Female drow names from forgotten realms book

The drow or dark elves are a generally evil, darkskinned, and. As an atypical drow dark elf, drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people. This is part of the larger legend of drizzt series set in the forgotten realms. Jul 22, 2016 drow are an evil elf society ruled by the malicious deity, spider queen, or lolth.

Eilistraee was the chaotic good drow goddess of beauty, song, dance, freedom, moonlight, swordwork, and hunting, within the drow pantheon known as the dark seldarine. Drow society, being strongly matriarchal, allows the females to hold all. They were hated and feared due to their cruelty, though some nonevil and an even smaller number of good drow existed. Legacy of the drow collectors edition hardcover, january 2001, isbn 9780786918003. In some worlds, these subraces are divided still further such as the sun elves and moon elves of the forgotten realms, so if you wish, you can choose a narr ower subrace. For those of you unfamiliar with drow society in forgotten realms, a. Since female and male drow names are often very different, many table entries list a female name fragment and then the male equivalent. I have assembled four random name generators for drow characters and their noble houses. Races of stone races of destiny races of the wild drow of the underdark. Popular drow books share book recommendations with your.

Each drow name consists of a prefix from table 2 and one or more suffixes from table 3. Drow are characters that have a story built in, if youre willing to explore that story for yourself. Searching for her new mother, a drow makes a new friend. The forgotten realms campaign setting and shared fiction universe for dungeons and dragons has birthed a legion of popular characters, from elminster and drizzt to arilyn moonblade and cadderly. As of 73 dr house baenre, house barrison delarmgo, house faen tlabbar, house xorlarrin, house mizzrym, house feybranche, house melarn, house duskryn. So true jarlaxle drow names, forgotten realms, dark elf. Drow 2 forgotten realms by 000fesbra000 on deviantart. Since female and male drow names are often very different, many.

For example, in the evil lolthite society, on average, a female drow. Forgotten realmscharacters all the tropes wiki fandom. Drow had a couple of dragon magazine articles available to them. I have spent a lot of time reflecting on sexism in the drow society, how it reflects on our own prejudices, and specifically, how certain authors ignore the set world in order to better be able to relate with the society. You can make a copy of the file and use it however youd like. I do think that eilistraee would be on more than one world. The legacy was the first forgotten realms novel published in hardcover. Although the names might not seem particularly gender specific to an outsider, any drow will be able to tell the.

See more ideas about fantasy art, fantasy and dark elf. Daughter of the drow by elaine cunningham goodreads. They are not based on actual npc names taken from novels. I started with a wide variety of sources, including the forgotten realms wiki. Drow 1 forgotten realms by 000fesbra000 on deviantart. Legacy of the drow was later reprinted in several different formats. I think greyhawk can stand up on its own, but forgotten realms has this backstory of being connected to many other worlds. In the afterword of the nonrealms novel dark warrior rising. If you want to really take control of this story, your best option is to talk with your dm and figure out how they see drow in their setting, whether its a version of the forgotten realms, their. In the forgotten realms, the dark elves were once ancient tribes of ilythiir and miyeritar. Into darkness drow campaign set in the forgotten realms. This site discusses the nuances of dungeons and dragons. Drizzt dourden is a fictional character appearing in the forgotten realms campaign setting for. A ninth seat was awarded to the mistress of arachtinilith, who was sosumptu baenre at the time.

You cannot cut hair if you are a slave, but if you are free or above noble, tharchion, red wizard, merchant, visitor you are free to do whatever style you want. She was the patroness and protector of the few dark elves who longed to return to the surface and live there, at peace with other races, and to abandon the endless conflicts and intrigues that dominated the lives of most drow. Drow, like their elven cousins prefer names that flow off the tongue, however their names tend to have a harsher sound to them. Dwarves were once a proud united race, but years of wars with orcs and goblins, internal conflicts, and other struggles have dispersed them across the lands. A demon deity that protects, grants powers and brings doom to their lawful servants as she pleases or sees fit. In certain drow societies childrens names are given a matronymic element, meaning that they are named for their mothers. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. This is not a disease mind you, but the unremorseful urge for dark elven women. Caleldir becomes the official consort of duskhaven. You can add or change entries, delete those you dont like, or move them between categories.

