A Drow Empire - The History of Menzoberranzan - Forgotten Realms Lore
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- Today we explore Menzoberranzan, also known as the City of intrigue or The flower of Lloth. It is a name that brings shivers to most people in the North and along the sword coast, and a place that if your party ever stumbles upon, it might be the last thing they do.
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It's both awesome and hilarious that Menobarranzan didn't start having real troubles until Drizzt became a thing.
@Lazaro Barthel You're correct, no one gives a shit.
What kind of thing did he become? Can I become a beafstake pliz?
The Power of Spite!
I was required to read this first book in the drizzt series for my sociology class and I never expected to love it so much 😊
Best class ever :)
its amazing!!
I haven't read them but Salvatorre wrote my favorite Star Wars novel (Vector Prime) so I've always thought they might be good reads. You just convinced me to find and read it.
What an amazing book.. I had to read boring books like "The Outsiders", The chrysalides", .. sure they are ok.. but BORING!!!!.. I came across R.A. Salvatore and Terry Brooks near the end of High school.. my older brother lent me a few books to read.. and wow.. i couldnt put them down.. im so jealous that your school had books like this in its curriculum..
Icewind Dale trilogy is BOSS!
R..A. Salvatore was great at creating the most interesting characters. Jarlax'l, and Atemis Entreri are two of my all time favorite characters in fantasy lititure.
Entreri is one of my favorite ones as well :)
My favourite character is Jesus.
I LOVED Pharaun Mizzrym.
Hated his outcome...
Oh my god.
I stumbled on this quite by accident, by divine mercy it was on my recommended and never has a website known me better than youtube to recommend this for me.
I'm a mild-to-moderate Drow fangirl and I'm almost embarrassed at how excited i was when I clicked on this. I love this so much and I almost never am interested in things enough to subscribe but, you have my subscription.
Thank you, and welcome onboard :) We have a few Drow themed videos coming up. Finalized script for Church of Lolth, VO for Kiaransalee is done, working on Selvetarm and Vhaeraun to wrap up the Dark Seldarine.
Menzoberranzan is a great place to go on vacation to. They have a policy of "mandatory friendship" and when go there you'll find yourself doing all sorts of fun arts and crafts and what have you.
Be sure to expect your vacation to last a while, though. And bring all your friends!
-The Menzoberranzan Vacation Agency
Yep permanent travel. Visas for everybody
You will love it so much, you won't even mind wearing the slave collars...
They have all kinds of things to feast upon too. There is a joke I like to make where I mention all the things there are to feast upon, then people freak out because they are imagining a human talking about feasting upon these things, and then I laugh at them for being the most predictable of all small 2 leggeds and point out they would survive longer if they can learn to be less predictable.
I'm too busy for that joke, I have Dwarves to fight along side against Drow.
@@rachdarastrix5251 What joke? feast on what? Feat. feast. on feet? Or visit and duel and feed the defeat`d ones to fiends? Man eating drowman eating drow would be so twisted as well the whole visit. Menzoberanzan the place were you come and gaze untill a spider eats your face. Then you stop gazing and the spider will eat the rest then but drow get old, their pet spiders too, so they take their time to finish their meal. Thats UTILITARISM (or was it utility-rat-ism - nah no rats were here that i did see, anyway), the best for the drowmanity, Human taste like chicken, drow and spiders, I bet dont taste as well, so its pure logic to let the spider community eat the humans. no matter how their cries sound, the other way round would not be profoundly logical but dont mind the killing frenzy the drow are actualy very friendly. Loved the city, 5/5 would visit any time again, but I didnt actually really got out yet but I think im just kinda stuck in some web or so. No worry, come I will show you the best way. Greedings for many gems to give me I mean greeting from germany.
@@Brumbrumauto Drow get old, their spiders get old too.
Here I am perched neatly, 873 years old, and I laugh. I laugh from a pillar of stone that wasn't there a moment ago.
So...the Drow must have an amazing birthrate since they seem to kill each other faster than their enemies manage to kill them. Practically all the original families that founded the city were wiped out. Maybe they have secretly been adoring the rabbit god.
