had ever seen.Polearms of many sorts, swords, axes, hammers, and every other kind of weapon Drizzt could imagine-and a whole bunch he’d never imagine-sat in an elaborate array.”Examine them” Zak told him.”lake your time and yourpleasure.Learn which ones sit best in your hands, followmost obediently the commands of your will.By the time wehave finished, you will know everyone of them as a trustedcompanion”Wide-eyed, Drizzt wandered along the rack, viewing the whole place and the potential of the whole experience in a completely different light.For his entire young life, sixteen years, his greatest enemy had been boredom.Now, it ap-peared, Drizzt had found weapons to fight that enemy.Zak headed for the daor to his private chamber, thinking it better that Dmzt be alone in those first awkward mo-ments of handling new weapons.The weapon master stopped, though, when he reached his door and looked back to the young Do’Urden.Drizzt swung a long and heavy halberd, a polearm more than twice his height, in a slow arc.For all of Drizzt’s attempts to keep the weapon under control, its momentum spun his tiny frame right to the ground.Zak heard hims~lf chuckle, but his laughter only re-minded him of the grim reality of his duty.He would train Drizzt, as he had trained a thousand young dark elves be-fore him, to be a warrior, preparing him for the trials of the Academy and life in dangerous Menzoberranzan.He would train Drizzt to be a killer.How against this one’s nature that mantle seemed!thought Zak.Smiles came too easily to Drizzt; the thought of him running a sword through the heart of another living be-ing revolted Zaknafein.That was the way of the drow, though, a way that Zak had been unable to resist for all of his four centuries of life.Pulling his stare from the spectacle of Drizzt at play, Zak moved into his chamber and shut the door.”Are they all like that?” he asked into his nearly empty room.”Do all drow children possess such innocence, such simple, untainted smiles that cannot survive the ugliness of our world?” Zak started for the small desk to the side of the room, meaning to lift the darkening shade off the contin-ually glowing ceramic globe that served as the chamber’s light source.He changed his mind as that image of Drizzt’s delight with the weapons refused to diminish, and he headed instead for the large bed across from the door.”Or are you unique, Drizzt Do’Urden?” he continued ashe fell onto the cushioned bed.”And if you are so different, what, then, is the cause?The blood, my blood, that courses through your veins?Or the years you spent with your wean-mother?”Zak threw an arm across his eyes and considered the many questions.
”But only if you can learn some control over that wagging tongue of yours” A sharp tug sent the curtain floating down, re-vealing the most magnificent weapons rack the young drow (and many older drow as well) had ever seen.Polearms of many sorts, swords, axes, hammers, and every other kind of weapon Drizzt could imagine-and a whole bunch he’d never imagine-sat in an elaborate array.”Examine them” Zak told him.”lake your time and yourpleasure.Learn which ones sit best in your hands, followmost obediently the commands of your will.By the time wehave finished, you will know everyone of them as a trustedcompanion”Wide-eyed, Drizzt wandered along the rack, viewing the whole place and the potential of the whole experience in a completely different light.For his entire young life, sixteen years, his greatest enemy had been boredom.Now, it ap-peared, Drizzt had found weapons to fight that enemy.Zak headed for the daor to his private chamber, thinking it better that Dmzt be alone in those first awkward mo-ments of handling new weapons.The weapon master stopped, though, when he reached his door and looked back to the young Do’Urden.Drizzt swung a long and heavy halberd, a polearm more than twice his height, in a slow arc.For all of Drizzt’s attempts to keep the weapon under control, its momentum spun his tiny frame right to the ground.Zak heard hims~lf chuckle, but his laughter only re-minded him of the grim reality of his duty.He would train Drizzt, as he had trained a thousand young dark elves be-fore him, to be a warrior, preparing him for the trials of the Academy and life in dangerous Menzoberranzan.He would train Drizzt to be a killer.How against this one’s nature that mantle seemed!thought Zak.Smiles came too easily to Drizzt; the thought of him running a sword through the heart of another living be-ing revolted Zaknafein.That was the way of the drow, though, a way that Zak had been unable to resist for all of his four centuries of life.Pulling his stare from the spectacle of Drizzt at play, Zak moved into his chamber and shut the door.”Are they all like that?” he asked into his nearly empty room.”Do all drow children possess such innocence, such simple, untainted smiles that cannot survive the ugliness of our world?” Zak started for the small desk to the side of the room, meaning to lift the darkening shade off the contin-ually glowing ceramic globe that served as the chamber’s light source.He changed his mind as that image of Drizzt’s delight with the weapons refused to diminish, and he headed instead for the large bed across from the door.”Or are you unique, Drizzt Do’Urden?” he continued ashe fell onto the cushioned bed.”And if you are so different, what, then, is the cause?The blood, my blood, that courses through your veins?Or the years you spent with your wean-mother?”Zak threw an arm across his eyes and considered the many questions.
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Drizzt was different from the norm, he de-cided at length, but he didn’t know whether he should thank Vierna-or himself.After a while, sleep took him.But it brought the weapon master little comfort.A familiar dream visited him} a vivid memory that would never fade.Zaknafein heard again the screams of the children of House DeVir as the Do’Urden soldiers-soldiers he himself had trained-slashed at them.”This one is different!” Zak cried, leaping up from his bed.He wiped the cold sweat from his face.”This one is different” He had to believe that.Chapter 7Dark Secrets”Do you truly mean to try?” Masoj asked, his voice conde-scending and filled with disbelief.Alton turned his hideous glare on the student.”Direct your anger elsewhere, Faceless One” Masoj said,averting his gaze from his mentor’s scarred visage.”I am notthe cause of your frustration.The question was valid””For more than a decade, you have been a student of themagical arts” Alton replied.”Still you fear to explore thenether world at the side of a master of Sorcere””I would have no fear beside a true master” Masoj dared to whisper.Alton ignored the comment, as he had with so many oth-ers he had accepted from the apprenticing Hun’ett over the last sixteen years.Masoj was Alton’s only tie to the outside world, and while Masoj had a powerful family, Alton had only Masoj.They moved through the door into the uppermost cham-ber of Alton’s four-room complex.A single candle burned there, its light diminished by an abundance of dark-colored tapestries and the black hue of the room’s stone and rugs.Alton slid onto his stool at the back of the small, circular ta-ble, and placed a heavy book down before him.”It is a spell better left for clerics” Masoj protested, sittingdown across from the faceless master.”Wizards commandthe lower planes; the dead are for the clerics alone”Alton looked around curiously, then turned a frown up at Masoj, the master’s grotesque features enhanced by the dancing candlelight.”It seems that I have no cleric at my call” the Faceless One explained sarcastically.”Would you rather I try for another denizen of the Nine Hells?”Masoj rocked back in his chair and shook his head help-lessly and emphatically.Alton had a point.A year before, the Faceless One had sought answers to his questions by en-listing the aid of an ice devil.The volatile thing froze the room until it shone black in the infrared spectrum and smashed a matron mother’s treasure horde worth of al-chemical equipment.If Masoj hadn’t summoned his magical cat to distract the ice devil, neither he nor Alton would have gotten out of the room alive.”Very well, then” Masoj said unconvincingly, crossing hisarms in front of him on the table.”Conjure your spirit andfind your answers”Alton did not miss the involuntary shudder belied by the ripple in Masoj’s robes.He glared at the student for a mo-ment, then went back to his preparations.As Alton neared the time of casting/ Masoj’s hand instinc-tively went into his pocket, to the onyx figurine of the hunt-ing cat he had acquired on the day Alton had assumed the Faceless One’s identity.The little statue was enchanted with a powerful dweomer that enabled its possessor to summon a mighty panther to his side.Masoj had used the cat spar-ingly, not yet fully understanding the dweomer’s limitations and potential dangers.