In femaledominated drow settlements, the common opinion is that the male is needed only for conception, but is not essential for childbirth or child rearing. Random name generators for male, female, and unisex drow characters, and. For expanded and updated d20 drow, check out my book, drow of porphyra. First of all, there are a lot of novels peppered with drow names. Feb 08, 2012 i have spent a lot of time reflecting on sexism in the drow society, how it reflects on our own prejudices, and specifically, how certain authors ignore the set world in order to better be able to relate with the society. Drow are an evil elf society ruled by the malicious deity, spider queen, or lolth. For a greater variety of names, see the random generator in the 3e drow of the underdark. I took notes on the names that showed up in the forgotten realms books about thay, and then generated a lot of names and picked out the ones that sounded right to me. Then, i added new meanings and adjusted everything as best i could.

Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as the realms, it was created by game designer ed greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. So, drow are pretty evil in general, and are known through out society to be wicked and treacherous. The complete manual of the drow foreword this document is a supplement for dms and players who want to play drows characters. Most drow citiessuch as guallidurth, menzoberranzan, and ched nasadare ruled in the name of lolth by priests of the spider queen and even the mention, let alone the worship, of other gods is. Drow names often included double letters and were designed to be pleasant to the ear.

In female dominated drow settlements, the common opinion is that the male is needed only for conception, but is not essential for childbirth or child rearing. They were transformed into drow by the seldarine and were cast down and driven underground by the lightskinned elves because of the ilythiirians savagery during the crown wars. A young girl forced into a magical world by her stepmother. Starlight and shadows, book 1 cunningham, elaine on. I am a bit of a bright spark intelligence i am always helping out kindness my life is a crazy explosion of shapes and colors creativity i am a survivor strength i know what i want confidence. Dec 4, 2014 peter r forgotten realms, rolemaster drow, poison, rolemaster, weapons to illustrate this post i wanted a nice image of a drow with their stylised hand crossbows which is the absolutely iconic drow weaponry. At a glance drow names are names used in drow families or communities. As one of the most detailed shared universes if not the most in literary history, there are always more characters in.

Im starting up a forgotten realms book club with some friends i game with in the meetspace. More like wayfinder cover the darklands by ruloc f drow elf underdark deviantart is the worlds largest online social community for artists and art enthusiasts, allowing people to connect through the creation and sharing of art. Note that some informations some deities, many drow names and some charts are from the following books, owned by tsr or woc, i dont know. According to the complete book of elves, drow are not welcome in. The prelude of this novel starts when liriel is five years old, but the main events occur during the year 62 dr.

Lolth was first mentioned in the modules descent into the depths of the earth 1978 and more fully described in vault of the drow 1978, and was the main antagonist of the module queen of the demonweb pits 1980. Drizzt is a drow who acts against the drow stereotype, favoring friendship and peace over hatred and violence. Name lists for male, female drow characters, surnames, noble houses, and cities. Still, im playing a female drow sorcerer in my current dnd game and this novel helped give. After about a week of this near overpowering lust, he packed a few supplies and headed west towards the drow lands. The direct approach, a short story originally published in realms of magic and reprinted in best of the realms iii. Lolth has been around as a forgotten realms character long before the drizzt books. That first list helped me name a lot of npcs, so i generated another list, and then went back to prune names that sounded too much alike.

Dec 4, 2014 peter r forgotten realms, rolemaster drow, poison, rolemaster, weapons to illustrate this post i wanted a nice image of a drow with their stylised hand crossbows which is. Drow culture is distinguished by a curious mixture of monotheism and polytheism uncharacteristic of most human and demihuman cultures of the realms. First names the drow believed that having first names that were similar to one of their gods was a guarantee for misfortune, when it came to names resembling their own patron, it was considered blasphemy. For those of you unfamiliar with drow society in forgotten realms, a quick overview. One of the most common problems gms and players alike have when playing nonhuman characters is naming them. This mark also says that the character does appear. Yeah, ok, so im getting readdicted to forgotten realms novels. Were it not for one renowned exception, the race of drow would be universally reviled. Im pretty sure that both the drow and eilistraee are in planescape, but im no expert on that campaign setting. Most nonhuman characters cant be named from a list of historic names, forcing dms to make up totally new. Because of vyns ramblings, koroko had come down with a near insatiable case of drow fever.