Yeah, I wondered about that too, given that they are elves.
Well they do have a lot of orgies.
Apparently, Drow have the highest birthrate of all the elves
Maybe its a gift from Lolth, since spiders lay a shit ton of eggs?
gosh i sacraficed my childhood reading these books.
A worthy sacrifice.
Haha me too.. Well at least a couple of my teen years
That's not a bad thing.
You're definitely not alone there, I was absolutely absorbed in these stories!
Ah, yes the old city of Menzoberranzan, were you need a drink tester for even tap water, let alone wine, and perhaps you have to double check after triple checking your bed to make sure nothing has been placed in it like a snake, spider and bath tub for leeches or other things of the likes that can kill you, very apt description,
So Australia in a nutshell
@@Devliin15 You thinking of Catachan or Felucia,
My first real exposure to D&D was the Menzoberranzan PC game, that I played with every possible class and race I could, to this day I will usually play a Drow if I can in a game.
You can never do too many Drow videos! Thanks!
No, thank you, I wouldn't have thought to check if there was a whole playlist without this comment.
its never been truer in the history of clicks that i clicked on this so fast
Loving this series! Definitely helping me build a future campaign!
Every night Drizzt hugs his cat and whispers "It's just you and me baby."
My 4 favorite books:
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Homeland by R A Salvatore
- Icon by Frank Frazetta
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Excellent presentation!
Thanks for taking the time to create this quick but in depth and informative video!
Keep 'em coming, folks! Love these videos.
Very much enjoyed. Starting a campaign in the underdark soon and I'm playing a Drow for the first time(played plenty of other elves in other campaigns) so this was perfect to get a great background and paint a better picture in my head.
Thank you so much for this video, i've just started The Dark Elf Trilogy and this is great for helping me picture the environment
You have a Great Journey ahead of you. :) about 30-60 000 pages of adventure ahead of u.
I recommend The War of the Spider Queen series. 6 books and I loved it. Pharaun Mizzrym was one of my favorite characters. I also realize your original comment is from 6 years ago but I hope this still reaches you in hopes of you being able to enjoy this great series.
Wow-just...wow. That was fantastic! Narration, content, animation, music, and presentation were outstanding. A great resource for myself and my players. Please keep it up!
No plans to stop any time soon :)
really well produced video man! Great stuff!
Wow, great video. Really well put together
I love the way you tell the story of this, most channels are just "informative" - which is good, and serves an important purpose, but I just sometimes want to hear a good yarn spun from the lore.
The goal of the channel is to have videos that serve an in-game function. We avoid most spoilers this way, and allow the speaker to be unreliable. DM's can more easily say "thats only their perspective".
I am also in love with the realms because of how it makes me feel when I read the lore. It has a lifeness to it that we try to recreate in our videos.
I just recently got one the Drizzt books 'Timeless'. Never been much into D&D but now I'm hooked.
This is great! Wonderful work!
Drizzt Do'urden, one of the best characters ever written!
Hope to one day get a video about him done.
Very nice video. I've been collecting forgotten realms novels for over 20 years now and I truly hope it never ends. One day I hope to own them all and of course the stories of the dark elves are some of my favorites. All it took was reading the 1st dark elf trilogy to create this realms addict.
I have high hopes for the future of the realms. Hoping the movie is good, and that they start spinning up novels and other stories again.
Great Episode!
I have a suggestion! I love your Forgotten Realm History but would it be nice to have another series talking about the characters of FR? Like the ones that are well known like Arunsun, Elminster and such but also the lesser known one that fell on the way side like Gareth Dragonbane, Alias, dragonbait and such :D .
I never realized how close Mithral Hall was to Menzoberranzan. It's like super close. Like, "Hey matron mother, I'm going to go visit my friend Bruenor!! I'll be home for dinner" close.
True, about 20 miles apart and 3 miles deep. In D&D you can walk about 24 miles in a day, so would need some magic to get there and back in a day. - There is also no roads, so it would be hard terrain, so not an easy treck.
this was very interesting. I'm definitely going to be checking out more
The others are also fantastic. I think you'll enjoy them.
