D&D Lore; Through the eyes of a Drow

[@FallNine]

I would absolutely love a second part, maybe invite a guest speaker? Hearing the female version of through the eyes of a drow would be amazing.

[@olishonick]

So drow are just goth mommy simps? Sign me up

[@kyledayton7829]

Loth is abusive to her followers... Her Daughter Eilistraee actually cares about her followers

[@jhonthomas3737]

Wow my guy. i came here to learn about drow for my players sake. Mildy to not interested, and you turned that completely arround. Yer truly a credit to the dnd community. Thanks man

[@s.o.2628]

WOW! That was so good. I thought for a moment it might have been the official text you were reading. Hearing at the end that you wrote this was so impressive! And the voice-acting, so good. So glad I stumbled across this channel!

[@blainegossens3962]

This is the first of your videos I have stumbled across. Just now coming to the end and I gotta say that was one hell of an introduction. I look forward to bingeing your library.

[@Crazy_Gamer_Girl]

Drows are my fav D&D race & I loved this!! Did you write this all yourself? Very vivid & impressive :))

[@blearyeyedchangeling]

amazing video, instant sub

[@galvind976]

thanks for the lore mate, it made me like the Drows even more😆👍

[@printerbroken]

This is awesome! I'm trying to Rp as a male drow but have no idea who they are.

[@TotalTech2.]

Here is a list of good video ideas *Wererat* or any werecreature though rats are the most interesting. Litch/ Dracolitch Erinyes/ Fallen angel (what made him fall. What are his motivations. Did he mate with a human and create an aasimir?) Succubus Aarchon (basically a good human who has ascended Celestia and is now an angel). Pitfiend (the exact opposite of the one above) Atropal (though I imagine this one would be really hard to do) Fire giants Mindflayers Lizardfolk Black dragons

[@ExelArts]

there's mention if a male beats a female there's a punishment so are men drow actually stronger but they just think they arent because woman drow hurt them if they show any sign of superiority over a female? OR is loth purposely making males weaker then females. loth reminds me of lillth the original wife to adam. also there is Eilistraee he should've heard her voice or is he too convinced that his only hope is his mistress consort there for she would've bother guiding him in his dreams?

[@lauraw2526]

Hard to say, originally the lore was that females were stronger than males, but that's often forgotten.

[@KS-PNW]

At least on Toril it's been made pretty clear that male drow are shorter and weaker than their female peers. Not clear if that's directly the Spider Queen's doing but she def approves. However some males become excellent fighters (and for that matter mages) relying more on agility and skill instead of brute strength. So it's not unheard-of for a male drow to be victorious (probably doesn't hurt that the females tend to underestimate them) but that victory tends to have long term consequences... Although there's at least a few male controlled groups. A city that worships Lolth's son and a band of mercenaries that's secretly controlled by a shadow dragon with his half drow descendants (mostly men) taking leadership roles as well.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

best film i have seen this year

[@blindliberty4478]

Simps

[@rogerbrownreacts8528]

After World of Greyhawk D&D turned to crap.

[@Twogugshavingsix]

I have the feeling a lot of the Drow lore was written with one hand.

[@TJHistories]

The femdom subtext is practically text😂

[@ImagineHeroism]

I did a spit-take.

[@franchesco7757]

Jerk off joke but who writes with two hands? 😂

[@eclat4641]

😂

[@svetakirko8427]

loool

[@Jebbtube]

Drow: the ultimate simps

[@eclat4641]

Yay!

[@anthonyrodriguez8788]

More like a race of abused children. There isn't a Drow alive without mommy issues, whether it stems from their birth mother or Lolth.

[@ianhayden6088]

You are such a hidden gem of a channel, I’m extremely happy to have stumbled across your lore videos.

[@DelverofDungeons]

Thank you very much thats so kind! I'm just happy to entertain

[@Wellshem]

All male internet dweller: LET ME IN! LET ME IN!

[@eclat4641]

😂😂

[@Xaalderan]

Making a male drow character for an Out of the Abyss campaign, this is amazing inspiration

[@55rz55]

I never played dnd and my only experience in it is through BG3 and my experience in playing Dark Elves are limited to Skyrim. Made my first char as a Drow without knowing anything, then I delved deeper into the lore and truly am fascinated by how much this one race is so unbelievably alien for the concept of an elf. TLDR made my backstory before playing the game and picked seldarine, played good until the very end of BG3 where my deceit rewarded me the most power. This video is exactly how I envisioned my character would've lived and the reason he is basically a psychopath sociopath lying maniac, love the video very much!!

[@Agustin_Leal]

You should also play Morrowind, Skyrim only depicts a small part of what the dark elf society is like (mostly in the Dragonborn DLC) but it's in Morrowind where you'll see that dark elves are too extremely alien (and unbelievably cool) in The Elder Scrolls universe.

[@silverbutterfly1739]

Damn I low-key kinda feel bad for him, his life sounds like crazy

[@bullymaguire9318]

Drows got me into D&D❤

[@SorenYeger]

I love this format, this storytelling is so immersive and inspiring a great expedient to do an informative video like this instead of the traditional way New subscriber!

[@sophiacozzo8964]

This is hunting and creepily beautiful. I want to make a True Neutral drow who is an adventurer by orders of his misstress

[@jasonj1161]

Damn the drow kinda got it fucked up

[@fairykeibani9155]

I adore the pure emotion and storytelling you put into all your videos 💖

[@dablackpacman88]

Thank you for the amazing video. Just started playing DnD myself and have been reading the Drizzt series and have been absolutely fascinated with the drow society. So again, thank you for the amazing video

[@donovan5656]

I never really bought that driders are seen as failings. Seems like a strange, inconsistency. Being part spider should be a great thing for a culture that worships spiders.

