the drow are mysterious they are violent they are long-lived elves with dark skin they have
changed just a little bit from their pathfinder days and today we're going to talk about them so
let's get into it the physical characteristics of a drow have not really changed they're still
purple skinned and they have white hair they are everything in appearance that i am not
although they are typically very attractive they are very very merciless make no mistake the drow
are ruthless and that society has gotten even worse when you factor in mega corporations and all
of the likeness of that the civilian population as well as much of the military is made up of
the average drow if you're wealthy you will not serve military time if you're poor you will be a
slave or have some form of indentured servitude or forced military service and of course the wealthy
and more noble drow they will just boss everybody else around as is their birthright i guess
what's interesting about the drow society is that it's matriarchal which means if you're a dude you
don't get to advance very high in the ranks or at least it's much harder for you to do so
effectively there's only two ways for you to get a comfortable life if you are a male drow you can
become a high level enforcer or you can become a notorious weapons dealer that's that's basically
your options to riches unfortunately for these two choices of career path they typically come
with a shorter life expectancy because competition is ruthless and speaking of drow ruthlessness they
have no qualms about setting up traps ambushes killing their opponents from a distance if they
can avoid a physical confrontation after all fairness is just a weakness of the lesser races
if you believe that fairness and honor are important then the drow believed that you
should be exploited and you are a lesser being the drow have absolutely no qualms about taking
hostages prisoners using anyone that they can gain an advantage on as slaves or minions cannon fodder
anything that they can put a physical literally a physical barrier in front of them so that
you get hit and not the drow this happens a lot when the drow go on exploration missions
especially when it's a planet that they are just unfamiliar with after all the drow have enough
problems back on apostate dealing with their own kind basically the biggest risk to another drow
is another drow there are a little more than a dozen houses that rule everything on apostate
almost every drow will belong to at least one of these houses some of the largest houses
they get along well enough although saying that they cooperate is pretty generous terms
these houses are arabani brevak rycast and zeizerer when it comes to electing the ambassadors
that will represent apostate in the pact world's council they cooperate well enough as long as
those who are represented are furthering the drow agenda having said that when no one is watching
they will try to supplant each other and outdo each other or sabotage each other
for their own for their own gain essentially all of these houses will do that and that's really
how everything works on apostate and especially with drow society all-out war with another house
is very very rare being that this is a planet of weapons producers and that's how most houses
have actually made their wealth is not generally a good idea to go to open war with each other
what ends up happening instead is more corporate espionage sabotage
traps setting someone up to fail destroying your opponent's reputation in some way drow are the
ultimate politicians with literally no morals on top of all of this there has been instances where
elven saboteurs or elven operatives have gone into drow society to destroy drow equipment
holdings anything that the elves feel would be important to the drow that could be destroyed
the elves view the drow as demon worshiping cancer essentially the elves are not a fan while these
acts are officially condemned by the packed council they still do happen from time to time
now the drow economy revolves specifically around reverse engineering weapons that they have found
i have talked quite a bit about how the drow go about finding their weapons and technologies and
reverse engineering them for maximum profit and i've done that on my apostate video and
you can check that out up here the drow are very proud that the weapons they sell are cutting edge
bleeding edge even and they sell them to not only the highest bidder but the packed worlds and the
star finder society some special militia within the drow society they are capable of working
together this means that if you're going to play a drow character while they do tend to lean towards
the evil spectrum this doesn't mean you need to be a complete [ __ ] to the rest of your party so
keep that in mind these specialized units they tend to favor ranged weapons and they combine
them very effectively with team tactics we're talking sniper rifles and long range weapons here
having said all of that if a drow sniper is working with a team and they happen to see
a target that they can take out and settle a personal vendetta they will absolutely do that
even if it jeopardizes the mission but notice at worst they're just jeopardizing the mission they
are not actively sabotaging their team i feel like i need to do a different video around alignment so
i'll probably do that in the future as well this means that you have a combination of tyranny and
near anarchy that basically rules society settlements on apostate even though there really
aren't that many they are controlled by either one or two of the houses and if they are not then
these areas are basically completely lawless you could have some mad max style fun here just with
no oxygen it's mad max but on hard mode anyone who is not a drow must receive formal permission to
actually land on the planet and this permission does not come with any sort of guarantees of
your safety so if you're coming to apostate be very aware that you could literally die
and no one would care at least on apostate anyways you'll find a lot of mercenary groups work with
the drought especially the ones that have quite a bit of collateral damage pirate groups rogue
elements street gangs all of them love to have their time on apostate because any act that they
do here which would on other worlds be considered starting a riot or inciting a war to the drow it's