Well done, that was pretty awesome
Yesss dude awsome work man!
Thank you :)
Love those d&d stories and lore
please , Your an excellent DnD creator and I must have more! great narration too!
Fantastic!
I would be eternally grateful if you ever did a video on Jarlaxle 🤞
Great quality! I'm subscribing
Wonderful Video Editing! I suggest a video about the dale lands.
Cool =D
Can't describe epicness of this
I cannot believe that I've only found this channel today. Holy crap.
This series is incredible and a lot of the newer series like the neverwinter saga are even better
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This is a very entertaining narration of the fantasy world that fast became my favorite in this genre. But I had just one problem- how to pronounce these names!
I was on point with Lolth.
I was pretty close with Baenre.
But I was way off with Menzoberranzan- I tend to roll double r's.
I really want to know how pronounce Jarlaxle- as he is my favorite character in The Legend Of Drizzt series.
Looking forward to listening to more from your series!
And again, thanks.
Does anyone out there besides me think that something like this would make a great movie how about the legend of Drizzt how about Homeland Exile sojourn and then when he comes to the surface Crystal shard streams of silver and a halflings gem how about that when they make great movies too bad we couldn't tell somebody can I get a woohoo
Faerûn History people are prejudice and jerks i think it would make a great movie.ra Salvatore his books now that would be great.how he got out his story.all i have is a camp fire story of friends killing a dragon lol.but its not set in the relms its on a another planet.that way I'm not stepping on toes
Faerûn History who am I talking to because you seem to know a lot about the land and the history.. yeah people are jerks that's probably why a movie will never be made of the famous dark elf plus you have to run it by R A Salvatore and probably a few comic books either DC Comics or Marvel might take this on I can see it like a Japanese anime that might be pretty cool CGI would be awesome like the movie Beowulf is another one make the whole thing CGI computer that way all you need is a voice actor and nothing else it would still be cool you can only cross your fingers and Hope that there will be a movie someday the only thing I have is a Campfire story of a bunch of friends killing a dragon but it's not set in the realms I don't want to step on any toes I sent this on another planet entirely because I'm not too sure about the rules of farun and what they would want if I could ask somebody I would I would love to set my characters in the Realm my character Archer is a lot like Drizzt he's half elf half human he's highly skilled him and Drizzt would make a great unbeatable team my character Archer is a rogue so to speak but I think the two would hit it off
You're right about the political climate, but I don't think there's an actual "problem" with the lore. The "black" elves are the way they are because of almost never seeing light for centuries. Simple as that.
Edit: I think a lot of D&D lore would make for potentially great movies. And something like this should not be like Guardians of the Galaxy IMO...I'm feeling it a lot more of a horror/adventure mix.
Wish they would do movies, I think current technology can depict a battle between Drizzt and Artemis with relative speed accuracy. I would lean toward full CGI though. In my opinion, there's so much potential in this series that no actor could live long enough to physically portrait many of the characters. But voices are easier to match if and when it came time for another movie.
Thought a movie would be cool, but the more I watch movies being made now, I really hope they NEVER ruin this storyline with a movie!@!
this video is amazing, makes me realize i have been saying so many of the names wrong
I have had many discussions on Pronunciation in D&D, and I lean on the side that noone is saying anything incorrectly, due to the names being in a tongue none of us speak.
there were a few little flaws, I'm going to watch it again and see if I'm wrong, but in general, very good. I like the "roleplaying"
also very beautiful visually
Always love a happy ending.
wooooow!!!! solo para entendidos, muchas gracias!!!!
Love the music from Icewind Dale
Two thumbs up 👍👍
Use music from Forgotten Realms games to get a Forgotten Realms feeling:)
I’m a huge fan of this! You’ve got my blade!
Thank you, welcome on-board :)
If you havent run the Out of the Abyss campaign for your gaming group - get on it! So good!
You left out some stuff. Like the Clawrift being filled with houses and the fall of the most powerful house after the loss in Keepers Dale.
