looking at adding a drow or half-drow PC to the group and te question came up around how they would be received by local populations. Obviously elves would instantly perceive the drow heritage, but in human population centres would the locals have ever seen or heard of drow?
Best I can figure so far:
- the more cosmopolitan and educated the population the more likely someone might pick up the drow heritage e.g. Greyhawk
- nations along the Hellfurnances might have seen drow before (e.g. Geoff, Sterich)
Any there any other locations or nations that might have suffered from drow raids etc?
looking at adding a drow or half-drow PC to the group and te question came up around how they would be received by local populations. Obviously elves would instantly perceive the drow heritage, but in human population centres would the locals have ever seen or heard of drow?
Best I can figure so far:
- the more cosmopolitan and educated the population the more likely someone might pick up the drow heritage e.g. Greyhawk
- nations along the Hellfurnances might have seen drow before (e.g. Geoff, Sterich)
Any there any other locations or nations that might have suffered from drow raids etc?
-Also, time period. The later, the more likely. Knowledge would have been more widespread among non-Elves after explorers brought back knowledge of the Vault of the Drow.
Also, it really depends on what you want your version of Greyhawk to be like.
If you want it to have drow, dragonborn, tieflings, half-giants, etc. walking the streets of the City of Greyhawk and other major metropolitan areas, then most people across the Flanaess will have heard of those races, if not seen one of them.
If you want those races to be myths and legends, then almost no one has seen one of them. A few sages may know more about them from studying ancient texts and speaking to the few adventurers that have encountered them. There may be a few villages in the borderlands that have suffered nighttime raids by drow coming to the surface, but such raiders would be very careful not to leave any witnesses alive, so most of the rumors will be based on conjecture, etc.
If you make such races too common, you'll end up with Sigil.
P.S. I'll note that canon places drow cities, or conclaves, in the Pomarj, below the Drachensgrab Mountains. Edralve(?), of The Slavers fame, is one that is prominent enough that a few leader-types in the Pomarj may be aware of their existence. Plus the fact that drow in that area would certainly be involved in the slave trade, so more individuals would know of them.
Yes, SirXaris, I agree with you. A lot depends on how you want your Greyhawk to be like.
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If you want it to have drow, dragonborn, tieflings, half-giants, etc. walking the streets of the City of Greyhawk and other major metropolitan areas, then most people across the Flanaess will have heard of those races, if not seen one of them.
Yes, exactly. There was a reason why I planted my Dragonborn in a far away place from the Flanaess (it makes sense that they would be in the Draconic Imperium of Lynn). I wanted my Greyhawk to be Heroic fantasy. Although I admit, I purchased Red Hand of Doom in order to try something more epic one day.
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If you make such races too common, you'll end up with Sigil.
Yep, you would end up with Sigil, and this is another point where I agree with SirXaris. In the D&D Cartoon, the group was in a city. And they had all sorts of races there. I thought it was wild, but there was other aspects that affected my suspension of disbelief (they had a Griffon in that episode of D&D).
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