Drizzt Do'Urden

Drizzt Do'Urden ( /ˈdrɪst doʊˈɜrdɪn/) is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed to replace another character in Salvatore's first novel, The Crystal Shard. Drizzt has since become a popular heroic character of the Forgotten Realms setting, and has been featured as the main character of a long series of books, starting chronologically with The Dark Elf Trilogy. As a non-archetypal drow (dark elf), Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark, in the drow city of...