SonOfthedrow
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 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: Drow and Surfacers |
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Drow see all other races as inferior, even those to whom they are allied, and will attempt to enslave any enemies they capture, usually never willingly releasing them. Drow commonly enslave hobgoblins, ogres and orcs but also other humanoids.
Above all else, drow save their hostilities for surface elves. They are willing to forge temporary alliances with anyone that will help them inflict pain or suffering on the surface elves.They regard all surface elves as "N'Tel'Quess", meaning "not people". Source- http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Drow
Drow Relations-DND supplement Drow of the Underdark
Elves- Utter loathing. Absolute, searing, indomitable hatred. The drow despise other elves with a passion almost unimaginable by other (saner?) races. Some Drow raids on surface communities have no other purpose then to slay elves, and a drow will go out of her way-sometimes even endangering an ongoing agenda-to harm an elf. Drow rarely take elf slaves, preferring to kill them on sight or offer them as sacrifices to Lolth, and on the rare occasions they do take an elf as a slave, it is often for no greater purpose than regular abuse and torment.
Humans- The drow don't have a unified opinion on humanity. This is the only species the dark elves find as unpredictable as themselves. The short human life span and lack of innate mystical abilities inclines the drow to think them weak, but they aslo recongnize that humans are more adaptable to environments and circumstances than any other humanoids. Perhaps because of that life span, many of them are truly dedicated to a cause or deity-equals of the drow's most fervent Lolth worshipers.
But others are easily swayed by promises of wealth and power. (The drow, naturally ,prefer to deal with the latter type.)Humans make some of the best slaves, but they are aslo among the most difficult to control and frequently require execution before they can be worked to death. The drow consider humanity a young race, and some worry what humans might accomplish if they are allowed to grow into the wisdom and experience currently possessed by some of the longer-lived species. Their solution, of course, is to either destroy or enslave the race before that happens.
Other surface races- When the drow think of other suface races at all,they dismiss them as worthless nuisances. They consider gnomes to be the flighty dabblers in the powers far beyond their control, goblins to be foolish brutes (albeit valuable as slave labor), and halflings to be pests of the highest order who should be slaughtered on sight. Even though the drow are willing to take slaves from anywhere, they do not go out of their way to take prisoners from these surface races, as they do from those who dwell in the depths. If some are foolish enough to wander below, or if they get in the way of a drow raid, then yes, they'll find themselves spitted on a drow blade, strapped to an altar of lolth, or wearing the brand of a drow owner--but for the most part, the drow have more important concerns than what these foolish creatures are doing hundreds and thousands of feet above them.
Roleplaying Application: Whether or not you hold the racial attitudes commen to your people is a major aspect of your personaltiy. If you do, these beliefs certainly drive your behavior when dealing with member of other races. If you do not, why? Have you seen or experienced something that convinced you of the error of drow racial opinions? And if so, do you hide your beliefs form other drow, or have you thaken the (dangerous) step of trying to convince others of their mistakes?
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Aluandichara Dev'lin
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