Innovindil

Innovindil was a moon elf from the Moonvines in the Moonwood and friend and lover of Tarathiel.

Description
Innovindil was fairly short with blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes.

Equipment
Innovindil carried a bow, a slender sword, and a dirk.

History
In the, Innovindil and her partner Tarathiel found and captured a pair of dwarves, Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder, camping near the Moonwood, until discovering that their intentions were not to harm their woodland home. Learning that the two dwarves planned on representing the priest Cadderly Bonaduce at the coronation of Bruenor Battlehammer in Mithral Hall, Innovindil and Tarathiel realized that the drow Drizzt Do'Urden would be returning to the area. This news was of great importance to them because one of their clan, Ellifain Tuuserail, had left the Moonwood to find and kill Drizzt believing he was responsible for the slaughter of her family years before. However, before they could meet him, Innovindil and Tarathiel found the lands around Mithral Hall were overrun with thousands of orcs and scores of frost giants.

Investigating more closely, Innovindil and Tarathiel observed Drizzt Do'Urden recklessly slaughtering countless orcs alone, out of rage for the loss of his friends in the orc assault on the town of Shallows. After Drizzt got into a situation with no escape, the moon elf pair came to his aid and asked him to join them, but he refused, unable to cope with the apparent loss of his friends. Later, Innovindil and Tarathiel were captured by two other drow, Ad'non Kareese and Donnia Soldou, and held in a cave. This time, after a change of heart, Drizzt came to their rescue, dispatched them, and freed the moon elves. Talking afterward, Innovindil and Tarathiel learned of Ellifain's sade fate, but didn't blame Drizzt for defending himself.

Working together, Innovindil, Tarathiel, and Drizzt become a trio to be feared as they fought to prevent the orc king Obould Many-Arrows from gaining any reinforcements, by turning orc tribes emerging from the Spine of the World back into their holes. Unfortunately, Obould set a trap for Tarathiel and his pegasus, Sunrise, and killed Tarathiel while Innovindil and Drizzt watched helplessly. Filled with grief and sorrow, Innovindil left with Drizzt, but they soon decided to save Sunrise and avenge Tarathiel. In the following days, Drizzt and Innovindil noticed the importance of the orc shaman Arganth Snarrl to Obould and captured him to glean some information. They then went after Obould's son Urlgen Threefist, who was killed by Innovindil, dealing a huge blow to the orcs attacking Mithral Hall.

While Drizzt and Innovindil are able to kill Obould's lieutenant and son Urlgen Threefist, their goal of rescuing Sunrise still remains. After a failed attempt to rescue Sunrise from Obould, Drizzt and Innovindil try once more after Sunrise is given to the frost giantess, Gerti Orelsdottr; however, Drizzt ends up in a stalemate with Gerti while Innovindil is able to escape on her pegasus, Sunset. Gerti offers Drizzt to let him go free with Sunrise if he promises to slay Obould and forge a truce between the home of the frost giants, known as Shining White, and the surrounding kingdoms after the orcs have been defeated. After making the deal, Drizzt takes Gerti's help in setting up a battle between him and Obould, but he is unable to defeat Obould and his impenetrable armor and retreats.

Drizzt then meets up with Innovindil and explains how he escaped Shining White with Sunrise before the two return to their task of driving orcs back into their holes. On one such raid, Drizzt notices an orc carrying Catti-brie's sword, Khazid'hea, and goes mad with grief at the almost indisputable evidence that Catti-brie died at Shallows; however, soon after retrieving Khazid'hea, Innovindil and Drizzt meet Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder who tell them that Drizzt's friends are alive. Innovindil and Drizzt are thrilled at the news, but before reuniting with them Drizzt decides to fight Obould once more with Khazid'hea, also known as "Cutter".

After apparently defeating Obould, Drizzt reunites with Catti-brie and no longer holds any doubts as to what to make of his feelings for her, at which Innovindil comments, "That is what it is to be an elf, Drizzt Do'Urden." At the end of The Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Drizzt states that he and Innovindil will bring Ellifain's body back to the Moonwood so that she may be properly put to rest.

After retrieving Ellifain's body, Drizzt gets a chance to talk with her spirit before he and Innovindil return to the Silver Marches. The two part ways and Innovindil begins leading groups of elven skirmishers against Orc targets. They are highly successful until they clash with Clan Karuck. Grguch has his half-ogres light fires on the western edge of the Moonwood, trying, and succeeding to goad Innovindil's skirmishers into a fight. Innovindil spots some camouflaged orcs trying to flank the elves and tries to warn them, whereupon she, riding Sunset is attacked by javelins. After a spell is cast by a shaman that interrupts Sunset's flying, the pair cannot recover quickly enough to avoid the resulting javelin fire. Sunset is hit right in the wing joint but Innovindil pleads with him to keep flying so that she can warn the elves. They manage to do so but Sunset cannot fly any more. Innovindil is hit by a dart filled with acid thrown by an unseen Jaculi, a form that Jack the Gnome had taken and the gnome somehow either hides or creates a tree in their flight path, both pegasus and Innovindil hit the tree, and the pair both fall to their deaths.

Relations
During the days where Innovindil and Drizzt are together, Innovindil questions Drizzt as to whether he knows what it means to be an elf. She states that he left Menzoberranzan and the Underdark as a child by elf standards and was never trained in the perspectives of elven culture, which is why he does not know how to deal with his emotions towards Cattie-brie. Drizzt enjoys her company and realizes he has never spent time with any elves like Innovindil who can give him advice.

Appearances
She first appeared in the 2002 novel The Thousand Orcs, by R. A. Salvatore. She is also in the two subsequent novels of The Hunter's Blades Trilogy and accompanies Drizzt to bury Ellifain in the short story Comrades at Odds. Her latest appearance is in The Orc King.