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One of the most well-known D&D Forgotten Realms characters is Drizzt Do'Urden, the Drow
(Dark Elf) Ranger who is the protagonist of R. A. Salvatore's long-running
series of novels beginning with the Icewind Dale trilogy. Unlike most Drow, Drizzt is good. He
uses two scimitars, Twinkle and Icingdeath, to cut his foes to ribbons.
Twinkle has a diamond edge that never dulls and glows blue on command, and
Icingdeath grants Drizzt a 100% immunity to fire.
Drizzt's
armor decal is based on the armor he wears in the PC game Baldur's Gate
(no, not the console Dark Alliance game, I mean the real Baldur's Gate),
with a few features taken from the covers of some of Salvatore's older
novels (not the new 3rd Edition style ones, which I don't like as much). Drizzt also makes appearances in many other D&D games, but Baldur's Gate
is my favorite, so there.
^ That's the icon for Drizzt's armor (Mithril Chainmail +4) in Baldur's
Gate. The only thing I changed about it was the color of the chain (I
don't think it should be blue), and some minor details. In the game, you
can only get the armor by killing Drizzt. In Baldur's Gate II, if you kill
him and take his items, then a mage will follow you around and demand them
back. If you don't give them to him after a while, he'll just kill you and
take them. And you can't beat him. Sorry, but no screwing up the D&D
storyline... Well, actually, there are ways you can get around the mage,
but they usually involve cheating.
The main features taken over from
the book covers are Drizzt's boots and white fur scarf (the poofy white
stuff near his neck). The scimitars Drizzt is wielding are from
Little Armory Toys,
but everything else is my own creation. Personally, I absolutely love the
way this minifig turned out.
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