Drow
Template:Infobox Greyhawk creatureThe drow (rhyming either with "now" or "throw," per Mentzer, 1985) or dark elves are a generally evil, dark-skinned subrace of elves dwelling chiefly underground.
Ecology
Drow weapons and armor (usually made of adamantine or another metal unique to the Underdark) slowly lose their magical properties if exposed to the sun. In Advanced Dungeons & Dragons first and second editions, drow weapons disintegrated upon exposure to sunlight unless specifically treated. Drow often employ hand crossbows, a weapon most consider exotic.
Environment
After the great war amongst the elves, the drow were forced underground in what is now known as the Underdark, a vast system of caverns and tunnels spanning much of the continent. The drow have since built cities across the Underdark, becoming one of the most powerful races therein.
The most famous drow community is the subterranean city Erelhei-Cinlu, and its surrounding Vault, commonly called the Vault of the Drow. Drow are also known to dwell beneath the Domain of Greyhawk, where they worship elemental forces, and beneath the Pomarj.
Typical physical characteristics
Drow characters are extremely intelligent, charismatic and dexterous, but share surface elves' comparative frailty and slight frames. Females tend to be slightly taller than males, though the difference is barely noticable to the untrained eye. Drow are characterized by white or silver hair, obsidian black skin, and red (or rarely gray, violet, or yellow) eyes, as well as innate spell-like abilities and spell resistance. This is balanced by their light sensitivity.
Drow males are commonly wizards or fighters. Females are almost always clerics and almost never wizards.
Half-drow are the result of crossbreeding between another race and a drow, and share characteristics of both. The term "half-drow" usually refers to one who is half drow and half human.
Alignment
As a race, drow are usually evil. Exceptions exist, the most notable being Leda, Nilonim, Jawal Severnain, Tysiln San, and Landis Bree, but these are highly unusual. In earlier editions, drow were chaotic evil. Beginning with Third Edition, drow are usually neutral evil. There have been encounters with nonevil drow, but these are distrusted as much as their brethren, due to their reputation.
Society

Drow society is primarily matriarchal, with priestesses of their evil spider goddess Lolth in the highest seats of power. Some drow, especially of the House of Eilserv, worship a nameless Elder Elemental God (said to have ties to Tharizdun) instead of Lolth. Males are considered inferior to females within drow society, and while some males may be respected if they are powerful wizards, they are never allowed to rule. The drow sometimes use their dark arts to turn humanoid slaves into living sculptures.
Drow society is based upon violence, murder, cunning, and the philosophy that only the strong survive (though in the Drow tongue, a quirk of the language creates a reversal of cause-and-effect; more correctly, it can be translated as "those who survive are strong"). Hence, most drow plot endlessly to murder or otherwise incapacitate their rivals and enemy drow using deceit and betrayal. Drow, particularly in higher positions, are constantly wary of assassins and the like. Their society, as a whole, is seemingly nonviable. The only reason they do not murder themselves to extinction is by the will of Lolth, working primarily through her clergy. Lolth does not tolerate any drow that threaten to bring down her society, and the clergy make certain that perpetrators cease their destructive actions by either threatening or killing them, depending on her mood.
There are exceptions to the rule, of course. Some communities of drow worship other gods (like Vhaeraun or Kiaransali) and thus their hierarchy changes, reverses the roles of males and females, or results in other differences in their social order.
Most drow societies hate surface elves, but will wage war with almost any surface race and other subterranean races, such as mind flayers, svirfneblin, duergar, kuo-toa, dwarves, and orcs, for spoils and territory.
Religion
The gods most commonly worshiped by the drow include Lolth, the Elder Elemental Eye, Keptolo, Kiaransali, Vhaeraun, and Zinzerena. Other fell entities and demon lords may also be worshiped. Kanchelsis is known to be worshiped by some drow.
Notable drow
Known drow of Greyhawk include Clannair Blackshadow, Derken Gale, Jawal Severnain, and Landis Bree of Greyhawk City; Tysiln San of the Valley of the Mage; Eclavdra of House Eilserv and her clone Leda; Edralve of the Slave Lords; and Istovahn from the The Rod of Seven Parts adventure.
