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The Gygaxian Origins of Drow and Some Thought on their Depiction As Villians
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<blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8030944" data-attributes="member: 6694221"><p>I am moving this here from an other thread.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cool, totally agree. I like the original Good drow faction being obsidian black as well.</p><p></p><p>I like your take on Lolth, as a long-lived elf who becomes "immortal".</p><p></p><p>Similarly, I view the original Good drow as aborigines of the Feywild plane, where they still exist. By contrast, the Lolth faction fled to the Material plane. Then the Wood Elves split away from the Lolth faction, but chose remain in the Material when falling in love with the plant and animal life in the Material plane. The Wood Elves magically adopted the coloring of plants.</p><p></p><p>I tend to view Lolth and Corellon as siblings, but, I also view both of them as normal elves, who are simply powerful because they have lived long enough to advance to very high levels, epic levels. So, Lolth achieving immortality via demonology makes sense. Maybe she has some kind of pact with spiders, so that as long as spiders exist, then she will exist? Maybe Corellon also achieved immortality via a different kind of magic? The blood of Corellon can spontaneously generate other elves. Maybe this is a byproduct of the magic that Corellon used to achieve immortality, so that his own blood ever-springs-forth life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Haldrik, post: 8030944, member: 6694221"] I am moving this here from an other thread. Cool, totally agree. I like the original Good drow faction being obsidian black as well. I like your take on Lolth, as a long-lived elf who becomes "immortal". Similarly, I view the original Good drow as aborigines of the Feywild plane, where they still exist. By contrast, the Lolth faction fled to the Material plane. Then the Wood Elves split away from the Lolth faction, but chose remain in the Material when falling in love with the plant and animal life in the Material plane. The Wood Elves magically adopted the coloring of plants. I tend to view Lolth and Corellon as siblings, but, I also view both of them as normal elves, who are simply powerful because they have lived long enough to advance to very high levels, epic levels. So, Lolth achieving immortality via demonology makes sense. Maybe she has some kind of pact with spiders, so that as long as spiders exist, then she will exist? Maybe Corellon also achieved immortality via a different kind of magic? The blood of Corellon can spontaneously generate other elves. Maybe this is a byproduct of the magic that Corellon used to achieve immortality, so that his own blood ever-springs-forth life. [/QUOTE]
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