

She pulls out a mace only to be beaten down and have two fingers severed. A fight starts between them, Drizzt's new personality of 'hunter' (where he lets rage get the better of him) takes over and he destroys Briza's beloved 6 headed snake whip. She tries casting a spell, only for Drizzt to intercept and launch an attack to block. Briza tries to convince Drizzt to come home, foolishly mentioning him being the new weapons master, after the death of his father Zaknafein - this angers him greatly. Drizzt drops down and knocks his brother unconscious with one hilt of his scimitar and with his second he holds it to Briza's neck. The party come to a fork in the passage, so Briza tells three to go one way and two the other, leaving herself and Dinin alone. Drizzt and Guenhwyvar hear the party, and try evading them, although he does not yet realize that the House emblem he carries in his pouch is a locator device.He figures it out after a brief chase, and fits the pouch over Guenhwyvar's head, so he can confuse and stalk his hunters. After several ten-days pass, Dinin and Briza with a small group of soldiers are searching for Drizzt in the tunnels of the Underdark, so that they can capture and kill him, and regain the favour of the Spider Queen, Lolth. He decides not to follow them in, that this adventure had taken him to his limits.īack in Menzoberranzan, Matron Malice goes to council with Matron Baenre, where it is revealed to her that Matron SiNafay Hun'ett is to join the Do'Urden family under the alias of Shi'nayne - the eldest daughter who has returned from her travels of distant drow city Ched Nasad. Drizzt follows them, and when they arrive in a cavern outside the city doors, Drizzt sneaks through their defenses and watches them arrive home. When the Gnomes have filled their wheel-barrows to the top, they leave to return home. A group of svirfnebli (deep gnomes) are mining, and Drizzt watches over them for a while. He uses his levitation skills to fly onto a ridge to watch.

He then hears voices from down a few corridors and decides to investigate. The story starts with Drizzt fighting a basilisk invading his territory, which he defeats. He lives in a small cavern inhabited by himself and a group of Fungus-men or Myconids. Meanwhile, Drizzt is living out in the wilds of the Underdark.

With the help of renegade Jarlaxle and his group Bregan D'aerthe, the Do'Urden family win the fight moving them to Eighth position in the Menzo hierarchy.

The story begins 10 years after the events of Homeland, the events begin in Menzoberranzan, where Matron Malice and the rest of the Do'Urden family are still waging war with House Hun'ett.