The drow of the moon Celene include Queen Lililth "Darkmane," her advisor Xerolan'th, and the priestess Tathis Spiderheart.
Creative origins
The word "drow" is of Scottish origin, an alternative form of "trow", which is a cognate for "troll". Trow/drow was used to refer to a wide variety of evil sprites. Except for the basic concept of "dark elves", everything else about drow was apparently invented by TSR's writers.
Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax stated that "Drow are mentioned in Keightley's The Fairy Mythology, as I recall (it might have been The Secret Commonwealth--neither book is before me, and it is not all that important anyway), and as dark elves of evil nature, they served as an ideal basis for the creation of a unique new mythos designed especially for the AD&D game" ("Books Are Books, Games Are Games" in Dragon #31). This establishes Gygax's source for the term as Thomas Keightley's The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries (1828; aka The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People).
Drow were first mentioned in the Dungeons & Dragons game in the 1977 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual under "Elf," where it is stated that "The 'Black Elves,' or drow, are only legend." They made their first statistical appearance in Gygax's Hall of the Fire Giant King (1978). The story continued in modules D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth, D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa, D3 Vault of the Drow, and Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits each of which expanded on drow culture. The first D&D manual that fulls stas for drow appeared in was the original Fiend Folio (1981).
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References
Citations
Bibliography
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- Cagle, Eric. "The Bestiary: Punishments of Lolth." Dragon #298. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2002.
- Cook, David, et al. Monstrous Compendium Volume Two. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1989.
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| Topic | Type | Product | Page/Card/Image
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| Aleval (House of Drow) | People Group | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 7 |
| Aleval (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 14, 16, 17 |
| Aleval (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 75, 78, 79, 80, 82 |
| Aleval (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 84, 85 |
| Aleval (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 52, 80, 85, 85, 86 |
| Black Tower (Vault of the Drow) | Building | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 11 |
| Black Tower (Vault of the Drow) | Building | Dead Gods | 82 |
| Black Tower (Vault of the Drow) | Building | Dragon magazine #298 | 73 |
| Black Tower (Vault of the Drow) | Building | Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook, D&D 4e | 67, 68 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 7, 11 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 1, 11, 18, 23 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa | 2, 9, 10 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | All |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | Deities & Demigods (1st & 2nd printing), AD&D 1e | 107 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | Deities & Demigods (3rd+ printing), AD&D 1e | 92 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | Dragon magazine #241 | 43 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | Dungeon magazine #070 | 62 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess | 72 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | Living Greyhawk, Living Onnwal Gazetteer, D&D 3.5e | 5 |
| D3 Vault of the Drow | Adventure | World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) | 30 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 7 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 18 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa | 9 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 12, 14, 16, 17 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 78, 79, 80 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 84, 85 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #300 | 92 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook, D&D 4e | 52, 69 |
| Despana (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 47, 52, 55, 65, 77, 80, 85, 86, 121 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | DMGR4 - Monster Mythology | 8, 17, 21, 58, 59, 99, 128 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dance of Demons | 13, 14, 15, 69, 70, 71, 75, 85, 88, 97, 102, 103, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 113, 116, 115, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 131, 132, 137, 138, 139, 143, 152, 157, 160, 161, 163, 165, 175, 183, 185, 187, 193, 206, 209, 211, 212, 213, 227, 228, 230, 233, 238, 239, 242, 244, 245, 246, 254, 320, 322, 331, 373, 420 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #155 | 26, 27, 29 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #209 | 13 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #225 | 50 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #230 | 10, 15 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #236 | 13 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #241 | 42, 44, 45, 46, 75, 76, 95 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #294 | 96 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dragon magazine #AN4 | 70 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook, D&D 4e | 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18, 26, 27, 28, 30, 53, 54, 58, 67-69, 93, 94, 95, 96, 117, 120, 121, 123, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134-135, 139, 148, 154, 156, 158 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dungeon magazine #070 | 49, 50, 51, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 69, 78 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Dungeon magazine #148 | 30, 31 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Fiend Folio, AD&D 1e | 33-34 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess | 29, 56 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | From the Ashes: