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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyincal Lurker" data-source="post: 3630408" data-attributes="member: 52999">Hrm.  Sometimes you just can't kill an idea, can you?Oh well.Ebberon Drow:Note, a good bit of this is my take on the general info I have, rather than stuff explicetly from source books.Ebberon drow are, socieity wise, far removed from classic drow.  There is no Loth, though the majority of them do worship a scorpion god (name escaps me atm), while some of the more outright evil gropus worpship the Shadow or the Dragon Below.  While virtualy all drow venerate all three deities, those who focus on the Shadow or the Dragon Below tend to be dangerous even by drow standards.While the largest drow settelemtns are underground, something more than half the population (as I see it) lives in the jungles and giant ruins of the surface.  When the giant civiliztion collapsed, the drow ancestors fleed to the underground to withstand the cataclysm, but have slowly but steadly moving back to the surface over the long ages since then.Clanish and insular, most drow live in only the smallest groups, just enough to sustain there own population.  However, when a secure location with sufficent resources can be found, smaller groups can merge to form something more like a city, though the family divisions remain very strong, and such settlments are not often long lasting due to these internal stresses.The drow consider family to be of great importance, and most live in small, clan-like famly groups that move thorugh the wilds.  Asking the family name of a drow is a very good way to have a drow try and kill you.The drow view themsleves as the rightfull heirs to Xen'Drik and all the mysteries it contains.  Outsiders are, at best, unwelcome, but far more often theives and defilers who plunder that which the drow have earned by surviving the harsh lands.Drow are largly matriarcal, but this is not a set-in-stone rule, as the drow can't afford to hold too great a bias - survival is most important, and a capable leader is what ensures a family endures.  However, all other things being equal, a female will generaly be favored over a male.That should kinda-sorta cover itOne way to think of it is more like wild-elves than classic drow.As far as internal politics go, a large ebberon-drow settlement will see something like the classic-drow social and political fighting, though not often to the same degree.  The unsettled nomadic groups are typcialy based around a single family, so don't have (and can't really survive) that kind of in-fighting.So, if I were to set this in a settled group with several families, some families will be more prominate than other (ussualy the ones that forced the others to submit.), buit they are more focused on survival rather than political power.Warlocks, Beguilers and Swordsages are all fine classes.</blockquote>

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