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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6698692" data-attributes="member: 5834">It seems Corpsetaker isn't very up on Forgotten Realms drow or drow in general. I've read the drow Forgotten Realms books and drow lore over the year. They are a "fun" group.I disagree with how the drow would deal with your PCs. The drow are not practical. They are powerful. They are somewhat insane. They believe they can break any type of slave including the wizard. These new non-magic resistant drow might worry about mages more. The old magic resistant drow would definitely turn a human mage into a highly valued slave. Drow essentially believe they are the top of the food chain and everything beneath them is subject to their whim. The drow fear nothing because to fear something is to give it equal regard. Killing is too easy for the drow. They do it to defeat their enemies. If they can find some more entertaining and valuable way to dispose of you, they will.As I see it if they captured a group like yours, they would be rather happy:1. They know elves live a 1000 years like themselves. Why would they kill them fast when they can kill them over the course of a thousand years? If they have time, they would probably spend time breaking their spirits and turning them against the elf gods, they sacrificing them to Lolth while they proclaimed the Spider Queen their goddess.2. A traitor dark elf will likely be sacrificed to Lolth depending on his status and class. It would probably be done in ritualistic fashion. They may even do some magic on him to twist him and turn him into something monstrous that causes him to suffer for a long while. They would probably try to find out if the dark elf knew of other dark elves betraying Lolth. They would love to know his family. If it was a family they knew, they could shame that family by outing one of their members as a traitor. They might even try to extract money from the opposing family to hide their crime: producing a dark elf that betrayed Lolth.3. The half-orc would be the least valuable slave gaining them no social status or favor with Lolth. Just a grunt that will be worked to death with a short lifespan. A cheap slave easily acquired and controlled. No prize at all. The half-orc is the one most likely to die because he is the least valuable.4. It's drow. This isn't the first mage they've enslaved. They likely have all types of sick tools for controlling mages. Hand-shackles that lock up the fingers. A muzzle for the mouth. They would take their time breaking a slave as valuable as a mage. The mage would fetch a high price from a house willing to take the time to break a slave that knew a high value skill like magic. Then use some type of drow magic to keep him in line.It's the drow. They don't play the idiot card. They're by nature overconfident, sadistic, and willing to enslave anyone because they believe they can. Prizes like living elves that fall into their capture web are prizes to be savored, not ended quickly. I wouldn't at all be surprised if surface elves fight to the death against drow because being captured by them is a far worse fate. It is harder to rationalize quick deaths by the drow in my opinion. If you're quickly killing the PCs with a drow enemy, that would seem very undrow-like. Drow are overconfident, racist, zealous, insane, and worship a Demon Goddess that fuels all those traits. They'll take their time dealing with prisoners looking for ways to extract value from them while torturing them.</blockquote>

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