Editing Drow (section)

==Woodrot on the Family Tree==
The drow don't exactly get on well with other races, but they are still elves, so the family tree can produce some rather odd branches.

Famously, drow are often transformed by [[Lolth]] into half-drow, half-spider [[centaur]] creatures traditionally known as [[drider]]s. In several editions, they also created the [[chitine]]s, a race of humanoid spiders.

An incredibly rare mutation amongst the drow are the '''Szarki''', meaning "Ghost Spiders" - drow afflicted with albinism. First appearing in the form of a prominent antagonist character in the original [[Maztica]] novels, who was transformed into a [[drider]] at their end, the szarki were fleshed out in 3.5's ''Drow of the Underdark''. They are mechanically identical to drow, but their albinism allows them to pass themselves off as elves, so they are coddled and trained as elite infiltrators.

A common "sacred rite" for drow priestesses of [[Lolth]] is to bang a powerful [[demon]] known as a [[glabrezu]]. The resultant [[Half-Fiend]] offspring is known as a [[Draegloth]].

In AD&D, drow also had a unique [[Half-Dragon]] offshoot race that was half [[Deep Dragon]], known simply as the "Drow-Dragon". In 3e, this idea was tweaked and replaced with a race of drow-dragons born of [[Shadow Dragon]] lineage, called ''Zekyl''. These in turn gave rise to a race called the ''draa'zekyl'', who could shapeshift between purely drow and purely draconic forms.

Much like how [[Duergar]] have the long-forgotten "good but still [[Underdark]]-dwelling" counterpart of Grey Dwarves, so too do Drow have such a counterpart race: the [[Rockseer Elf]]. [[Mystara]] has its own unique elf race that takes the drow's niche, the [[Shadow Elf]].