It's a lazy post for a lazy Sunday afternoon while I get ready for some Sunday night games... how would you work Drow Elves into the world of antiquity?
We'll be playing a 5E game and I've worked a number of the 'modern D&D' races into the setting already. Dragonborn are descendants of the Spartoi, the dragon-men created by Cadmus (and Jason) by sowing special dragon's teeth. Tieflings are outcasts from the decadent cities of the East. The game doesn't use Orcs; I'm using the Half Orc to represent humans cursed by the gods to live as hideous outcasts. Dwarves are creations of Hephaestus, while their dark counterparts, the Duergar, are minions of Hades.
How would you put Drow into the mythic world?
We'll be playing a 5E game and I've worked a number of the 'modern D&D' races into the setting already. Dragonborn are descendants of the Spartoi, the dragon-men created by Cadmus (and Jason) by sowing special dragon's teeth. Tieflings are outcasts from the decadent cities of the East. The game doesn't use Orcs; I'm using the Half Orc to represent humans cursed by the gods to live as hideous outcasts. Dwarves are creations of Hephaestus, while their dark counterparts, the Duergar, are minions of Hades.
How would you put Drow into the mythic world?
Drow are also creatures of the underworld, but at odds with the Duergar faction, for whatever reasons. Maybe one group is loyal to Hades, and the other wants to overthrow him? Time for some dark dealings in dark places!
ReplyDeleteYou could explore the race that is called Giants in Greek myths - perhaps they - or their descendants - could be Drow. I think I saw somewhere mentined that initially Greek myths never really described them as creatures that are higher or larger than the man - they only looked a bit bizzare - upper part was a human and lower part had dragon theme (like each leg below knee was a snake with head). They were a distinctive tribe of children of Gaya, and twelve of them were designed to defeat 1 respective Olympian (there was one to defeat Zeus, one to defeat Hades, etc). They were children of Gaya, so they are a least half-brothers of Zeus - that means that they or their descendants could be pretty decadedent and treacherous (and given the snake theme - poisonous).
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