The Legend Of Drizzt: The Crystal Shard
Author’s Note: This essay is based off of the
series: The Legend of Drizzt. This series was created by R.A. Salvatore. He was
a very famous fiction book writer. He was most known by creating the character,
“Drizzt”. The books in this series are beautiful, amazingly detailed, and have
lots of action. There are twenty-two books in the series and “The Crystal
Shard” is book number four.
“Four friend’s who’s destiny was
bound together, they lived in one general area, Icewind Dale.” That was the
very first sentence in the book. In the series this was the original first, and
then made it the fourth to wrap up some things. The story is where a apprentice
wizard killed his master, so that a group that he was with, could steal and
run. Then he was betrayed by them, knocked out, and left in a blizzard to die.
When Akar Kessel woke up, he was shocked! He thought he was to die, but in
another plane of existence, the most evil of devices came, and Akar took hold
of it.
It was the crystal shard. He was
scared when it first came down. But when he picked it up, it was warm, so he
held it close. Little did he know what was to await him in the future.
Personally, I wouldn’t know what to do if that happened to me, I would think to
myself that this was a gift from the angels, but it was formed by the most powerful
and evil wizards and demons ever known. But when they got the shard together,
they were sucked in. Thirsty for blood, the shard was commanding Akar; it was
guiding him to evil. A voice in his head said to speak a magic word, and two
would come. So he did. He was instructed to put the new one on the ground, say
special words, and a crystal tower appeared from the crystal.
After that happened, Drizzt,
Wulfgar, Bruenor, and Regis were under a siege in ten towns. Barbarians had
attacked, but were surprised when they found they were ready for them, but
barbarians had no fear, and were cut down by two of the ten towns. But that was
just 100 barbarians, there were still 2,900 left. So they fled to join with all
of Ten-Towns. The towns were huddled around their biggest city, Bryn Shander.
Many died that day, which included 2,850 barbarians, and 300 of the people in
Ten-Towns.
All barbarians were killed, except
for one, Wulfgar. He was the only spared barbarian, who was taken in by the
Dwarf, Bruenor. Wulfgar had survived the Dark Elf Drizzt’s blades; he was only
alive because Drizzt had another prey in mind, the king of barbarians. He had
sliced the king’s belly open but was held down by several barbarians, and the
king was carried away. Drizzt passed out after the fight because he had suffered
a head wound from the king, but was able to last for a while until after the
fight.
Meanwhile Akar was building his army
of thousands. He had orcs, goblins, and giants. Orcs are these medium sized
monsters who knew how to fight, and were very tough. Goblins, well the goblins
that were assembled were about 50 tribes, which is about 50,000+. And goblins
had tough, hide like skin that wouldn’t get injured by most cuts. Which the
barbarians had no problem with because they had hammers, huge axes, and
throwing axes. The giants threw huge boulders, and had clubs made out of whole
trees. The giants are one of the fiercest known creatures in all of fantasy.
The most feared though, would have to be either dragons or demons. While the massive army that Akar had
assembled started marching towards Ten Towns, was ready to die, and win. The
army of 75,000+ was happy when none of ten towns was prepared. But the dwarves
came and helped the people of ten towns. Soon, the barbarians that wanted to
have allies, agreed to help get food, as long as they could have a place in ten
towns. Which was very surprising because just five years ago, the barbarians
attacked, but were now ready to help?
I thought it was just to gain their
trust and get inside then attacked them, but the treaty was made, and the
barbarians never hurt anyone in ten towns. Such turn of events intrigued me and
made me see them in a new perspective. And with all of this going on, I was
also surprised Drizzt was nowhere to be found……………
But he was fighting the mighty
Demon, with his sword he stole from a Dragon that he had killed, had ice
powers, and defeated the Demon easily. His panther helped too to defeat the
mighty Demon. They had prevailed and banished the dragon for a hundred years.
Drizzt made ground, and with his magical panthers help, found the door inside
the second crystal tower Akar had made………….
Inside Drizzt had gotten past his booby
traps and found Akar. He chased him through a magical mirror. But which, that
surprised me, is that you could actually go through a mirror and go to the top
of a mountain! But when he got there he knew that if he got far down enough and
made enough noise, or a large disturbance, then there would be an avalanche. So
he went to the bottom of the mountain and already there was an avalanche and
Akar’s life had ended; he was buried under five tons of snow.
Soon the goblins, orcs, and giants
started to run away because now their master, leader and general. Everything
was out of order, and soon the giants, orcs and goblins were fighting each
other. And the goblin tribes not only had to face the other 30 tribes, but had
to face orcs, giants, barbarians, dwarves, and the people of ten towns. Thank
goodness the barbarians, people of ten towns and the dwarves were on the same
side otherwise they would have been doomed. But the goblin’s, orcs, and giants
started fleeing, especially the goblin tribes who suffered little to none
casualties. They fled to get a head start, and not to die,
Soon all the goblin’s, orcs, and
giants that stayed, were slain. And the people of ten towns had prevailed, but
with maximum casualties. It was indeed a very grim day, but with the help of
the barbarians, and the warmth of ten towns, the barbarians and the people of
ten towns lasted through winter. And now the four friends, Drizzt, Bruenor,
Wulfgar, and now Regis were off to find mithral hall, the birthplace and home
of Bruenor’s tribe. But Bruenor, Drizzt, and Wulfgar didn’t know there was an
assassin after Regis, and that’s basically why Regis had gone with them.
Now their journey begins, with a
veteran assassin on their heels, and them not knowing. They made their way to
Luksan to an informant who knows where mithral hall is……………….
