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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3525437" data-attributes="member: 48692">D&D myth has it that Corellon's blood, shed when he fought Gruumsh, gave rise to the elves.  And that is true, but that's not all there is to the story...Yurtrus, the orcish god of disease and corruption, tainted and corrupted the souls of many of the elves by defecating in them, permanently corrupting them and turning their nature to evil, as vengeance for his lord's defeat.  It was then that the demoness Lolth, seeking a race to worship her to increase her power, as the likes of Demogorgon and Yeenoghu were doing, took the tainted, polluted elves for her own, making them worship her as their patroness.  Lolth led her people to the depths of the Oerth, where the mysterious radiations that passed through the depths mutated them, giving them the strange magical powers they came to possess, and also empowering their weapons and armor.  The weapons and armor were not magical, but the radiation enhanced them so they seemed magical.  These elves were permanently and totally rotten to the core-completely, totally, purely, evil.  A good-aligned drow would be a freak, an aberration, a mutation, a crime against nature.  And because the radiations of the depths of the Oerth were the antithesis of the energy of the sun, any drow who came to the surface would be burned alive and destroyed utterly if they saw the light again.  This is borne out in canon, as it's well-known that drow weapons and armor are ruined by sunlight.  As such, there will be no Drizzt Do'Urdens, no Eilistraees, no emo-drow wannabes in Greyhawk.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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