Half-Drow

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 are 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. It is to them a sign of defiance, and is often followed by prayers and supplications to the divine for deliverance. As a result of generations of half-drow ingesting the poison, they have grown largely resistant to its effects.

Half-Drow are stockier than their elven parents, and noticably more muscular often with a "chiseled" appearance to their features. Unlike full-blooded Drow, the entire sclera of the eye is not colored; like humans only the zonule 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.