Currently the Academy is presided over by Matron Mistress Quenthel Baenre, who succeeded her sister Matron Triel after the death of their mother.

Fiercely devoted to the drow goddess Lolth, as all houses in the Menzoberranzan society are, House Baenre is led by Matron Mother Triel Baenre, a shrewd priestess of Lolth who succeeded her slain mother Yvonnel.

Matron Triel Baenre is Yvonnel Baenre's first daughter.

After the drow retreat from their assault on Mithral Hall, due to the instability that would likely plague House Baenre after the disastrous failed conquest of Mithral Hall ( and the likelihood that Triel would soon give birth to a son she would groom to replace Berg ' inyon as the weapons master, which among the drow would likely mean Berg ' inyon's death ), Berg ' inyon chooses to accept Jarlaxle's offer to join Bregan D ' aerthe as a lieutenant of the renegade drow band.

Quenthel, third daughter of Yvonnel Baenre, High Priestess of Lolth, second only to Matron Mother Triel Baenre as Menzoberranzan's most powerful priestess, rose through the ranks as High Priestess quickly with Lolth's favor.

Until now, the only male to have known about her death is Gromph Baenre, when he admitted to his sister Triel that he had found out.

Andzrel, a cousin of Triel and the current weapons master of House Baenre, may be a mere shadow of Dantrag or Berg ' inyon with his blade, but he knows his way around a melee.

Bladen ' Kerst, daughter of Yvonnel Baenre and second eldest to Triel.

Sos ' Umptu, the quiet and unambitious sister of Triel and Quenthel, tends the Baenre chapel.

She has been succeeded by her daughter Triel.

She retired to the château de Triel.

After fleeing France during the revolution, travelled incognito as the comtesse de Triel, dying in Venice on 21 September 1803.

Shrewd and ambitious though she is, Triel did not expect to be landed with the role of House Matron so early.

However, Triel is shrewd and calculating, and a powerful vessel for Lolth's Will, despite her often flippant attitude toward her goddess, her favor with the Spider Queen is the envy of the Drow.

Gromph, in the later War of the Spider Queen hexad of books, with the help of Triel, kills the lichdrow Dyrr and destroys his phylactery.

It 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 Yvonnel Baenre — a drow cleric who was the single most powerful political figure in Menzoberranzan for about two thousand years.

This battle led to the exile of House Nasadra ( which later founded the city of Ched Nasad, and was the First House until the city's recent destruction ) and to the rise of House Baenre as the First House of Menzoberranzan.

Founded by Jarlaxle Baenre as a means for houseless rogues to survive in Menzoberranzan, the group has thrived and expanded greatly since its inception.

For Malice's failure to use Zaknafein to kill Drizzt, Lolth decreed that house Do ' Urden should be destroyed, and House Baenre, the most favored First House of Menzoberranzan, did just that, with only Vierna and Dinin surviving.

Meanwhile, in Menzoberranzan, Drizzt's sister Vierna ( Taken in by Matron Baenre after the fall of House Do ’ Urden ) is preparing to recapture her brother.

A family born to the drow race ( a component of R. A. Salvatore's series Forgotten Realms, including several subseries ) the Baenre family is the family which has reigned in the fictional Underdark city of Menzoberranzan for over 2000 years.

House Baenre is a family of powerful schemers and manipulators that holds more power than any other house in Menzoberranzan.

Salvatore has made the Baenre family the bastion of power for his creation, Menzoberranzan, keeping it so for over 2, 500 years.

Menzoberranzan is a city ruled by backstabbing and ambition, and House Baenre thrived in it, holding the greatest favor of Lolth longer than any other family in Menzoberranzan history.

Gromph is the Archmage of Menzoberranzan ; Master of Sorcere, the arcane school ; and first son of Matron Baenre, which makes him the most powerful male in the city.

Liriel is his daughter by one of his discarded lovers, making her claim to Baenre heritage shaky ( since Menzoberranzan is a female-dominated society, parentage is traditionally traced through the mother, not the father.

