I'll readily admit that I felt more about Zaknafein's death because it was Zaknafein than what it did to Drizzt. No matter the wandering and hopelessness and blah that came afterward. But at the same time, Drizzt's last image of Zak was him fighting for him. Whether it was true, contrived, or, a convenient suicide on a battlefield of pride, didn't really register to Drizzt. Granted, that doesn't excuse practically every plot hole after... and before... the escape from Menzoberranzan, but in the Icewind Dale trilogy, and the Prequel Dark Elf trilogy, he was more consistent on that view. Thus, I tend to think of Drizzt's remembrance of Zaknafein as a bit twofold; on the one hand, there was the harsh trainer that was the embodiment of what it was to be a Drow. Then there was the one that Drizzt "got to know" as a father, who "died for him." Drizzt likes happy memories, so they're what sticks with him more. Heck, I'm sure Drizzt would kneel down to a promising child on the street and have extremely fond memories of Zaknafein when making the kid do the same coin toss... one Zak saw it more akin to eyeing a cattle and pissing off Lolth than Drizzt as a bright future.
You know, I suppose so too, about Entreri, except for the fact that he's seen as one of the most widly known and successful assassins on Faerun. Of course, then I like to point out that he's from Calimsham, and that's just a port on the west side of the world, and there's the humongoids of land to the east... More like, Calimsham to the Evermoors, and thus Silverymoon, with every coastal human town in between, but not further east than the very start of Cormyr, with their own politics. Higher beings that he passed probably knew he was little compared to them, but well... at the same time, that rings wrong. So that's up in the air a bit, until Jarlaxle. Then it get's even more unpredictable.
As for Entreri's sex life... well I'm tempted to agree with you, but I also think that Entreri has such a bucket load of trust issues and that at the lower points of his life, he would probably stick to women. And certainly in the Pasha Palace, he'd only "bed" women, or risk his reputation going sour. Because the choices there would be to stick to women, who people have an image of as a bit lesser (although, that IS Calimport...) or, if it were to even be hinted at that he enjoyed the company of men, it would all become a power play. Artemis needs trust to let himself go, sure, even if it's money. But to be Entreri, it would be expected of him to probably either be in it for the breaking of a masculine individual, thus showing off that his position is not in jeopardy, or have someone so stereotypically "sub" that it would be sickening... practically a woman anyway, would be the view for that. And both are against Entreri's strict code.
But I guess this must've crossed your mind, otherwise you wouldn't have thought to put that his previous relations were mostly well paid, secretive whores to wick off the edge.
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You know, I suppose so too, about Entreri, except for the fact that he's seen as one of the most widly known and successful assassins on Faerun. Of course, then I like to point out that he's from Calimsham, and that's just a port on the west side of the world, and there's the humongoids of land to the east... More like, Calimsham to the Evermoors, and thus Silverymoon, with every coastal human town in between, but not further east than the very start of Cormyr, with their own politics. Higher beings that he passed probably knew he was little compared to them, but well... at the same time, that rings wrong. So that's up in the air a bit, until Jarlaxle. Then it get's even more unpredictable.
As for Entreri's sex life... well I'm tempted to agree with you, but I also think that Entreri has such a bucket load of trust issues and that at the lower points of his life, he would probably stick to women. And certainly in the Pasha Palace, he'd only "bed" women, or risk his reputation going sour. Because the choices there would be to stick to women, who people have an image of as a bit lesser (although, that IS Calimport...) or, if it were to even be hinted at that he enjoyed the company of men, it would all become a power play. Artemis needs trust to let himself go, sure, even if it's money. But to be Entreri, it would be expected of him to probably either be in it for the breaking of a masculine individual, thus showing off that his position is not in jeopardy, or have someone so stereotypically "sub" that it would be sickening... practically a woman anyway, would be the view for that. And both are against Entreri's strict code.
But I guess this must've crossed your mind, otherwise you wouldn't have thought to put that his previous relations were mostly well paid, secretive whores to wick off the edge.