Drizzt is a drow. What is a drow?

Drows are a race of elves.
There are different races of elves depending on their history and location.
Drow are mainly a black/blue skinned race who live underground.
They are almost all evil for some reason like viconia.
That is all i can tell you.

The drow is a sub-race of elves. They are basically the 'evil' cousins of elves although Drizzt is an exception. The drow have dark, usually black skin and white hair. They live in majestic cities in the underground caverns of the Underdark and their society is organised according to strict, matrearchical rules. They're pretty famous. You should get the picture by now.

Damn, I was late again...

[This message has been edited by Stargazer rb-rjd (edited June 21, 2001).]

why is drizzt good then? someone told me that he is a halfelf drow, is this true?

For the same reason that some members of generally good races are evil I suppose...

If you want to know all there is to know about the Drow, I suggest reading The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. It is great reading.

Please note: drow is both the singular and plurar form of the word. So correct your grammar. ;)

Here's some more info, found on the Forgotten Realms-section (http://www.sorcerers.net/Fan_Worlds/FR/index.htm) of Sorcerer's Fantasy Worlds page. (http://www.sorcerers.net/Fan_Worlds/index.htm)


History of the Drow, the Descent

We know very little of the Ilythiiri, or "Elves of the South," before this crucial event. Even then they were known as "Dark Elves," for the hue of their skins. They dwelt in the jungles and hot forests of the South. A proud, warlike, culturally advanced (some sages of other elven peoples say "decadent") folk, the Ilythiiri attacked all neighbors, including other elven tribes. Their cruel raids and depredations ordered by warlike nobility and the clergy of their two cruel deities, Ghaunadaur and Lloth, forced elves, humans, dwarves, and others to ally against them. Defeated in a series of titanic magical battles, the dark elves fled into underground warrens they had earlier discovered.

This event, known as "the Descent," marked the end of the drow as a surface-dwelling race.


History of the Drow, the Dark Wars

The warlike drow nature did not change when they escaped their surface foes during The Descent. In fact, they immediately launched a series of wars to establish territories in the Underdark. They began by stealing and seizing dwarven magical items, and using them against the dwarves - establishing an enmity that is still strong today. The drow then fought among themselves, noble against noble, priest against priestess, for rule of their new realm. This all-out war ended amid great magical explosions that brought down the roof of the largest dwarven cavern they had seized, great Bhaerynden.

The ceiling collapsed entirely, burying many drow and the shattered dwarven cities. The cavern, now open to the sky, became known as The Great Rift. The surviving drow nobles gathered what people, slaves, and equipment they could seize, and fled into the Underdark in search of places to dwell. "The Scattering" brought about the many rival, self-interested cities where most drow live today.

http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000074.html should also prove informative. Fixed the wrong plural in the headline, btw.

Also, Elaine Cunningham's "Evermeet: Island of Elves" will shed light on their origins in more detail, including the origin of the Drow goddess Lloth and God Vhaerun, and Elistraa(sp)

Is Lolth a god? I thought she was a demon lord, or is that the same? (read her stats on some site I can't find anymore, and she was weaker than Demogorgon)

Intermediate goddess, IIRC.

She's a demon-lord, not a god.

On the question of Loth I dont think there is a real differances her being a goddess or a demon lord.

after living for so long in the underdark (undreground) the drow have gained a few Speacial abilities such as Darkvision (120' I belive)and a Immense resistence to majic. there may be mor that i dont remember.

http://home.intekom.com/darkelf/underdark/Drow.htm

Nice place abot drowlings. Language section is especially good.

I don´t like drows that much actually... Don´t really know why... :p