They are angry because they expected to be turned into vampires the night before. Thinking it broken, they head back to Neverwinter.Īt night, a the ghostly spirit of Dor'crae speaks to the camp of humans that Pwent saw the previous night. They eventually find themselves in the middle of the forest with the wand pointing upwards. They continue to argue over whether their foe is a vampire or battlerager. It leads them to the corpse of the owlbear. In the morning, Drizzt and Dahilia ride out on Andahar again with the undead-seeking wand in hand. Instead, he finds an owlbear and attempts to sate his thirst on that beast, despite its inability to satiate him. A ghostly voice in his head (Dor'crae) encourages him to drink from the humans, but he refuses.
In the dark of Neverwinter Wood, Pwent spies a camp of humans. Meanwhile, Dahlia obtains a magical wand that is supposed to point the way to any undead in the area. They find the sergeant but Drizzt refuses payment, since they were not the ones to slay the goblins. Dahlia states the wounds must have been cause by a vampire Drizzt is firm that the wounds were caused by a dwarven battlerager.ĭrizzt and Dahlia ride back on Andahar the unicorn from the scene of the goblin's murder, arguing all the while about whether vampires or battleragers killed the goblins. However, the pair find the goblins already dead. The next morning, Drizzt Do'Urden and Dahlia Sin'felle arrive on the scene, having gone out to kill the goblins that were plaguing the area. His thirst for blood drives him outside and he slays an entire band of goblins, sucking them dry. He realizes that he should be dead, then discovers that he is in fact a vampire. He remembers Beealtimatuche, the pit fiend, and how Bruenor was able to pull the lever to release the primordial only after Pwent saved him from Dor'cae's bite.
He begins to remember fighting the tieflings alongside Bruenor and Drizzt Do'Urden. He wonders what made the marks in the ground and follows them to the lit Forge of Gauntlgrym. Meanwhile, Pwent awakes in Gauntlgrym with foggy memory. Dor'crae remarks that he was the one to kill Pwent, then Valindra orders him to find the dwarf. They see that it appears that one of the dwarves, Pwent, has survived. The story opens with the lich Valindra Shadowmantle and the vampire Korvin Dor'crae looking over the stone cairns under which the dwarves Bruenor Battlehammer and Thibbledorf Pwent were buried.
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