Drizzt was different from the norm, he de-cided at length, but he didn’t know whether he should thank Vierna-or himself.After a while, sleep took him.But it brought the weapon master little comfort.A familiar dream visited him} a vivid memory that would never fade.Zaknafein heard again the screams of the children of House DeVir as the Do’Urden soldiers-soldiers he himself had trained-slashed at them.”This one is different!” Zak cried, leaping up from his bed.He wiped the cold sweat from his face.”This one is different” He had to believe that.Chapter 7Dark Secrets”Do you truly mean to try?” Masoj asked, his voice conde-scending and filled with disbelief.Alton turned his hideous glare on the student.”Direct your anger elsewhere, Faceless One” Masoj said,averting his gaze from his mentor’s scarred visage.”I am notthe cause of your frustration.The question was valid””For more than a decade, you have been a student of themagical arts” Alton replied.”Still you fear to explore thenether world at the side of a master of Sorcere””I would have no fear beside a true master” Masoj dared to whisper.Alton ignored the comment, as he had with so many oth-ers he had accepted from the apprenticing Hun’ett over the last sixteen years.Masoj was Alton’s only tie to the outside world, and while Masoj had a powerful family, Alton had only Masoj.They moved through the door into the uppermost cham-ber of Alton’s four-room complex.A single candle burned there, its light diminished by an abundance of dark-colored tapestries and the black hue of the room’s stone and rugs.Alton slid onto his stool at the back of the small, circular ta-ble, and placed a heavy book down before him.”It is a spell better left for clerics” Masoj protested, sittingdown across from the faceless master.”Wizards commandthe lower planes; the dead are for the clerics alone”Alton looked around curiously, then turned a frown up at Masoj, the master’s grotesque features enhanced by the dancing candlelight.”It seems that I have no cleric at my call” the Faceless One explained sarcastically.”Would you rather I try for another denizen of the Nine Hells?”Masoj rocked back in his chair and shook his head help-lessly and emphatically.Alton had a point.A year before, the Faceless One had sought answers to his questions by en-listing the aid of an ice devil.The volatile thing froze the room until it shone black in the infrared spectrum and smashed a matron mother’s treasure horde worth of al-chemical equipment.If Masoj hadn’t summoned his magical cat to distract the ice devil, neither he nor Alton would have gotten out of the room alive.”Very well, then” Masoj said unconvincingly, crossing hisarms in front of him on the table.”Conjure your spirit andfind your answers”Alton did not miss the involuntary shudder belied by the ripple in Masoj’s robes.He glared at the student for a mo-ment, then went back to his preparations.As Alton neared the time of casting/ Masoj’s hand instinc-tively went into his pocket, to the onyx figurine of the hunt-ing cat he had acquired on the day Alton had assumed the Faceless One’s identity.The little statue was enchanted with a powerful dweomer that enabled its possessor to summon a mighty panther to his side.Masoj had used the cat spar-ingly, not yet fully understanding the dweomer’s limitations and potential dangers.
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”Only in times of need” Masoj re-minded himself quietly when he felt the item in his hand.Why was it that those times kept occurring when he was with Alton?the apprentice wondered.Despite his bravado, this time Alton privately shared Ma-soj’s trepidation.Spirits of the dead were not as destructive as denizens of the lower planes, but they could be equally cruel and subtler in their torments.Alton needed his answer, though.For more than a decade and a half he had sought his information through conven-tional channels, enquiring of masters and students-in a roundabout manner, of course-of the details concerning the fall of House DeVir.Many knew the rumors of that eventful night; some even detailed the battle methods used by the victorious house.None, though, would name that perpetrating house.In Menzoberranzan, one did not utter anything resembling an accusation, even if the belief was commonly shared, with-out enough undeniable proof to spur the ruling council into a unified action against the accused.If a house botched a raid and was discovered, the wrath of all Menzoberranzan would descend upon it until the family name had been ex-tinguished.But in the case of a successfully executed attack, such as the one that felled House DeVir, an accuser was the one most likely to wind up at the wrong end of a snake-headed whip.Public embarrassment, perhaps more than any guidelines of honor, turned the wheels of justice in the city of drow.Alton now sought other means for the solution to his quest.First he had tried the lower planes, the ice devil, to di-sastrous effect.Now Alton had in his possession an item that could end his frustrations: a tome penned by a wizard of the surface world.In the drow hierarchy, only the clerics of Lloth dealt with the realm of the dead, but in other societies, wizards also dabbled into the spirit world.Alton had found the book in the library of Sorcere and had managed to translate enough of it, he believed, to make a spiritual con-tact.He wrung his hands together, gingerly opened the book to the marked page, and scanned the incantation one final time.”Are you ready?” he asked Masoj.”No”Alton ignored the student’s unending sarcasm and placed his hands flat on the table.He slowly sunk into his deepest meditative trance.” Fey innad . . “ He paused and cleared his throat at the slip.Masoj, though he hadn’t closely examined the spell, rec-ognized the mistake.”Fey innunad de-min. . “ Another pause.”Lloth be with us” Masoj groaned under his breath.Alton’s eyes popped wide, and he glared at the student.” A translation” he growled.”From the strange language of a human wizard!””Gibberish” Masoj retorted.”I have in front of me the private spellbook of a wizard from the surface world” Alton said evenly.”An archmage, according to the scribbling of the orcan thief who stole it and sold it to our agents” He composed himself again and shook his hairless head, trying to return to the depths of his trance.”A simple, stupid orc managed to steal a spellbook from an archmage” Masoj whispered rhetorically, letting the ab-surdity of the statement speak for itself.”The wizard was dead!” Alton roared.”The book is au-thentic!
”Only in times of need” Masoj re-minded himself quietly when he felt the item in his hand.Why was it that those times kept occurring when he was with Alton?the apprentice wondered.Despite his bravado, this time Alton privately shared Ma-soj’s trepidation.Spirits of the dead were not as destructive as denizens of the lower planes, but they could be equally cruel and subtler in their torments.Alton needed his answer, though.For more than a decade and a half he had sought his information through conven-tional channels, enquiring of masters and students-in a roundabout manner, of course-of the details concerning the fall of House DeVir.Many knew the rumors of that eventful night; some even detailed the battle methods used by the victorious house.None, though, would name that perpetrating house.In Menzoberranzan, one did not utter anything resembling an accusation, even if the belief was commonly shared, with-out enough undeniable proof to spur the ruling council into a unified action against the accused.If a house botched a raid and was discovered, the wrath of all Menzoberranzan would descend upon it until the family name had been ex-tinguished.But in the case of a successfully executed attack, such as the one that felled House DeVir, an accuser was the one most likely to wind up at the wrong end of a snake-headed whip.Public embarrassment, perhaps more than any guidelines of honor, turned the wheels of justice in the city of drow.Alton now sought other means for the solution to his quest.First he had tried the lower planes, the ice devil, to di-sastrous effect.Now Alton had in his possession an item that could end his frustrations: a tome penned by a wizard of the surface world.In the drow hierarchy, only the clerics of Lloth dealt with the realm of the dead, but in other societies, wizards also dabbled into the spirit world.Alton had found the book in the library of Sorcere and had managed to translate enough of it, he believed, to make a spiritual con-tact.He wrung his hands together, gingerly opened the book to the marked page, and scanned the incantation one final time.”Are you ready?” he asked Masoj.”No”Alton ignored the student’s unending sarcasm and placed his hands flat on the table.He slowly sunk into his deepest meditative trance.” Fey innad . . “ He paused and cleared his throat at the slip.Masoj, though he hadn’t closely examined the spell, rec-ognized the mistake.”Fey innunad de-min. . “ Another pause.”Lloth be with us” Masoj groaned under his breath.Alton’s eyes popped wide, and he glared at the student.” A translation” he growled.”From the strange language of a human wizard!””Gibberish” Masoj retorted.”I have in front of me the private spellbook of a wizard from the surface world” Alton said evenly.”An archmage, according to the scribbling of the orcan thief who stole it and sold it to our agents” He composed himself again and shook his hairless head, trying to return to the depths of his trance.”A simple, stupid orc managed to steal a spellbook from an archmage” Masoj whispered rhetorically, letting the ab-surdity of the statement speak for itself.”The wizard was dead!” Alton roared.”The book is au-thentic!
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””Who translated it?” Masoj replied calmly.Alton refused to listen to any more arguments.Ignoring the smug look on Masoj’s face, he began again.”Fey mnunad de-mill de-suI de-kef”Masoj faded out and tried to rehearse a lesson from one of his classes, hoping that his sobs of laughter wouldn’t disturb Alton.He didn’t believe for a moment that Alton’s attempt would prove successful, but he didn’t want to screw up the fool’s line of babbling again and have to suffer through the ridiculous incantation all the way from the beginning still another time.A short time later, when Masoj heard Alton’s excited whis-per, ”Matron Ginafae?” he quickly focused his attention back on the events at hand.Sure enough, an unusual ball of green-hued smoke ap-peared over the candle’s flame and gradually took a more definite shape.”Matron Ginafae!” Alton gasped again when the summons was complete.Hovering before him was the unmistakable image of his dead mother’s face.The spirit scanned the room, confused.”Who are you?” it asked at length.”I am Alton.Alton DeVir, your son””Son?” the spirit asked.”Your child””I remember no child so very ugly””A disguise” Alton replied quickly, looking back at Masoi and expecting a snicker.If Masoi had chided and doubted Alton before, he now showed only sincere respect.Smiling, Alton continued, ”Just a disguise, that I might move about in the city and exact revenge upon our ene-mies!””What city?””Menzoberranzan, of course”Still the spirit seemed not to understand.”You are Ginafae?” Alton pressed.”Matron Ginafae DeVir?”The spirit’s features contorted into a twisted scowl as itconsidered the question.”I was.. .I think””Matron Mother of House DeVir, Fourth House of Menzo-berranzan” Alton prompted, growing more excited.”Highpriestess of Lloth”The mention of the Spider Queen sent a spark through the spirit.. ”Dh, no!” it balked.Ginafae remembered now.”You should not have done this, my ugly son!””It is iust a disguise” Alton interrupted.”I must leave you” Ginafae’s spirit continued, glancing around nervously.”You must release me!””But I need some information from you, Matron Ginafae””Do not call me that!” the spirit shrieked.”You do not un-derstand!I am not in Lloth’s favor.. . “”’ll’ouble” whispered Masoi offhandedly, hardly sur-prised.”Just one answer!” Alton demanded, refusing to let an-other opportunity to learn his enemies’ identities slip past him.”Quickly!” the spirit shrieked.”Name the house that destroyed DeVir””The house?” Ginafae pondered.”Yes, I remember thatevil night.