[@hoodedone8547]

Everything Lolth and the matron mothers do is backwards. I know of some stories of drow actually being heroic and being turned drider as consequence. Also there are people that think Drizzt is somehow loved by Lolth because he's slain so many people/monsters which, in a way, brings about chaos.

[@mint1114]

Lolth's spider body is because she was cursed by Corellon. A drow who is so transformed is Lolth at the moment of her fall, not Lolth the Spider Queen. Plus Driders are incapable of reproducing so that's a big deal for a society fixated on gaining power through your family line

[@kamiabroad]

I’m creating my own dnd world from scratch but the one pantheon that I wanted to keep was Lolth. Her story is so interesting. I’m playing with the concept of perception so the writings of the Drow about Lolth paint her as a victim of Corellon and Serhenine’s plan to destroy the dark elves. With Lolth being a sort of split personality that Araushnee develops to protect herself after being banished. And all of Lolth’s actions being attempts at protecting Araushnee’s children and people. Which would explain her changes in attitude as there are times Araushnee comes out and makes decisions that Lolth changes later 😅

[@ashlazdanovich8396]

Was looking up information on my first dnd character who’s a dwarf. But turned sharply down this rabbit hole and so far I’m loving the race. I want to play as one eventually.

[@gygolos4700]

Wow! It's like listening to an autobiography. I'm saving this one!

[@theenderdestruction2362]

what kinda autobiography do you listen to?

[@aktovt]

this is literally perfect! It's like I'm listening to my male drow oc talk about his story

[@Babymurloc]

Loved every second of this narration! ❤

[@Florian0799]

I think through the eyes of a wood or high elf would also be a very interesting point of view. Considering that we now got a glimpse of the evil side of things

[@xbbyCiTRUS]

This was beautifully written!

[@duskanddawn8543]

Great video, my favourite way of understanding lore is through the eyes of the lore itself

[@crackben]

Thank you so much for the inspiration. Merci

[@VelascoAnastasi]

Loved the video, more elf content would be awesome

[@DelverofDungeons]

With how much elf stuff D&D has, the wait won't be long!

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Being nothing is not so bad. Better than being a Drow.

[@swindler1570]

And being a drow isn't so bad, either. Better than being a bigot. XD

[@tedcruz212]

Idk, being a drow seems like it wouldnt be too fun lol. But to be fair almost everyone has it pretty rough in the dnd world.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

@@tedcruz212 Especially Bards. Bard: "So let me get this straight, there are monsters, demons, devils, bandits, and betrayers causing hundreds of deaths a day.... And I am the asshole for trying to erase some of those deaths with births?" Party: "Yes!"

[@starking2162]

@@swindler1570Drow are the most bigoted amongst playable races tbh

[@kyledayton7829]

​@@starking2162 well Lothite drow anyway Eilistraee, the goddess whose whole goal is redeeming the Drow precheces tolerance. I mean if you get caught worshipping Eilistraee in a drow city you will get executed, if your lucky.

[@TheHydrasLair]

song name?

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Drow lore is better from the males' perspective, anyway. The priestesses are the definition of "cartoonishly evil" and a little bland for it.

[@cora8779]

so all female drow are Barbies and all male drow are Kens

[@Species5008]

Hello Barbie, let's go party! Bahahahaha

[@gilpolin3261]

This channel is amazing, great job!

[@loreseeker1881]

Brilliant storytelling. I'm glad that I found your channel.

[@slamin2095]

well done

[@josuesepulveda6850]

A nother great video,well done!

[@ummahmuhammad9755]

I love this series

[@trueKENTUCKY]

TiL Aztec culture was drow

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

Illythiiri as well? 🥷🏻

[@lunamaria1048]

Wow! Excellent video!

[@Mr.little.man217]

Truly a great video, I love the drow world.

[@WexMajor82]

And then, in the darkness, a floating purple mask approaches me...

[@Korvo.420]

Drow society is so based

[@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3ri]

No, it's not. lol It's a beta-male society. A real man would never bend a knee to a woman... nor a real woman to a man. There's no real balance among yin and yang/ female and masculine energies in Drow society.

[@beans69beans]

@@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3riWow someone who wants to structure a society based on mutual benefit and respect rather than just their kinks and fetishes??? Absolutely wild… I didn’t know people like you existed :0 I’ve certainly never seen one in a youtube comment section…

[@marcinzysko1653]

You know, we already had a society like that in real life. It was called the soviet union. Drows of Loth are basicaly the same.

[@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3ri]

So, a literal beta-male society...? lol Go figure...

[@denis4082]

Can you make a story how a drow elf lvls up and goes to elven pention lives and shows Korelin his mistake ( also Sun Elvs F up and drow turned to demons for help )

[@dragonlord498]

few races have messed things for everyone more then the sun elves like for example they have a major clan that is more demon tainted then the drow, the draco rage, almost all crown wars etc were because of them like apparently one of the main reasons they kept waring with the dark elves was because the dark elves were better looking on average then them i also suspect the reason female drow are physically stronger is because of some of changes lolth did towards the drow and not something natural also personally think would've been better if they did from the eyes of the drow not from a follower of lolth but Vhaeraun given almost everyone who knows dnd knows of lolth but not so much her children who fight against her and actually care for the drow and not see them as toys or such plus also would make sense given character whose perspective is male who often do secretly worship him in secret

[@DelverofDungeons]

The sun elves? Interesting!

[@maxwellr447]

Beautiful and thoughtful

[@wretchedlydevine]

These are so good 👍 😊 keep at it!

[@Species5008]

Man, i sure wish people would pronounce Drizzt correctly. For the record, drits is NOT the correct way. Sound it out. Of course, you'll need to go back to English class to do that. Ugh