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The History of the Drow

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www.akhirah.cjb.net - Everhate is here! revenge of the drows..
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Drow contest 3

Vendu'

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I greet you traveller, to the house of the drow. I am your teacher [akhirah] and i will feed you with great knowledge of those dark, blood thirsty elves that live in deep underground caves.
Despite their dark nature, or perhaps because of it, drow have gracefulness of their movements and the force of their will power can make them powerful leaders who are at one and the same time attractive and terrifying but above all, Difficult to refuse.

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Students
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[Kohryu]
[willy]
[Aeolynn]
[elfton]
[Angel Dreamer]
[dragonbait]
[Pip]
[iippo]
[Augury]
[Kim_Lundin]
[SapphireDragon]
[Tal Anduril]
Khiery
[Thrice]
[Linn Scarlett]
[Nere]
[Eilistraee]
[SwordMaster3000]
[jsun]
[Kurus_Dreaon]
[Thanato's Will]
[Fetish Dolly Koneko™]
[Shainn]
[Metalelf]
[Er0s]
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Appearence
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http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/i/kirstyy/taelor.jpg.html

They are often exquisitely beautiful and with a fascinating, but deadly elegance and grace

Skin color: Black/Very Dark Grey
Hair color: White, silver or light blonde
Eye color: Bright red, blue or yellow. (they shine white when light shines directly into them, like some dogs)
Height: 157cm - 188cm (tend to be smaller and thingger than the other elves)
Magic:
Poisons: sleep, paralyse, instant death - (only for nobles)
per day: Total darkness, blue energy blast - (only noble drows can perform this technique) Magical Tears (rare)

Most importantly The females are also stronger and larger than the males.

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Drow Personalities
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Drows were banished to the underdark (underground) and lead a very competitive lifestyle and would rarely form what surfacers would call a Conscience. The Lack of of love and care in their upbringing adds to the lack of Empathy.

They are extremely arrogant, highly ambitious and utterly ruthless!

They have a delight in inflicting pain and the suffering of others, they have a vicious heart.
It is extremely rare to find any sign of Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness or a Conscience.

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Childhood
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The start of the Drows lifestyle begins when the child Reaches the age of 8 and is able to walk and speak Fluently. (very young compared to the other elves)
From the age of 8-19 They are sent to schooling in the care of a junior priestesses. They are now ruled by very harsh regulated system by severe physical punishmet which is often totally unrelated to anything. Only bullies, the crafty and the strong have survived. Punishment can cause severe pain and can leave scars, but is never fatal. Children are a potential asset to the house and shouldnt be throwing it away for nothing in a fit of rage.

If a child is truely week and unsuitable, the house gains more benefit from sending them to be sacrificed.

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Teaching
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Religous teaching also covers combat manouvres and other fighting skills.
Literacy, mathematics, Magic, natural history and artisan skills are most important.

1 in 3 drow children are killed by their classmates...

Those children with high natural attraction for magic, are given to wizards for apprentices.
Between ages of 20 & 80 are considered to be a period of development between youth and maturity. A drow finding a role like a mentor to teach them (mostly females) which make decisions of life and death over her pupil.

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Magic
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Energy Blast's

Drows are quick learners and can learn many magic tricks depending on their strength and energy they have in their body. A good well built drow can possibly do many of the different strengths of energy beams (like the one above) and each vary on what mood and energy the drow has left in their body.
Before a drow charges up their beams, their eyes glow brightly and leave a trail of light behind them. And when they shoot their beam the eyes brightness changes depending on energy left in their body. If the bright eyes do not fade, then you better get running because they can shoot one hell of a beam!

Total Darkness

Drow Magicians have the power to destroy everything, including the air, before them with a technique called Total Darkness, which leaves a black hole in front of them. The effects on the target are satisfyingly devastating. First the victim is hit with intense cold, then they begin to suffocate. In minutes, their lungs have collapsed, and they fall to the ground, dead. However, only extremely skilled (lucky) Drows can perform the spell, so it is very rare to encounter it. The only way to counter the Total Darkness skill is by forcing whatever purity and goodness in your being forward into the void inside of the few minutes before you succumb to the lack of air and die.

Religion and Rituals

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Poisons and Potions

Drows are very talented in Alchemy, and are capable of making many potent poisons and potions. A key ingredient in the poisons is torture, and most poisons cause a long, painful, and drawn-out death.
The story is told of a king of the High Elves, pale fiends, who ingested Drow Poison, and suffered for thirteen years before his demise came, and even then, it was death by his own hand to escape the pain of the poison that swam in his veins.
Potions are very rarely much different than poisons in the hands of Drow, and never are they made for healing. Drow potions are made to curse, or paralyze, or worse, infect. A particular potion called the Viraen acted as a disease, and nearly wiped out the population of Pixies and Imps in the woods.