””Who translated it?” Masoj replied calmly.Alton refused to listen to any more arguments.Ignoring the smug look on Masoj’s face, he began again.”Fey mnunad de-mill de-suI de-kef”Masoj faded out and tried to rehearse a lesson from one of his classes, hoping that his sobs of laughter wouldn’t disturb Alton.He didn’t believe for a moment that Alton’s attempt would prove successful, but he didn’t want to screw up the fool’s line of babbling again and have to suffer through the ridiculous incantation all the way from the beginning still another time.A short time later, when Masoj heard Alton’s excited whis-per, ”Matron Ginafae?” he quickly focused his attention back on the events at hand.Sure enough, an unusual ball of green-hued smoke ap-peared over the candle’s flame and gradually took a more definite shape.”Matron Ginafae!” Alton gasped again when the summons was complete.Hovering before him was the unmistakable image of his dead mother’s face.The spirit scanned the room, confused.”Who are you?” it asked at length.”I am Alton.Alton DeVir, your son””Son?” the spirit asked.”Your child””I remember no child so very ugly””A disguise” Alton replied quickly, looking back at Masoi and expecting a snicker.If Masoi had chided and doubted Alton before, he now showed only sincere respect.Smiling, Alton continued, ”Just a disguise, that I might move about in the city and exact revenge upon our ene-mies!””What city?””Menzoberranzan, of course”Still the spirit seemed not to understand.”You are Ginafae?” Alton pressed.”Matron Ginafae DeVir?”The spirit’s features contorted into a twisted scowl as itconsidered the question.”I was.. .I think””Matron Mother of House DeVir, Fourth House of Menzo-berranzan” Alton prompted, growing more excited.”Highpriestess of Lloth”The mention of the Spider Queen sent a spark through the spirit.. ”Dh, no!” it balked.Ginafae remembered now.”You should not have done this, my ugly son!””It is iust a disguise” Alton interrupted.”I must leave you” Ginafae’s spirit continued, glancing around nervously.”You must release me!””But I need some information from you, Matron Ginafae””Do not call me that!” the spirit shrieked.”You do not un-derstand!I am not in Lloth’s favor.. . “”’ll’ouble” whispered Masoi offhandedly, hardly sur-prised.”Just one answer!” Alton demanded, refusing to let an-other opportunity to learn his enemies’ identities slip past him.”Quickly!” the spirit shrieked.”Name the house that destroyed DeVir””The house?” Ginafae pondered.”Yes, I remember thatevil night.
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It was House-”The ball of smoke puffed and bent out of shape, twisting Ginafae’s image and sending her next words out as an unde-cipherable blurb.Alton leaped to his feet.”No!” he screamed.”You must tell me!Who are my enemies?””Would you count me as one?” the spirit image said in a voice very different from the one it had used earlier, a tone of sheer power that stole the blood from Alton’s face.The image twisted and transformed, became something ugly, uglier than Alton.Hideous beyond all experience on the Ma-terial Plane.Alton was not a cleric, of course, and he had never stud-ied the drow religion beyond the basic tenets taught to males of the race.He knew the creature now hovering in the air before him, though, for it appeared as an oozing, slimy stick of melted wax: a yochlol, a handmaiden of Lloth.”You dare to disturb the torment of Ginafae?” the yochlol snarled.”Damn!” whispered Masoj, sliding slowly down under the black tablecloth.Even he, with all of his doubts of Alton, had not expected his disfigured mentor to land them in trouble this serious.”But. . “ Alton stuttered.”Never again disturb this plane, feeble wizard!” the yoch-lol roared.”I did not try for the Abyss” Alton protested meekly.”Ionly meant to speak with-””With Ginafae!” the yochlol snarled.”Fallen priestess of Uoth.Where would you expect to find her spirit, foolish male?Frolicking in Olympus, with the false gods of the sur-face elves?””I did not think. . “”Do you ever?” the yochlol growled.”Nope” Masoj answered silently, careful to keep himself as far out of the way as possible.”Never again disturb this plane” the yochlol warned a fi-nal time.”The Spider Queen is not merciful and has no tol-erance for meddling males!” The creature’s oozing face puffed and swelled, expanding beyond the limits of the smoky ball.Alton heard gurgling, gagging noises, and he stumbled back over his stool, putting his back flat against the wall and bringing his arms up defensively in front of his face.The yochlol’s mouth opened impossibly wide and spewed forth a hail of small objects.They ricocheted off Alton and tapped against the wall all around him.Stones?the faceless wizard wondered in confusion.One of the objects then an-swered his unspoken question.It caught hold of Alton’s lay-ered black robes and began crawling up toward his exposed neck.Spiders.A wave of the eight-legged beasts rushed under the little table, sending Masoj tumbling out the other side in a desper-ate roll.
It was House-”The ball of smoke puffed and bent out of shape, twisting Ginafae’s image and sending her next words out as an unde-cipherable blurb.Alton leaped to his feet.”No!” he screamed.”You must tell me!Who are my enemies?””Would you count me as one?” the spirit image said in a voice very different from the one it had used earlier, a tone of sheer power that stole the blood from Alton’s face.The image twisted and transformed, became something ugly, uglier than Alton.Hideous beyond all experience on the Ma-terial Plane.Alton was not a cleric, of course, and he had never stud-ied the drow religion beyond the basic tenets taught to males of the race.He knew the creature now hovering in the air before him, though, for it appeared as an oozing, slimy stick of melted wax: a yochlol, a handmaiden of Lloth.”You dare to disturb the torment of Ginafae?” the yochlol snarled.”Damn!” whispered Masoj, sliding slowly down under the black tablecloth.Even he, with all of his doubts of Alton, had not expected his disfigured mentor to land them in trouble this serious.”But. . “ Alton stuttered.”Never again disturb this plane, feeble wizard!” the yoch-lol roared.”I did not try for the Abyss” Alton protested meekly.”Ionly meant to speak with-””With Ginafae!” the yochlol snarled.”Fallen priestess of Uoth.Where would you expect to find her spirit, foolish male?Frolicking in Olympus, with the false gods of the sur-face elves?””I did not think. . “”Do you ever?” the yochlol growled.”Nope” Masoj answered silently, careful to keep himself as far out of the way as possible.”Never again disturb this plane” the yochlol warned a fi-nal time.”The Spider Queen is not merciful and has no tol-erance for meddling males!” The creature’s oozing face puffed and swelled, expanding beyond the limits of the smoky ball.Alton heard gurgling, gagging noises, and he stumbled back over his stool, putting his back flat against the wall and bringing his arms up defensively in front of his face.The yochlol’s mouth opened impossibly wide and spewed forth a hail of small objects.They ricocheted off Alton and tapped against the wall all around him.Stones?the faceless wizard wondered in confusion.One of the objects then an-swered his unspoken question.It caught hold of Alton’s lay-ered black robes and began crawling up toward his exposed neck.Spiders.A wave of the eight-legged beasts rushed under the little table, sending Masoj tumbling out the other side in a desper-ate roll.
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He scrambled to his feet and turned back, to see Al-ton slapping and stomping wildly, trying to get out of the main host of the crawling things.”Do not kill them!” Masoj screamed.”Th kill spiders is for-bidden by the-””To the Nine Hells with the clerics and their laws!” Alton shrieked back.Masoj shrugged in helpless agreement, reached around under the folds of his own robes, and produced the same two-handed crossbow he had used to kill the Faceless One those years ago.He considered the powerful weapon and the tiny spiders scrambling around the room.”Overkill?” he asked aloud.Hearing no answer, he shrugged again and fired.The heavy bolt knifed across Alton’s shoulder, cutting a deep line.The wizard stared in disbelief, then turned an ugly grimace on Masoj.”You had one on your shoulder” the student explained.Alton’s scowl did not relent.”Ungrateful?” Masoj snarled.”Foolish Alton, all of the spi-ders are on your side of the room.Remember?” Masoj turned to leave and called, ”Good hunting” over his shoul-der.He reached for the handle to the door, but as his long fingers closed around it, the portal’s surface transformed into the image of Matron Ginafae.She smiled widely, too widely, and an impossibly long and wet tongue reached out and licked Masoj across the face.” Alton!” he cried, spinning back against the wall out of the slimy member’s reach.He noticed the wizard in the midst of spellcasting, Alton fighting to hold his concentration as a host of spiders continued their hungry ascent up his flow-ing robes.”You are a dead one” Masoj commented matter-of-factly, shaking his head.Alton fought through the exacting ritual of the spell, ig-nored his own revulsion of the crawling things, and forced the evocation to completion.In all of his years of study, Al-ton never would have believed he could do such a thing; he would have laughed at the mere mention of it.Now, how-ever, it seemed a far preferable fate to the yochlol’s creeping doom.He dropped a fireball at his own feet.Naked and hairless, Masoj stumbled through the door and out of the inferno.The flaming faceless master came next, diving into a roll and stripping his tattered and burning robe from his back as he went.As he watched Alton patting out the last of the flames, a pleasant memory flashed in Masoi’s mind, and he uttered the single lament that dominated his every thought at this disastrous moment.”I should have killed him when I had him in the web”A short time later, after Masoj had gone back to his roomand his studies, Alton slipped on the ornamental metallicbracers that identified him as a master of the Academy andslipped outside the structure of Sorcere.He moved to thewide and sweeping stairway leading down from TierBreche and sat down to take in the sights of Menzoberran-zan.Even with this view, though, the city did little to distract Alton from thoughts of his latest failure.For sixteen years he had forsaken all other dreams and ambitions in his des-perate search to find the guilty house.For sixteen years he had failed.He wondered how long he could keep up the charade, andhis spirits.Masoj, his only friend-if Masoj could be called afriend-was more than halfway through his studies at Sor-cere.What would Alton do when Masoj graduated and reoturned to House Hun’ett?j”Perhaps I shall carryon my toils for centuries to come” he said aloud, ”only to be murdered by a desperate student, as I-as Masoj-murdered the Faceless One.Might that stu-dent disfigure himself and take my place?” Alton couldn’t stop the ironic chuckle that passed his lipless mouth at the notion of a perpetual ”faceless master” of Sorcere.
