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Drow
society is strongly matriarchal, with females holding all positions of
power and responsibility in government, the military, and in the home.
Males are effective fighters, and can
become priests and wizards of minor power. Outside drow communities, they
are rarely encountered without female commanders.
Male-commanded
drow groups are generally either streeakh, “suicide squads”, or are dobluth
(outcasts) who have rejected the traditional authority-structure of the
drow.
Social station
is the most important thing in the world of the drow. Ascension to greater
power is the ultimate goal in drow society. Assassination is the preferred
tool in this job. It must be used discreetly in the city setting, for to
openly murder or wage war (on a rival House) brings down the merciless
might of drow justice (not because of the act itself, simply as punishment
for the boorish act of fighting in public).
Outside the
patrol-range of cities, however, might is right, and Houses and merchant
clans often battle each other openly in the wild Underdark.
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