Only a few people in Menzoberranzan know of Jarlaxle's connection to House Baenre as Yvonnel threw Jarlaxle into Lake Donigarten after the failed attempt to sacrifice him.

For enough money, Jarlaxle and his band might ally with Gromph Baenre, the Archmage of Menzoberranzan, to set about changing Menzoberranzan's Lolth and female-dominated society and to squeeze as much adventure and pleasure from life as he possibly can.

House Baenre is a fictional clan of drow in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, created by R. A. Salvatore.

Two of the most popular Eilistraee followers in the Forgotten Realms novels are Liriel Baenre and Qilué of The Seven Sisters.

She also had a daughter, Ysolde, whose death she probably blames on Liriel Baenre, as the drow that killed her were actually looking for the erstwile princess.

In the " Sellswords " series of books, Jarlaxle Baenre and Artemis Entreri encounter, fight, and come to control a dracolich, which in life had been a black dragon named Urshula.

More than two thousand years old, Matron Baenre has had twenty children ( 15 daughters and 5 sons ) and has maintained the relatively enormous power of House Baenre for centuries.

Matron Baenre grew increasingly frantic, rapidly stabbing at her newborn son, and then the secondboy Doquiao tried to pick up Jarlaxle, and had his chest almost completely destroyed by the venting force.

Matron Baenre assumed Jarlaxle was Lloth-blessed and in fright, had him put out on a small island in Menzoberranzan's lake.

The draegloth is ultimately slain in Lolth's realm, the Demonweb Pits, by Quenthel Baenre in the book Resurrection, the finale to the War of the Spider Queen series.

Drizzt kills Vendes, then later fights Dantrag Baenre, who was considered the second-best to Zaknafein, so he wanted to kill Drizzt because he was Zaknafein's son and protégé, to come out of Zak's shadow.

Dantrag is the amber-eyed former weapons master for House Baenre, fourth son of Yvonnel Baenre.

Jarlaxle, third son of Yvonnel Baenre, is the opportunistic mercenary and co-leader with Kimmuriel Oblodra of the renegade drow band, Bregan D ' aerthe.

It is revealed at the end of Servant of the Shard that his full name is Jarlaxle Baenre and that he is the third son of Yvonnel Baenre and was once sacrificed to Lolth.

Exceptions exist, the most notable being Drizzt Do ' Urden, Jarlaxle Baenre, and Liriel Baenre, but these are highly unusual.

( Note that even Liriel Baenre was arguably of evil alignment for the first portion of her life, only shifting to a good alignment after close relationships with several good-aligned characters.

Males are considered inferior to females within drow society, and while some males may be respected if they are powerful wizards ( notably exemplified by Gromph Baenre ), they are never allowed to rule.

Amongst the most infamous of drow are the members of House Baenre, whilst Abeir-Toril is also home to some famous benevolent drow including Drizzt Do ' Urden and his deceased father Zaknafein ( both of House Do ' Urden ), Liriel Baenre ( formerly of Menzoberranzan's aforementioned House Baenre ), and Qilué of the Seven Sisters.

These characters are from The Dark Elf Trilogy ( 1990 – 1991 ), a series of books by R. A. Salvatore ( except for Liriel Baenre and Qilue ).

This resulted in House Baenre utterly destroying House Do ' Urden.

All this she said was done for her greatest high priestess ( although it was really done for herself ), the two thousand-year-old Matron Baenre.

All Houses in the city witnessed this great miracle and knew that House Baenre was the most favored House of the goddess.

It was led by Jarlaxle Baenre, up until Servant of the Shard and is currently led by the drow psionicist Kimmuriel Oblodra.

After that, Matron Baenre of Menzoberranzan's first house used the city's hatred for Drizzt Do ' Urden to mount a war effort against Mithral Hall.

Drizzt and his companions fought and killed Matron Baenre and her party, forcing the remaining drow attackers to retreat.

Bruenor kills Matron Baenre in battle, ending her centuries-long rule of the drow city.