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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keeblrkid" data-source="post: 5906905" data-attributes="member: 6679937">The Drow have the answerThe underdark supplement explains.Aberrants live in the underdark because the underdark was never finished by the primordials and the Underdark's deepest reaches literally scrape against the edge of existence, this constant chafing leads a door of sort, causing it to be used as a backdoor for far realm creatures.The reason a creature trained in dungeoneering gets to know about far realm creatures but not the realm itself it the same reason that the language Deep Speech (The language of aberrants)  uses the rellanic alphabet (Elven script).The drow are the only civilization that have to constantly deal with aberrants, and the only thing as powerful as they are in the underdark is Mindflayers and Aboleths. Drow were the first to capture Deep speech on parchment, so they used their own script to capture it, and the drow are the only race who have studied the nature of abberant creatures. The drow never see the stars, and like all races have never been to the Far realm itself, so they have no knowledge of these things. If someone is trained in underdark lore, they probably pick up that knowledge from textbooks and the likes which contain information pilfered from the drow. Or simply put: those trained in surviving the Underdark are trained to survive its denizens.</blockquote>