Are drow good?
They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not. The drow are an exception; their exile into the Underdark has made them vicious and dangerous. Drow are more often evil than not.
Are drow from the Underdark?
Drow ( sing & pl ; pronounced: /draʊ/ drow or: /droʊ/ dro [note 1]), also known as dark elves, deep elves, night elves,, sometimes “The Ones Who Went Below” on the surface, and the Dark Ones among orcs, were a dark-skinned sub-race of elves that predominantly lived in the Underdark.
What do drow call the Underdark?
In addition, potable water is hard to locate. In the Forgotten Realms setting, the Underdark is permeated with a magical energy the drow call faerzress, which is used as a source of energy by the native plant life and which interferes with scrying and teleportation spells.
Is the Underdark dark?
The Underdark was the vast network of underground caverns and tunnels underneath the surface of Abeir-Toril. It was home to a host of evil beings driven deep into the caverns at the end of the age of demons. Absence of light results in darkness.
Why are drow so popular?
Drow are powerful because drow are popular. They started off as an elite 1E monster race which inspired Drizzt. They grew in power as Drizzt carried them to 2E Menzo/Underdark expansions. They thrived all across 3E and got another boost of mania from each bestseller Drizzt novel release.
Why is drow hated?
Personally, it’s because they embody the idea of a Special Snowflake character. Drow, as a society, are evil bastards. Only Drizzt is known to have come out from the Underdark and behave like a civilized being.
Do elves hate drow?
Elves hate drow for their treachery and the eladrin for their oppressive society. Drow hate the other two races because their have given themselves primarily to evil.
Are drow always evil?
Alignment. As a race, drow are usually evil. Exceptions exist, the most notable being Drizzt Do’Urden, Jarlaxle Baenre, and Liriel Baenre, but these are highly unusual.
Are there dragons in the Underdark?
Deep dragons, also called purple dragons and drakes of the depths, were a type of chromatic dragon that lived in the Underdark.
Do Tieflings live in Underdark?
They can be found on the worlds of Toril, Oerth, and Eberron, among many others. Around 1% of the population of slaves in the drow Underdark city of Menzoberranzan are tieflings, as are around 1% of the citizens of Undrek’Thoz.
What do drow elves eat?
FR Novels. According to Bob Salvatore’s various underdark novels, dark elves get by just fine on mostly domesticated meat breeds (like the Rothe mentioned by SPavel, each about twice the size of a yak), insects and reptiles, fish, fungi, and fermented spirits.
Is the Underdark a different plane?
For context, in my own homebrew universe, I’ve decided that the Underdark is in fact another plane, although it is accessible from the Material Plane via certain tunnels and such that are like subtle portals (similar to Fey Crossings).