He scrambled to his feet and turned back, to see Al-ton slapping and stomping wildly, trying to get out of the main host of the crawling things.”Do not kill them!” Masoj screamed.”Th kill spiders is for-bidden by the-””To the Nine Hells with the clerics and their laws!” Alton shrieked back.Masoj shrugged in helpless agreement, reached around under the folds of his own robes, and produced the same two-handed crossbow he had used to kill the Faceless One those years ago.He considered the powerful weapon and the tiny spiders scrambling around the room.”Overkill?” he asked aloud.Hearing no answer, he shrugged again and fired.The heavy bolt knifed across Alton’s shoulder, cutting a deep line.The wizard stared in disbelief, then turned an ugly grimace on Masoj.”You had one on your shoulder” the student explained.Alton’s scowl did not relent.”Ungrateful?” Masoj snarled.”Foolish Alton, all of the spi-ders are on your side of the room.Remember?” Masoj turned to leave and called, ”Good hunting” over his shoul-der.He reached for the handle to the door, but as his long fingers closed around it, the portal’s surface transformed into the image of Matron Ginafae.She smiled widely, too widely, and an impossibly long and wet tongue reached out and licked Masoj across the face.” Alton!” he cried, spinning back against the wall out of the slimy member’s reach.He noticed the wizard in the midst of spellcasting, Alton fighting to hold his concentration as a host of spiders continued their hungry ascent up his flow-ing robes.”You are a dead one” Masoj commented matter-of-factly, shaking his head.Alton fought through the exacting ritual of the spell, ig-nored his own revulsion of the crawling things, and forced the evocation to completion.In all of his years of study, Al-ton never would have believed he could do such a thing; he would have laughed at the mere mention of it.Now, how-ever, it seemed a far preferable fate to the yochlol’s creeping doom.He dropped a fireball at his own feet.Naked and hairless, Masoj stumbled through the door and out of the inferno.The flaming faceless master came next, diving into a roll and stripping his tattered and burning robe from his back as he went.As he watched Alton patting out the last of the flames, a pleasant memory flashed in Masoi’s mind, and he uttered the single lament that dominated his every thought at this disastrous moment.”I should have killed him when I had him in the web”A short time later, after Masoj had gone back to his roomand his studies, Alton slipped on the ornamental metallicbracers that identified him as a master of the Academy andslipped outside the structure of Sorcere.He moved to thewide and sweeping stairway leading down from TierBreche and sat down to take in the sights of Menzoberran-zan.Even with this view, though, the city did little to distract Alton from thoughts of his latest failure.For sixteen years he had forsaken all other dreams and ambitions in his des-perate search to find the guilty house.For sixteen years he had failed.He wondered how long he could keep up the charade, andhis spirits.Masoj, his only friend-if Masoj could be called afriend-was more than halfway through his studies at Sor-cere.What would Alton do when Masoj graduated and reoturned to House Hun’ett?j”Perhaps I shall carryon my toils for centuries to come” he said aloud, ”only to be murdered by a desperate student, as I-as Masoj-murdered the Faceless One.Might that stu-dent disfigure himself and take my place?” Alton couldn’t stop the ironic chuckle that passed his lipless mouth at the notion of a perpetual ”faceless master” of Sorcere.
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dnd8191
At what point would the Matron Mistress of the Academy get suspi-cious?A thousand years?’!en thousand?Or might the Face-less One outlive Menzoberranzan itself?Life as a master was not such a bad lot, Alton supposed.Many drow would sacrifice much to be given such an honor.Alton dropped his face into the crook of his elbow and forced away such ridiculous thoughts.He was not a real master, nor did the stolen position bring him any measure of satisfaction.Perhaps Masoj should have shot him that day, sixteen years ago, when Alton was trapped in the Face-less One’s web.Alton’s despair only deepened when he considered the ac-tual time frame involved.He had just passed his seventieth birthday and was still young by drow standards.The notion that only a tenth of his life was behind him was not a com-forting one to Alton DeVir this night.”How long will I survive?” he asked himself.”How long un-til this madness that is my existence consumes me?” Altonlooked back out over the city.”Better that the Faceless Onehad killed me” he whispered.”For now I am Alton of NoHouse Worth Mentioning”Masoj had dubbed him that on the first morning after House DeVir’s fall, but way back then, with his life teetering on the edge of a crossbow, Alton had not understood the ti-tle’s implications.Menzoberranzan was nothing more than a collection of individual houses.A rogue commoner might latch on to one of them to call his own, but a rogue noble wouldn’t likely be accepted by any house in the city.He was left with Sorcere and nothing more.. . until his true identity was discovered at last.What punishments would he then face for the crime of killing a master?Masoj may have com-mitted the crime, but Masoj had a house to defend him.Al-ton was only a rogue noble.He sat back on his elbows and watched the rising heat-light of Narbondel.
At what point would the Matron Mistress of the Academy get suspi-cious?A thousand years?’!en thousand?Or might the Face-less One outlive Menzoberranzan itself?Life as a master was not such a bad lot, Alton supposed.Many drow would sacrifice much to be given such an honor.Alton dropped his face into the crook of his elbow and forced away such ridiculous thoughts.He was not a real master, nor did the stolen position bring him any measure of satisfaction.Perhaps Masoj should have shot him that day, sixteen years ago, when Alton was trapped in the Face-less One’s web.Alton’s despair only deepened when he considered the ac-tual time frame involved.He had just passed his seventieth birthday and was still young by drow standards.The notion that only a tenth of his life was behind him was not a com-forting one to Alton DeVir this night.”How long will I survive?” he asked himself.”How long un-til this madness that is my existence consumes me?” Altonlooked back out over the city.”Better that the Faceless Onehad killed me” he whispered.”For now I am Alton of NoHouse Worth Mentioning”Masoj had dubbed him that on the first morning after House DeVir’s fall, but way back then, with his life teetering on the edge of a crossbow, Alton had not understood the ti-tle’s implications.Menzoberranzan was nothing more than a collection of individual houses.A rogue commoner might latch on to one of them to call his own, but a rogue noble wouldn’t likely be accepted by any house in the city.He was left with Sorcere and nothing more.. . until his true identity was discovered at last.What punishments would he then face for the crime of killing a master?Masoj may have com-mitted the crime, but Masoj had a house to defend him.Al-ton was only a rogue noble.He sat back on his elbows and watched the rising heat-light of Narbondel.
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As the minutes became hours, Alton’s despair and self-pity went through inevitable change.He turned his attention to the individual drow houses now, not to the conglomeration that bound them as a city, and he wondered what dark secrets each harbored.One of them, Alton reminded himself, held the secret he most dearly wanted to know.One of them had wiped out House DeVir.Forgotten was the night’s failure with Matron Ginafae and the yochlol, forgotten was the lament for an early death.Sixteen years was not so long a time, Alton decided.He had perhaps seven centuries of life left within his slender frame.If he had to, Alton was prepared to spend every minute of those long years searching for the perpetrating house.”Vengeance” he growled aloud, needing, feeding off, that audible reminder of his only reason for continuing to draw breath.Chapter 8KindredZak pressed in with a series of low thrusts.Drizzt tried to back away quickly and return to even footing, but the re-lentless assault followed his every step, and he was forced to keep his movements solely on the defensive.More often than not, Drizzt found the hilts of his weapons closer to Zak than the blades.Zak then dropped into a low crouch and came up under Drizzt’s defense.Drizzt twirled his scimitars in a masterful cross, but he had to straighten stiffly to dodge the weapon master’s equally deft assault.Drizzt knew that he had been set up, and he fully expected the next attack as Zak shifted his weight to his back leg and dove in, both sword tips aimed for Drizzt’s loins.Drizzt spat a silent curse and spun his scimitars into a downward cross, meaning to use the ”V” of his blades to catch his teacher’s swords.On a sudden impulse, Drizzt hesitated as he intercepted Zak’s weapons, and he jumped away instead, taking a painful slap on the inside of one thigh.Disgusted, he threw both of his scimitars to the floor.Zak, too, leaped back.He held his swords out to his sides, a look of sincere confusion on his face.”You should not have missed that move” he said bluntly.”The parry is wrong” Drizzt replied.Awaiting further explanation, Zak lowered one sword tip to the floor and leaned on the weapon.In past years, Zak had wounded, even killed, students for such blatant defi-ance.his blades down to Drizzt’s face level.When Drizzt came clear of the other side of the darkened globe, he looked back and saw only the lower half of Zak’s legs.He didn’t need to watch anything more to understand the weapon master’s deadly blind attacks.Zak would have cut him apart if he had not dropped low in the blackness.Anger replaced confusion.When Zak dropped from his magical perch and came rushing back out the front of the globe, Drizzt let his rage lead him back into the fight.He spun a pirouette just before he reached Zak, his lead scimi.
