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>>13643170
Not Drizzt, no. It was Elminster. It's literally Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms character and kind of his self-insert.
The whole of Forgotten Realms is based on his D&D campaigns, which he sold to them and then started working for them, too.
Stuff like spell names (Mordenkainen' Sword, Bigby's Crushing Hand, Tenser's Transformation etc) are named after the characters of his friends.
Drizzt is sn actual "nee" creation in a way that R.A. Salvatore never played D&D before starting to write for them. Originally it was even supposed to be a completely different, already existing character, a human with a dog, since his only FR-exposure until that point was the first FR-novel (Darkwalker on Moonshae) which he thought was all there was to the FR-setting until he found out that the Moonshaes are just a small chain of islands off the Swordcoast.
Pic related, the bearded man is Greenwood.
>t. It says so in the foreword of the new printing of Darkwalker on Moonshae regarding Drizzt and picked the rest up from wikis.