Drow
vary in shape, features, and hair color as greatly as humans do. The only
exception to this rule is their uniformly jet-black skin (the few exceptions
tend to be bone-white albinos).
The majority of drow have snow-white
hair from birth, yellowing (if female) or graying (if male) and thinning
with great age. Rare drow have naturally silver or copper-hued hair, although
there are those who deliberately dye their hair silver (these drow are
the followers of Eilistraee).
Most drow have
red eyes. Others have green, brown, or black. Various shades of gray, even
amber and rose-hued eyes are not unknown. All drow eyes tend to grow redder
when they are angry or upset. Yellow eyes usually denote illness, disease,
poisoning, or the presence
of certain detrimental magics.
Blue and purple
(and all the tints thereof) are the most unusual eye colors, and usually
denote human or surface elven blood somewhere in the drow’s ancestry.
Drow teeth
may be black, white, or purple, and their gums, tongues, and throats pink,
red, or purple.
Drow females
tend to be bigger and stronger than males. Both sexes tend to be lithe,
slim, and graceful in build, features, and movements, much as other elves
appear to human eyes.
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