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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6281169">To me their most important feature is not anything mechanical, but more of what they represent. They are an unapologetically evil race that is a mirror to the "goodly" surface races. They are not shown as being a degenerative race like Kou Toa or brute ugly evil like Orcs and the goblinoids. They are not "beautiful tricksie" evil like many of the fae that are beautiful, charming, and friendly one round then drag you to your doom the next.  Its the taking of what is considered the best good races (elves) and keeping everything that is good about them on the surface (interaction with nature, abet underground, cultured, beautiful) but turning them evil. Its the "you meet this beautiful elf of dark skin who smiles and immediately tries to kill you" aspect that makes the Drow. You wonder how this beautiful creature with a strong culture and at one with world (again, underdark world) could be so unapologically evil. Its not a misunderstanding or cultural difference - they want to kill you, enslave you, or use you as a tool to be destroyed in the process. Ultimately, there is this "well if the goodly elves could fall to this, what chance do we have?" At a risk of pointing to real world history, they are kinda like the Nazis - at the time one of the most advanced cultural and technological societies on the planet fell into into evil and did unimaginable things - how could that have happened? Could it happen again? Is it happening again? (before the ancient alien astronaut theorists took over the History channel, the Nazis were quiet popular and I think its was this underlying disturbing concept that drove it).That, to me, is the most important feature of the Drow.</blockquote>

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