As the minutes became hours, Alton’s despair and self-pity went through inevitable change.He turned his attention to the individual drow houses now, not to the conglomeration that bound them as a city, and he wondered what dark secrets each harbored.One of them, Alton reminded himself, held the secret he most dearly wanted to know.One of them had wiped out House DeVir.Forgotten was the night’s failure with Matron Ginafae and the yochlol, forgotten was the lament for an early death.Sixteen years was not so long a time, Alton decided.He had perhaps seven centuries of life left within his slender frame.If he had to, Alton was prepared to spend every minute of those long years searching for the perpetrating house.”Vengeance” he growled aloud, needing, feeding off, that audible reminder of his only reason for continuing to draw breath.Chapter 8KindredZak pressed in with a series of low thrusts.Drizzt tried to back away quickly and return to even footing, but the re-lentless assault followed his every step, and he was forced to keep his movements solely on the defensive.More often than not, Drizzt found the hilts of his weapons closer to Zak than the blades.Zak then dropped into a low crouch and came up under Drizzt’s defense.Drizzt twirled his scimitars in a masterful cross, but he had to straighten stiffly to dodge the weapon master’s equally deft assault.Drizzt knew that he had been set up, and he fully expected the next attack as Zak shifted his weight to his back leg and dove in, both sword tips aimed for Drizzt’s loins.Drizzt spat a silent curse and spun his scimitars into a downward cross, meaning to use the ”V” of his blades to catch his teacher’s swords.On a sudden impulse, Drizzt hesitated as he intercepted Zak’s weapons, and he jumped away instead, taking a painful slap on the inside of one thigh.Disgusted, he threw both of his scimitars to the floor.Zak, too, leaped back.He held his swords out to his sides, a look of sincere confusion on his face.”You should not have missed that move” he said bluntly.”The parry is wrong” Drizzt replied.Awaiting further explanation, Zak lowered one sword tip to the floor and leaned on the weapon.In past years, Zak had wounded, even killed, students for such blatant defi-ance.his blades down to Drizzt’s face level.When Drizzt came clear of the other side of the darkened globe, he looked back and saw only the lower half of Zak’s legs.He didn’t need to watch anything more to understand the weapon master’s deadly blind attacks.Zak would have cut him apart if he had not dropped low in the blackness.Anger replaced confusion.When Zak dropped from his magical perch and came rushing back out the front of the globe, Drizzt let his rage lead him back into the fight.He spun a pirouette just before he reached Zak, his lead scimi.
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tar cutting a gracefully arcing line and his other following in a deceptively sharp stab straight over that line.Zak dodged the thrusting point and put a backhand block on the other.Drizzt wasn’t finished.He set his thrusting blade into a se.ries of short, wicked pokes that kept Zak on the retreat for a dozen steps and more, back into the conjured darkness.They now had to rely on their incredibly keen sense of hear.ing and their instincts.Zak finally managed to regain afoot.hold, but Drizzt immediately set his own feet into action, kicking away whenever the balance of his swinging blades allowed for it.One foot even slipped through Zak’s de.fenses, blasting the breath from the weapon master’s lungs.They came back out the side of the globe, and Zak, too, glowed in the outline of faerie fire.The weapon master felt sickened by the hatred etched on his young student’s face, but he realized that this time, neither he nor Drizzt had been given a choice in the matter.This fight had to be ugly, had to be real.Gradually, Zak settled into an easy rhythm, solely defensive, and let Drizzt, in his explosive fury, wear himself down.Drizzt played on and on, relentless and tireless.Zak coaxed him by letting him see openings where there were none, and Drizzt was always quick to oblige, launching a thrust, cut, or kick.Matron Malice watched the spectacle silently.She couldn’t deny the measure of training Zak had given her son; Drizzt was-physically-more than ready for battle.~~:”The cross-down defeats the attack, but to what gain?”Drizzt continued.”When the move is completed, my swordtips remain down too low for any effective attack routine,and you are able to slip back and free””But you have defeated my attack””Only to face another; Drizzt argued.”The best position Ican hope to obtain from the cross-down is an even stance””Yes. . “ Zak prompted, not understanding his student’s problem with that scenario.”Remember your own lesson!” Drizzt shouted.”’Everymove should bring an advantage: you preach to me, but Isee no advantage in using the cross-down””You recite only one part of that lesson for your own pur-pose” Zak scolded, now growing equally angry.”Completethe phrase, or use it not at all!’Every move should bring anadvantage or take away a disadvantage: The cross-down de-feats the double thrust low, and your opponent obviouslyhas gained the advantage if he even attempts such a daringoffensive maneuver!
tar cutting a gracefully arcing line and his other following in a deceptively sharp stab straight over that line.Zak dodged the thrusting point and put a backhand block on the other.Drizzt wasn’t finished.He set his thrusting blade into a se.ries of short, wicked pokes that kept Zak on the retreat for a dozen steps and more, back into the conjured darkness.They now had to rely on their incredibly keen sense of hear.ing and their instincts.Zak finally managed to regain afoot.hold, but Drizzt immediately set his own feet into action, kicking away whenever the balance of his swinging blades allowed for it.One foot even slipped through Zak’s de.fenses, blasting the breath from the weapon master’s lungs.They came back out the side of the globe, and Zak, too, glowed in the outline of faerie fire.The weapon master felt sickened by the hatred etched on his young student’s face, but he realized that this time, neither he nor Drizzt had been given a choice in the matter.This fight had to be ugly, had to be real.Gradually, Zak settled into an easy rhythm, solely defensive, and let Drizzt, in his explosive fury, wear himself down.Drizzt played on and on, relentless and tireless.Zak coaxed him by letting him see openings where there were none, and Drizzt was always quick to oblige, launching a thrust, cut, or kick.Matron Malice watched the spectacle silently.She couldn’t deny the measure of training Zak had given her son; Drizzt was-physically-more than ready for battle.~~:”The cross-down defeats the attack, but to what gain?”Drizzt continued.”When the move is completed, my swordtips remain down too low for any effective attack routine,and you are able to slip back and free””But you have defeated my attack””Only to face another; Drizzt argued.”The best position Ican hope to obtain from the cross-down is an even stance””Yes. . “ Zak prompted, not understanding his student’s problem with that scenario.”Remember your own lesson!” Drizzt shouted.”’Everymove should bring an advantage: you preach to me, but Isee no advantage in using the cross-down””You recite only one part of that lesson for your own pur-pose” Zak scolded, now growing equally angry.”Completethe phrase, or use it not at all!’Every move should bring anadvantage or take away a disadvantage: The cross-down de-feats the double thrust low, and your opponent obviouslyhas gained the advantage if he even attempts such a daringoffensive maneuver!
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Returning to an even stance is far pref-erable at that moment””The parry is wrong!” Drizzt said stubbornly.”Pick up your blades” Zak growled at him, taking a threat-ening step forward.Drizzt hesitated and Zak charged, his swords leading.Drizzt dropped to a crouch, snatched up the scimitars, and rose to meet the assault while wondering if it was an-other lesson or a true attack.The weapon master pressed furiously, snapping off cut after cut and backing Drizzt around in circles.Drizzt de.fended well enough and began to notice an all-too-familiar pattern as Zak’s attacks came consistently lower, again forc-ing the hilts of Drizzt’s weapons up and out over the scimi-tars’ blades.Drizzt understood that Zak meant to prove his point with actions, not words.Seeing the fury on Zak’s face, though, Drizzt wasn’t certain how far the weapon master would carry his point.If Zak proved correct in his observations, would he strike again to Drizzt’s thigh?Or to his heart?Zak came up and under and Drizzt stiffened and straightened.”Double thrust low” the weapon master growled, and his swords dove in.Drizzt was ready for him.He executed the cross-down, smiling smugly at the ring of metal as his scimitars crossed over the thrusting swords.Drizzt then followed through with only one of his blades, thinking he could deflect both of Zak’s swords well enough in that manner.Now with one blade free of the parry, Drizzt spun it over in a devious counter.As soon as Drizzt reversed the one hand, Zak saw the ploy-a ruse he had suspected Drizzt would try.Zak dropped one of his own sword tips-the one nearest to the hilt of Drizzt’s single parrying blade-to the ground, and Drizzt, trying to maintain an even resistance and balance along the length of the blocking scimitar, lost his balance.Drizzt was quick enough to catch himself before he had stumbled too far, though his knuckles pinched into the stone of the floor.He still believed that he had Zak caught in his trap, and that he could finish his brilliant counter.He took a short step forward to regain his full balance.The weapon master dropped straight down to the floor, under the arc of Drizzt’s swinging scimitar, and spun a sin-gle circuit, driving his booted heel into the back of Drizzt’s exposed knee.Before Drizzt had even realized the attack, he found himself lying flat on his back.Zak abruptly broke his own momentum and threw his feet back under him.Before Drizzt could begin to under.stand the dizzying counter-counter, he found the weapon master standing over him with the tip of Zak’s sword pain.fully and pointedly drawing a tiny drop of blood from his throat.”Have you anything more to say?” Zak growled.”The parry is wrong” Drizzt answered.Zak’s laughter erupted from his belly.He threw his sword jto the ground, reached down, and pulled the stubborn young student to his feet.