Great Job my new favorite
Thank you :)
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory what other cool stuff do you I like how you placed yourself as a citizen of the underdark who's really cool
wow, awesome man!!!!, i just started to read this drizzt series (on the third book lol) and this video helps explain a lot.
Always thought it would be helpful for DMs and Players who were playing D&D, but happy to see it can help people who are into the novels as well :)
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory yep, and a bit spoiled though lol.
Great series one of my favorite. I'm currently re reading for 3rd time and on book 9 which will follow close to this video since the war for Keepers Dale will be starting soon for me
considering how slowly elfkind is suposed to procreate the drow followers of Loth should have gone extinct. One century is in no way enough time to recover themselves.
Those are contermeasures against death of violence. Aside from reincarnation that instate your new body is of a young adult there is no other way to direct restore youth or extend life like the guys in the video. Only wish would work but you would being risking never being able to use it again, potion of youth is more likely to age you after the first time. You may houserule to allow that but these thing are not on the default setting wich is a oversight. There is no reliable way to make something minor like double your lifespan but bring the dead back is something way too easy. Should be the opositive really.
The Drow are the fertile ones.
That's why the in plan for conquest of the surface, Vaherun decided the males sould search for elves of other races, to have kin.
The curse of Corellion is strong; if a Drow and another elf mix, the cildren are Drows.
Thank you..
Love all things Faerun and thank you Greenwood for its creation! Bob Salvatore is a gifted writer!
Tolkien first, Forgotten Realms second.
Another great work!
Also, can you add subtitles to your videos? Or is it too much work for you? Somehow I can't use automatic translated subtitles on this video so I wondered if you did not allowed it or not.
Wow, I wasn't expecting this fast! Thank you very much!
How come I never knew about this channel before now?
TH-cam suggestions are bad? - On the positive side, lots of backlog of videos :)
you can visit the under dark in all its horror in ddo with the purchased expansion
Hope you start doing content again!
Hit sub before it even played!
I would love to start a Saga of mine own, would be a dream come true . I know Eggzackly where to start.
one can hope and dream.
Sorry for my english, I'm french but ive understood the most you Said. Even I know the menzoberanzzan' story thanks for your video informations likes a "Story master" (im not sure a bout the quote for roleplaying master) ;)
Your English is fine :) - I am glad you enjoyed it.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory thanks for your understanding ;) could you make a video about underdark environment? I'm looking for a while
I'm a first time DM going on about four months of content. I have a pretty good story but if anyone with more experience could help guide me to making the encounters more exciting I would appreciate it. I think my party is at the point where they won't die. This is where the content is starting to head btw. Thanks ahead of time!
Get a pre-made adventure and scavange encounters and ideas from it. Out of the Abyss has lots of underdark stuff, I love Storm Kings Thunder for the openness, Dragon Heist if its a city thing.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory I've been writing a lot of my own stories for this adventure. I'm taking a few things from pre-mades I thought were cool. Tomorrow, to embrace the season, I'm going to have the bard and mage (leaving the gnome and half elf pali) be taken by two vampires they encountered in the previous run. I was going to have them turned. Then have to run through an arena hosted by a Lich who takes the losers souls as a form of currency for his growing army. If they make it out of the arena I will have the two in party vampires killed (for dramatic purposes) then raised with a wish spell. This is pretty rough as I'm still trying to work out a lot of the details for this.
I'll look at the pre-made things you suggested for encounters and traps. Do you have any forums that i could talk in and get good responses by the community I could join?
Btw, I've now watched almost all of your videos and I love them. Awesome job on the voices and artwork to give the history more depth.
Imagine Lolth being so foolish she crrates the heretic Drizzt to cause chaos and he turns the drow against her.
Can I have a source on the pic that appears at 2:00 of the drow that is supposed to be Menzobarra? I am really interested in browsing through that artists gallery
Found it, gpzang.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Elf-Assassin-Personal-work-437024471
these videos are so much more fun than any of the lame ass lore videos that game the algorithm
I believe grumf is now part of jarlaxle group.
