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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shivamuffin" data-source="post: 831508" data-attributes="member: 936">Yeah, that's the first time I put it in garbled writing. I don't allow elves as PCs in my world, so their history, deities, and origins are not a priority.Deities aren't that tough. I use the hero/prophet model.I take notable figures from the cultures past and deify them. In the case of my Drow story, Lilth would have been an obvious choice, but in the spirit of the drow goddess Lolth, poor Lilth was definitely out of favor...Betrayed by her creator to die at the hands of her enemies...Now her two daughters of an incestual union would have led their people to the depths and eventually been deified, as well as a handful of champions or even their children ( Having divine blood only makes that more plausible ).So from what I just wrote, as garbled as it is, we could have something like this:Daughters of LilthIfahImorahThey could have 2-12 children each? maybe a few even male?( The females founding their own cities? )Champions of LilthLet's assume that there were some loyal ( As loyal as drow can be ) female champions that followed the two daughters...Gherra, Shenza, Frehza, Veneaux,  Kirza Fey, and so onEach could have their particular specialty in the pantheon, but read below before going that route. I retained the Lolth worship, and made them the founders of great noble houses )An overlooked problem with the Drow, atleast from the material by Gygax concerning their culture and origins...Is that they are monotheistic. In fact, I think that they are the only monotheistic race/culture in published fantasy! and it's funny that they are evil and matriarchal ( Kind of a mockery of a certain real world religion or two....)To break from that is to change the very nature of them. Without Lolth as the sole deity, would they remain CE? There would obviously be factions, and with that greater conflict amongst them ( Lolth likes conflict, but depends on the power received from her worshipers, so she insists on being the ONE true goddess of her people ) . The drow are drow through Lolth, and do not seem to be just a black skinned branch of the elven race...They are the embodiment of their patroness, and niether would exist without the other.With this said, anything can be changed in a setting. It must be done with caution and consideration though. Some realism and familiarity will be expected by players.Alignment, culture, and possibly even the racial features of non Lolth worshiping drow would change. They may even not refer to themselves as drow, choosing another name to distance or even cover up their association with a hated branch of the elven race...Who knows, grey elves could be one of those branches?I explain the racial features of the drow as being the mark of Lolth. When the followers and daughters of Lilth fled to the underworld, I imagine that they would have looked like other surface elves...Lilths two daughters would have had the mark of Lolth ( Black skin ), and I imagine all births within the community of followers after the decent would have resulted in a similair look...those that were born with surface elven features would have been removed from the gene pool. I do allow for variations of hair color, as well as eyes...The subtle reminder of their surface dwelling origins...I reserve the white hair for nobility, who possess a higher percentage of divine blood ( relation to Lilths 2 daughters ).That's my 2 cents folks...</blockquote>

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