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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 2847851" data-attributes="member: 6521">Drow never really fit into my conception of this world's equivalent to the Underdark, so dark elves (of no particular alignment) work fine.Unfortunately my knowledge of Ancient China is limited at best... An amalgam of Confucianism and Buddhism could be pretty interesting, if difficult, from a D&D-perspective -- keeping a respectful distance from the divine rather than building temples and invoking their power whenever possible. The notion of nature spirits figures in there as well, as the elves of Sesphar (another distant off-shoot from the same source culture) have already introduced. In this case, acknowledging their existence (which the conventional pantheonic culture either disavows or ignores), but choosing to keep a distance.Thoughts on this? I'm not sure if Confucianism or Buddhism post-date the era you're aiming for (I'd generally taken Xiao to be of the Shaolin tradition, but then, isn't Xiao a Confucian name?)... Anyway, I'll try to track down Xiao's introduction, and build from there.</blockquote>