Returning to an even stance is far pref-erable at that moment””The parry is wrong!” Drizzt said stubbornly.”Pick up your blades” Zak growled at him, taking a threat-ening step forward.Drizzt hesitated and Zak charged, his swords leading.Drizzt dropped to a crouch, snatched up the scimitars, and rose to meet the assault while wondering if it was an-other lesson or a true attack.The weapon master pressed furiously, snapping off cut after cut and backing Drizzt around in circles.Drizzt de.fended well enough and began to notice an all-too-familiar pattern as Zak’s attacks came consistently lower, again forc-ing the hilts of Drizzt’s weapons up and out over the scimi-tars’ blades.Drizzt understood that Zak meant to prove his point with actions, not words.Seeing the fury on Zak’s face, though, Drizzt wasn’t certain how far the weapon master would carry his point.If Zak proved correct in his observations, would he strike again to Drizzt’s thigh?Or to his heart?Zak came up and under and Drizzt stiffened and straightened.”Double thrust low” the weapon master growled, and his swords dove in.Drizzt was ready for him.He executed the cross-down, smiling smugly at the ring of metal as his scimitars crossed over the thrusting swords.Drizzt then followed through with only one of his blades, thinking he could deflect both of Zak’s swords well enough in that manner.Now with one blade free of the parry, Drizzt spun it over in a devious counter.As soon as Drizzt reversed the one hand, Zak saw the ploy-a ruse he had suspected Drizzt would try.Zak dropped one of his own sword tips-the one nearest to the hilt of Drizzt’s single parrying blade-to the ground, and Drizzt, trying to maintain an even resistance and balance along the length of the blocking scimitar, lost his balance.Drizzt was quick enough to catch himself before he had stumbled too far, though his knuckles pinched into the stone of the floor.He still believed that he had Zak caught in his trap, and that he could finish his brilliant counter.He took a short step forward to regain his full balance.The weapon master dropped straight down to the floor, under the arc of Drizzt’s swinging scimitar, and spun a sin-gle circuit, driving his booted heel into the back of Drizzt’s exposed knee.Before Drizzt had even realized the attack, he found himself lying flat on his back.Zak abruptly broke his own momentum and threw his feet back under him.Before Drizzt could begin to under.stand the dizzying counter-counter, he found the weapon master standing over him with the tip of Zak’s sword pain.fully and pointedly drawing a tiny drop of blood from his throat.”Have you anything more to say?” Zak growled.”The parry is wrong” Drizzt answered.Zak’s laughter erupted from his belly.He threw his sword jto the ground, reached down, and pulled the stubborn young student to his feet.
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He calmed quickly, his gaze find.ing that of Drizzt’s lavender orbs as he pushed the student out to arm’s length.Zak marveled at the ease of Drizzt’s stance, the way he held the twin scimitars almost as if they were a natural extension of his arms.Drizzt had been in training only a few months, but already he had mastered the use of nearly every weapon in the vast armory of House Do’Urden.Those scimitars!Drizzt’s chosen weapons, with curving blades that enhanced the dizzying flow of the young fight-er’s sweeping battle style.With those scimitars in hand, this young drow, barely more than a child, could outfight half the members of the Academy, and a shiver tingled through Zak’s spine when he pondered just how magnificent Drizzt would become after years of training.It was not just the physical abilities and potential of Drizzt Do’Urden that made Zaknafein pause and take note, how-ever.Zak had come to realize that Drizzt’s temperament was indeed different from that of the average drow; Drizzt possessed a spirit of innocence and lacked any malicious-ness.Zak couldn’t help but feel proud when he looked upon Drizzt.In all manners, the young drow held to the same principles-morals so unusual in Menzoberranzan-as Zak.Drizzt had recognized the connection as well, though he had no idea of how unique his and Zak’s shared perceptions were in the evil drow world.He realized that ”Uncle Zak” was different from any of the other dark elves he had come to know, though that included only his own family and a few dozen of the house soldiers.Certainly Zak was much different from Briza, Drizzt’s oldest sister, with her zealous, almost blind, ambitions in the mysterious religion of Lloth.Certainly Zak was different from Matron Malice, Drizzt’s mother, who seemed never to say anything at all to Drizzt unless it was a command for service.Zak was able to smile at situations that didn’t necessarily bring pain to anyone.He was the firstdrow Drizzt had met who was apparently content with his station in life.Zak was the first drow Drizzt had ever heard laugh.”A good try” the weapon master conceded of Drizzt’s failed counter.”In a real battle, I would have been dead” Drizzt replied.”Surely” said Zak, ”but that is why we train.Your plan was masterful, your timing perfect.Only the situation was wrong.Still, I will say it was a good try!’”You expected it” said the student.Zak smiled and nodded.”That is, perhaps, because I had seen the maneuver attempted by another student!’”Against you?” Drizzt asked, feeling a little less special now that he knew his battle insights were not so unique.”Hardly” Zak replied with a wink.”I watched the counter fail from the same angle as you, to the same result!’ Drizzt’s face brightened again.”We think alike” he com-mented.”We do” said Zak, ”but my knowledge has been increased by four centuries of experience, while you have not even lived through a score of years.
He calmed quickly, his gaze find.ing that of Drizzt’s lavender orbs as he pushed the student out to arm’s length.Zak marveled at the ease of Drizzt’s stance, the way he held the twin scimitars almost as if they were a natural extension of his arms.Drizzt had been in training only a few months, but already he had mastered the use of nearly every weapon in the vast armory of House Do’Urden.Those scimitars!Drizzt’s chosen weapons, with curving blades that enhanced the dizzying flow of the young fight-er’s sweeping battle style.With those scimitars in hand, this young drow, barely more than a child, could outfight half the members of the Academy, and a shiver tingled through Zak’s spine when he pondered just how magnificent Drizzt would become after years of training.It was not just the physical abilities and potential of Drizzt Do’Urden that made Zaknafein pause and take note, how-ever.Zak had come to realize that Drizzt’s temperament was indeed different from that of the average drow; Drizzt possessed a spirit of innocence and lacked any malicious-ness.Zak couldn’t help but feel proud when he looked upon Drizzt.In all manners, the young drow held to the same principles-morals so unusual in Menzoberranzan-as Zak.Drizzt had recognized the connection as well, though he had no idea of how unique his and Zak’s shared perceptions were in the evil drow world.He realized that ”Uncle Zak” was different from any of the other dark elves he had come to know, though that included only his own family and a few dozen of the house soldiers.Certainly Zak was much different from Briza, Drizzt’s oldest sister, with her zealous, almost blind, ambitions in the mysterious religion of Lloth.Certainly Zak was different from Matron Malice, Drizzt’s mother, who seemed never to say anything at all to Drizzt unless it was a command for service.Zak was able to smile at situations that didn’t necessarily bring pain to anyone.He was the firstdrow Drizzt had met who was apparently content with his station in life.Zak was the first drow Drizzt had ever heard laugh.”A good try” the weapon master conceded of Drizzt’s failed counter.”In a real battle, I would have been dead” Drizzt replied.”Surely” said Zak, ”but that is why we train.Your plan was masterful, your timing perfect.Only the situation was wrong.Still, I will say it was a good try!’”You expected it” said the student.Zak smiled and nodded.”That is, perhaps, because I had seen the maneuver attempted by another student!’”Against you?” Drizzt asked, feeling a little less special now that he knew his battle insights were not so unique.”Hardly” Zak replied with a wink.”I watched the counter fail from the same angle as you, to the same result!’ Drizzt’s face brightened again.”We think alike” he com-mented.”We do” said Zak, ”but my knowledge has been increased by four centuries of experience, while you have not even lived through a score of years.
