The Tome Of Drow Lore.pdf - RoseRed

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spasm of rage at this betrayal, the drow struck
against the closest enemy at hand, slaughtering
the leaders of the humans and clapping the
confused and terrified survivors in chains.
After that night, the drow of House Merezzym
became obsessed with finding their own people
once again, but also unwilling to give up this
foothold on the frozen surface world they had
established. Scouts ventured forth into the
Underdeep to look for the other drow, but most
either vanished or returned empty-handed.
Some few, however, came back with rumours
and scraps of stories about an immense battle
in which the drow were crushed and driven
throughout the Underdeep. Few of the House’s
human slaves survived the retribution that such
news brought.
Though attempts to find other drow continued,
many of the people of House Merezzym gave
up and assumed the worst, that the betrayal
by the surface elves and their allies had
eradicated the rest of their race. The drow
began to turn their attention more and more
towards establishing their own realm in the
frozen north of the world. From their slaves,
both human and orc, they learned the wisdom
needed to thrive in this place, of planting crops
and hunting for prey. During the months-long
nights, the drow would venture forth from their
caverns to explore the surface world. At first,
they satisfied themselves with raiding, but they
slowly began to carve out their own empire
on the surface and so the land of the Midnight
People quickly acquired an evil reputation
amongst the other races of the north as a place
ruled by strange, black-skinned beings with red
eyes, who boiled forth from the ground to kill
and enslave.
Millennia passed before the dark elves of House
Merezzym finally learned they were not the only remaining
drow in the world, when a party of House Devoren Explorers
happened upon their frozen caves.
Culture
The drow of House Merezzym can spend nearly half their
lives above ground in the long nights of the far north, a
situation other drow both envy and distrust. Living
underground has been an essential element of the drow
for so long, other Houses wonder how truly drow the dark
elves of Merezzym can still be.
Despite the reservations of others, those of House Merezzym
have no doubts whatsoever that they are truly drow. Often,
they consider themselves more truly drow than those of
other Houses, as Merezzym has never suffered a military
embarrassment like the Sundering.
The drow of Merezzym live in a series of large caves just
below the surface of the world, known collectively as the
city of Siplawlth. The buildings of this city, assembled
and maintained by slaves, are mostly of stone though some
smaller buildings are constructed entirely of ice, considered
a viable building material here because Siplawlth never
becomes warm enough for the ice to melt. Because of