Ellifain Tuuserail

Ellifain Tuuserail is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

Ellifain is the only survivor of a Drow surface raid in which Drizzt Do'Urden participated. She was only a child at the time of the raid, and Drizzt disguised the young Ellifain with her mother's body, rather than killing her as was expected during the raid.

When Drizzt returned to the surface many years later, Ellifain had grown into a vengeful and angry young woman. As tales of Drizzt's exploits as a ranger became more well known throughout the region, her fury at what she perceived to be lies, she left her home to seek instruction. Training solely to defeat Drizzt, she spent six years travelling to find anyone who could teach her to fight Drizzt's specific method of combat. Taking the name of 'Le'Lorinel', and disguising herself as a male, Ellifain tracked Drizzt down and engaged him in mortal combat, fully expecting that she would not survive the encounter.

Ellifain/Le'Lorinel began the fight wielding a sword and dagger, having the added protection of a stone skin spell, one of four spells bestowed upon her by an enchanted ring she wore, spells that she had previously determined would enable her to defeat Drizzt. She later used one of the rings other spells to enhance her speed so that she could match Drizzts', though she was not used to fighting with such speed and was not as effective at employing it as Drizzt. A short while later she used the rings third power to render herself invisible, prompting Drizzt to drop a globe of darkness over the two of them. However, it turned out that this is exactly what Ellifain had predicted, planned, and hoped for, for under the cover of that darkness, Drizzt could not see her fourth and final spell bestowed upon her by her ring, a Fire Shield spell which mirrored Drizzt's killing blow back on the ranger, wounding both mortally. Up until this point, it had not been revealed that this Le'Lorinel was in fact Ellifain, or a woman for that matter, as she wore clothing to hide her womanhood, sported a shaved head, and a black mask that hid all but her eyes, which Drizzt recognized but could not place. However, when Drizzt slashed both combatants chests open, he could see that she had the breast of a woman and realised who she was.

Drizzt was narrowly rescued by his friends with a healing potion retrieved from a previous enemy, despite Drizzt's feeble pleas that the potion be used on Ellifain instead.

Drizzt was understandably upset that the life he helped save so many years ago ultimately ended with Ellifain's death at the hands of her own blind rage. He was even upset with his friends for not saving her life in his stead, but these emotions dissipated when his friends reasoned he would have done the same had his friends been in his place.

In the 2006 novel Realms of the elves Drizzt and Innovindel recover Ellifain's body and return her to the forest where she grew up. Innovindel then volunteers to serve as a host for Ellifain's spirit so she and Drizztmight put to rest the grief between them and hopefully prevent Ellifain from rising as an undead. However Ellifain has already learned of her error whilst in Arvandor and apologizes to Drizzt, laying to rest the drow's grief over her death somewhat.