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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8025602" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>My interpretation of drow was shamelessly stolen from the elves of Primeval Thule. In that setting, the elves are addicted to a drug that makes them sleep. They become obsessed with the experience of sleeping and having true dreams rather than the mental exercises of Trance, and while away the centuries in slumber while their human servants attend to the needs of their unconscious bodies. I drew a parallel between this and drow poison (which causes sleep) and decided to adapt the concept to my own setting. My drow use a similar sleep-inducing drug, derived from the venom from a particular kind of spider native to the Underdark, which they also use to make drow poison. Though, in my setting rather than being a nearly culturally-ubiquitous addiction that’s slowly causing the collapse of their society, it is used for religious purposes, to connect with their goddess. In their myths, a spider goddess taught their ancestors how to make this drug, and dreaming is accordingly a religious experience for them. Of course, non-drow elves say it was a spider demon who deceived them, luring them away from the true gods with this addictive dreaming poison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8025602, member: 6779196"] My interpretation of drow was shamelessly stolen from the elves of Primeval Thule. In that setting, the elves are addicted to a drug that makes them sleep. They become obsessed with the experience of sleeping and having true dreams rather than the mental exercises of Trance, and while away the centuries in slumber while their human servants attend to the needs of their unconscious bodies. I drew a parallel between this and drow poison (which causes sleep) and decided to adapt the concept to my own setting. My drow use a similar sleep-inducing drug, derived from the venom from a particular kind of spider native to the Underdark, which they also use to make drow poison. Though, in my setting rather than being a nearly culturally-ubiquitous addiction that’s slowly causing the collapse of their society, it is used for religious purposes, to connect with their goddess. In their myths, a spider goddess taught their ancestors how to make this drug, and dreaming is accordingly a religious experience for them. Of course, non-drow elves say it was a spider demon who deceived them, luring them away from the true gods with this addictive dreaming poison. [/QUOTE]
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