Pathfinder Drow

[Tsukada]

So what's the difference between row in Pathfinder and Drow in the Forgotten Realms?

[The Living Darkness]

The quest involving Kaylessa pretty much explains all there is to know about the history of Drow in Pathfinder. Drow are evil but the reasons for it are different. The lack of Lolth changes things quite a bit. Considering I dont read pathfinder lore books, I did appreciate the lore dump about Drow that happened at the end of that quest line.

[Thracian]

kaylessa defines it as it is used in dragonlance universe

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Alyssa:

So what's the difference between row in Pathfinder and Drow in the Forgotten Realms?

I recommend this for Pathfinder lore fans.
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Drow

And this one for Forgotten Realms
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Drow

Though the essential differences are already mentioned. Basically a background thing while the most basics are the same in regards of their nature.

[Foefaller]

Well, the Dark Fate (which is a curse that makes a particularly evil elf potentially transform into a Drow) is a big one, and kinda enforces their evil-ness as at least some members of the Drow population are Drow because they are evil, rather than expected to be evil because they are drow. Pathfinder Drow are also (supposedly) better than their FR brethren at finding and reeducating/eliminating those among their population that would otherwise reject their lifestyle and go to the surface to become another Drizzt.

FInally, you have Fleshwarping, which is a specialty among Drow cities. Driders are made this way, and are considered beasts or guard slaves rather than someone blessed/punished by their goddess (PF Drow tend to worship a whole patheon of demon lords, rather than focus on just one Drow-related deity of the Abyss.) And it's also used for... creative purposes. As in a Drow Fleshwarper would watch The Human Centipede and dismiss the titular horror as uninspired, before showing of a dozen pieces of "living art" that are several times more horrifying.

[Tsukada]

Wow. That's pretty interesting!

[Tsukada]

Now I wish we could play as a Drow. Perhaps in another Pathfinder installment.