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’fi’ust me, my eager student.The cross-down is the correct parry!’”Perhaps” Drizzt replied.Zak hid a smile.”When you find a better counter, we shall try it.But until then, trust my word.I have trained more sol-diers than I can count, all the army of House Do’Urden and ten times that number when I served as a master in Melee-Magthere.I taught Rizzen, all of your sisters, and both of your brothers!’”Both?””I . . Zak paused and shot a curious glance at Drizzt.”I see” he said after a moment.”They never bothered to tell you!’ Zak wondered if it was his place to tell Drizzt the truth.He doubted that Matron Malice would care either way; she probably hadn’t told Drizzt simply because she hadn’t considered the story of Nalfein’s death worth telling.”Yes, both!’ Zak decided to explain.”You had two brothers when you were born: Dinin, whom you know, and an older one, Nalfein, a wizard of considerable power.Nalfein was killed in battle on the very night you drew your first breath!’” Against dwarves or vicious gnomes?” Drizzt squeaked, as wide-eyed as a child begging for a frightening bedtime story.”Was he defending the city from evil conquerors or rogue monsters?”Zak had a hard time reconciling the warped perceptionsof Drizzt’s innocent beliefs.”Bury the young in lies” he la-mented under his breath, but to Drizzt he answered, ”No””Then against some opponent more foul?” Drizzt pressed.”Wicked elves from the surface?””He died at the hands of a drow!” Zak snapped in frustra-tion, stealing the eagerness from Drizzt’s shining eyes.Drizzt slumped back to consider the possibilities, and Zak could hardly bear to watch the confusion that twisted his young face.”War with another city?” Drizzt asked somberly.”I did notknow.. “Zak let it go at that.He turned and moved silently toward his private chamber.Let Malice or one of her lackeys de-stroy Drizzt’s innocent logic.Behind him, Drizzt held his next line of questions in check, understanding that the con-versation, and the lesson, was at an end.Understanding, too, that something important had just transpired.The weapon master battled Drizzt through long hours as the days blended into weeks, and the weeks into months.Time became unimportant; they fought until exhaustion overwhelmed them, and went back to the training floor again as soon as they were able.By the third year, at the age of nineteen, Drizzt was able to hold out for hours against the weapon master, even taking the offensive in many of their contests.Zak enjoyed these days.
’fi’ust me, my eager student.The cross-down is the correct parry!’”Perhaps” Drizzt replied.Zak hid a smile.”When you find a better counter, we shall try it.But until then, trust my word.I have trained more sol-diers than I can count, all the army of House Do’Urden and ten times that number when I served as a master in Melee-Magthere.I taught Rizzen, all of your sisters, and both of your brothers!’”Both?””I . . Zak paused and shot a curious glance at Drizzt.”I see” he said after a moment.”They never bothered to tell you!’ Zak wondered if it was his place to tell Drizzt the truth.He doubted that Matron Malice would care either way; she probably hadn’t told Drizzt simply because she hadn’t considered the story of Nalfein’s death worth telling.”Yes, both!’ Zak decided to explain.”You had two brothers when you were born: Dinin, whom you know, and an older one, Nalfein, a wizard of considerable power.Nalfein was killed in battle on the very night you drew your first breath!’” Against dwarves or vicious gnomes?” Drizzt squeaked, as wide-eyed as a child begging for a frightening bedtime story.”Was he defending the city from evil conquerors or rogue monsters?”Zak had a hard time reconciling the warped perceptionsof Drizzt’s innocent beliefs.”Bury the young in lies” he la-mented under his breath, but to Drizzt he answered, ”No””Then against some opponent more foul?” Drizzt pressed.”Wicked elves from the surface?””He died at the hands of a drow!” Zak snapped in frustra-tion, stealing the eagerness from Drizzt’s shining eyes.Drizzt slumped back to consider the possibilities, and Zak could hardly bear to watch the confusion that twisted his young face.”War with another city?” Drizzt asked somberly.”I did notknow.. “Zak let it go at that.He turned and moved silently toward his private chamber.Let Malice or one of her lackeys de-stroy Drizzt’s innocent logic.Behind him, Drizzt held his next line of questions in check, understanding that the con-versation, and the lesson, was at an end.Understanding, too, that something important had just transpired.The weapon master battled Drizzt through long hours as the days blended into weeks, and the weeks into months.Time became unimportant; they fought until exhaustion overwhelmed them, and went back to the training floor again as soon as they were able.By the third year, at the age of nineteen, Drizzt was able to hold out for hours against the weapon master, even taking the offensive in many of their contests.Zak enjoyed these days.
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For the first time in many years, he had met one with the potential to become his fighting equal.For the first time that Zak could ever remember, laughter often accompanied the clash of adamantite weap-ons in the training room.He watched Drizzt grow tall and straight, attentive, eager, and intelligent.The masters of the Academy would be hard put just to hold a stalemate against Drizzt, even in his first year!That thought thrilled the weapon master only as long as it took him to remember the principles of the Academy, the precepts of drow life, and what they would do to his won-derful student.How they would steal that smile from Drizzt’s lavender eyes.A pointed reminder of that drow world outside the prac-tice room visited them one day in the person of Matron Mal-ice.”Address her with proper respect” Zak warned Drizzt when Maya announced the matron mother’s entrance.The weapon master prudently moved out a few steps to greet the head of House Do’Urden privately.”My greetings, Matron” he said with a low bow.”To what do i owe the honor of your presence?”Matron Malice laughed at him, seeing through his facade.”So much time do you and my son spend in here” she said.”Icame to witness the benefit to the boy””He is a fine fighter” Zak assured her.”He will have to be” Malice muttered.”He goes to theAcademy in only a year”Zak narrowed his eyes at her doubting words andgrowled, ”The Academy has never seen a finer swordsman”The matron walked away from him to stand before Drizzt.”I doubt not your prowess with the blade” she said to Drizzt, though she shot a sly gaze back at Zak as she spoke the words.”You have the proper blood.There are other qualities that make up a drow warrior-qualities of the heart.The attitude of a warrior!”Drizzt didn’t know how to respond to her.He had seen her only a few times in all of the last three years, and they had exchanged no words.Zak saw the confusion on Drizzt’s face and feared that the boy would slip up-precisely what Matron Malice wanted.Then Malice would have an excuse to pull Drizzt out of Zak’s tutelage-dishonoring Zak in the process-and give him over to Dinin or some other passionless killer.Zak may have been the finest instructor with the blade, but now that Drizzt had learned the use of weapons, Malice wanted him emotionally hardened.Zak couldn’t risk it; he valued his time with young Drizzt too much.He pulled his swords from their jeweled scab-bards and charged right by Matron Malice, yelling, ”Show her, young warrior!”Drizzt’s eyes became burning flames at the approach of his wild instructor.His scimitars came into his hands as quickly as if he had willed them to appear.It was a good thing they had!Zak came in on Drizzt with a fury that the young drow had never before seen, more so even than the time Zak had shown Drizzt the value of the cross-down parry.Sparks flew as sword rang against scimi-tar, and Drizzt found himself driven back, both of his arms already aching from the thudding force of the heavy blows.”What are you. . “ Drizzt tried to ask.”Show her” Zak growled, slamming in again and again.Drizzt barely dodged one cut that surely would have killed him.
For the first time in many years, he had met one with the potential to become his fighting equal.For the first time that Zak could ever remember, laughter often accompanied the clash of adamantite weap-ons in the training room.He watched Drizzt grow tall and straight, attentive, eager, and intelligent.The masters of the Academy would be hard put just to hold a stalemate against Drizzt, even in his first year!That thought thrilled the weapon master only as long as it took him to remember the principles of the Academy, the precepts of drow life, and what they would do to his won-derful student.How they would steal that smile from Drizzt’s lavender eyes.A pointed reminder of that drow world outside the prac-tice room visited them one day in the person of Matron Mal-ice.”Address her with proper respect” Zak warned Drizzt when Maya announced the matron mother’s entrance.The weapon master prudently moved out a few steps to greet the head of House Do’Urden privately.”My greetings, Matron” he said with a low bow.”To what do i owe the honor of your presence?”Matron Malice laughed at him, seeing through his facade.”So much time do you and my son spend in here” she said.”Icame to witness the benefit to the boy””He is a fine fighter” Zak assured her.”He will have to be” Malice muttered.”He goes to theAcademy in only a year”Zak narrowed his eyes at her doubting words andgrowled, ”The Academy has never seen a finer swordsman”The matron walked away from him to stand before Drizzt.”I doubt not your prowess with the blade” she said to Drizzt, though she shot a sly gaze back at Zak as she spoke the words.”You have the proper blood.There are other qualities that make up a drow warrior-qualities of the heart.The attitude of a warrior!”Drizzt didn’t know how to respond to her.He had seen her only a few times in all of the last three years, and they had exchanged no words.Zak saw the confusion on Drizzt’s face and feared that the boy would slip up-precisely what Matron Malice wanted.Then Malice would have an excuse to pull Drizzt out of Zak’s tutelage-dishonoring Zak in the process-and give him over to Dinin or some other passionless killer.Zak may have been the finest instructor with the blade, but now that Drizzt had learned the use of weapons, Malice wanted him emotionally hardened.Zak couldn’t risk it; he valued his time with young Drizzt too much.He pulled his swords from their jeweled scab-bards and charged right by Matron Malice, yelling, ”Show her, young warrior!”Drizzt’s eyes became burning flames at the approach of his wild instructor.His scimitars came into his hands as quickly as if he had willed them to appear.It was a good thing they had!Zak came in on Drizzt with a fury that the young drow had never before seen, more so even than the time Zak had shown Drizzt the value of the cross-down parry.Sparks flew as sword rang against scimi-tar, and Drizzt found himself driven back, both of his arms already aching from the thudding force of the heavy blows.”What are you. . “ Drizzt tried to ask.”Show her” Zak growled, slamming in again and again.Drizzt barely dodged one cut that surely would have killed him.
