Edena_of_Neith here. Hey there, Gary.
I created a nation that was a confederation of lawful evil races, and called them the Solistarim. I set them in Greyhawk in the Black Ice region (which I remained the Godspires and enlarged geographically.)
How these lawful evil races cooperated is not relevant here: it is only important that they did cooperate, and they cooperated very closely.
The intelligent, hard working, and capable lawful evil races are not all known to me! I wondered if you had any picks for such races?
I mean, I had the illithid. We know they were lawful evil. We had the nibelungen (the spell casting dark dwarves) and the derro. We had the grey gnomes. We had an order of evil human mages.
I threw in the sahuagin (it seemed to me the sahuagin were the greatest of the lawful evil sea races), the lizard kings and their lizard men servitors, the fire giants and their friends the salamanders, some of the beholders (some, because even the mighty Solistarim could only bring some beholders under their sway), the kobolds (alone of the humanoid races), and some of the dragons (those willingly allied, and those subdued.)
I threw in the devils, conjured to aid the Solistarim. I threw in liches and servitor undead. I even threw in the efreet, come from the City of Brass to lend their support. I called on the githyanki, as an astral race supportive of the alliance, since they seemed fairly organized under their lichqueen.
But I feel something is missing in my concoction. I have missed some of the best lawful evil races. Do you know any that might fit well within the Solistarim (as in, being organized, intelligent, diligent, and with enough common sense to know to obey their superiors rather than just dying pointlessly.)
What juicy lawful evil races have I missed?
Note that NO drow (much less elves) were welcome, nor were demons or daemons, nor were ANY OTHER humanoid races other than kobolds. (Thus, the Solistarim were enemies of Iuz as well as Furyondy, Veluna, and the other nations.)
No lawful neutral races (such as the modrons) of any sort were welcome. Exceptions were made for neutral evil races, if they strictly obeyed orders (and means were taken to ensure strict obedience.)
But my concoction, as I said, is incomplete. I ask your help. You created the Monster Manual, Monster Manual II, and many other monster books. What neat lawful evil (and possibly neutral evil) races have I missed?
Yours Sincerely
Edena_of_Neith