High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Underdark is a fictional setting which has appeared in Dungeons Dragons role-playing campaigns and Dungeons Dragons-based fiction books, including the Legend of Drizzt series by R. A. Salvatore. It is described as a vast subterranean network of interconnected caverns and tunnels, stretching beneath entire continents and forming a literal underworld for whichever surface setting it is added to.