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Topic: My favorite fantasy books.
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Mblake81
Knowflake Posts: 2325
From: "It's Been Surreal!"
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted June 08, 2012 01:26 AM
  
My Favorite. http://www.amazon.com/Salvatores-Spider -Queen-Complete-Editions/dp/B000PMBC8M/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339132372&sr=1-2-spell R. A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen. Complete Six Volume Set. Sextet of First Editions. (1: Dissolution, 2: Insurrection, 3: Condemnation, 4: Extinction, 5: Annihilation, 6: Resurrection) http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Gromph_Baenre quote:
Archmage Gromph Baenre is a drow and the archmage of Menzoberranzan. He is also the master of Sorcere, the arcane school, and the first son of Matron Mother Yvonnel Baenre, which makes him the most powerful male in the city.  Gromph wandered for some time and adventured before becoming the "leashed" Archmage of the Council of Eight (the eight ruling houses), according to a decree by Lolth. It is only logical for the Council to keep close watch on the male wizards, who are their only real challengers for power.
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Lolth quote:
Lolth the Queen of Spiders or Queen of the Demonweb Pits, is the goddess of the drow, a chaotic evil deity who revels in chaos. She patterns her life and the lives of her worshipers on a regimen of chaotic acts and the veneration of spiders. The way that new-born spider broods tear each other apart to survive especially appeals to her. She promotes this by encouraging her worshipers to kill their rivals, thus ensuring that they are the strongest of the 'brood'. Her love of chaos often makes her appear mad but the wise see her as a calculating individual who is always several steps ahead of those who believe that they can anticipate her. She is cruel and domineering, forcing her will upon her followers and her enemies, a will which instructs the strong to crush the weak in the most torturous way imaginable. 
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menzoberranzan quote:
Menzoberranzan, the City of Spiders, is a fictional city-state in the world of the Forgotten Realms. It is located in the Upper Northdark, about two miles below the Surbrin Vale, between the Moonwood and the Frost Hills. It is famed as the birthplace of Drizzt Do'Urden, the protagonist of several series of best-selling novels by noted fantasy author R. A. Salvatore.
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The Underdark is a vast subterranean network of interconnected caverns and tunnels, stretching beneath entire continents and forming a literal underworld
Be a great HBO type series, gruesome. IP: Logged |
PixieJane
Knowflake Posts: 515
From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted June 08, 2012 09:28 AM
I haven't read this series. I've read some Salvatore and found some of his earlier works ok. But I LOVE Elaine Cunningham, some of her books involving drow and taking place in Menzoberranzan (including Gromph who adopted Liriel in Daughter of the Drow). You might like this fanfic of mine (though if you've never seen Daria you might get confused at times):
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4069424/1/Daria_of_the_Drow Btw, I did another D&D fanfic (The Discord of Harmony) but unless you like the kender of Dragonlance then don't read it. I made it strictly for kender fans and it was inspired by the kender fics on a site devoted to kender but then a virus destroyed the site and since I wrote it I felt I had to put it SOMEWHERE. But it will only appeal to those who love reading about the kender (who preferably understand Planescape and some understanding of the Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, etc). I've had plenty tell me how much they loved Daria of the Drow but The Discord of Harmony just wasn't for them (and likewise, the couple of really liked DoH didn't care much for DotD, with the notable exception of Roger Moore, formerly of D&D, I'm proud to say who liked both fics). IP: Logged |
charmainec
Moderator Posts: 4657
From: Venus next to Randall
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 08, 2012 09:32 AM
What the heck? I moved this to Pilgrim's Progress.IP: Logged | |
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