Editing Derro (section)

==[[Forgotten Realms]]==
[[File:Izhkin.png|thumb|left|150px|Izhkin, a derro character from the ''Storm Coast Legends'' video game. Rather scrawny.]]
As with most things, the Faerunian take on the Derro is pretty much the "generic" Derro fluff with some setting-unique names to their places of residence. At least, this was the case until the 5e update, seeing as how 5th edition basically uses the Realms as the "default" setting.

These new, uniquely Faerunian derro are stated to be a [[dwarf]] offshoot species, once enslaved by the [[Illithid]]s before they managed to violently free themselves from the yoke of their captors, but not before the gruesome experiments and exposure to the brain-twisting [[psionics]] of their masters had left the race's collective psyche scarred, and afflicted them with incurable madness. Every single derro is insane in some fashion, and this has made the race into one of second-class citizens; stripped of the ability to function in large groups without savants or other charismatic figures to rally behind, they don't establish their own settlements and instead either infest the cities of other [[Underdark]] races like vermin, or are kept as slaves by the greater powers of the Underdark - the [[drow]] and the [[duergar]]. "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes" makes it explicit that derro were once part of the [[duergar]] dwarf clan, but responded particularly badly to the [[illithid]] experiments, such that when [[Laduguer]] freed his people, he abandoned them as beyond saving.

As with the Oerthian derro, those of Faerun also fight their Uniting Wars, but these serve predominantly to manage their population; unlike dwarves, derro are quite a fecund race, maturing and breeding with considerable speed, although it's unclear if this means closer to [[human]] or closer to [[goblin]].

In pre-5e lore, [[Diirinka]] and [[Diinkarazan]] were said to be outcast kin of the [[Morndinsamman]]. In 5e lore, it's mentioned that the derro still worship these two brother-gods, but they are not believed to be real deities by the scholars of other races.