Drizzt and Elminster
TethorilofLathander
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What are they doing in the Western Heartlands during the first game? Drizzt says he's off to Icewind Dale so is he also fleeing from Artemis? Is Elminster on his way home?
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He couldn't really have gone all the way up there and back again in that short of time...could he? o_O
My personal opinion is he broke the party rule and went solo for more exp cause his party was (Sucking exp) holding him back.
Oh, sorry.
I think Eleminster being there is the easier of the two to explain. Clearly he is "Looking in" on Charname and realizing that 'Big events are brewing'. There are enough holes in his story line that he could have 'popped out to check on a few things'.
Drizzt on the other hand, it is difficult to pin-point when he actually got away to go that far south other than when he went after Artemis. And then he should have a group with him, right? I could "Maybe" see it, but it's a stretch. Maybe who you meet is actually a would-be impersonator? that would explain the ease with which he can be dispatched? And would also explain how you can kill him in BG1 and then again in BG2, although the Harpel's involvement in BG2 suggests that one might be the real deal.
In the books Artemis (Drizzt's rival) goes to Calimport in the far south of the Sword Coast to lead a guild. Drizzt and his companions had just saved Wulfgar from Errtu, the demon. I was trying to see if Wulfgar losing Aegis-Fang to pirates could work because the pirates could have been trying to melt it down and sell it as raw materials (being mithral etc). Then it could result in Drizzt going to Taerom Fuirium (smith in Beregost), who is rumoured to be the best smith in Faerun, especially in magical items and rare ores, to get the weapon fixed. Other things could be written which hint towards perhaps the Twisted Rune stealing the weapon and hiding it in the Athkatla Sewers before they attack Halaster (seeing as Wulfgar is in Luskan, which isn't such a stretch from Undermountain)....
Then I realised all this happens in 1369DR
Best guess is that Drizzt goes to Calimport to confront Artemis and is heading back to Icewind Dale in the game. Gets ambushed by the increased number of gnolls in the area (with the stronghold teaming with gnolls).
How he fits into BG2 I have no idea, all I know is that in 1369ish/1370DR he's back in Icewind Dale to deal with Obould Many-Arrows. Maybe he hears of the troubles in Amn, hears your character's name mentioned and decides to return the favour by helping the character face Bodhi?
Drizzt may have made some amount of sense in BG1, but in BG2, I just assume he's drunk. He, certainly, cannot teleport. Guy doesn't even have boots of speed. How could he have made it all the way to Icewind Dale to meet up with his group and then back down to Amn to meet your character and then back up to Icewind Dale to deal with the orcs in that amount of time? Clearly, drunk, so one of the Seven Sister's will eventually catch up to him and teleport him where he needs to be as Mystra loves meddling, too.
Elminster is doing what Marc Singer did in the television series based on the BeastMaster movies.