The Underdark

Location from Icewind Dale by R.A. Salvatore / Wizards of the Coast / Black Isle Studios

A vast subterranean realm of lightless caverns, fungal forests, and alien civilizations — stretching beneath all of Faerûn in a nightmare mirror of the surface world.

Also known as: The Realms Below, The Night Below, The Underdark Beneath the North

What They Know

• Menzoberranzan, the greatest drow city in the North, lies within this section of the Underdark.
• Tunnels connect the Underdark to the surface through the Spine of the World — routes used by drow raiding parties.
• Faerzress, a magical radiation unique to the Underdark, interferes with teleportation and divination magic.
• Mind flayer colonies, beholder lairs, and aboleth pools exist in uneasy proximity to drow territories.
• The duergar — grey dwarves — maintain their own strongholds in the Underdark, including Gracklstugh.
• Surface dwellers who descend unprepared rarely return — the Underdark operates on entirely different rules of survival.
• Drizzt Do'Urden escaped from here to the surface, a journey of months through lethal territory.
• Trade routes between Underdark cities are jealously guarded secrets, and Bregan D'aerthe controls many of them.

Connections

• contains — menzoberranzan
• home_of — drizzt
• home_of — zaknafein
• home_of — jarlaxle
• borders — spine_of_the_world

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