Other Drow Wiki's
underdark

Skandinvirr ---[Linn Scarlett]

Drow language

[Trias] can give list of the Drow Language.
drowlanguage

Drowic Classroom ---[Linn Scarlett]

Links outside elftown

http://madeleine.dnsalias.com/madeleine/main2.html
http://www.grey-company.org/Maerdyn/resources/translator/

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info and pictures (c) [akhirah] , do not steal! or redistrbute without my persmission =p

2003-03-04 [akhirah]: any contribution would be appreciated..^_^

2003-03-08 [Anvikit]: I thought drows also had the inate ability to cast faerie fire and also levitate.. the nobles at least..

2003-03-09 [akhirah]: i'll add that too..in the Noble drows section, thnx! ^_^

2003-03-18 [Sith Kitten]: Very cool. I like this a lot. Drow are the ultimate aren't they?

2003-03-31 [Metalelf]: Woop! Nice page! Yay useful page, although the drow in my stories are a teensy bit different- f'rinstance my drow are shorter, but hey, ickle differences. have fun :)

2003-05-09 [iippo]: Here should be a mention that they cannot stand bright light, they go blind... So there is a way to defeat a drow, just point them with a flashlight... this was a nice page

2003-05-25 [SapphireDragon]: This is a cool site

2003-05-25 [iippo]: and also the elvish fire -magic... doesn't burn, just marks the enemy -- easier to see. handy for archers... R. A. Salvatore should also be mentioned in here, since he has written books about drows... mmmm, grand books they are.

2003-05-26 [Augury]: Hey. This is a cool class.

2003-06-08 [Pip]: im really enjoying this site!

2003-06-12 [Sweetums]: oh oh. I wanna be cool and vicous and mean and drink blood for pre-nap snax

2003-06-12 [Sweetums]: can I be a student? oh oh oh please?

2003-07-03 [Kim_Lundin]: What happens when I become a student?

2003-07-03 [akhirah]: u become very special, like a child to me...^.^

2003-08-21 [Malice]: Come to my home for a good drow image... I am an older drow, and may be able to assist you.

2003-09-29 [khirareq]: R.A. Salvatore has published an Awesome set of books about the life of Drizzt Do'Urden, a drow who was bannished from his home. Alot of sourse material on the Dark Elves and their cities and lives can be found in these books

2003-10-04 [smikky]: Wow - this is cool. The illustrations are nice and really enhance the points and everything :)

2003-10-05 [akhirah]: haha drows must wipe out pixies!!! XD

2003-10-19 [Linn Scarlett]: ghehe i teach drooooooooowic :p come folxies commmme *takes out her flute to lure everybody with her into a cave* oh sides ive these books (Dark Elf Trilogy and Icewinddale and also Starlight and Shadows of Elaine Cunningham, am reading War of the Spiderqueen-condemnation at the moment *blinks* yeah iam a drowaholic

2004-01-02 [Nere]: so do we just put our name up if we want to be a student ?

2004-01-02 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah...and i want to say something else *coughs* i draw a lot of drow *looks proud* you can see my drawings at my gallery at deviantART, that would be: http://linnscarlett.deviantart.com and there is also a story i just completed -about Dunmer, thats how the Drow are called in my book- and its about the paranoide prince Lucieus Sandora, who is going to whip out his whole council. the story is called "A Dangerous Game at Dinner" or something like that. anybody interested?

2004-01-02 [Linn Scarlett]: oh and yes, people that know me (like Nere) might know that my char is drow O.O oh boy and kind-of married to Lucieus *snickers* just come to my tavern, the scarletttavern, Luse is always being nasty towards costumers...the most other drow are kind =) "Do not look for a welcome here..." ---Gandalf

2004-01-29 [Filfaere T'sarran]: I added a link to the language section if that's ok... This is the most comprehensive and thorough translator I have seen thusfar.

2004-01-29 [Linn Scarlett]: who wants to borrow my dictionarry :P

2004-03-05 [babygirl(tS)]: Some use twin scimitars, like Drizzt Do'Urden

2004-03-05 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah and some use their fists, like me :P

2004-03-18 [Aashild]: http://quiz.ravenblack.net/blood.pl?biter=Aia+Draconis this is a cool game!

2004-03-19 [Linn Scarlett]: i know

2004-03-22 [Kim_Lundin]: I've tried it, unfortunately I didn't really understand how it works...

2004-03-22 [Linn Scarlett]: oh note to anybody and everybody... ive a drow rated rpg

2004-04-01 [NiceGuy213]: Thou hast forgotten that we Drow can, at will, levitate, cast a globe of unpenetrable darkness, and they can outline ppl in faery fire. And, not all live underground. There is a substantial Drow population in the Forest of Mir, near the Calimshan Desert.

