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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6285483" data-attributes="member: 58172">DROW VARIATIONThe precise appearance of the Drow differs depending on the setting. Some settings portray the Drow with a diversity of appearances depending on region, while other settings portray all Drow as homogenous without regional variations.Among the different official settings - such as Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Nerath, Planescape, Greyhawk, and Dragonlance - the Dark Elf exhibits a diversity of physical appearances. For example, in Forgotten Realms, the Drow generally have human-like eyes with iris and pupil. By contrast, in the Nerath setting, Drow have eyes of a solid color without iris or pupil, a trait that derives from their otherworldy origin, the magical plane of Feywild.According to some settings, the Drow exhibit different characteristics depending on the ethnicity and region where they are from. For example, in the Forgotten Realms setting, the Dark Elf includes three subraces: Drow, Miyetari, and Ilythiiri. The Drow dwell in the region of the subterranean Underdark and have glossy black skin and pale hair. The other two subraces live in separate regions on the surface. The Miyetari have matte brownish (dark orangish) skin and black hair, while the Ilythiiri have gray bluish skin and pale hair. In the Dragonlance setting, the Dark Elf comprises the outcasts from any of the Elf subraces, thus can appear as any of these, yet as persons who have been ‘cast from the light’ seems to typically appear with pale sunless skin and black hair.According to other settings, the Drow are homogenous without regional variations. In the Greyhawk setting, all Drow have black skin and white or lustrous silver hair. In the Mystara setting, the comparable Shadow Elf, all, have albino-like pale bluish skin and white hair.Generally among the settings, those ‘Dark Elf’ variations that lack black skin also tend to avoid or downplay the name ‘Drow’. Thus the term Drow seems to persistently emphasize black skin, at least primarily. The term Dark Elf seems more inclusive.DERIVATIONDrow appearances can vary by setting (12/24 votes).Drow appearances can vary by region (6/24 votes).Drow always look the same (6/24 votes).What do you feel Drow *should* look like?Check out my picture of a Drow hand with ‘long and delicate’ fingers, in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?354117-What-do-Drow-look-like&p=6285282&viewfull=1#post6285282" target="_blank">Post #12</a>.</blockquote>

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