Editing Icewind Dale (section)

==The Novels==
The (slightly inaccurately tagged) Icewind Dale Trilogy was the second set of novels to be printed for the [[Forgotten Realms]], after the [[Moonshae Trilogy]]. It was the literary debut of that most infamous of [[drow]], [[Drizzt Do'Urden]] - though not the chronologically first of Drizzt's stories, which would be presented as an unnamed trilogy some time after Drizzt became popular. In this series, Drizzt is Strider not Aragorn; he's got no arc, ''needs'' no arc. As for the Dale, only the first book actually deals in that.

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In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice, betrays his [[wizard]] master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone. Actually the tower and the gem was a ''total'' rip-off from Conan the Destroyer down to the two party members: the Crenshinibon being an expy the "Heart of Ahriman" from the movie, the tower Cryshal-Tirith being the tower Amon-Thoth, collapsing when the gem's stolen. Conan's expy being obviously Wulfgar and thief Malak from the movie for Regis, and Kessel being some old-ass wizard using mirrors to channel a troll-like tower guard. Jesus Christ Salvatore, it's easy when the Internet wasn't invented to plagiarize, eh?

In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!

In '''The Halfling's Gem''', Regis is kidnapped by the [[assassin]] Artemis Entreri, working on behalf of the thieves-guild-master whom Regis betrayed years ago, forcing Regis' friends to stage a rescue.

The ''Legend of Drizzt'' graphic-novel / funnybook series collects these.