Ellifain

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Ellifain

Overlook The elven maiden Ellifain appears in the the Forgotten Realmsbooks by R.A. Salvatore. She appears in Homeland as a child and one of the Legacy of the Drowbooks, (I can't remember which) and Sea of Swords as a young adult. She is also mentioned in all of the Hunter's Blades Trilogy books.

Homeland

Ellifain appears as a child when benign drow warrior Drizzt Do'Urden travels from the Underdark to the surface with a raiding

party of other, not so benign drow, including Drizzt's brotherDinin Do'urden. While Ellifain's clan is dancing under the stars, the drow

attack. All of the elves are massacred, except for Ellifain, who is saved when Drizzt Do'Urden covers the trembling and screaming Ellifain

with her own mother's blood, making it look like she is also mortally wounded, and hiding her under her mother's body and forcing her to be

quiet. This thoroughly fools the other drow, sparing Ellifain's life.

Legacy of the Drow

Ellifain appears only breifly here. As a young adult, Ellifain is living in the Moonwood, fostering a powerful hate for drow, especially the

local 'hero' Drizzt Do'Urden, who she falsely views to be a lie. Drizzt passes through the forest on his way to the Underdark, and Ellifain

promptly attacks him. Drizzt does avoid getting hit by her sword but does avoid getting hit. It then takes many elves to hold her back.

Sea of Swords

Ellifain, now under the guise of Le'lorinel, a male elf, clearly remembers that fateful night when her clan was masscred, still fostering a

huge hatred of drow. She is now out of the Moonwood and is serving a wizard somewhere else. Her reward for the work is an onyx ring containing

4 spells. She visits a local gnome seer to try to find Drizzt, who she has sworn to kill. The gnome divines with his crystal ball and shows 'him'

two signs, one the combined symbols of Dwarven gods Moradin and Dumathoin, the other being the combined symbols of Dumathoin and another Dwarven

god, Clangeddon. The seer tells Ellifain that these are the symbols on the twin heads of Aegis-Fang, a warhammer forged by dwarven king

Bruenor Battlehammer and carried by Wulfgar, both of which are part of an adventuring band called the Companions of the Hall, which

also includes Drizzt. The gnome tells her that the symbols will lead her to Drizzt. The elf then ventures to Luskan and eventually meets an agent

of the infamous pirate Sheila Kree. She is knocked unconcious and is brought to Golden Cove, Sheila Kree's secret port that she shares with a

clan of ogres. She is branded with Aegis-Fang, which Sheila recieved through Luskan's blackmarket. The Companions of the Hall eventually

arrive in search of Aegis-Fang. Drizzt slides down a chimney and comes out in the hearth of a room containing Ellifain and a huge ogre.

Ellifain promptly kills the behemoth to have Drizzt for herself. She fights him, using 3 spells, and when Drizzt summons a globe of magical

darkness around she uses her last spell the fire shield, which inflicts the same wounds given to the user of the spell to the giver of the wounds.

Since they are in the globe of darkness, Drizzt cannot see the tell-tale flames. Drizzt punctures Ellifain's lung, which immediately does the

same to Drizzt. Then, Catti-brie Battlehammer comes in with a healing potion. Drizzt, now recognizing Ellifain, pleads to Catti-brie to give

it to Ellifain, but Bruenor, now in the room, tells Cattie-brie otherwise. Drizzt is saved, but Ellifain is not. Drizzt has her buried in the

tunnel complex of Golden Cove.

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