What new race is in the Underdark?

[Alzrius]

So by now you've all seen the table of contents for Underdark, and noticed that one race has been censored out. Now, I'm not going to delve into the mire of why it was censored, but rather, I'm going to take a guess at what it was...

I'm thinking: derro. It totally fits alphabetically, and they are an Underdark race that we know does exist in the Realms, but here-to-fore hasn't been mentioned or detailed at all. They're quite interesting, especially given the history of their gods.

Any other guesses/thoughts?

 

[LuYangShih]

My opinion is that your obsession with this race borders on the unnatural.

 

[Alzrius]

Mentioning it twice is a fascination, not an obsession.

 

[William Ronald]

The derro would be a welcome addition to the current edition. I had a few classic encounters with one as a player, way back in 1st edition.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

They really don't have a place in the Realms. Derro are corrupted humans that were used as a slave race on Oerth (Greyhawk)... what they were doing in FR is beyond me.

 

[Alzrius]

They really don't have a place in the Realms. Derro are corrupted humans that were used as a slave race on Oerth (Greyhawk)... what they were doing in FR is beyond me.

Well, the "meta" answer is that that history of their origin on Oerth was made up long after the derro had been written and placed in in the Realms, so they do indeed have a place there.

The in-game answer is that the first two derro became gods, and after that I imagine that they had something to do with making sure the rest of them made it to other worlds. Not many people know that they originally came from Oerth, after all.

 

[hammymchamham]

DEEP GNOMES!

Yeah yeah, it has an entry for Svirfneblin, but I can home for some more Svirfneblin goodness....

 

[Gez]

I still think it will be something *new*, as in, totally absent of WotC-D&D3 right now. Dire Corbies ?