this mage is dangerous

1.Underworld

This world is divided into the surface world and the underground world. The place where the dark elves live is in the underground world, called the "underdark area". There is no sunlight in that place, relying on luminous stalagmites for limited lighting. The dark elves are just "

As a part of the "Underdark", there are countless races living in the entire underground world, including intelligent races and dangerous wild creatures.

The dark elves built a city here: Menzoberranzan, where they serve their god "Lolth the Spider Queen" or the "Spider Goddess". This god is the god of conspiracy and killing, and requires believers

Use all kinds of killings, assassinations, and sacrifices to please yourself. According to the degree of favor of the goddess, various classes and rankings are produced. Women of the favored family can perform "divine magic", which is a higher class that is different from magic.

The spell is the god giving his power directly to the believer. If you lose the favor of the goddess, you will not be able to use it, and your family will become extremely fragile.

To use a metaphor, both sides of the war originally had nuclear weapons and could check and balance each other. Suddenly one of them degenerates into a primitive tribe and is easily wiped out by the other side with nuclear weapons.

There is no sun in the underground world to indicate time. The dark elves use the "Narbondel Hour Pillar" to define time (a pillar made of a special material). At the end of the previous day, a mage cast a flame on the bottom of the stone pillar.

Magic, as the temperature of the flame increases, the color of the stone pillar will turn red until the entire pillar turns red, symbolizing the end of the day. It can be imagined as a thermometer. The rise of the temperature bar means the passage of time, and the rise to the top

Time means that one day has passed. The entire thermometer will return to the way it was in the past and start a new cycle.

In addition to using luminous stalagmites for limited lighting, the city will also use "demon fire" for lighting. It is a kind of flame ignited by magic. The flame emits a cyan shimmer, but has no temperature and will not be

Scorch. In Drizzt's stories, this magic is often used in chase battles to "mark" enemies.

There are currently more than 60 families in Menzoberranzan, and each family is ranked according to the degree of favor from the goddess. Once a certain family is no longer favored by the goddess, other families will quickly eliminate the unfavored family for their own benefit.

But the family that still occupies the ranking. If the elimination plan is successful, the ranking of the lower family will move up one place. Since the lifespan of the dark elves is very long, the maximum lifespan is estimated to be 800 years old, so there are

Young women with a desire for power will also leave and form a new family. After the new family is established, it will rank at the bottom.

The measure of each family's strength is very subtle, but there is a rough evaluation method. It depends on the number of women in the family. The women of the dark elves are without exception "sacrifice" to the Spider Goddess. The worst is also excellent magic.

No matter how good the men are, they are only family soldiers. But once a family loses the protection of the Spider Goddess, all the women in the family will become incompetent. At this time, it is meaningless to have more male soldiers.

Major decisions in Menzoberranzan are all decided by internal voting by the "Ruling Council", which is composed of the top eight families. It also symbolizes the highest favor and blessing of "Lolth the Spider Queen".

Dark Elf society is a very typical matriarchal society, and women have a lofty status. The sacrifices of the Spider Goddess can only be performed by women, and women have extremely high magical talents. The Spider Queen gives blessings to her favorite believers so that they can

Make better use of your own divine power.

Men are at the bottom of Dark Elf society. To put it nicely, they are high-level slaves, or tools used to reproduce offspring. After a new baby boy is born, he is either sacrificed or trained into a soldier. However, he has magical talents.

Male dark elves can have a better social status, that's all.

There is also an academy in the city of Menzoberranzan. Dark elves of appropriate age, both male and female, will enter the academy to learn various social subjects and everything the dark elves need to know, and will be assigned to magic towers or martial arts towers for training according to different levels.

Graduates may also stay in the college as teachers.

This is the general appearance of dark elf society, and our story begins.

2. Birth and destruction

The Deaver family, the fourth family in Menzoberranzan, lost the favor and protection of the Spider Queen. The tenth-ranked Do'Urden family planned a perfect genocide operation, trying to annihilate them in one fell swoop to improve their ranking. In order to

At the critical moment, they decided to sacrifice the third son in the family, the one who was about to be born.

The battle started when the owner of the Do'Urden family, Mother Malice, was about to give birth, and everything was arranged. The mother's two sons, Novan and Dinin, entered the other party's mansion as the battle progressed.

.The battle was raging on this side, and labor was going on on the other side. The progress on both sides was almost at the same time. At the last moment, the mistress's third son was born. All she had to do was sacrifice this young life to the gods. That's it.

At this time, the eldest son Nuofan was stabbed in the back by the second son Dining. At this time, the newly born son was no longer the third son of the family, so it also lost the value of sacrifice. At the same time, the newly born child

His life was spared. The Spider Goddess received a son from the Do'Urden family as a sacrifice. Even though the process was unreasonable, she was quite satisfied with the behavior, so she gave the Do'Urden family more blessings. The newly born

The child survived because of his eldest brother's "voice", and he became the later double-sword ranger Drizzt.

