Drow

The drow used to be an evil matriarchal culture devoted to the spider queen Lolth, a deity of chaos and evil. It was a dog eat dog world where anybody slightly weak was killed before they reached maturity. With a very high mortality rate, only the best survived. They were a fully underground culture and during the upheaval earthquakes rocked the lands. Many drow were forced to the surface where they had to adapt to the existing cultures or die out. In the hundreds of years since then, the drow culture has changed to fit in with the cultures of the archipelago.

Modern drow in archipelago are widely spread out. They are however known for being the best of the best still. While no longer are incompetent drow killed off, there are incredibly few who qualify as incompetent. Drow are known for being masters of a specific craft. While they are no longer evil, most are highly pragmatic and known for a grey morality. In most situations any drow is a respected member of their professions and the value of a drow is measured by their accomplishments. They are usually the best assassins, warriors, mages, merchants, stonelayers, bakers or whatever other area they chose as their area of expertise. In the drow tongue the phrase for "jack of all trades" translates roughly to "incompetant at everything". The phrase for charity is derived from the word for "political maniuplation."