References Card | #12 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | G123 Against the Giants | 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King | 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Greyhawk Adventures | 43, 44, 750 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 2, 3, 4, 8, 15, 35, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 103, 105, 114, 115, 121, 125, 127 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders: Map/Monster Booklet | 9 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Ghosts of Saltmarsh, D&D 5e | 13, 226 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Ivid the Undying | 123, 125, 131, 139 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Living Greyhawk Gazetteer | 17, 88, 127, 128, 143 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | MC2 - Monstrous Compendium Volume 2 | Insert (Elf, Drow) |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | MC5 Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix | Encounter Tables |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 1, AD&D 1e | 39 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monstrous Manual, AD&D 2e | 112, 113 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monstrous Manual, AD&D 2e (Premium Edition) | 112, 113 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 1, D&D 3.5e | 102-104 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 1, D&D 3.5e (Premium Edition) | 102-104 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 1, D&D 3.0e | 86 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 1, D&D 4e (Deluxe Edition) | 94, 95, 276 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 1, D&D 5e | 126-129 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Monster Manual 2, AD&D 1e | 42, 60 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Player's Guide to Greyhawk | 5, 24, 39 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | PHBR8 - The Complete Book of Elves | 10, 11, 12, 15-16, 27, 29, 33, 37, 46, 48, 63, 78-80 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Polyhedron magazine #030 | 6, 7 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e | 4, 5, 6, 30, 41, 126, 127 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Return to White Plume Mountain | 40, 41 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, Book Two | 10, 12 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Shattered Circle | 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 19 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Spelljammer Boxed Set: Lorebook of the Void | 90 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | SJR6 Greyspace | 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Slavers, AD&D 2e | 2, 36, 48, 109, 121, 122 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Sea of Death | 17, 27, 84-88, 90, 92, 94, 134, 136, 140, 180, 187, 190, 195, 196, 198, 200, 207, 211, 213, 215, 226, 230, 232, 233, 235-237, 239-243, 246, 248-254, 256-258, 263, 265, 266, 268-271, 273, 280-285, 288, 292, 296, 300, 314, 319-321, 323, 325, 343, 345-349, 351-353, 355, 357, 358, 360, 361, 368, 369, 371-373, 381, 382, 384, 387 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil | 29 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | The Adventure Begins | 2, 38, 70, 79, 87 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | LT3 The Doomgrinder | 31-33, 40-44 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | The Scarlet Brotherhood | 25 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Unearthed Arcana, AD&D 1e | 10, 11 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | War Captain's Companion Boxed Set: Book 1 | 63, 64 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WG12 Vale of the Mage | 2, 8, 36 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGA3 Flames of the Falcon | 47, 59, 60 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGA4 Vecna Lives! | 15, 20, 29, 50 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGM1 Borderwatch | 3, 25 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGQ1 Patriots of Ulek | 25 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins | 33 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGR2 Treasures of Greyhawk | 75 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGR3 Rary the Traitor | 39 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGR5 Iuz the Evil | 6, 16, 17, 24, 25, 64, 84, 91, 92 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | WGR6 City of Skulls | IC, 49 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) | 14, 27, 30, 53 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords | 89, 122 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | A2 Secret of the Slavers Stockade | 35 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | A4 In The Dungeons of the Slave Lords | 22 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Artifact of Evil | 33, 92-94, 96-98, 189-193 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Against The Giants: The Liberation of Geoff | 2, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33-42, 73, 93 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | Come Endless Darkness | 12, 53, 56, 57, 149, 150, 151 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | CGR1 The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook | 10 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | The City of Greyhawk: Adventure Cards | 3, 24 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | 17, 52, 53 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | The City of Greyhawk: Gem of the Flanaess | 87 |
| Drow Elf {Dark Elf, Elf, Drow} | Monster | LT2 Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad | 17, 33 |
| Drowic | Verbal communication | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 7, 9 |
| Drowic | Verbal communication | Oerth Journal #14 | 8 |
| Drowic | Verbal communication | Oerth Journal #28 | 10,11 |
| Drowic | Verbal communication | PHBR8 - The Complete Book of Elves | 48-49 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Artifact of Evil | 93 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Artifact of Evil | 93 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | LT2 Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad | 33 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 9 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 10 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 75, 78, 80, 82, 83 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 76, 84, 86 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Dungeon magazine #070 | 49 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 44, 48, 52, 76, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 92, 120 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e | 126 |
