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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8368699" data-attributes="member: 18182">The udodrow of Menzoberranzan live in darkness, completely underground. So they have developed a light sensitivity and enhanced darkvision, which fades after spending enough time on the surface. Both the aevendrow and lorendrow live in shade . . . they are no strangers to the sunlight. They are not (yet) described as having any degree of light sensitivity or enhanced darkvision. The ancestors of all three cultures were surface elves of dark skin.Why did the aevendrow and lorendrow choose to live in shadow, in cave-like environments? Why not? It isn't covered in any of the material so far, and was long enough ago it wouldn't be in the memory of any living elf. I don't think there is an in-universe reason given, and personally I don't really need one. The meta reason, as I see it, is to give the drow cultures points of similarity with each other, and that's pretty much it.I'm not sure how detailed Realms lore is of the Crown Wars, when the drow lived on the surface, and everybody was fighting everybody . . . perhaps the proto-drow cultures preferred a degree of shadow and darkness even then. I like that idea, gives them more difference from their more foresty cousins beyond the color of their skin.</blockquote>