Part Four: The Drow March - Prologue, Chapter Seventeen, Blingdenstone and Chapter Eighteen, Uneasy Gatherings Summary

In Drizzt's opening letter for Part Four, he discusses the way in which the dwarfs of Mithral Hall treated him during the time they are preparing to fight against the drow. Drizzt is drow. Despite this difference in culture and background, the dwarfs treated him no differently than they did any of their own people. Drizzt is grateful for this true, pure friendship the dwarfs have offered him.

In Chapter Seventeen, the drows begin their advance on Mithral Hall. The armies, led by Uthegental Armgo, are uncomfortable with the silence they encounter as they march toward the svirfnebli town of Blingdenstone. Uthegental has not been commanded to attack the town of Blingdenstone, only to defend...