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<blockquote data-quote="Welverin" data-source="post: 77804" data-attributes="member: 433">From this <a href="http://www.grimorio.com.br/english/salvatore_english.shtml" target="_blank">interview</a>: &quot;What was the first reaction from your publishers when you proposed a Drow Elf Ranger character?Stunned silence. Which was pretty much my reaction when I thought about what I had just said. Drizzt was a spur of the moment thing. I was put on the spot for a new sidekick for Wulfgar (who was supposed to be the star), because we had reset the novel away from the Moonshaes, but as I already told you, Daryth and Canthus were in the sample chapter I had submitted to get the assignment. So my editor calls in frenzy, heading to a marketing meeting and needing a new sidekick. I was at work as a financial specialist at the time, with a desk covered in papers, and put on the spot, the idea of Drizzt, and the name, just popped into my head. Very strange.&quot;As you can see it just sort of popped out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Welverin, post: 77804, member: 433"] From this [URL=http://www.grimorio.com.br/english/salvatore_english.shtml]interview[/URL]: "What was the first reaction from your publishers when you proposed a Drow Elf Ranger character? Stunned silence. Which was pretty much my reaction when I thought about what I had just said. Drizzt was a spur of the moment thing. I was put on the spot for a new sidekick for Wulfgar (who was supposed to be the star), because we had reset the novel away from the Moonshaes, but as I already told you, Daryth and Canthus were in the sample chapter I had submitted to get the assignment. So my editor calls in frenzy, heading to a marketing meeting and needing a new sidekick. I was at work as a financial specialist at the time, with a desk covered in papers, and put on the spot, the idea of Drizzt, and the name, just popped into my head. Very strange." As you can see it just sort of popped out. [/QUOTE]

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