Innovindil Innovindil is a moon elf from the Moonvines in the Moonwood and friend and lover of Tarathiel . Physical description . Innovindil is fairly short with yellow hair and strikingly blue eyes . Equipment . Innovindil carries a bow , a slender sword and a dirk . 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 " . Plot . In " The Hunter ' s Blades Trilogy " , Innovindil and her partner Tarathiel notice a pair of dwarves around a campfire in their home , the Moonwood . The two take the dwarves , Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder , prisoner until discovering that their intentions are not to harm their woodland home . After realizing that the two dwarves plan on representing the priest Cadderly Bonaduce at the coronation of Bruenor Battlehammer in Mithral Hall , Innovindil and Tarathiel realize that the dark elf Drizzt Do ' Urden will be returning to the area . This knowledge is of great importance to them because one of their clan , Ellifain Tuuserail , left the Moonwood to find and kill Drizzt due to the misconceived notion that Drizzt was responsible for the slaughter of her family years ago . Before they are able to meet with the dark elf , Innovindil and Tarathiel find the lands around Mithral Hall are ridden with thousands of orc s and scores of frost giant s . After investigating more closely , Innovindil and Tarathiel begin watching over Drizzt Do ' Urden as he recklessly slaughters countless orcs on his own out of rage and anger for the loss of his friends at the orc assault on the town of Shallows . After Drizzt finally gets himself into a situation with no escape , the moon elf pair come to the rescue . When they confront Drizzt and ask him to join them , he refuses , as he is still unable to cope with the apparent loss of his friends . After some time , he finally decides to meet the elves , but when he arrives at their cave , he finds two drow holding Innovindil and Tarathiel prisoner . Drizzt dispatches of the dark elves , Ad ' non Kareese and Donnia Soldou , and frees the moon elves . In the conversation that ensues , Innovindil and Tarathiel learn of Ellifain ' s fate and how she attempted to kill both Drizzt and herself but failed in killing Drizzt . Despite hearing the sad news , they don ' t blame Drizzt for defending himself . Innovindil , Tarathiel , and Drizzt become a trio to be feared as they soon take it upon themselves 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 sets up a trap for Tarathiel and his pegasus , Sunrise , and in the fight to follow Obould kills Tarathiel while Innovindil and Drizzt , unable to help , witness the fight . Filled with grief and sorrow , Innovindil leaves with Drizzt , but they soon decide that they must save Sunrise and gain a measure of revenge . In the following days , Drizzt and Innovindil notice the importance of the orc shaman Arganth Snarrl to Obould and capture the shaman to glean some information , after which they go after Obould ' s son Urlgen Threefist , who is killed by Innovindil , dealing a huge blow to the orcs attacking Mithral Hall . 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 . 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 - ogre s 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 .