Why did Dinin kill his eldest brother? In the society of dark elves, murdering each other for status is a means of survival, even brothers. Although men have a low status in society, the eldest son always

It has a higher status than the younger brothers behind it, which the second son can never surpass. Therefore, killing it and replacing it is the only way in the dark elf society.

The exterminated Deaver family also had a son, Ayton, who was serving as an assistant to the master of the "Faceless Men" in the Dark Elf Academy. However, the "Faceless Men" were bribed by the Do'Urden family to remove Ayton that night. Originally

There should be no suspense about the outcome, but Masoji of the Henet family stabbed him in the back, causing the death of the "Faceless Man". By the way, Masoji is the younger brother of the Faceless Man.

The cause of the matter was the teacher of the Magic Tower in the "Faceless Men" Academy. He believed that his younger brother had no talent for magic and wanted him to transfer to the Martial Arts Tower for further training. This was unacceptable to Masoji. Practicing magic symbolizes status.

This is the only way for male elves to rise. If you learn martial arts, no matter how outstanding you are, you will not be able to obtain a satisfactory status. If the "Faceless Man" disappears at this time, he can continue to learn magic. After killing his brother, he should

While continuing to kill the surviving Ayton, he became interested in a proposal from Ayton.

Ayton can replace the "Faceless Man". He is a teaching assistant and there is no problem teaching him the course. Since the "Faceless Man" wears a mask all year round, it will be difficult to detect if he is replaced, not to mention that Masoji is still away from graduation.

There is still a period of time when I can give him the green light to pass smoothly.

Masoji accepted the proposal, and Ayton survived. During the fight with the "Faceless Men", he also learned that his family had been wiped out, and he wanted to investigate who was responsible.

3. Hope and destruction

Drizzt was originally born as a sacrificial material, and no one in the family thought of raising him. But in order to be assassinated by other families in the future, they must gather every strength. Mother

Malice left him to her second sister, Verna, to raise him. He was very talented, and at the age of 5 he learned the levitation technique that other drow nobles could only learn at the age of 10. After that, he served as the prince's trainee, serving the prince like a servant.

The entire family did not officially become the second son of the family until he was 16 years old.

Prince apprenticeship is a kind of training for male members of the dark elf family. As a male of the family, you must abide by some of the most basic rules. The most important one is that you must obey women. This is particularly important. Any offense to women,

All will have devastating consequences.

Later, his father Zaknavan Do'Urden (Zak for short) taught him fighting skills for 5 years and trained him to become a warrior. The young Drizzt did not know that Zak was his father.

I just felt that there was a feeling in him that was very similar to what I had imagined.

Zach is not Malice's husband, but just a servant of the family. Women have a high status in dark elf society. It is very common for women to have casual relationships with men and give birth to offspring. Giving birth to a baby boy is a servant.

With tools, giving birth to a baby girl is a high-level society. In their concept, there is no social concept like that of the surface race. And for a long-lived race like the dark elves, the fertility rate itself is not high. The entire Menzoub

The population of dark elves in Lai City is only around 20,000.

Zac can be said to be the most skilled person in the entire city of Menzoberranzan, and his position is Master of Martial Arts. He has killed countless lives, most of them of his own race, and is also responsible for training the soldiers of House Do'Urden. Drizzt is very concerned about the things around him.

His way of thinking and critical thinking are all thanks to him. Zach has always felt that the way of life of the dark elves is very abnormal. He wants to escape but is afraid of other worlds and continues to stay here. He learned from Drizzt

I saw in him the same qualities as myself, as well as the courage that I didn't have.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Drizzt had to go to the academy to learn more skills, and that was what Zach was most worried about. In addition to teaching skills, the academy would also teach the dark elves how to survive. This would exactly erase the

This kid has hard-won qualities.

During the five years he spent with his father, Zach's personality subtly stabilized Drizzt's character. The evil knowledge taught by the academy did not assimilate him, but instead made him more aware of the evil of dark elf society.

. He relies on diligently practicing martial arts to forget those evil common sense and keep his pure heart. Because his martial arts skills are getting better and better, no one in the same grade is his opponent, and even the martial arts skills of senior students are not as good as his.

Join him. Drizzt's reputation became more and more famous, and it soon spread to the ears of all the major families.

Zach began to worry after hearing his son's legend. His insight into the dark elf society was very clear: those families assassinating each other seemed to be for themselves. In fact, they were just playthings in the hands of the Spider Goddess. Fear

Drizzt, who has lost his mind, will waste his talents on enjoying killing.

