Drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden first appeared in ... but Salvatore soon changed that, writing The Dark Elf Trilogy, a prequel series outlining Drizzt's troubled past in Menzoberranzan of the Underdark.

Dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden was introduced in 1988 ... lists and have sold upwards of 30,000,000 copies. The powerful drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden is a dark fantasy institution in his own right ...