Editing Drizzt (section)

==The Companions of the Hall==
Whilst Drizzt ''has'' done more than his fair share of solo adventuring or bumming around with other people, he is most associated with his own distinct team of [[adventurer]]s that he lived much of his life with. Originally, he outlived them all, which only makes sense since none of them were elves and adventuring is a fairly high-risk profession, but they were actually reincarnated after the [[Spellplague]].

'''Bruenor Battlehammer''' (Male [[Dwarf|Shield Dwarf]] [[Fighter]]) is the co-founder of the Companions. The last living heir to the throne of the dwarven clanhold of Mithral Hall, from which he and his relatives were driven when he was a child by a [[Shadow Dragon]] named Shimmergloom and its army of [[duergar]]. He encountered Drizzt during the drow's early days on the surface, originally hunting Drizzt for a crime the drow hadn't committed, then siding with Drizzt after his innocence was proven. He became Drizzt's longstanding friend, and that companionship was rewarded when Drizzt helped Bruenor to find and reclaim dominion over Mithral Hall. After the [[Spellplague]], he was reincarnated as the Male [[Dwarf|Shield Dwarf]] [[Fighter]] '''Reginald Roundshield''' ("Little Arr Arr" to his close friends); initially failing to remember that he had volunteered to come back to the world of the living to aid [[Drizzt]] at the request of [[Mielikki]], he found his second life unwanted and quite embarrassing at first. He later got over it and used the revelation of his original incarnation to become a legendary dwarf leader.

'''Catti-brie''' (Female [[Human]] [[Fighter]]) is Bruenor's adoptive daughter, rescued from [[Icewind Dale|Termalaine]] in the wake of a [[goblin]] attack that killed her father, her mother having died in childbirth. She was one of the first surfacers to meet and befriend Drizzt, which is partly how he got in her father's good books. She initially wielded the enchanted bow ''Taulmaril'', and eventually took up the (psychotic) intelligent sword ''Khazid'hea''. Prior to the [[Spellplague]], her leg was crushed in an attack by [[Frost Giant]]s, and she feared the loss of her life as a warrior, only to discover an untrained latent as a [[wizard]]. However, she was killed by some of the first manifestations of the [[Spellplague]]. She was reincarnated as '''Ruqiah''' (Female [[Human]]) in the Desiah tribe of the Bedine nomads of the Anarouch. In this life, she forsook the path of the warrior and concentrated on her mystical abilities, of which she had plenty! Possessing scars in the shape of the holy symbols of [[Mystra]] and [[Mielikki]] on her forearms, she may have been [[spellscar]]red, and definitely wielded a mixture of arcane and divine magics. She may have even had some druidic abilities, as she was able to use certain druid spells like Call Lightning and to shapeshift into the forms of a wolf, owl, hawk and eagle, but no official statblock exists. At least some of her magical powers, most notably the shapeshifting, were lost when [[the Sundering]] saw the restoration of Mystra's Weave and the removal of all spellscars. Ruiqiah is the most controversial of the reincarnated Companions, as she went from the most friendly and open-minded of the group to a religious zealot convinced that all non-demihumans were utterly, irredeemably evil.

'''Wulfgar''' (male [[Human]] [[Barbarian]] - or [[Fighter]]-with-Uthgardt-Barbarian-kit in AD&D) is an Uthgardt Barbarian from the Tribe of the Elk who partook in a raid on the Ten-Towns of [[Icewind Dale]] when he was a youth. In the fight, he came up against Bruenor Battlehammer, who was shocked by the boy's youth and so decided to spare him, knocking him out cold and taking him as a prisoner of war instead of simply killing him. Wulfgar initially resented this, but came to see the dwarf as a substitute father. They grew so close that Bruenor even invoked the mystical ability of all dwarves to, once in their life, create a single powerful magical weapon as their ultimate masterpiece to forge a weapon for Wulfgar: Aegis-fang, a mighty warhammer that could be freely used as a missile weapon, as it would fly back to its wielder's hand. Wulfgar had the most tumultuous life of the Companions, and even left their company for many years prior to his death, first by being dragged into the [[Abyss]] by a vengeful [[demon]] and then voluntarily leaving to try and recover from his scars. Ultimately, he lived to be a hundred years old, with three living children, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, but neither his age nor his being sick with pneumonia stopped him from responding to a [[yeti]] attack on his tribe by launching himself at the hulking ape-things, killing several with his bare hands before being struck down. The most reluctant to be reborn, he was revived as ''Hrolf Alfarinson'', an Uthgardt Barbarian of the Tribe of the Elk.

'''"Rumblebelly" Regis''' (Male [[Halfling]] [[Rogue]]) was an orphaned halfling from Calimshan who grew up as a street thief in a guild run by Pasha Pook... until the day he realized his boss was sporting a magical ruby necklace that could be used to hypnotize people, and he stole it. Desperate to keep his innards where they belonged, Regis fled to [[Icewind Dale]], and somehow ended up a member of the Companions. Whilst he was adept at handling social stuff for them, and could be surprisingly handy in a fight, he was very much ''not'' a great warrior like his companions, and this ate at him. He was slain by the [[Spellplague]] when his soul was ripped from his body and into his magical necklace. He was reincarnated as ''Spider Parrafin'', a Male Halfling but also a Water [[Genasi]]... which technically doesn't have official stats, but isn't as impossible as you'd think, considering that [[D'hin]] exist. Whilst still a [[Rogue]], this reincarnated Regis was much more aggressive and combat-trained, fighting with rapier, dagger, and plenty of poison & alchemical items to augment his abilities - more a [[Swashbuckler]] and less a [[Thief]] compared to his original incarnation.