Drizzt also heard many rumors about Zach in the academy, most of which were about how good he is and how good he is at killing. In his heart, Zach is a powerful warrior full of love, and even killing is for self-defense.

, it is absolutely impossible to enjoy killing. But the more rumors you hear, the more it will taint the good impression of your mentor in your heart.

At the same time, both of them were thinking about whether to kill each other with their own hands in order to free the other party?

4. Politics and manipulation

Every time the ranking changes, it will bring about a series of undercurrents.

The Do'Urden family has become the ninth family, only one step away from the "Ruling Council". And their strength is rarely matched by the first eight families. Zach, the most skilled martial artist in Menzoberranzan, is in that family.

, Drizzt, who has the highest martial arts skills among the younger generation, is also in that family. In addition, he has just eliminated the Deaver family and is favored by the spider goddess. The top eight families all feel cold on their backs and point to their fingers.

Maybe I am the next Deaver family.

The Henet family, the sixth family. Its matriarch, Sina Fei, discovered that the "faceless man" in the academy had been replaced. The imposter was Aton, the son of the exterminated Deaver family.

Although assassinations and calculations abound in Menzoberranzan, there are also some basic rules to implement the will of the Spider Goddess. If there are surviving nobles in the wiped out families, usually the sons or daughters of the family matron, then they can

Identify the murderer's family. Even if unrelated personnel or ordinary soldiers saw what happened, they were only "bystanders". There are no "bystanders" to identify and accuse. Not only will they not be recognized by the "ruling parliament", they will also be criticized.

Accusing the family of revenge.

The designated murderer families will all be wiped out under the instruction of the "Ruling Council". This also reminds many families who are trying to fight that they should not take action if they are not sure of killing the opponent cleanly. For this reason, the Dark Elves

The struggles in "The Game" all take place below the surface, not on it.

Decisions on sanctions are made by the "ruling parliament". Once the matter has passed for too long, no one will care. Ayton cannot be recognized by the "ruling parliament" even if he wants to identify him at this time, and it may even be early

lost their lives.

After the Henet family discovered Ayton, they pointed this out in the "Ruling Council" and asked Ayton to identify the murderer family. Although they could not impose sanctions on the Do'Urden family, they got other families' support for "revenge".

They all secretly want to remove the thorn in the side of the Do'Urden family to ensure the political status of their respective families, or secretly let others consume their strength for them, and other plots.

5.Light and Darkness

Drizzt's studies at the academy soon entered his tenth year. The students had to leave the city of Menzoberranzan, patrol the tunnels of the dangerous "Underdark", and kill various mutated creatures. As these trainee warriors

The counselor is Masoji of the Henet family. He has a statue in the shape of a black panther named "Guenhwyvar". Calling its name can summon the black panther from the star realm. Drizzt often meets with

This big cat serves as the vanguard of the patrol together. The relationship between Guenhwyvar and Drizzt has become increasingly close, and this is also a secret move of Masoji. When necessary, he can summon the black panther to kill the young man, and this

Young people may not be able to do anything to this black panther.

This time, they are launching an expedition. They will leave the Underdark and enter the surface, attack a camp of surface elves and bring the wrath of the Spider Goddess upon these cousins.

The sunlight on the surface soon made many dark elves very uncomfortable. Their skin would feel strange under the sunlight, and their eyes could not adapt to the sunlight on the surface. But Drizzt, who saw the outside world for the first time,

I am very fascinated by the invisible scenery in these "dark areas", which is completely different from the teaching content.

In the cultural classes at the Dark Elf Academy, the instructors kept instilling in the students their hatred of the surface race and how terrible the sunlight in the surface world is. They blamed all the pain suffered by the dark elves on the surface race. This

It is a common method of stereotyped education from childhood. Once you are accustomed to this way of thinking from childhood, you will continue to rationalize this way of thinking in your future life. At the same time, sunlight is psychological for dark elves.

It will cause physical discomfort, but that's it. It will not produce more vampire-like reactions, but because of this abnormality, it is enough to make many dark elves even more convinced that the world on the ground is hell, and what they think is hell.

The "dark land" we live in is a paradise-like place.

After witnessing the horror of sunlight, the raiding team rested for a period of time and waited until the sun went down before taking the next step. They raided the already planned camp of surface elves, and countless elven civilians were massacred. Among them were women and

Children. The eyes of all dark elves flash with a fanatical desire to kill. In their eyes, these are not lives, but a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

Drizzt was stunned by this scene. If the unarmed surface elves in front of him were evil, what on earth were the dark elves who were fanatically slaughtering them? In self-defense, he killed an elf woman and faced the next threat.

