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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormprince" data-source="post: 917923" data-attributes="member: 2046">There are no "subterranean" elven races in Dragonlance, unless you do count the two sea elf races. (Although, there are some elven "offshoots" that do live underground...but they are not drow!)The mention of the "drow" in Pax Tharkas, in Dragons of Autumn Twilight, mentions that it is the spirit of a deceased dark elf, which has come to mean something completely different in Dragonlance than it does elsewhere. Dark elves on Krynn are outcast elves from one of the "primary" elven races (Silvanesti, Qualinesti, Kagonesti, Dargonesti, and Dimernesti). That one instance of the word "drow" is an archaic "oops" that has now become one of those little "easter eggs" in Dragonlance.There was one adventure (although I do hesitate to mention it) that did have "true" drow in it...but basically, the long and short of it was that they were "Spelljammed/Planar" in origin. True drow are NOT native to Krynn. Except for the one adventure (which we do not consider canonical) and for the one mention of the word in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (where it is used synonimously to mean "dark elf" and NOT the subterranean dwelling dark-skinned, white-haired 'outcast' elves made popular in the Forgotten Realms and now found in almost every other world in the known universe), there are NO drow on Krynn. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As for the barbaric offshoots of the Mind Flayers, known as the Yaggol, they were first introduced in the Taladas box set. They were originally also true Mind Flayers, who used their planar travel abilities to find Krynn, and found themselves trapped because of the derth of psionic power on Krynn. Their descendants 'devolved,' losing their vast mental powers, although retaining their hunger for brains <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Christopher</blockquote>

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