The Drow Species - Lore chapter

The Creation story of the Drow:

The accepted theory is that thousands years ago at the dawn of the elven race one of the 7 clans of the Elves was either banished or left by their own choice they were the Drow. Either way they decided that they would travel underground once there they started to fight with the first dwarfs who had also recently started to walk the earth. The dwarfs were winning against the Drow but at the final battle a clan of dwarfs known as Clan Duergar betrayed their dwarven brothers and turned the battle into two fronts for the dwarfs with the Drow on one side, the loyal dwarfs in the middle and the Duergar on the other side. The battle however ended in the defeat of the Drow and Duergar due to the legendary dwarven king Tormund Stonebreaker. He rallied the Dwarves and was able to kill the Duergar leader who was his own brother he had turned on him for greed. After the battle the Duergar and Drow survivors fled deep underground where after centuries their appearance started to drastically change. After centuries underground the Drow’s golden hair turned white or black, their skin turned dark or dark purple. Nobody knows how the change happened many think it was the lack of sunlight and the cruelty of these races that turned them to reflect their rotten insides.

The Drow people:

The Drow are the “Evil” cousins of the “mighty” High elves and the “Wild” Forest Elves.

The Drow or as they are ignorantly known by the younger races as “Dark elves” this name is considered a gross oversimplification of their name but since the younger races like the Humans are generally considered stupid by all elves the word Dark elves or High elves are generally accepted by elven kind as sufficient.

The Drow are a longed lived species like the other elves they can live up to 900 or more years. Some Dark elves are known to have found mysterious ways to keep themselves alive beyond their natural age like preforming spirit transfer or drinking elixirs of youth.

It takes about 100 years for a Drow to be considered an adult but their bodies are fully grown at 50.

The drow possess several racial advantages like Dark vision or enhanced agility they also possess a sort of stone sense like the dwarfs that let them orient themselves underground better.

The Drow Society:

Drow are treacherous and cruel creatures their society is based on two things first betrayal the nobles of the empire are always looking for their next step on the ladder and will push anyone off it to get there first. The other thing that fuels the Drow society are slaves without slaves the Drow would crumble. Every aspect of their government, religion and empire is tied with slavery like a pregnant mother is tied to her unborn child.

The Drow Religion:

The Drow worships Calypso the Shadow queen who is the patron god of the Drow. And their protector while there are cults in Drow society that worships different gods other than Calypso like her children Erebus the god of Murder and sacrifice or Cerberus the god of blood and vampires. There is a priesthood of Calypso in the great temple of shadows somewhere In the Drow Empire.

Author's note:

i thought i'd try to flesh out the Drow so you know a bit more about them and who they are as a species

hope you enjoy i'll try to get another chapter out ASAP.