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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3960830" data-attributes="member: 24969">My personal take is that the demihuman races like elves and dwarves are more concerned with the law vrs chaos axis than the good vrs evil axis. The Drow and Duergar are the chaotic versions of the two, while the main races are considered  lawful. Although many are evil as their society is an evil one, the society itself doesn't care that much and neutral and good exist within them as good versus evil is seen as a personal choice that one is allowed to decide for themselves so long as they remain within acceptable societal norms. I was looking for something to set their societies apart from humand and felt to go back to the Basic D&D alignment system sort of.IMC, the elves and dwarves were created to fight chaos by the natural order. The crime of the drow was that once they won, they suggested returning to a more neutral standing. They were deemed chaotic and the other elves sought to slay them all. The only drow power to surive was an otherwise unknown child goddess who had a thing for spiders. Thus the drow are explained as their only goddess is a essentially the god version of a emotionally damaged teenage cutter goth girl.</blockquote>