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<blockquote data-quote="Soltares" data-source="post: 198274" data-attributes="member: 4070"><p>I'm rather fond of the notion that just in ancient days, an elven goddess of secrets and wordplay was ensnared by her own intrigues and absorbed by the demon queen of spiders, to create a schizophenic demon-goddess named Lolth.</p><p></p><p>So too have her elven worshippers been mated over time with demons in her service, increasing their racial powers and their fertility.</p><p></p><p>The Drow are thus a specific case of partial fiend-blooded elves, like the Fey'Ri, with their spell resistance, innate spells and such all being a side effect of their tainted heritage.</p><p></p><p>As for the dark skins, it has already been established that elves coloration seems to reflect their local light level. The elves who live high in the mountains, close to the light of the sun, are pale and milky-skinned. The elves who live among the forests are darker. The elves who live in the deepest forest canopy, unseen by man, are darker still, almost brown. The elves who live in the sunless depths fade to black. Their coloration works in the reverse of that of a human. They do not tan, they instead bleach in sunlight, and darken in shadows, but over generations, not over a single lifetime. As a race, they adapt to their surroundings in color, so that an aquatic elf finds herself turning different shades of blue or green, depending on the predominant color of the surrounding waters, whether she lives in a sea or lake.</p><p></p><p>Plus, I like to allow Drow the full range of colorations depicted in the artwork. Erol Otus showed his dark elves as a blue bordering on black, while Parkinson used a dark, dark shade of brown, and yet other artists have shown them as true black, either dull and light-absorbing, or glossy, like obsidian. Perhaps the surroundings affect their coloration as well, so that a Drow city that has always been dimly lit by the reddish smoldering of their forges and surrounding lava beds, has Drow of a blackish-red color, like soot-covered Efreet, while the Drow of a city floating on an undersea, lit with bluish-green lights from the depths, would be a dark, nearly black, shade of blue or green.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Soltares, post: 198274, member: 4070"] I'm rather fond of the notion that just in ancient days, an elven goddess of secrets and wordplay was ensnared by her own intrigues and absorbed by the demon queen of spiders, to create a schizophenic demon-goddess named Lolth. So too have her elven worshippers been mated over time with demons in her service, increasing their racial powers and their fertility. The Drow are thus a specific case of partial fiend-blooded elves, like the Fey'Ri, with their spell resistance, innate spells and such all being a side effect of their tainted heritage. As for the dark skins, it has already been established that elves coloration seems to reflect their local light level. The elves who live high in the mountains, close to the light of the sun, are pale and milky-skinned. The elves who live among the forests are darker. The elves who live in the deepest forest canopy, unseen by man, are darker still, almost brown. The elves who live in the sunless depths fade to black. Their coloration works in the reverse of that of a human. They do not tan, they instead bleach in sunlight, and darken in shadows, but over generations, not over a single lifetime. As a race, they adapt to their surroundings in color, so that an aquatic elf finds herself turning different shades of blue or green, depending on the predominant color of the surrounding waters, whether she lives in a sea or lake. Plus, I like to allow Drow the full range of colorations depicted in the artwork. Erol Otus showed his dark elves as a blue bordering on black, while Parkinson used a dark, dark shade of brown, and yet other artists have shown them as true black, either dull and light-absorbing, or glossy, like obsidian. Perhaps the surroundings affect their coloration as well, so that a Drow city that has always been dimly lit by the reddish smoldering of their forges and surrounding lava beds, has Drow of a blackish-red color, like soot-covered Efreet, while the Drow of a city floating on an undersea, lit with bluish-green lights from the depths, would be a dark, nearly black, shade of blue or green. [/QUOTE]
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