While their whole world is changing around them, four dark elves struggle
against different enemies. Yet their paths will lead them all to the most
terrifying discovery in the long history of the drow and set them on a quest to
save not only Menzoberranzan but the entire dark elf race from
Dissolution.
Menzoberranzan the Mighty
City of grandeur and cruelty, home of deadly swordsmen and diabolical
necromancers, the brightest jewel of the vast subterranean world called the
Underdark, and proudest achievement of the sinister race known as the drow,
Menzoberranzan is a place with a mystery at its heart, a secret flaw that
threatens to destroy it.
When the power that sustains the city is cut off at its source, enemies flood in
from the darkness all around. And what greater enemy could a drow imagine than
another drow?
A hand-picked team of the most capable drow adventures begin a perilous journey
through the treacherous Underdark, all the while surrounded by the chaos of war.
Ther path will take them through the very heart of darkness, and the Underdark
will be shaken to its core. If the powerful dark elves falter, the world below
is open for Insurrection.
Thomas M. Reid turns up the heat on the drow civil war and sends the Underdark
reeling into chaos. When a god goes silent, what could possibly set things
right?
The forces aligned against Menzoberranzan begin to take shape, and the threat to
drow civilization is more terrifying than anyone has yet imagined. From the
impenetrable shadows of the Underdark to the remote corners of the no less
unforgiving World Above, the path toward the secrets of Lolth's silence is as
unpredictable as it is deadly.
Joined by two drow who might be the last survivors of Ched Nasad, the explorers
from Menzoberranzan have learned much, but for every answer they find, a
thousand new questions arise. They must seek out a rival priest, in hopes that
he can speed them on their way to the goddess herself, but can one dark elf ever
trust another?
Lies, Faith, and Oblivion.
The Queen of the Demonweb Pits may have turned her back on even her most faithful
servants, or she may now hang lifeless in her own hellish webs. For one priestess,
the only course left open to her is to discover the truth, even if she must return
to a place from whence few have returned even once - a place where souls of the
dead go to serve for eternity. For another priestess, the prospect of an afterlife
without the Spider Queen drives her into the arms of another goddess, shattering
the tenuous alliances that have brought the drow to the threshold of the Abyss.
This latest title expands the civil upheaval among the drow, one of the most
popular races in the Forgotten Realms. Best-selling author R.A. Salvatore wrote
the prologue to Extinction and continues to consult on the series, lending his
expertise as the author who brought drow society to the forefront of the
Forgotten Realms setting.
A journey through the unforgiving expanse of the endless Abyss awaits. At the
end of that journey a ragged band of dark elves hope to find Lolth herself.
Through they've managed to survive the fall of Ched Nasad, the demon-haunted
ruins of Myth Drannor, and the vicious cunning of aboleth slave-masters, the
Underdark is child's play compared to the chaotic infinity of the Demonweb Pits.
They'll go to find the truth but may well find only Annihilation.
Menzoberranan in Ruin.
For enemies of the drow, it would be the ultimate triumph. If the City of Spiders
were to find itself buried by the uncaring sands of eternity, thousands would
dance upon its grave, including more powerful enemies than even its most
suspicious inhabitants have ever imagined. But Gromph Baenre, Archmage of
Menzoberranzan, will not let that happen. When the time comes, he will risk
everything to save a city and a civilization he loves more than any drow would
admit.
While Menzoberranzan fights for survival, a dwindling company of would-be saviors
travels the limitless expanse of the multiverse in search of a goddess who could
be dead, or could have simply turned away from them. They might just survive the
trip, but can they possibly survive the Demonweb Pits?
Old alliances have been broken, and new bonds have been formed. While some
finally embark for the Abyss itself, others stay to serve a new mistress -- a
goddess with plans of her own.
The Spider Queen has been asleep for a long time, leaving the Underdark to
suffer war and ruin. But if she finally returns, will things get better... or
worse?
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