Fundamentals of Drow Life
 
Delving Into The Depths Of The Underdark 

Drow Life  

From very young drow are brought up learning new ways to hate. These incarnations of hate range from jealousy to betrayal. In a world where you can't even trust your own blood what else is left. Male drow, when they are born, have the chance not living at all. This is due to every third boy-child is given to Lolth via sacrifice. If they are chosen to live, they are forced down one of two roads. The first, they can become a fighter and are trained from the moment they can hold a weapon. The second, they can become a mage and then again they are trained as soon as they can make coherent speech. Either road drow male go down is not of there choosing. The choosing is left up to the ruling matron mother of the house in which they belong.  

Female children on the other hand are given at least a little choice. Since drow are a truly matriarchal society this only seems fit. They are destined from birth into the service of Lolth and are sent learn how to communicated her will. If the child is not seen fit to serve the Lolth, the Spider Queen, then she is given some, although not much, choice in what she is to become. These women unually rare in that most anybody can do the treacherous work of the Spider Queen.  

There are two different social classes in drow life. First are the merchants. These clans, according to the priestesses of Lolth, are relatively overlooked although these clans actually keep the other social group alive. How could one survive without valuable supplies needed from places other than the underdark. Dealing with the surface world are considered demeaning and are beneath the noble houses, which are the second group. The noble houses are by far the best deal out of the two social groupings. Noble houses support more power, which is the lifeblood of drow life. Life in the underdark almost completely revolves around what the noble houses seek to accomplish. Station is the most important aspect of the drow noble houses. 

 Station is the most impotant thing in drow life. It is the heirarchy in which power is distributed. Each person from the matron mother of the first house to the lowly asset in the last merchant house has a certain amount of station. We would call it in our world authority. The main goal in drow life is to achieve more station. The primary tool to gain station is assassination. Brothers will try to kill each other as long as a higher station is achieved in the process. The main cause of this is Lolth, the goddess of chaos. What better way to cause chaos than to kill a superior? And justice???? 
Justice is just a pretense to avoid open warfare. 

 
 
 
 
 
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