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Old 03-25-2014, 09:51 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
No, I'm not wrong, because... (HUGE ENORMOUS BIG-AS-A-HOUSE SPOILER, caused by the description of the latest Drizzt book that has just appeaed)

Spoiler:

The description states:

Now that Drizzt is reunited with his former companions after their reincarnation [....] who are looking much the same as they did in their adventuring days [...] set out on a new adventure.

(Ergo: the reïncarnation must be the point of the next-to-last book, called 'The Companions.' With that title, I should have known.)

There is even a hint of re-instatement of the Weave; Catti-Brie is losing her 'new' magic that she learned in her new life, but regains (part of) the 'old' magic she learned in her old one.

Catti-Brie was 46 when she died, and I assume her early adventuring days started around 21-ish. Basically, Salvatore is turning back the clock 25 years or so, and is possibly even erasing part of the effects of the SpellPlague.

Catti-Brie is young again. Who will she fall in love with; Wulfgar all over again, or Drizzt, whom she started to love after Wulfgar took off with Delly Curtie? On a side note... By misclicking on a link in the description (I clicked on 'Catti-Brie' accidentaly while scrolling), I also saw that she actually uses the name 'Delly Curtie' as an alias after her reïncarnation up until she joins the old band again...

Wulfgar will meet his first love, bearing the name of his second one, while Drizzt will probably totally flip out. It took him 5 years or so to start courting Catti-Brie after Wulfgar left.

PS: I wouldn't be surprised if they go on a quest and 'accidentally' find all of their former weapons. I wonder if Drizzt still carries Catti-Brie's bow Taulmaril.


Maybe it's still worth reading on how it comes about. As I've started a FR re-read from the start (the VERY start), I'll be reading those books in... two or three years or so.
Oh, good. By then you'll have forgotten the spoiler. Er, hopefully? I don't know if you tend to remember that sort of stuff...
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