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Still, confusion kept his moves purely defensive.Zak slapped one of Drizzt’s scimitars, then the other, out wide, and used an unexpected weapon, bringing his foot straight up in front of him and slamming his heel into Drizzt’s nose.Drizzt heard the crackle of cartilage and felt the warmth of his own blood running freely down his face.He dove back into a roll, trying to keep a safe distance from his crazed opponent until he could realign his senses.From his knees he saw Zak;a short distance away and ap-proaching.”Show her!” Zak growled angrily with every de-termined step.The purple flames of faerie fire limned Drizzt’s skin, mak-ing him an easier target.He responded the only way he could; he dropped a globe of darkness over himself and Zak.Sensing the weapon master’s next move, Drizzt dropped to his belly and scrambled out, keeping his head low-a wise choice.At his first realization of the darkness, Zak had quickly levitated up about ten feet and rolled right over, sweeping his blades down to Drizzt’s face level.When Drizzt came clear of the other side of the darkened globe, he looked back and saw only the lower half of Zak’s legs.He didn’t need to watch anything more to understand the weapon master’s deadly blind attacks.Zak would have cut him apart if he had not dropped low in the blackness.Anger replaced confusion.When Zak dropped from his magical perch and came rushing back out the front of the globe, Drizzt let his rage lead him back into the fight.He spun a pirouette just before he reached Zak, his lead scimi.tar cutting a gracefully arcing line and his other following in a deceptively sharp stab straight over that line.Zak dodged the thrusting point and put a backhand block on the other.Drizzt wasn’t finished.He set his thrusting blade into a se.ries of short, wicked pokes that kept Zak on the retreat for a dozen steps and more, back into the conjured darkness.They now had to rely on their incredibly keen sense of hear.ing and their instincts.Zak finally managed to regain afoot.hold, but Drizzt immediately set his own feet into action, kicking away whenever the balance of his swinging blades allowed for it.One foot even slipped through Zak’s de.fenses, blasting the breath from the weapon master’s lungs.They came back out the side of the globe, and Zak, too, glowed in the outline of faerie fire.
Still, confusion kept his moves purely defensive.Zak slapped one of Drizzt’s scimitars, then the other, out wide, and used an unexpected weapon, bringing his foot straight up in front of him and slamming his heel into Drizzt’s nose.Drizzt heard the crackle of cartilage and felt the warmth of his own blood running freely down his face.He dove back into a roll, trying to keep a safe distance from his crazed opponent until he could realign his senses.From his knees he saw Zak;a short distance away and ap-proaching.”Show her!” Zak growled angrily with every de-termined step.The purple flames of faerie fire limned Drizzt’s skin, mak-ing him an easier target.He responded the only way he could; he dropped a globe of darkness over himself and Zak.Sensing the weapon master’s next move, Drizzt dropped to his belly and scrambled out, keeping his head low-a wise choice.At his first realization of the darkness, Zak had quickly levitated up about ten feet and rolled right over, sweeping his blades down to Drizzt’s face level.When Drizzt came clear of the other side of the darkened globe, he looked back and saw only the lower half of Zak’s legs.He didn’t need to watch anything more to understand the weapon master’s deadly blind attacks.Zak would have cut him apart if he had not dropped low in the blackness.Anger replaced confusion.When Zak dropped from his magical perch and came rushing back out the front of the globe, Drizzt let his rage lead him back into the fight.He spun a pirouette just before he reached Zak, his lead scimi.tar cutting a gracefully arcing line and his other following in a deceptively sharp stab straight over that line.Zak dodged the thrusting point and put a backhand block on the other.Drizzt wasn’t finished.He set his thrusting blade into a se.ries of short, wicked pokes that kept Zak on the retreat for a dozen steps and more, back into the conjured darkness.They now had to rely on their incredibly keen sense of hear.ing and their instincts.Zak finally managed to regain afoot.hold, but Drizzt immediately set his own feet into action, kicking away whenever the balance of his swinging blades allowed for it.One foot even slipped through Zak’s de.fenses, blasting the breath from the weapon master’s lungs.They came back out the side of the globe, and Zak, too, glowed in the outline of faerie fire.
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The weapon master felt sickened by the hatred etched on his young student’s face, but he realized that this time, neither he nor Drizzt had been given a choice in the matter.This fight had to be ugly, had to be real.Gradually, Zak settled into an easy rhythm, solely defensive, and let Drizzt, in his explosive fury, wear himself down.Drizzt played on and on, relentless and tireless.Zak coaxed him by letting him see openings where there were none, and Drizzt was always quick to oblige, launching a thrust, cut, or kick.Matron Malice watched the spectacle silently.She couldn’t deny the measure of training Zak had given her son; Drizzt was-physically-more than ready for battle.Zak knew that, to Matron Malice, sheer skill with weap-ons might not be enough.Zak had to keep Malice from con-versing with Drizzt for any length of time.She would not approve of her son’s attitudes.Drizzt was tiring now, Zak could see, though he recog-nized the weariness in his student’s arms to be partly decep-tion.”Go with it” he muttered silently, and he suddenly ”twisted” his ankle, his right arm flailing out wide and low as he struggled for balance, opening a hole in his defenses that Drizzt could not resist.The expected thrust came in a flash, and Zak’s left arm streaked in a short cross-cut that slapped the scimitar right out of Drizzt’s hand.”Ha!” Drizzt cried, having expected the move and launch-ing his second ruse.His remaining scimitar knifed over Zak’s left shoulder, inevitably dipping in the follow-through of the parry.But by the time Drizzt even launched the second blow, Zak was already down to his knees.As Drizzt’s blade cut harmlessly high, Zak sprang to his feet and launched a right cross, hilt first, that caught Drizzt squarely in the face.A stunned Drizzt leaped back a long step and stood perfectly still for a long moment.His remaining scimitar dropped to the ground, and his glossed eyes did not blink.”A feint within a feint within a feint!” Zak calmly ex-plained.Drizzt slumped to the floor, unconscious.Matron Malice nodded her approval as Zak walked back over to her.”He is ready for the Academy” she remarked.Zak’s face turned sour and he did not answer.”Vierna is there already” Malice continued, ”to teach as amistress in Arach- Tinilith, the School of Lloth.It is a highhonor”A laurel for House Do’Urden, Zak knew, but he was smart enough to keep his thoughts silent.”Dinin will leave soon” said the matron.Zak was surprised.Two children serving as masters in the Academy at the same time?”You must have worked hard to get such accommodations” he dared to remark.Matron Malice smiled.”Favors owed, favors called in””To what end?” asked Zak.”Protection for Drizzt?”Malice laughed aloud.”From what I have just witnessed, Drizzt would more likely protect the other two!”Zak bit his lip at the comment.
The weapon master felt sickened by the hatred etched on his young student’s face, but he realized that this time, neither he nor Drizzt had been given a choice in the matter.This fight had to be ugly, had to be real.Gradually, Zak settled into an easy rhythm, solely defensive, and let Drizzt, in his explosive fury, wear himself down.Drizzt played on and on, relentless and tireless.Zak coaxed him by letting him see openings where there were none, and Drizzt was always quick to oblige, launching a thrust, cut, or kick.Matron Malice watched the spectacle silently.She couldn’t deny the measure of training Zak had given her son; Drizzt was-physically-more than ready for battle.Zak knew that, to Matron Malice, sheer skill with weap-ons might not be enough.Zak had to keep Malice from con-versing with Drizzt for any length of time.She would not approve of her son’s attitudes.Drizzt was tiring now, Zak could see, though he recog-nized the weariness in his student’s arms to be partly decep-tion.”Go with it” he muttered silently, and he suddenly ”twisted” his ankle, his right arm flailing out wide and low as he struggled for balance, opening a hole in his defenses that Drizzt could not resist.The expected thrust came in a flash, and Zak’s left arm streaked in a short cross-cut that slapped the scimitar right out of Drizzt’s hand.”Ha!” Drizzt cried, having expected the move and launch-ing his second ruse.His remaining scimitar knifed over Zak’s left shoulder, inevitably dipping in the follow-through of the parry.But by the time Drizzt even launched the second blow, Zak was already down to his knees.As Drizzt’s blade cut harmlessly high, Zak sprang to his feet and launched a right cross, hilt first, that caught Drizzt squarely in the face.A stunned Drizzt leaped back a long step and stood perfectly still for a long moment.His remaining scimitar dropped to the ground, and his glossed eyes did not blink.”A feint within a feint within a feint!” Zak calmly ex-plained.Drizzt slumped to the floor, unconscious.Matron Malice nodded her approval as Zak walked back over to her.”He is ready for the Academy” she remarked.Zak’s face turned sour and he did not answer.”Vierna is there already” Malice continued, ”to teach as amistress in Arach- Tinilith, the School of Lloth.It is a highhonor”A laurel for House Do’Urden, Zak knew, but he was smart enough to keep his thoughts silent.”Dinin will leave soon” said the matron.Zak was surprised.Two children serving as masters in the Academy at the same time?”You must have worked hard to get such accommodations” he dared to remark.Matron Malice smiled.”Favors owed, favors called in””To what end?” asked Zak.”Protection for Drizzt?”Malice laughed aloud.”From what I have just witnessed, Drizzt would more likely protect the other two!”Zak bit his lip at the comment.
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