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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3642685" data-attributes="member: 4134">Some do. Of course, it's all a matter of perspecitve: Those dragons consider the elves their pets.But the surface elves don't really matter here. It's a fact that drow like slaves. And it's also a fact that they're powerful, with their abundance of wizards and priestesses. Dark eveln power is well known, and even fiends that are summoned to barter for service will not make the mistake of underestimating them and treating them as pawns - often, the drow are at least equals in those negotiations. If they're not calling the shots, that is.If they want beholder slaves, they go get them, and they're often more than capable of controlling those creatures. All a question of power.Not quite. GreyHawk - or, if you prefer that, standard D&amp;D - also has Lolth as *the* dark elven goddes. Drow of the Underdark - a standard D&amp;D book, not an FR source - stressed that there's no other power but Lolth. In the realms, they do have other deities. Even if they're merely minor ones, they do make up an official pantheon. So while both campaigns feature spider kissers very prominently, it's slightly worse in vanilla D&amp;D.But it's true that Eberron is quite different in that manner, their dark elves having traded one arachnid for another and being different in many other ways, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 3642685, member: 4134"] Some do. Of course, it's all a matter of perspecitve: Those dragons consider the elves their pets. But the surface elves don't really matter here. It's a fact that drow like slaves. And it's also a fact that they're powerful, with their abundance of wizards and priestesses. Dark eveln power is well known, and even fiends that are summoned to barter for service will not make the mistake of underestimating them and treating them as pawns - often, the drow are at least equals in those negotiations. If they're not calling the shots, that is. If they want beholder slaves, they go get them, and they're often more than capable of controlling those creatures. All a question of power. Not quite. GreyHawk - or, if you prefer that, standard D&D - also has Lolth as *the* dark elven goddes. Drow of the Underdark - a standard D&D book, not an FR source - stressed that there's no other power but Lolth. In the realms, they do have other deities. Even if they're merely minor ones, they do make up an official pantheon. So while both campaigns feature spider kissers very prominently, it's slightly worse in vanilla D&D. But it's true that Eberron is quite different in that manner, their dark elves having traded one arachnid for another and being different in many other ways, too. [/QUOTE]

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