2004-04-01 [Linn Scarlett]: i know i know, i personally live in elftown *chuckles* i know *makes unpenetrable globe of darkness around scooby, jumps in, gives him a kiss and disapears again*

2004-04-02 [NiceGuy213]: I feel a little faint. That hasn't happened in a while. Although I'm not complaining

2004-04-02 [Linn Scarlett]: good. because if you do it you risk a certain painfull slow death at the hands of Lusey *chuckles and gives him again a kiss*

2004-04-04 [akhirah]: hey hey, this isnt a dating room ya kno kiddies..

2004-04-04 [Linn Scarlett]: we know...just exchanging thought between our two DROW chars

2004-04-04 [akhirah]: woOt new pictures up ^_~

2004-04-04 [NiceGuy213]: That's right. And I'll kick anyone's hindquartes if they give any flak

2004-04-05 [Linn Scarlett]: indeed, cool pics, sides, i updated a few drawings ( http://linnscarlett.deviantart.com ) *cuddles scooby* may i mention once more, the Drow/Iliithid campain currently raging in my rpg, almost overtrowing the drow encampment

2004-04-05 [NiceGuy213]: Let them try. I'll just rip open a portal, and send them all to the Abyss, or the Nine Hells.

2004-04-05 [Linn Scarlett]: *chuckles* good luck,

2004-04-05 [NiceGuy213]: Good Luck? I need no such thing, my fair maid. I am me. All I need are my trusty Daggers (Dagger of Lifestealing, and Bloodclaw) and I'm set

2004-04-06 [Linn Scarlett]: nice ;)

2004-04-06 [Metalelf]: Hey, I like the new pictures! :)

2004-04-06 [NiceGuy213]: That's right. There hath been none who've rubbed thineslef the wrong way get wawy with their foul deed.

2004-04-06 [NiceGuy213]: Oh, and the whole thing about the females being bigger and stronger than the males really doesn't mean squat. Just ask the numerous ones who tried to kill myself and ended up face-down in a river with a second smile :)

2004-04-06 [Linn Scarlett]: *cuddles scooby* i think it silly, and iam personly more for the taller-than-me-men anyway so. yeah. tall male drow, shorter females...though i do like the power-to-the-females-consept, iam not a big fan of the fact you kind of have to sacrifise your husband/lover/man every few decades...i mean...what if you found 'the one', like my char O.O' ---so yeah, iam stubborn, go see my art at http://linnscarlett.deviantart.com , well you wont see many females because iam horrible at drawing them, but the females that i draw are shorter than their mates...because it looks silly *chuckles* no really...

2004-04-06 [NiceGuy213]: lol. Yeah, I don't agree w/ the whole sacrificial thing either. They tried it once with me. Once and only once.

2004-04-07 [Linn Scarlett]: grm, sacrificing my third son? not now not EVER

2004-04-07 [NiceGuy213]: who was your third son?

2004-04-07 [Linn Scarlett]: donno dont have one yet

2004-04-07 [NiceGuy213]: lol. Can I be something? Like, perchance, a lover?

2004-04-07 [Linn Scarlett]: hmz...maybe

2004-04-08 [NiceGuy213]: and perhaps I could give you a third son......................

2004-04-09 [Linn Scarlett]: O.o' hmz well...ehh *backs away* luse would so kill you

2004-04-09 [NiceGuy213]: Who????

2004-04-10 [Linn Scarlett]: lucieus *whispers* my chars husband *chuckles*

2004-04-12 [NiceGuy213]: }:) too bad for him............

2004-04-12 [Linn Scarlett]: no to bad for you *chuckles* wanna know what he did to bardir ;)

2004-04-12 [NiceGuy213]: sure......I'll listen while I sharpen my blades....

2004-04-12 [Linn Scarlett]: well...he just chained him to our bedroom wall and tor him a part, one piece at the time, it took the poor bard three weeks to die

2004-04-14 [NiceGuy213]: ahhh....but I'm not a bard, now am I? I highly doubt he could find me if I didn't want him to.

2004-04-14 [Linn Scarlett]: welll...he's a king...he has methods

2004-04-14 [akhirah]: a king!? in an underdark?? never heard of such a thing >:O

2004-04-14 [Linn Scarlett]: he's the uncrowned king of gor-gornoth, dont ask, just accept, Vahkan Kerun defeted the Queen of Spiders (read war of the spiderqueen) he one in Ched Nasad, Menzoberranzan and Gor-gornoth

2004-04-15 [NiceGuy213]: It does happen, seldomly, but it does. And he really should fear retribution.

2004-04-15 [Linn Scarlett]: oh well who cares, i (linn) am the so far uncrowned queen of Gorgornoth :p never say never, and i rule from behind the throne *smiles*