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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3526269" data-attributes="member: 4134">I don't know what Drow of the Underdark has as origin, but in the Realms, there's two parts to the story.The first is Araushnee, Corellon's consort, trying to kill him in order to assume the throne. She failed, was exiled, stripped of divinity, and became the Demon Queen Lolth.I guess something like this is in DotU, too. But the second part, the part about how the drow became the drow, doesn't really need the first part:Before the Crown Wars, there were no drow, there were just dark elves. They were their own subrace, like gold and silver and so on, but they were not as different from the others as they are now. They didn't have their own pantheon yet, either.But then, some of the dark elves, especially those in the nation of Ilythiir, started praying to dark powers (amongst them Lolth, and her son Vhaeraun, but others, too) for power.During the Crown Wars (which were 5 different, prolongued conflicts, 2 of which were started by the dark elves of Ilythiir), their atrocity of praying to evil gods (to such an extend) finally came to light, and the other elves sought to punish them for their crime. In some very long (I think a decade or so) High Elven Magic Rituals, they invoked the power of Corellon himself. Corellon answered, cursing all dark elves so they could no longer stand the sun's light, and were driven underground. From this day forward, they were called drow, which is a variation on dhaerow - traitor.Unfortunately, the elven high magic overshot the mark, like so many times before. Not just the dark elves of Ilythiir were cursed, but all dark elves from all elven nations (many of which were just like the other elves).The weakness to sunlight came from the curse, as did the white hair. Much of their magical abilities (like SR or their spell-like abilities) they got over the centuries by being exposed to the strange Underdark radiation called Faerzress. Their superior intellect, dexterity and charisma has a simple, dark, reason: Selective breeding. A stupid drow will probably not survive his childhood, and anyway, disabled drow are hardly tolerated (being a shame for the House and bloodline), and don't survive their early years, either - and drow consider mere clumsiness, ugliness, or stupidity to be disabilities). Over the course of over 10.000 years, the smart, graceful, and charismatic drow bred true.</blockquote>

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