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thorak257
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We can almost achieve the look. After all, if Neverwinter owes its fame to the legendary Drizzt character. Its only natural we should be able to make a hero that looks like him. Hence, the drow renegade race and panther companion (founder's pack). There is only 1 problem. Drizzt didn't have a bow on his back. I would really like if my combat mastery ranger could hide his bow. At least hide it when in melee stance.
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On the opposite end, you could do something crazy and try actually being original and creating your own hero...but that takes thought.
He used one in the fight against the White Dragon, Icingdeath.
And in the last 3-4 novels he uses Taulmaril very often in combat. Often switching back and forth even in combat. One such fight which depicts this quite well is in the beginning portion of the book Charon's Claw against the Cavus Dun mercenary group.
Cool, I guess I have some reading to do. Time to put a lightning enchant on my bow!
Thanks
Right hand: Icingdeath (frostbrand enchantment)
Left hand: twinkle.
Doubt it.
More like the setting was popularized in the gaming community by the NWN series, which this game sadly has almost nothing to do with. Almost all people that I've talked to about how they got to NWO played NWN and hoped on some type of "Neverwinter Nights 3 Online" thing that is as close to D&D as possible.
Drizzt is just a cool char in a huge Forgotten Realms environment, many heroes like him.
At least, that's how I came to know Neverwinter. Correct me if I am wrong but of all the heroes of forgotten realm I think drizzt is the character who had the most books written about.
I do agree the deity selection is a bit limited. I imagine mielikki got excluded since the game didn't launch with ranger, pure speculation on my part. Corellon is also a good ranger deity though, at least for elves.
Not to mention that Helm, an actual dead god, is available to pick. Even in the game when you get to helm's hold the npc's mention that helm is dead and has no power...
Um... you can't pick Helm as a patron deity, what you're thinking of is the symbol of Torm. Both Torm and Helm use a gauntlet as their symbol, Helm's has an eye on it.
The race says Menzoberranzan renegade, so I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they really meant renegade as in a drow that rebelled against Menzoberranzan. Are you talking about the story of Ilythiiri? I never heard of them referred to as renegade.
Could a moderator/dev please clarify?
While Faerun started as a gamers world, created by Ed Greenwood, Drizzt is what has novel brought most readers to this world. Without that popularity, it is unlikely the first NWN would have ever come out.
. . . . . In PnP 4th Edition, there are two types of Drow: The cursed drow and the dark elves. All drow descended from their ancestor dark elven races from the countries of Ilythiir and Miyeritar. When Araushnee waged war upon her lover and the Seldarine (the Elven Pantheon), she was defeated and thrown into the Abyss, cursed by Corellon Larethian into the Lolth we know today. Along with this curse, the dark elves were also cursed by Corellon Larethian and driven underground into the Underdark, becoming the drow we know today.
. . . . . Many millennium later, when the daughter of Corellon, Eilistrasee the goddess of Good Drow, was slain while inhabiting the body of her High Priestess Qilue Veladorn, Corellon Larethian took her essence into him in a moment now called "Eilistrasee's Sacrifice." At this moment, all good drow still faithful to Eilistrasee or the Seldarine had their curse lifted upon them and were once again allowed to enter Arvandor upon death instead of being called to the Demonweb Pits -- Lolth's domain. So now, there are a good number of curse-free "dark elves" as well as still a great deal of cursed drow within the Realms. The Menzoberranzan Renegade are still "drow," even though they share characteristics that may be found in the curse-free dark elves.
. . . . . Whichever type of "drow" one makes in Neverwinter Online, it is up to the player to determine their back-story and role-playing history, whether or not they are a curse-free good dark elf who follows the ways of their fallen goddess Eilistrasee or if they are normal drow, either exiled from the Underdark or on the surface for other devious or personal reasons.
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awesome. thank you for that, sir.
Lolth was thrown into the Abyss long before we have any history of elves on Faerun. After thousands of years of the Crown Wars, Preists and mages of Correllon cast a spell that drove all dark elves, good and evil, into the Underdark, creating the Faerzress and physically changing Dark Elves. Qarlyd Melarn and others cast a spell that ended the original spell. Eilistraee's sacrifice redeemed and changed her followers and those without the taint of Wedonai. They changed physically. Drizzt was not one of those elves. He has not changed and he does not worship the Seladrine (unless they decide Meiliki is really an Elven Goddess masquerading as something else, as they did with other Gods in 4E) He is still a drow. Apparently, he still has the demons taint, probably from his mothers side. That's up to Mr Salvatorre to decide.