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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4235738" data-attributes="member: 41584">I went the route of the OP, having the 'Drow' be half-breed lower-caste members of Dark Elven society, while their rulers are Half-Fiendish.  Like all Elves, they aren't terribly fertile normally, but by mixing their blood with that of demons, they've become extremely fecund, and also gained spell-like abilities and spell resistance.As for the skin, that's natural, for elves.  The elves who live in the high mountains in bright sunlight are pale, pale white.  The elves who live in the wooded areas are caucasian in coloration.  The elves who live in the *deepest* woods, the Grugach and 'Wild Elves' are described as 'nut-brown.'  The elves who live in the sea are blue or green-skinned.  And the elves who live in the Underdark are black as night.  Elves aren't humans.  Melanin isn't an issue.  Their skin coloration adapts over generations to their surroundings and the light level, so that elves who live under the sun are bone-white 'gray elves' and elves who live in the darkness grow darker in color.  If there are elves in the elemental plane of fire, they are probably ruddy-skinned.Lolth is/was a demon-queen.  She also is/was a goddess, an elven goddess of destiny and knowledge, who was likened to a weaver, plucking at the strands of elven fates.  Staring into her own tangled future, something stared back, and she was seduced by her future self into becoming the thing that she is now.  The demon-queen of Spiders Lolth's attempts to trick her and steal elven worshippers would likely have failed, if not for the goddesses' own confusion.  The mad goddess and the overconfident demon-queen ended up absorbed, one into the other, and only a single being survived.  Even by the standards of demons, Lolth is mad, her mind fractured with the memories of two beings, and her violent whims are legendary, even among her fractious peers.Status among Drow comes and goes in seconds, but one way for a 'low-born' Drow to gain the notice of her peers is to perform 'artistic' acts of cruelty, malice or deception.  Tricking a surface community into sending their children into Drow slavery (thinking that they are sending them off to be tutored, or join the king's army, etc.) would be a 'good joke,' and worth 'points' in the eyes of jaded Drow society.  Arranging for an elven hero to commit some horrible blunder that results in the death of other elves, or a war between elves and neighboring humans, would be a classic bit of 'artistry.'  Anything to gain the favor of the demons and half-demons that rule them.</blockquote>

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