Archmage

Following the hard-won victory of the War of the Silver Marches, a fragile peace has settled over Mithral Hall and the North, but Drizzt Do'Urden and his loyal companions know better than to trust the calm. Beneath their feet, the treacherous Underdark continues to seethe with ancient evils and unimaginable powers, particularly within the dark elf city of Menzoberranzan. Here, the ambitious Archmage Gromph Baenre, weary of the drow's stagnant power struggles and feeling cornered by myriad threats, contemplates a desperate and catastrophic measure: to call upon infernal forces from the deepest reaches of the Abyss. This perilous act threatens to unleash a demonic scourge that could shatter the fragile balance of the Underdark and spill out into the surface world, a disaster even the notoriously resilient drow may be unprepared to face. As the first installment in 'The Homecoming Trilogy,' 'Archmage' plunges readers back into the heart of Drizzt's world, setting the stage for a new, profound confrontation against forces darker than ever before.