D&D 5E (2014) If you were to rename the Drow for a neutral setting, what would you name them? (thread 3/3)

[Lidgar]

Well-done Elves.

Yum!

 

[cbwjm]

I call them drow or maybe drow. I'm not 100% sure on the pronunciation, it it like row or row?

 

[ccs]

Drow.

 

[Azzy]

Given that "drow" were never setting-specific to begin with, I think the proper setting-neutral term would be "drow".

 

[Seramus]

Just Drow or Dark Elves.

This. Both are already very neutral and predate D&D.

 

[Ancalagon]

You mean like Trowe?

And after further research and inspection, you are correct.

Trow; Trowe; Dtrow; Drow, all the same thing.

My mistake.

This is the second thread where you ask for a neutral term - when the original term is neutral... hmmm

 

[Sunseeker]

This is the second thread where you ask for a neutral term - when the original term is neutral... hmmm

It's the 3rd thread he made on the subject.

Though I disagree "drow" is neutral. Within D&D circles there are very weighted expectations on what you'll see with "drow" (mostly hot sadistic chicks with a fetish for spiders). Many of the other elves have much much lower expectations about how they'll appear. IMO this stems largely from the use of non-copyrightable terms like "high elf", "wood elf" and so on seeing use in a variety of other fantasy material. Drow however, do not have such a shared presence and "dark elves" in other material don't come with the same implications (sadistic hot chicks with spider fetishes, or dual-wielding loners).

 

[TiwazTyrsfist]

Again a fairly easy one. The fact that they were called Drow in the first place always seemed odd to me.

Yep, we gots some elfeses heer, we gots all da varietieies:
High Elf
Wood Elf
Grey Elf
Gold Elf
Green Elf
Sun Elf
Moon Elf
Sylvan Elf
Drow DARK ELF

 

[Caliban]

Inverse Elves
Negaverse Elves
Palette Swapped Elves
Anara (Absolutely not a racial allegory) Elves

 

[Draegn]

In our world elves are all fair with bright eyes. When they awoke long ago they first saw the stars, the light elves gave praise to them, the grey elves praised the trees, flowers, streams and stone they found about them, however, the dark elves sought out beings of power who could give them dominion over the entirety of the world.

Only elves can tell themselves apart from one another and see which ancient group one's forebears and lineage come from.