#liriel baenre

[banished-away]

[tantlisart]

[the-banished-one]

reading homeland vs reading daughter of the drow

[bramblepatch]

I made this for d&d purposes a while back but let's be honest it's equally applicable to most people who encounter either Drizzt or Liriel before the age of 100

[lunastrophe]

House Baenre Family Tree 🕷️

House Baenre family tree(s) - I tried to include every Baenre related by blood to Matron Mother Yvonnel Baenre, to see where Minthara could be placed, more or less accordingly to the existing lore. There are several different options, so for now, I did not include her anywhere.

Feel free to let me know if you find a mistake, or some other Baenre to add 🙂

• Grey background - character dead • Grey stripe - character's current (around 1490 DR) status unknown

🕷️Daughters of Matron Mother Yvonnel Baenre and their progeny:

In case of Vrellin, he was only mentioned to be Triel's nephew, so it is not really known if he was a son of one of her sisters, or a son of one of her brothers.

Bladen'Kerst, Vendes and Sos'Umptu were never mentioned to have any children.

🕷️Sons of Matron Mother Yvonnel Baenre and their progeny:

🕷️ Other relatives:

For more of my drow lore ramblings, feel free to check my pinned post 🕷️

[vspin]

"Do you know why we wizards are tolerated in Menzoberranzan?"

Liriel cast a quick, startled glance at her father. "Target practice?"

[rukafais]

Some Liriels. I'm not sure about how I drew her hair here, I might do some more workshopping about it later. She's fun to draw though!

Liriel's childhood, her experiences with her mother, and how it seems to have shaped her is fascinating to me. I would have liked to know more about Liriel's mother especially, since she was so deeply devoted to loving her daughter.

(And I'm always struck by that very small moment at the start of the first book, where she instantly realizes that her mother is dead. I always wondered if that was too much of a shock and she was later emotional about it in private, or she sort of just repressed it...)

[ekcess]

When I reading books about Drizzt Do'urden and Liriel Baenre: "Yes, magic, adventure, very interesting, but can we go back to the socio-economic structure of Drow society? Why is it that when describing the origin of an aristocrat, they talk about their mother's House, and when they talk about a commoner - about their father's profession? How does the average family work? If all Drow are trained in swordsmanship and the art of torture, where does, say, the son of a mushroom farmer learn this? So many questions, so few answers..."

[alicelufenia]

Just spent the last 15 minutes infodumping to my wife about drow, because that's one of my love languages and they are my hyperfixation right now. At one point I mention (im still rusty with lore so take with a grain of salt) that no drow has yet to die of old age, but always meet their end either in combat or poisoning, or straight murder/sacrifice/assassination, preferably by an ambitious offspring. So it remains inconclusive as to whether they even have a max lifespan.

At hearing this she came in with the comment "So like lobsters?"

And now I can't get lobster drow out of my head. Crustacean Gromph is over here pushing over 7 centuries. Lobster Liriel escaped the tank and it's now everyone's problem. Hard Shell Maine Minthara is pinching you SO hard right now.

[cthulhu-cat]

[seanofbeankeep]

Edit: I have learned he was not a good dad boo

I wonder if Drizzt will have a dad-daughter crisis and the one character that’ll give him good advice through it, of all people, would be Gromph.

Might be wrong (not read the book yet) but got impression Gromph was a decent dad or at least aided his daughter to grow as a wizard like she wanted and not get murdered. Leave Menzo etc

Or this

Liriel: hah I have a famous father too

Breezy: omg does he annoy you sometimes too

Liriel: not really. His arcane lessons helped me become wizard I wanted to be and find my own freedom

Breezy: who is he? Sounds like a fun dad

Liriel: His name is Gromph,

Breezy:

[banished-away]

starlight and shadows + textposts, because i think about this series a normal amount

[tantlisart]

📌This brilliant meme: https://www.tumblr.com/banished-away/745787007722307584?source=share redraw:

This man has regrets, but dealing with dragons is not one of them.🐲

Postscript: I can't shake the feeling that Gromph must be here… Did he do something with the dragons?

[mtlupy]

Stupid, sexy Drows. 🖤

Drizzt Do'Urden (I'm not sure what happened to his other sword 😭)

Eilistraee

Liriel Baenre

Lolth

Randal Greycastle (born Elklyn Auvrylyl)

Umraee Auvrylyl (Randal's biological mother)

[everybodyloveshippos]

[lunastrophe]

"You worship what?"