HA! This riddle! Ok fine I'm doing it :)
that fallout 4 music though :))
So my boi Pharaun didn't become the Archmage :/ I really wish I found that last book of war of spider queen.
I miss the golden age 1988 2000
This is the shit. I'll never outgrow fantasy or let me imagination die. I love books, especially weird fantasy books like the ones R.A. Salvatore makes.
And at this point in my life, I've come to truly realize that movie/show adaptations are very rarely up to par. I mean just look at the Dark Tower movie. It was total garbage. Stephen King is just a sellout in my eyes after that one, though I still love The Dark Tower series and think it is without a doubt his finest work.
On one hand I'd be happy for some obscure books to get more recognition that they deserve, but on the other hand movies and shows usually end up being made of the most popular books and thus are usually made as cash cow pinatas, not as true works of art.
Which is why in some ways I hope never to see a movie or show adaptation of some of my favourite books anymore (like an Elric or Drizzt movie for example). Because 90% of the time it won't be done with the fanboy passion that it deserves but rather with shiny graphics and dumbed down plot/characters just to appease the masses, for money. And it'll probably be a garbage blockbuster.
Thats why I feel what makes these worlds so great is they exist in the imagination which most people seem to lose over time, and they take it for granted and dont even realize theyve lost it.
You can envision the world that the author is projecting and in a lot of ways its the most immersive form of art because You can almost fully exist in that world for a while.
Oh that's cool, showing Auramycos smaller than her is right now.
Nah, quite a lot haha!
It's low res, you have to pay Schiley for the high res version
prints.mikeschley.com/img/s3/v8/p1449079652-3.jpg
They are seen on the Out of the Abyss module.
Oh no you are right, It's closer to it timeline wise.
I really miss this channel, i wish it hadn't died two years ago. Were the drow ever revisited?
the way that names get pronounced in this video really unnerve me
....only Eäralda and his Synod knows of the Mithril Deepening of the #Fuinar.
When I found this video, I was hoping I'd get some questionmarks answered for me... But they remain unanswered, so maybe someone here can inform me further (spoilers for any Out of the Abyss players):
What is the current state of affairs within Menzoberranzan after the demonic incursion by Gromph Baenre summoning Demogorgon within the city and the following struggles? Has there been determined what the "canon" outcome of Out of the Abyss is?
My guess, not much. The Silence of Lolth shows that the city is blessed by the Spider Queen and will resist almost any and all disasters. Quenthel Baenre is still the leader, and Gromph still holds Sorcere under his grasp. Would be hard to overthrow this combo.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory I find that pretty odd then that Out of the Abyss does state that Gromph goes missing after the incident. Looks like WotC are dropping the ball on the lore here. I hope they at some point can create some clarity on this, one way or another.
This one is a particular problem. Gromph left to get help in out of the Abyss, as well as in the novel Archmage, but as far as I can tell, after the problem is over with, why would he not return? His sister, while angry of what he did, would not sacrifice him. Whomever takes over as Archmage would not be aligned with the Banre house. Not a risk she would take.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory Ah, those are details I missed out on. That does make sense, yeah. Thanks!
feast. on feet? Or visit and duel and feed the defeat`d ones to fiends? Man eating drowman eating drow would be so twisted as well the whole visit. Menzoberanzan the place were you come and gaze untill a spider eats your face. Then you stop gazing and the spider will eat the rest then but drow get old, their pet spiders too, so they take their time to finish their meal. Thats UTILITARISM (or was it utility-rat-ism - nah no rats were here that i did see, anyway), the best for the drowmanity, Human taste like chicken, drow and spiders, I bet dont taste as well, so its pure logic to let the spider community eat the humans. no matter how their cries sound, the other way round would not be profoundly logical but dont mind the killing frenzy the drow are actualy very friendly. Loved the city, 5/5 would visit any time again, but I didnt actually really got out yet but I think im just kinda stuck in some web or so. No worry, come I will show you the best way. Great things for gems (any) I mean greedings from germany. I always wanted to try chicken... I just cant eat those human every fcn single day... imagine you eat the tender favorite food but EVERY DAY... I just wanna try something at least a bit different. A chicken I never tried for example. Anyways i ran almost out of neighbors
do you have a link to the map your using?
