Underdark Stories

A city has been founded. Now the Houses must learn to live within its web. The long journey is over. Against impossible odds, Menzoberra Zan'Rae has led the Seven Great Houses to victory, carving a new kingdom from the endless darkness of the Underdark. The City of Spiders rises where only wilderness once stood, its obsidian towers climbing toward cavern ceilings as Lolth's faithful proclaim the dawn of a new age. But conquest is far easier than peace. As the city grows, so too do the ambitions of the noble Houses. Ancient rivalries are reborn behind gilded smiles. New alliances are forged in whispered chambers. Priestesses vie for Lolth's favor, wizards pursue forbidden knowledge, and every House seeks to claim its place in the fragile hierarchy of the newborn city. While Menzoberra struggles to hold her vision together, House Baenre patiently strengthens its influence, House Nasadra refuses to be overshadowed, and powerful new Houses begin weaving webs of loyalty, deception, and betrayal that stretch across the city. Beyond the walls, forgotten kingdoms, monstrous horrors, and ancient powers still threaten the fledgling realm. Within the walls, something far more dangerous begins to grow. Distrust. For in Menzoberranzan, no alliance lasts forever, every promise carries a hidden blade, and every thread woven into the web pulls another House closer to ruin. The Web of Houses is the second volume of The Founding Series, an epic tale of political intrigue, faith, ambition, and the slow unraveling of unity, as the City of Spiders transforms from a dream of survival into a kingdom where only the cunning can endure.

Every legend begins with a single step into darkness. Long before the City of Spiders became the greatest drow kingdom of the Underdark, it was only a vision. When Menzoberra Zan'Rae, High Priestess of Lolth, receives a divine command from the Spider Queen herself, she abandons everything she has ever known to pursue an impossible dream. Gathering seven powerful Houses beneath a single banner, she leads thousands of drow into the uncharted depths of the Underdark in search of a sanctuary promised by prophecy. The journey will test them all. Ancient caverns hide forgotten civilizations. Monstrous horrors lurk beyond every tunnel. Treacherous rivers, endless darkness, and impossible choices claim lives with every mile traveled. Yet the greatest danger lies not in the wilderness, but among the Houses themselves, where pride, ambition, and old rivalries threaten to tear the fragile alliance apart before their destination is ever reached. To survive, enemies must become allies. To build a future, sacrifices must be made. And to earn Lolth's favor, blood must be willingly spilled. As each victory carries them deeper into the unknown, Menzoberra discovers that the city she seeks will demand far more than courage-it will require a legacy written in sacrifice, ambition, and faith. For before Menzoberranzan became the City of Spiders... ...someone first had to dare to dream it. The Spider's Journey is the epic opening novel of The Founding Series, a sweeping tale of prophecy, exploration, survival, and the birth of a civilization whose triumphs and tragedies will echo across the ages of the Forgotten Realms.

A story that transports you to the Underdark, an entire world that lies beneath the humans feet, deep underground. A world that is inhabited by strange creatures, rough terrain, odd plant life and engulfed in darkness...A land ruled by the Drow, better known as dark elves... This story, however, will not belong to just one Drow, but many, each different from the next, diverse from one another in rank, station, personality, ambitions...and even the more sinister traits all Drow are known for... This journey is not for the faint of heart, but for the bold, the adventurer searching for new lands, the mage yearning for that touch of magicks and mysteries, the rogue moving from shadow to shadow unseen, the assassin stalking his next prey...the princess rebelling against the chains that bind her... Who's side will you be on?

A series of short works about a half-drow named Talaste, a Menzoberranyr raised to worship another demon lord besides Lolth and who was suddenly orphaned and forced to fend for herself in the Braeryn with the help of another orphan. Events in her life forced her to flee Menzoberranzan, and she briefly helped a town on the surface before stumbling into the land of Barovia. Lolth, the Drow of the Underdark, and other characters created and published by WoTC belong to them and only appear in this work under fair use. Talaste and other characters created by myself or my group members belong to their respective owners, and any mention of my group's characters is also done under fair use. The art used was created by @CryptidGarden on Twitter for me, and they are currently taking commissions.

Shrouded within the subterranean realm of the Underdark, Falanhor Daelass finds that nothing is easy. Not magic, not fighting, not love... not even keeping his head upon his shoulders. Being a lower class man in a matriarchal theocracy, this might be expected, but it is made infinitely more difficult when he begins to understand just how corrupt his nation is and how much what he loves means to him. Furthermore? He's /knows/ he's destined for something more. He just knows. Note: This is a collection of short stories set anywhere from a couple months to a couple years after each other, so it won't read like a normal book. Warning: Contains violence and graphic descriptions Cover background obtained through Google Images. If this is your image and you would like me to remove it, please let me know.

Aiden is a son of a noble family in Kaze, the greatest city in the Underworld. As a dark elf, he is expected to participate in the sadism and power plays of his culture. All he wants, really, is to study and be left alone. One day, Aiden receives an invitation that will change his world forever...

A blind monk's adventure through the Sword Coast. Growing up in a monastery near Candlekeep, he doesn't know his past or what his future entails. He finds himself on the run with four companions he barely knows after illegally using magic in Amn. Where will he go and what secrets are hidden from his past? A fandom novel set in the D&D Forgotten Realms.

In the world of the Forgotten Realms, lives a boy raised by Drow to become the ultimate spy and assassin. But as the events of the story unfold, the more of Phann's past comes to light. In the Depths of the under dark, will Phann stay? Or will he reach the light and find a new light?

It has been centuries since the downfall of the evil King Luth, but things in Triliad are far from peaceful. The kobolds in the north are growing bolder, striking out at the nearby villages. Tales of orc packs randomly looting merchant carts and needlessly attacking patrols of soldiers around Arrowglen grow numerous. Hobgoblins roam freely across previously protected land. And in the Evergreen forest, home of the woodland elves, trouble is brewing. Varis Galanodel, an elvish archdruid, has sworn an oath to the natural world, an oath he puts above all else. So when the forest he cherishes so dearly starts dying, Varis sets off on a quest to find the source of this sudden decay and stop it. Unbeknownst to Varis, an ancient evil is stirring, one that no one could possibly remember. The enemy is much bigger than anyone could have foreseen, and it falls unto Varis to stop it...or the entirety of Triliad will fall.

After delving into the Underdark on the hunt for an orc settlement that is rumored to have nestled into the darkness, Omenalis finds himself at the mercy of a vastly alien creature. Act 1 of the Cerebral series.