D&D 5E If you were to rename the Drow for a neutral setting, what would you name them? (thread 3/3)

[Zardnaar]

1) Dusk Elves
2) Twilight Elves
3) Midnight Elves
4) Under Elves
5) Shadow Elves
6) Umbral Elves

Probably shadow or dusk elves.

Shadow Elves are pale skinned though, so I might even change the physical appearance.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

In World of Warcraft they are called Night Elves.

No Wood Elves are called Night Elves.

They are not really anything like drow. Nor do they really resemble them.


Anyway I would just call them Drow or Dark Elves as those are their setting neutral names.

 

[Yunru]

Personally, K.I.S.S. "Dark Elves"

Not sure if Keep It Simple Stupid or the band. Both fit.

 

[Sunseeker]

Not sure if Keep It Simple Stupid or the band. Both fit.

KISS Elves.

Well, it would be different.

 

[epithet]

Dark elves.

 

[Zardnaar]

KISS Elves.
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Well, it would be different.

Shout it out loud. That is not Peter or Ace

 

[Sunseeker]

Shout it out loud. That is not Peter or Ace

I wouldn't know I just grabbed some random image off the internet and I'm not a terribly big KISS fan.

I'm thinking I'll include KISS elves in my campaign world. Some kind of faction of barbarian elves.

 

[steeldragons]

Drow -as noted, it's not D&D's term. They're an actual folkloric supernatural subterranean elf/dwarf/troll race. Any of their related terms listed in previous posts are similarly "free game" real words.

Dark Elf a.k.a. Svartalfar (literally "black elf") a.k.a. Myrkalfar (literally "dark elf").

If you want to stretch out from thoses fauirly generic/"setting neutral" terms, how about Cave Elves? Spider Elves. Evil Elves. Devil elves. OO! *snap* Got it.

DEVELF!

 

[TerraDave]

Gygax created them--though for D&D, not specifically for "Greyhawk", which as people know it was created after the Drow--and he did take the name from folklore, which was almost always the case.

 

[Jester David]

Unseelie.

But, really, drow works. Drow is a good generic term.

In World of Warcraft they are called Night Elves.

Night elves are closer to wood elves, with the more evil blood elves being high elves as they're more magical and less druidic. But they don't match 1-to-1.