tempest2004 replied to your link “This Tense Excerpt From R.A. Salvatore's Relentless Features a...”
So, I stopped reading after Road of the Patriarch because I heard about the shit with Artemis after it. But I have to ask: what fresh hell is this? Catti-Brie is back and knocked up? Presumably with Drizzt's kid? Yvonnel Baenre is back? Or is this a namesake? I am so confused right now.
tempest2004 replied to your link “This Tense Excerpt From R.A. Salvatore's Relentless Features a...”
And that sounds *nothing* like the Artemis I loved. Way too wimpy and flowery in his words. Where's the convicton? The fire? The knowledge of his death being inevitable and being all right with that?
[[ Not just Catti-brie is back, ALL of the Companions of the Hall are back and more than that, they’re all young again. Turns out when they died, Mielikki took their souls to Irudaloon, where she kept them until they were ready to be reincarnated. Catti-brie’s now a super overpowered wizard/cleric double-Chosen of Mystra and Mielikki, Regis is a genasi and a badass fighter, Wulfgar’s still Wulfgar, Bruenor’s got two queens. Yes, it’s Drizzt’s kid. The Yvonnel mentioned here isn’t the original Yvonnel the Eternal but at the same time she is. She’s Gromph’s daughter who was blessed by Lolth before she was born, and also imbued with all of Yvonnel the Eternal’s memories at that time. As a result, she’s by far the most powerful drow who’s ever lived, but rather than rule Menzoberranzan she fell for Drizzt’s goody-goodyness and now lives on the surface and helps the Companions of the Hall, also lowkey waiting for Catti-brie to die of old age so she can seduce Drizzt.
Yeah, what’s done to Artemis is a tragedy and a travesty. He and Jarlaxle have both been watered down, and by the same reason: Salvatore bending them to worship Drizzt and want to be like him, because there’s apparently only one valid way to live life. Giving Artemis a fear of death is something pretty new, appearing as a cheap plot device in the current book, Boundless, and as this excerpt from Relentless shows, it’s meant to continue.
In any case, I would actually recommend the Neverwinter Saga and Night of the Hunter. People who love Drizzt tend to dislike those books because the Companions are gone and Drizzt has to adjust to different circumstances, but I personally feel that getting to know Artemis properly requires those books. He is different from who he was during The Sellswords, but in a reasonable and logical way. Furthermore, I feel like without the context of those later books, the relationship between Artemis and Jarlaxle is a bit premature. Anyway, that’s my two cents. ]]