Faerûn History ok cool thanks :D
Ily
Does Lolth ever lose?
why would it be so close to Mithiril hall?
Faerûn History seems like they drow and dwarves would want to be further away from each other
It was really good. But the audio was very light. Was it just me?
I am watching on a cell phone. So it may be the phone. But I normally have no trouble hearing the audio.
I will certainly watch it over again on all my device's. The visuals effects are amazing. Keep up the good work.
No worries. Why the D&D dose not have a lore break down I will never know. They just push live and pc play. But where they fail you will fill that gap. I really hope you blow up on TH-cam we need more lore videos.
Is this from the Adventure coast book ? too bad they left out the part of the desertion of Gromph and the Rage of Demons
most recent books I read featuring menzoberranzan was Salvatore's Homecoming books where Drizzt fights Demogorgon. The is also a campaign featuring it in Neverwinter but that was a bitch to finish.
Fair enough
I love how the Clans have Power rankings.. I would have read 10 more books about their Society... As long as you don't get caught invading... No crime..
We wrapped up a review for the script last night: "The Church of Lolth" - video should not be too far off. More discussions on power ranks and responsibilities.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory is this a book though??
Gromph isn't Archmage anymore 😀
So what are we going for with the narrator?
Renegade Drow-Mage from the Tower of Sorcere?
Potentially with ties to Vizeran DeVir, if not Vizeran DeVir himself?
Well, presumably not him then, since he died before the Spellplague.
There is the potential of an ally of Jalynfein Oblodra the Spider Mage,
though I'd assume such a character would care a little more about Drizzt
(unless the offhandedness of the narrator towards Drizzt could be a strategic choice
to purposefully undermine his importance, and this narrator's theoretical admiration for him)
MadHatterHimself in my head I was picturing an older drow in a tavern, just sliiiightly in his cups, some scars on his face. I wanted it to have a tiny bit of regret, also. like he's glad to be gone, but still kind of misses it
Not unlike Drizzt himself.
Though definitively not a warrior like Drizzt,
he has had access to far too niche information
for that to be possible.
If that is the vision, then that truly paints a picture of a quite interesting follower of Vizeran DeVir.
Hiding in Mantol-Derith perhaps....?
Funny I Tought it was Jarlaxle in the way he dismissed Drizz't involvement. Jax always has a wierd softspot for Drizz't and Jax is known to stay in fearun for long period of time.
What character in D&D lore served as the narrator?
This one, a priest of Vhaeraun, who formally lived in Menzoberranzan.
Who's View Point Is this From? I think It Might Be Toson armgo.
Vhaeraun priest.
drow and drider
githyanki!
Bay-En-Ree
My favorite book series...still waiting for the movie ..just don't let Netflix do some lame pg 13 saga...and please do a good casting with Drizzt....saludos
They have a good director and some decent writers for the 2021 D&D movie, so I think it might turn out good. But we shall see, frankly, I worry that you won't see a Drizzt movie until they correct the problem that makes this happen: c1.staticflickr.com/6/5014/5414331007_0111bac66a_b.jpg
jo mamas from Menzoberranzan
Good video, but the amount of mispronunciations was painful.
Also, the picture you used for Gromph was actually a picture of Pharaun Mizzrym. Heh...
"Min-zob-a-ruh"
Bro what?
You mean it’s not menzo bah ren zen?
MEN-zoh-buh-RAN-zan is what I hear is the right drow pronunciation.
I really hope in my lifetime this is made into a movie like LOTR!!!
To the people talking about a movie....NO NO NO.
NIGN-NIGN-NIGN-NIGN!! 😂
TV show....not a movie. You really want to wait years for the next installment? Think about it.. a show would be more and more often. That, and all three dnd movies bucked salls....
And dont comment your opinions on who should play what...Im sick of that arguement. Haha
he spelled the city's name wrong