Drow
elves are a race of brutaly barbaric that devote
their life to the furtherance of Lolth's
wishes.
Due to the nature of Lolth, drow elves have
developed
into a truly evil race, feared and despised
by all surface dwellers of Toril.
Drow elves have a tendency to be a creul
and merciless race.
This is probably why they have been embraced
by many a gamer, they needed a true incarnation
of
evil. Needless to say, if you ever
meet any drow in your travels,
you are probably dead long before you actually
know that they are there.
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.
In
Drizzt Do' Urden's own words,
"Station: In all the world of the drow,
there is no more important
word. It is the calling
of their-of our- religion,
the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings.
Ambition overides good sense and compassion
is
thrown away in its face, all in the name
of Lolth,
the Spider Queen."
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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