Post by DM Dan/Bi'rel/Sheila on May 8, 2015 19:00:50 GMT
(I will try to keep this as short as I can but to give you an idea what a typical Drow is this might be a bit long.)
The drow, also known as "dark elves", are chaotic evil elves with skin like polished obsidian. Shorter and more slender than humans and their elven cousins, they have pale (often red) eyes, pale (usually white) hair, and finely chiseled features.
The drow once lived on the surface alongside their fairer kindred, where they were known to elves as the Ssri-Tel'Quessir, The dark elves.
More than thirteen thousand years ago, the Crown Wars raged among the Fair Folk, and for three thousand years the elven nations battled one another in a series of five great conflicts. At the end of the fourth Crown War the Dark elves were named Drow and banished to the lightless depths of the Drazh Kazad.
The drow fought among themselves, noble against noble, priest against priest, for rule of their new realm.
Due to the dogma of Lolth (drow god), the Spider Queen, most drow cities are theocratic matriarchies dominated by the clergy of one of the handful of the dark powers venerated by dark elves. In cities that follow the Way of Lolth, the dark elven populace is typically ruled by several dozen noble houses, ranked in a strict hierarchy. A small group of elite noble houses form the ruling council, led by the premier high priestess of the first house. Each noble house in turn is ruled by a coterie of high priestesses related and ranked in preeminence, with the highest-ranking priestess of each noble house bearing the title of Matron Mother. A constant, intense, treacherous, and deadly competition seethes among the various noble houses, mirrored by the constant struggle among individual priestesses to increase relative station. These battles follow rules of behavior best characterized as "If it cannot be proven, then it did not happen".
Drow society is based upon violence, murder, cunning, and the philosophy that only the strong survive. Hence, most Drow plot endlessly to murder or otherwise incapacitate their rivals and enemy Drow using deceit and betrayal. Drow, particularly in higher positions, are constantly wary of assassins and the like.
Drow females are stronger and more powerful than the males. Drow males are treated more as servants than people and are there to do the bidding of the females. The highest-ranking male is still lower than the lowest ranked female. Marriage as such does not exist.
In a drow city there are noble families/houses the strongest and highest rank known as the first house then 2nd, 3rd, ect. Houses are named after the family name, Do'Ana, Do'Urden, Baenre, S'Sril, ect.
(this is just the very basics, I will add more detail later)
The drow, also known as "dark elves", are chaotic evil elves with skin like polished obsidian. Shorter and more slender than humans and their elven cousins, they have pale (often red) eyes, pale (usually white) hair, and finely chiseled features.
The drow once lived on the surface alongside their fairer kindred, where they were known to elves as the Ssri-Tel'Quessir, The dark elves.
More than thirteen thousand years ago, the Crown Wars raged among the Fair Folk, and for three thousand years the elven nations battled one another in a series of five great conflicts. At the end of the fourth Crown War the Dark elves were named Drow and banished to the lightless depths of the Drazh Kazad.
The drow fought among themselves, noble against noble, priest against priest, for rule of their new realm.
Due to the dogma of Lolth (drow god), the Spider Queen, most drow cities are theocratic matriarchies dominated by the clergy of one of the handful of the dark powers venerated by dark elves. In cities that follow the Way of Lolth, the dark elven populace is typically ruled by several dozen noble houses, ranked in a strict hierarchy. A small group of elite noble houses form the ruling council, led by the premier high priestess of the first house. Each noble house in turn is ruled by a coterie of high priestesses related and ranked in preeminence, with the highest-ranking priestess of each noble house bearing the title of Matron Mother. A constant, intense, treacherous, and deadly competition seethes among the various noble houses, mirrored by the constant struggle among individual priestesses to increase relative station. These battles follow rules of behavior best characterized as "If it cannot be proven, then it did not happen".
Drow society is based upon violence, murder, cunning, and the philosophy that only the strong survive. Hence, most Drow plot endlessly to murder or otherwise incapacitate their rivals and enemy Drow using deceit and betrayal. Drow, particularly in higher positions, are constantly wary of assassins and the like.
Drow females are stronger and more powerful than the males. Drow males are treated more as servants than people and are there to do the bidding of the females. The highest-ranking male is still lower than the lowest ranked female. Marriage as such does not exist.
In a drow city there are noble families/houses the strongest and highest rank known as the first house then 2nd, 3rd, ect. Houses are named after the family name, Do'Ana, Do'Urden, Baenre, S'Sril, ect.
(this is just the very basics, I will add more detail later)