menzoberranzan

In the surface lands far above Menzoberranzan, winter was beginning to ebb, and themiddaysun struggled to warm the harsh landscape.

In time, Nisstyre vowed, he would find what was needed to sway the drow of Menzoberranzan to his cause.

Usually Menzoberranzan's shoppers welcomed such bargaining as the sport that it was.

This was Menzoberranzan, the city of drow. Twenty thousand dark elves lived there, twenty thousand soldiers in the army of evil.

Menzoberranzan also sells water to long-distance travelers, and breeds and trains lizard-mounts in nearby caverns.

"You are Liriel Baenre, my daughter and a noble of the first house of Menzoberranzan, " he announced.

That was the way in Menzoberranzan: always alert, always distrustful .

The arch mage of Menzoberranzan had little love for the Spider Queen goddess or her priestesses.

In Menzoberranzan, anyone suspected of worshiping any god but Lloth was summarily put to death.

Although life was hard in the Underdark, and Menzoberranzan was facing a new and frightening level of chaos, most drow saw no other option.

Fully half of Menzoberranzan's twenty thousand drow had marched upon Mithril Hall, and no one knew for certain how many had returned.

Once, many years ago, Nisstyre had lived in Ched Nasad, a city much like Menzoberranzan.