He hesitated to kill the little elf girl. This girl posed no threat to him, but if he was soft, she would also be killed by others, and he would also be accused of heresy. He pushed the elf girl to the ground and used the

Blood smeared the girl's neck, and he pretended to cut the girl with a knife but did not hurt her. The girl immediately understood what the dark elf soldier meant, and suppressed the grief and fear and lay on the ground pretending to be dead. Fortunately, the other dark elves pretended to be dead.

They were all so absorbed in the pleasure of killing that they didn't notice this scene.

The Dark Elf raiding party returned triumphantly, and everyone was filled with the joy of victory, except Drizzt.

The first actual battle with zero casualties was a very honorable thing for the academy. Their achievements quickly spread to the ears of major families outside the academy, especially when Drizzt killed

The story of a little elf girl.

When this matter reached the ears of the martial arts commander Zach, his idea became more and more firm: Drizzt's heart has completely become the plaything of the Spider Goddess. As a coward who resists the Spider Goddess, he can

The only thing to do is to kill the son and give him relief before he sinks deeper.

On the other side, the Do'Urden family, who clearly deserved the pleasure of the spider goddess, felt the goddess's anger. Mother Malice understood that someone in the family was disobeying the goddess, and she quickly thought of the martial arts master and Drizzt.

After learning that Drizzt went directly to meet Zach after returning home, she used magic to spy on the meeting between father and son.

When Drizzt returned home not long after, before he went to greet his mother, he was first called to the past practice room by Zach. Both of them knew the other's purpose and were prepared for the worst. They started

They started fighting, and every move was almost a fatal attack. They kept criticizing each other's crimes, but they kept hoping to hear the other side's denial.

Zach denied that he was indulging in the pleasure of killing. It was just a means for him to survive and there was nothing he could do. Drizzt did not kill the elf girl, he just faked the fact.

The movements of both parties stopped, and they suddenly realized that the other party was not who they imagined: Although Zach had killed countless members of his own race, his starting point was to put an end to their pain as soon as possible, and he had always been in a strong position with his own way of life.

Disgusted. And Drizzt has never been tainted by the spider goddess in the academy.

The two embraced each other and were moved by the same values. They were not alone in this dark country. At this time, they recognized each other as father and son.

And this scene was glimpsed by Malice's magic. In order to appease the Spider Goddess's anger and regain her favor, one of the two people must be sacrificed to the Spider Goddess.

Who is it? Evil and whimsical ideas were born in the heart of Mother Malice.

6. Death and Rebirth

Drizzt, who had reconciled with his father, was thinking about his future with his father. He proposed several plans, but Zac rejected them. His father had fallen into too deep, and even though he had a rare conscience among dark elves, he had already made up his mind.

Trapped in the Dark Territory forever. Over the years, he has carried out cold-blooded tasks with inner suffering.

Drizzt thought about whether there was a better plan? For his father and himself. He wandered aimlessly along a tunnel while thinking, and left Menzoberranzan unknowingly.

As a member of the Do'Urden family who is very likely to serve as the master of martial arts in the future, Drizzt's appointment was quickly noticed by other families. The Henet family, who was trying to start a war with the Do'Urden family, began to fight against him.

They attacked Drizzt alone. To be safe, they sent Masoji and Aton to carry out this mission. Aton had wanted to attack Drizzt several times when he was in the academy, and this was the moment when his wish came to an end.

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They first sent Guenhwyvar to conduct a sneak attack on it. However, due to the deep feelings between this man and a leopard, they gradually defeated the contract given to the statue. Guenhwyvar went against the wishes of his master and helped Drizzt.

Ayton was killed by Guenhwyvar, and Drizzt killed Masoji, who was left alone. The summoning statue of "Guenhwyvar" was obtained from his body, and the big cat could finally have a good friend to accompany him.

After defeating the powerful enemy, Drizzt realized that he was too far away from home, and quickly rushed back to the Do'Urden family's mansion. He first went to his father's room and practice room, but no one was there. But his father's belongings

and weapons were still in place. The uneasiness gradually grew in my heart.

After meeting his mother and sisters, he reported the attack he had received and successfully counterattacked. This victory made his mother and sisters ecstatic. The two masters of the other side had been killed before the war even started, which would undoubtedly please the Spider Goddess again.

.But when Drizzt learned that his father had voluntarily sacrificed himself to the Spider Goddess in order to protect himself, the remaining feelings for his family in his heart were also annihilated.

When he saw his mother and sister approvingly asking him to succeed his father as the family's new martial arts master, he cursed the entire dark elf society and the gods they worshiped. Under everyone's astonishment, he turned around and fled the family mansion.

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7. Escape life

There was no longer any safe place for Drizzt in Menzoberranzan. He quickly fled outside the city and entered other tunnels in the "Underdark". There were all kinds of dangerous creatures lurking there, waiting for sweet prey.

Drizzt believes that with the double blades in his hands and the black panther Guenhwyvar by his side at all times, he can choose another life.