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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 1011181" data-attributes="member: 3929">The Drow and the UnderdarkAs it has been described elsewhere, a great rift in the clans of elves forced one clan underground, following their goddess’s retreat into the dark places of the earth. A matriarchical society was forged, as Evil as the black heart of Lloth. They spread out under the continents secure in their fastness that none could challenge them for dominance. Some even spoke of returning to the surface in splendor to rule the whole of Nurn. It was not to be. The plans made by Lloth and the great Demons and Devils and other Evil gods were thwarted. It wreaked more destruction upon the denizens of the underdark than elsewhere. It collapsed upon itself. Whole cities were covered by tons upon tons of falling earth. Some house wards held momentarily, or even for days, but there was nowhere for those trapped inside to go: known refuges in the underdark had been erased and few mages dared teleport themselves to the surface. Those that did found it to be as inhospitable a place as they’d expected.Some Drow cities survived the Fall. And yet it could not have gone much worse for them. When Lloth was destroyed, the female clerics wielding incredible power ceased to have it. No longer was there a goddess to grant them anything. For a moment, society froze, in terror of the falling ceilings and of the sudden impotence of their matrons. And when this pause was over the males realized the barrier to real power in drow society had been removed. House wizards, still in full possession of their arcane powers, stood before the matron mothers, many of whom had been driven insane, and smiled as they eliminated the matron’s precious daughters in front of their eyes before reducing the mother to a fine dust.  Husbands soon followed suit by beating their wives for all the pain and suffering they’d endured, and also because they could. All the while, drow caverns collapsed.Some underdark creatures survived. This is what the dwarves of the Cracked Ice found when they delved deeply for truesilver: a society of viscous drow elves. And then came the chaos of the Fall. Yet the wards under the Ice held although Shaduul (the Drow city) lost more than 85% of its inhabitants from cave ins, insanity, rioting, and the male wizards just beginning to assert themselves for the first time. Some dwarves survived with them; enough, actually, to avoid being made a slave race. The dwarves at first did not know their peril: they had not heard of Drow on the surface, although admittedly the Elves would not have told many of their friends about the exiled Drow, and the Dwarves were not counted among the Elves’ friends. Enough stout dwarves lived to dissuade the Drow form attacking, and so few Drow survived they decided they had more important matters to attend to.800 years have passed and the change upon the two races is remarkable. The Drow have become as dour and droll as the dwarves, if not quite as industrious, while the dwarves had become more devious to survive long with crafty elves. As well, the dwarves themselves physically adapted to living a life without the sun.</blockquote>

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