Menzoberranzan
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Menzoberranzan is a fictional city in the world of Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. It is located in the depths of the Underdark, below the river Surbrin. It is famed as the birthplace of Drizzt DoŽUrden.
Menzoberranzan had its own PC game and was also a boxed gaming supplement for AD&D, with three books.
The city has 32,000 inhabitants - one-third drow and the rest humanoid slaves. The city trades poisons, tasty mushrooms, riding lizards, spell scrolls, wine, and water. The worship of Lolth is prevalent, and the city has the clerical academy Arach-Tinilith where priestesses are trained. One of the branches of the city's triune academies of Tier Brieche, Arach-Tinilith is neighboured by the warrior school Melee Magthere, and Sorcere tower where arcane spellcasters are sent to study. These academies are the quarters of some of the most powerful spellcasters, clerics, and fighters respectively.
Menzoberranzan is ruled by a council of matrons from the eight greatest noble houses; the most powerful House in the city is House Baenre, until recently led by Matron Baenre - a drow cleric who was been the single most powerful political figure in Menzoberranzan for a few thousand years. She has been succeeded by her daughter Triel. A separate council of mages deals with affairs of the arcane - but as its members are all male, it is wholly within the grip of the matrons.