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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruvion" data-source="post: 261437" data-attributes="member: 878">*Emphasis mine.LOL!  I'm sorry, it was too funny to pass up.It seems to me that Edena's version of the drow (or the campaigns that feature these fearsome drows) seem to empower the drow without giving similar empower to the other prominent races.Salvatore IMO, nicely balanced the drow and dwarf, pitting drow's simingly overwhelming firepower with the cunning of the masters of the tunnel warfare.  And make no mistakes, it is the dwarf that is the master in the tunnels, regardless of drow cunning with traps and poison (the dwarves were simply outnumbered).IIRC, many if not most of the drow wizards were allocated to the battles ouside of Mithral Hall (though I'm sure a fair number were inside the walls as well) to maximize the wizards ability to decimate armies in open space (in terms of kill ratio, an MU is more efficient in open space than in tunnels).  So, it was not as if Mezoberranzan didn't bring its share of MUs and put them to good use.  And I'm sure it wasn't mostly Matron Baenre herself that formulated these strategical deployment and tactics.  She has her Weaponsmasters from her and other Houses, effective generals all (though somewhat specialist in House warfare and skirmish level of battle), advising her in military details.  So, I don't think it was the dumbness on her part (as a miliatry leader anyways) that let the forces of good prevail.In matters of summoning powerful outsiders, IMHO, I don't think Lolth would dare allocate too many of her hellish servants in fear of drawing attention of the Dwarven pantheon and maybe the Seldarine (elivish counterpart) as well.  It is my personal belief that it wasn't just pure luck and circumstance that brought Wulfgar and Aegis Fang (an almost artifact level weapon crafted by Brunor Battlehammer with Dumathoin's sigil inscribed on it) to bear on the Yochlol.  It may have been Dumathoin's (Dwarven god of caves and secrets) divine will and answer that forced the fates into the destruction of a creature of Lolth by a dwarven weapon.  The Dwarven gods watch over their children if not directly then through proxies and machination of fate.I think overall the drow had a good chance to take over Mithral Hall, if not for the intervention of the sister cities and the unforseen effects of the sun.</blockquote>

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