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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8118106" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>In my first campaign for 5e, Mordenkainen's was not out yet. But in my campaign world the high elvan magitocracies fought a series of wars that lead to human and dwarven kingdoms banding together to completely annhilate the elvan kingdoms, resorting to genocide. Most of the elves retreated from the continent and across the ocean. Some elves retreated into the wildest of woods and the most desolate deserts. One group retreated to underdark. </p><p></p><p>In my campaign, the drow were not yet fully transformed. Generations hiding underground had made them very light skinned and their darkvision was greatly improved. There was still some diversity of religion. Power was already consolidating in great houses. Different houses were were pratrons of different religions. Some clinging to traditional high-elvan gods (based on Forgotten Realms pantheon). Some turned to the arch-fey. Some followed more esoteric practices. Once of the fastest growning and strongest faiths was to lolth. She was an arch-fey in control of the great garden maze between the summer and winter courts. In the elvan refugees hidden below, she found those willing to worship her and power her desire to ascend to god hood. </p><p></p><p>The iconography is explained as the thread that bind the community together, that communicates warning of outsiders moving in their communities. Also it represents the weave of magic. Also, patience. Waiting for enemies and opportunities to get tangled into the webs you wove. </p><p></p><p>I strove to make the drow sympathetic and come up with a reason why elves would follow lloth. </p><p></p><p>While I like Mordenkainen's lore, it paints her in a very Luciferian light. I think it is possible to keep to the canon as presented in Mordenkainen's but make the drow less like caricatures. I see them as more like matriarchial spartans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8118106, member: 6796661"] In my first campaign for 5e, Mordenkainen's was not out yet. But in my campaign world the high elvan magitocracies fought a series of wars that lead to human and dwarven kingdoms banding together to completely annhilate the elvan kingdoms, resorting to genocide. Most of the elves retreated from the continent and across the ocean. Some elves retreated into the wildest of woods and the most desolate deserts. One group retreated to underdark. In my campaign, the drow were not yet fully transformed. Generations hiding underground had made them very light skinned and their darkvision was greatly improved. There was still some diversity of religion. Power was already consolidating in great houses. Different houses were were pratrons of different religions. Some clinging to traditional high-elvan gods (based on Forgotten Realms pantheon). Some turned to the arch-fey. Some followed more esoteric practices. Once of the fastest growning and strongest faiths was to lolth. She was an arch-fey in control of the great garden maze between the summer and winter courts. In the elvan refugees hidden below, she found those willing to worship her and power her desire to ascend to god hood. The iconography is explained as the thread that bind the community together, that communicates warning of outsiders moving in their communities. Also it represents the weave of magic. Also, patience. Waiting for enemies and opportunities to get tangled into the webs you wove. I strove to make the drow sympathetic and come up with a reason why elves would follow lloth. While I like Mordenkainen's lore, it paints her in a very Luciferian light. I think it is possible to keep to the canon as presented in Mordenkainen's but make the drow less like caricatures. I see them as more like matriarchial spartans. [/QUOTE]
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