| Eilserv (House of Drow) | People Group | Sea of Death | 85, 235, 237 |
| Eldar Elemental God, Temple of (Vault of the Drow) | Building | G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King | 9, 10 |
| Eldar Elemental God, Temple of (Vault of the Drow) | Building | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 87, 125 |
| Elf, Drow | Monster | Reference | SEE Drow Elf |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | A4 In The Dungeons of the Slave Lords | 20 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 8, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dead Gods | 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dragon magazine #225 | 50 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dragon magazine #241 | 75 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dragon magazine #298 | 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dragon magazine #300 | 90, 91, 92, 93 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dragon magazine #AN4 | 70 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook, D&D 4e | 67-69, 131 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dungeon magazine #070 | 49, 54, 71 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Dungeon magazine #072 | 84 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 3, 4, 73, 77, 81, 82, 88, 90 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Living Greyhawk Gazetteer | 18 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Polyhedron magazine #113 | 25 |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | Reference | SEE ALSO Vault of the Drow |
| Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow) | Settlement | WGR5 Iuz the Evil | 16, 17 |
| Everhate (House of Drow) | People Group | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 18 |
| Everhate (House of Drow) | People Group | D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa | 9 |
| Everhate (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 14, 16, 17 |
| Everhate (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 75, 78, 79, 80, 82 |
| Everhate (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 84, 85 |
| Everhate (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 52, 65, 85, 86 |
| FOR02 Drow of the Underdark | Adventure | DMGR4 - Monster Mythology | 60 |
| Godeep (House of drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 14, 17, 18 |
| Godeep (House of drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 78, 79, 80 |
| Godeep (House of drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 84, 85 |
| Godeep (House of drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 52, 80, 86, 87 |
| Great Cavern of the Drow | Place | Reference | SEE Vault of the Drow |
| Kilsek (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 14, 16, 17 |
| Kilsek (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 78-82, 84, 85 |
| Kilsek (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 81, 82, 84, 85 |
| Kilsek (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 52, 80, 85, 86, 121 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 9 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 9, 21 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa | 13 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 14, 16, 17, 21 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 78, 79, 80 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 84, 85 |
| Noquar (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 52, 57, 68, 69, 80, 85, 86, 92, 121 |
| Tormtor (House of Drow) | People Group | D3 Vault of the Drow (adventure) | 14, 15, 16 |
| Tormtor (House of Drow) | People Group | Dead Gods | 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85 |
| Tormtor (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 76, 84, 85, 86 |
| Tormtor (House of Drow) | People Group | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 4, 37, 40, 47, 52, 80, 81, 83, 85 |
| Urlisindatu (Drow City) | Settlement | Sea of Death | 84 |
| Urrq'azzt (Drow) (Kule) | Settlement | Polyhedron magazine #113 | 23 |
| Urrq'azzt (Drow) (Kule) | Settlement | SJR6 Greyspace | 12, 14, 15, 16 |
| Vae (House of Drow) | People Group | Dragon magazine #298 | 74, 80, 84, 85 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits | 2, 3 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Reference | SEE ALSO Erelhei-Cinlu |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Sea of Death | 94, 95, 236 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | WG12 Vale of the Mage | 7 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) | 30 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Against The Giants: The Liberation of Geoff | 42 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | LT2 Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad | IC, 33 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth | 1, 2, 11, 18, 23 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa | 9 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Dead Gods | 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Dragon magazine #209 | 13 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Dragon magazine #230 | 10 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Dragon magazine #298 | 7, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Dragon magazine #300 | 90, 91, 92, 93 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook, D&D 4e | 3, 67-69 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Dungeon magazine #070 | 62 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess | 72 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Greyhawk Adventures | 43 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders | 2, 3, 53, 55, 56, 61, 65, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 112, 121, 125 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Living Greyhawk Gazetteer | 18 |
| Vault of the Drow | Place | Player's Guide to Greyhawk | 7, 24 |