Drow

Before the elves of old arrived in Athesia they lived on another plane which was beset by demons, they were forced to leave to make a new home in what is now the Broken Lands. One group elected to stay behind, holding the demons at bay to give the rest a chance. Alone and surrounded they quickly fell to the demons and became their playthings. The time they spent in the abyssal realm of the demons, at their mercy for a thousand years, twisted the elves in mind, body and soul. Their skin turned black, their hair white and their eyes grew accustomed to seeing in darkness for the only light in that demonic realm was the fires of warring factions of demons and the occasional eerie red glow of chaos storms in the sky. Eventually they would carve out a small section of one of the layers of the abyss as their own, enslaving weak demons to do jobs and to fight for them as the only way they could survive.
Lolth took interest in these warped elves and what they had managed to make of themselves. She saw their potential and offered them a life line: She would send them away from this abyssal realm, she would send them to the new home their brethren had escaped to in exchange for their worship. Eager to go anywhere they accepted the deal and were plane shifted to several large islands. Survival was difficult with resources scarce but after having survived so long in the abyss it wasn't long before the archipelago they had arrived on became a thriving hub of activity. Within a few years the first ships found the mainland of Athesia to the west. But those they made contact with spoke a language they didn't understand and feared these scary looking foreigners. Eventually an encounter between these warped elves and the elves of Athesia occurred as they pushed further inland to learn more about the new world. The elves they met spoke a new form of elven while the warped elves spoke a dialect of ancient elven which they had developed. While some words were similar it wasn't enough to communicate, further these new elves viewed the twisted ones as demonised versions of themselves. Rejected even by the descendants of those they'd fought to save, those warped elves fell back on the ways they had learned in the abyss to survive. They relied on cruelty and slavery, and quickly added trade and pirating to their repertoire as they became excellent seafarers. These are the Drow.
==Notable NPCs==
Lolth
Demon Goddess of the Drow.
==Relationships==
King Kiya
King of the realm of Athesia, Kiya sacrificed himself to banish a particularly powerful Demon that was being summoned, after which Kiya had the audacity to simply resurrect himself rather than staying dead! The drow hold grudges for a long time, and this dishonour will be repaid.
Appoline Reneux
The first Drow Athesian hero, Appoline represent the first step in either re-unifying the drow and Athesian societies, or infiltrating and destroying Athesia... only time will tell.
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