Warpiglet-7
Lord of the depths
I remember the word ‘haughty’ being used in an entry about a subspecies of elf….
need to consult my ancient tomes to verify….
need to consult my ancient tomes to verify….
I have not found it and only see that grey elves avoid othersI remember the word ‘haughty’ being used in an entry about a subspecies of elf….
need to consult my ancient tomes to verify….
What strikes me with that is not what it says about drow but what it says fairies: "fairies are good". Our perception of fairies has changed a lot since the 1970s, influenced by earlier folk tales rather than the twee Disneyfication of the fair folk. Now they are generally seen as chaotic, capricious, and sometimes malevolent.
The differences were not that much. In fact, FR expanded a lot on what Greyhawk had already established. In Greyhawk, however, while most drows are worshipping Llolth and fear her wrath, some are just pretenders and worship the Elder Elemental Eye (aka Tharzidun) and seek to over throw her hold on drow society but not out of goodness but for their own gain.What were Greyhawk drow like vs Forgotten Realms drow?
I found this in the 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.I remember the word ‘haughty’ being used in an entry about a subspecies of elf….
need to consult my ancient tomes to verify….
I think it's from Tolkien.Maybe the arrogant elves trope never came from game designers, but from the people playing the elves?
While little more than a footnote, minor exceptions popped up here and there in Greyhawk. For instance, Tysiln San, the drow on the cover of WG12 Vale of the Mage (affiliate link), was Chaotic Neutral.The main difference between Greyhawk Drow and Forgotten Realms Drow:
the FR Drow were more likely to be player characters.
By humanizing and empathizing with the FR Drow, they are extremely different from the GH Drow "monster",
even if the descriptions of the race are moreorless the same in both settings.
She's not. It's established in D3 that the Drow worship demon lords; the worship of Lolth is but one example of such. However, this has largely been tossed aside is the years that followed.I don't know you can really say that Lolth was the sole deity of Greyhawk drow. Maybe of Erelhi-Cinlu, but I don't know why we should be making assumptions based on seeing a single city.