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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9116395" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I handle them a bit different in my campaign which is loosely based on Norse mythology with a smattering of Celtic. All elves have a fey ancestry are descended from the Sidhe. The Sidhe that broke their ties and permanently left the feywild (Alfheim in my campaign) became elves. Some of the elves, typically those descended from Sidhe from the winter court thought they should subjugate all the races since they were obviously the superior race. Those used to following the edicts of Queen Mab in the winter court naturally aligned themselves with Lollth, who encouraged their sense of superiority. The other elves followed Corellon and his visions of hope and light. To look at them, there was little visual difference between the elves and whom they followed.</p><p></p><p>As time went on the divisions grew more divisive and the drow were forced to retreat to Svartleheim, a separate realm of fire and darkness, the home of Lollth and also my version of the underdark. As time passed their skin grew to be a dark grey reflecting the nature of their new home. Drow that live in Svartleheim have a constant low level hatred and anger infused into them which binds them ever closer to Lollth. This binding also calls them back, virtually no drow live for extended periods of time in Midgard. The few drow that manage to break the binding slowly change and become grey elves, and join together forming communities based on repressing their emotions and relying on logic much like Vulcans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9116395, member: 6801845"] I handle them a bit different in my campaign which is loosely based on Norse mythology with a smattering of Celtic. All elves have a fey ancestry are descended from the Sidhe. The Sidhe that broke their ties and permanently left the feywild (Alfheim in my campaign) became elves. Some of the elves, typically those descended from Sidhe from the winter court thought they should subjugate all the races since they were obviously the superior race. Those used to following the edicts of Queen Mab in the winter court naturally aligned themselves with Lollth, who encouraged their sense of superiority. The other elves followed Corellon and his visions of hope and light. To look at them, there was little visual difference between the elves and whom they followed. As time went on the divisions grew more divisive and the drow were forced to retreat to Svartleheim, a separate realm of fire and darkness, the home of Lollth and also my version of the underdark. As time passed their skin grew to be a dark grey reflecting the nature of their new home. Drow that live in Svartleheim have a constant low level hatred and anger infused into them which binds them ever closer to Lollth. This binding also calls them back, virtually no drow live for extended periods of time in Midgard. The few drow that manage to break the binding slowly change and become grey elves, and join together forming communities based on repressing their emotions and relying on logic much like Vulcans. [/QUOTE]
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