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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7671089" data-attributes="member: 5143">Oh, I agree.  But RA Salvatore doesn't think that way when he writes the narrative portions of his books.  For instance, there was a line in one of the books that said something to the effect of "Regis was extremely quiet, he was very practiced in the ways of stealth, almost as quiet as Drizzt himself." and another line to the effect of "The man was quiet.  Obviously trained to keep his footfalls soft.  But Drizzt was a Drow and to him the man seemed but an amateur in the ways of stealth compared to his kind".  There's been sentences like "The man was good at fighting, but he was up against a Drow who are masters of their art and he knew he could not win." and "He had seen master warriors fight before, but he had never seen anything like the skill demonstrated by these Drow."  Or "The Drow was well trained in the ways of combat and could normally dispatch anyone with merely a flick of his wrist, but this was Drizz't Do'Urden, the legendary swordsman.  He did not think he could win."The books really like to beat you over the head with the fact that every person who sees a Drow fight(no matter which Drow it is) is incredibly impressed and humbled but their skill.  Drow are always humbled and impressed with Drizz't's skills.  This is also true of every statement the book makes that does not come from a particular character's point of view.  When the "narrator" says something happens, it is always stated in what appears to be a purely "objective" manor that Drow as just better than other people and everyone knows that.Though, I admit there are definitely cases within the novels that Drow lose to non-Drow.  However, the book is almost always implementing the Worf Effect.  The books make sure to point out that whoever beat a Drow was an EXTREMELY good fighter who was capable enough to take down EVEN a Drow.But yes, despite your rather spoilery post revealing things I didn't want to have spoiled about the next couple of books I wanted to read, Drizz't does sometimes lose to extremely powerful creatures, such as dragons.  But as you point out above, it says that no one in the entire city could beat this super powerful dragon and Drizzt fought the dragon and lived.  Thus, pointing out that Drizz't is STILL the most powerful Drow alive.</blockquote>

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