The Dark Elves

�There is a realm where no star ever shines, where tales of the sun are told to children to frighten them into submission and where no one but a truely foolish, or truely brave, man would dare to venture.

UnderDark.

�Beneath the realms of mortal men and elves is the beautiful and deadly world of Eternal Night. The rulers of this forgotten world are the Drow, dark elves exiled from the Night Above.

Their skin is the color of polished ebony and their hair, gleaming, iradescant white. Their eyes glow red with hatred and the ability to pierce the uniform darkness of their mysterious caverns with their infravision. To them the UnderDark is an elegant world of subtle shades in red, blue, and purple. The Drow are the shortest of the elven races, they average around 4' to 4'5", but their features are more sculptured and graceful.

� The Dark elves are a matriarchal society where the females are the stronger and more intelligent of the race. Almost all female Drow of noble birth are trained to become priestesses of the Spider Queen, Lloth. The entire purpose of the Drow religion, other than to amuse Lloth with their petty ambitions, is power. Before family loyality, love, or friendship comes the need for power. The Dark Elves elemenate entire families in their thirst for personal gain, often times the third born son of any noble family is sacrificed to Lloth because that many males in the family is "unnecessary."

� The Drow are ruled by a council of the Matron Mothers of the eight highest ranked houses. A Matron Mother is the highest ranked priestess of a noble family. The two most renowned Matrons are Malice and Baerne. Malice, in truth, had a chance of becoming one the most powerful Drow priestesses to ever tread the UnderDark, however, her own son, the famous (for all readers of Forgotten Realms) Drizzt Do'Urden, and his father Zaknafien defeated her and put her out of favor with her Spider Queen. Matron Baerne was the oldest living Drow, Matron of the first house of Menzoberranzan (a Drow city). Dritzz also saw to the untimely demise of the First Matron Mother. (YEA!)

� For those of who read the adventures of Drizzt and Lirriel Baerne, two of the only good Drow out the entire infernal race, we opt to call Lloth, the Spider Queen, by a less than appropriate name: @%&ch Queen (sorry, but that's one of those important Drow Luvr's R' Us type facts :) ).



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