Work

Daughter of the Drow (excerpt)

Elaine Cunningham · 1995short story

Genre
- fantasy
Theme
- political intrigue
- wizards
Place
- secondary world
- underground & caves
Time
- timeless or unspecified
Audience
- adult

Also present

Themecoming of age forbidden love
Tonedark

This excerpt opens Elaine Cunningham's novel Daughter of the Drow, introducing Liriel Baenre, a young drow noblewoman of Menzoberranzan whose forbidden fascination with wizardry sets her against the priestesses who rule her city.

Summary by Loreful, from public sources

Placement

contained in Realms of the Underdarkanthology