Post by Winter Silverclaw on Feb 21, 2008 4:09:51 GMT -5
Drow
Stats:
HP: 25
Arrack: 3
Defense: 4
Magic: 4
Magic Defense: 4
Appearance:
They have jet black skin or dark blue or purple and white hair being the most common. They tend to be smaller and thinner than other elves and their eyes are usually a vivid red. They are often exquisitely beautiful with a fascinating but deadly elegance and grace.
Drow are typically shorter than other elves, and they retain the Dexterity common to elves. In all other respects, save their height and coloring, drow resemble their above ground cousins. Drow females are stronger and larger than males.
Personality:
The personality of the Drow is a product of both nature and nurture. Since the Drow were banished to the Underdark and embarked on a fiercely and lethally competitive life style thousands of years and countless generations of Drow have passed. Those Drow who were most ruthless and aggressive survived to have children, and to pass on these traits.
The vicious nature of the Drow is partly a result of this selective breeding. The vast majority of Drow no longer have the capacity to empathize with other people, and are totally unable to form what surfacers would call a conscience. They truly do not care about anyone but themselves. Their brains are physically different; they have not inherited the brain paths and patterns that allow this to happen. Those few children who are born with this ability rarely survive to adulthood, and if they reach adulthood they almost always face being sacrificed on the bloodstained alters of Lolth or fleeing to live alone. Either way, they do not pass their abilities to a new generation.
The lethal competitiveness and utter lack of love or care in a Drow’s upbringing adds to this lack of empathy. Those who show signs of "weakness": - those who reject treachery and ruthless ambition, who show affection or caring for others, or who question the dogma of success at any price are rapidly weeded out. A Drow's entire childhood and adolescence is a training in treachery, and ambition. They are taught to feel pleasure in the pain of others.
Drow are supremely arrogant, highly ambitious and utterly ruthless. Almost all of them delight in inflicting pain and suffering for its own sake and also as a means to further their ambitions. Others find them detached and cold, or they are less fortunate and experience the strong sadistic streak in a Drow’s vicious heart.
Those few drow who have fled to the surface may have turned their back on the chaos and destructiveness of the Drow way of life. However they still remain Drow, with all the competitive drives and ambitions that entails. It is exceedingly rare to find any sign of altruism or conscience even within these Drow.
Despite their dark nature, or perhaps because of it, Drow have a compelling mien. The gracefulness of their movements and the sheer force of their will power can make them powerful leaders who are at one and the same time attractive and terrifying, and above all difficult to refuse
Stats:
HP: 25
Arrack: 3
Defense: 4
Magic: 4
Magic Defense: 4
Appearance:
They have jet black skin or dark blue or purple and white hair being the most common. They tend to be smaller and thinner than other elves and their eyes are usually a vivid red. They are often exquisitely beautiful with a fascinating but deadly elegance and grace.
Drow are typically shorter than other elves, and they retain the Dexterity common to elves. In all other respects, save their height and coloring, drow resemble their above ground cousins. Drow females are stronger and larger than males.
Personality:
The personality of the Drow is a product of both nature and nurture. Since the Drow were banished to the Underdark and embarked on a fiercely and lethally competitive life style thousands of years and countless generations of Drow have passed. Those Drow who were most ruthless and aggressive survived to have children, and to pass on these traits.
The vicious nature of the Drow is partly a result of this selective breeding. The vast majority of Drow no longer have the capacity to empathize with other people, and are totally unable to form what surfacers would call a conscience. They truly do not care about anyone but themselves. Their brains are physically different; they have not inherited the brain paths and patterns that allow this to happen. Those few children who are born with this ability rarely survive to adulthood, and if they reach adulthood they almost always face being sacrificed on the bloodstained alters of Lolth or fleeing to live alone. Either way, they do not pass their abilities to a new generation.
The lethal competitiveness and utter lack of love or care in a Drow’s upbringing adds to this lack of empathy. Those who show signs of "weakness": - those who reject treachery and ruthless ambition, who show affection or caring for others, or who question the dogma of success at any price are rapidly weeded out. A Drow's entire childhood and adolescence is a training in treachery, and ambition. They are taught to feel pleasure in the pain of others.
Drow are supremely arrogant, highly ambitious and utterly ruthless. Almost all of them delight in inflicting pain and suffering for its own sake and also as a means to further their ambitions. Others find them detached and cold, or they are less fortunate and experience the strong sadistic streak in a Drow’s vicious heart.
Those few drow who have fled to the surface may have turned their back on the chaos and destructiveness of the Drow way of life. However they still remain Drow, with all the competitive drives and ambitions that entails. It is exceedingly rare to find any sign of altruism or conscience even within these Drow.
Despite their dark nature, or perhaps because of it, Drow have a compelling mien. The gracefulness of their movements and the sheer force of their will power can make them powerful leaders who are at one and the same time attractive and terrifying, and above all difficult to refuse
