It's rare for one to reach adulthood, let alone be born. Half-Drow are shunned by pure-blood races and usually regarded as untrustworthy.
Because of the world's disposition towards them, half-drow are very secretive and private, but they will welcome any that offer aid. A half-drow will usually try to occupy themselves with any kind of busywork they can get. Half-Drow tend to have unstable relations with all races because of the general disposition that they recieve, but any scholarly types find half-drow to be a wealth of information regarding the Undercommon language and will be the most likely to be friendly to half-drow.
A half-drow typically has dusky skin, silver or white hair, and eyes of some normal human shade. Half-drow have the abilities of normal half-elves except that they have darkvision foot range instead of low-light vision. A half-drow who wishes to explore his dark elf heritage can become a full drow with a 2-level transition class. Ability Score Changes: The indicated ability score increases or decreases by the amount noted.
If he has any bonus languages slots available, he may select bonus languages from the following list: Abyssal, Aquan, Draconic, Drow Sign Language, Gnome, Goblin. These choices are in addition to the half-elven automatic and bonus languages.
Their bonus languages are normally "any," but this ability enables the drow to learn special languages that a DM might deny to surface dwellers.
House Ousstyl , in particular, was known for having mated with humans. Many good aligned half-drow, particularly those of Aglarond , worshiped Eilistraee.
Some other half-elves in these regions also began to worship the Dancing Goddess, even though they had no drow blood. Half-drow were often conceived when drow raped humans, which were often their slaves. Xandra Shobalar encountered a merchant in Mantol-Derith , ostensibly human, who was in fact half-drow.
Perhaps indicative of the drow view of such things, she found his suspected nature to be appalling. Forgotten Realms Wiki Explore. Deities by alignment Deities by race Deities by domain. Sourcebooks 1st edition 2nd edition 3rd edition Version 3. What is canon? Discussion Forum Recent blog posts. Unlike full-blooded Drow, the entire sclera of the eye is not colored; like humans only the iris is colored.
Common eye-colors include: pale-blue, orange, crimson, onyx, violet and jade; though many other colors are known to occur. Most have either raven black, or pale reflections of human hair colors. For reasons unknown, a large number of half-drow are hairless from birth. Not inherently evil by nature, Half-Drow are subjected, by their Drow masters, to cruel savagery every bit as vile as the torments visited upon the subject people from which they where forcibly conceived.
Their lot is perhaps worse than that of those the Drow initially conquer, for they are not only subject to such torments by the Drow, but also deeply reviled by subjugates from which they sprang. Half-Drow often find themselves believing that subjugated races have it easy: should they escape their masters, they are welcomed into the surrounding free-lands.
Half-Drow, however, resembling the Drow as much as they do, receive no such welcome: instead they seem destined to be slaves, or wandering sojourners: strangers in a strange land, no matter how far from their Drow slavers they flee. Half-Drow consider the ingestion of wine mingled with Drow poison to be something of a sacrament.
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