just a cost of doing business if that weren't all bad enough there is also the magical element here
mystics or summoners who like to call upon the dark magics or the dark beings demons whatever
they will try to do their magics here because no magical sanctions and it's not viewed as
a bad thing even if you lose control of that demon and it kills you want to do some morally
grey biohacking experiments then talk to the drow they will have a place for you on apostate this
also just adds to the list of dangerous things that you need to be aware of because sometimes
a science experiment will get out and it has to be put down if i can call upon you for just a moment
to help me out with some of the black magics that is the youtube algorithm if you could hit
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hit subscribe with the bell some drow known as the drown nobles are born with magical abilities
most drow have magical powers but the drown nobles they have just a little bit more than everybody
else and they really like to lord it over them and drown nobles are often the children who are
selectively bred and engineered from other wealthy drow families it is possible for someone like this
to be born to common parents however they will use their magical abilities and their powers to rise
up in social ranks very quickly i would say that if someone did this then they would typically be
quite aggressive drow don't really have laws per se drow have a lot of rules however most of these
rules are unwritten and they come with severe double standards basically anything that you
think you can get away with is permitted this is one of the unwritten rules if you can do it
and nobody will know that it was you then great more power to you if there is any form of law
enforcement it's usually enforcers for the house that you are working with or that you represent
if you are a low-ranking member of these houses or a low-ranking employee your complaints nothing's
going to happen with them only something that has been committed against a high-ranking drow
official or member of the family or members of the houses only those will be taken seriously and
depending on what the act was if it makes a house look weak expect some form of retaliation because
these houses need to show that they are physically strong and any sort of act of aggression like this
will not be tolerated in this sense they are very much like mafia families the mafia sometimes went
to war with each other however they mostly tried to avoid it whenever possible can you find other
races that live on apostate yes yes you can there is humans and half orcs or full orcs
however those three races are usually slaves what was interesting about drow society as well before
the gap everything was matriarchal every position of power was held by women now what's interesting
is before the gap as i've mentioned drow society is more matriarchal and the women rule
before the gap going back into history all of the positions of power were entirely female this
was still the case even after the gap had ended now there were some laws that were passed during
the gap on apostate that cemented positions of power and power consolidation for the drow women
legally the drow women are more powerful and more important than the men because it's so difficult
for male drought to advance within society in apostate and drow society in general what they
will typically do is they will go out into space and make their own cities make their own visions
of what they want they will consolidate power that way it's a lot easier for them to do that
as many of the other races in space are not as unscrupulous as they are when this happens
which is quite frequently typically a male drow will go to their managers their mid-level managers
whoever's running the house and they will typically seek permission to go out and do this
some mid-level managers may even just voluntarily do this on their own if they're feeling
particularly ambitious going out into space and making your own way your own fortune or future
while uncertain is still better and less dangerous than staying on apostate and trying to do it there
a drowned noble who goes out into space this way typically will build up their own business
representing their own house they will travel to the packed worlds they will travel to any
planets in near space or the veskarium they will line up their buyers they will have their own
clientele they can become quite quite powerful this way as well if they do manage to find any
significant technology out among the stars they can send it back to their own house or back to
their own engineers for reverse engineering and they can then weaponize that this has happened on
many occasions some drow will go out and be powerful mystics or powerful mages they will
typically go out and further their houses packed with the demon lord that they serve some drow will
go out as technomancers or witchwarpers to get an education in their chosen field which they will
then bring back to the night arch gate and be the first to conclusively say this is what's going on
i'm important now listen to me now that you know a little bit about the drow let's talk about some of
the stats you'll get if you decide to play one to start off as a drow you will get plus two to your
dexterity plus two to your charisma and minus two to your constitution being that you are also a elf
subtype you have four hit points so it's not great but it's not awful either drow will of
course have dark vision for 60 feet you will also get the feature drow immunities drow are immune to
sleep effects they will also gain a plus two racial saving bonus against enchantment spells and
effects most drow are very magical at least they lean that way you will also gain drow magics as a
character you will gain these spell-like abilities they can be used at will and for their level
they are considered the level of your drought this includes your multi-classing they will
gain dancing lights as well as detect magic now while the drought don't actually have this feat
of minor psychic power they are considered to meet all the prerequisites to have it if the
drought does decide to take these psychic powers feet they will gain access to the limiting light
supernatural ability now what this does effectively within a hundred foot radius
any creature will have a glow around its outline it's visage if you will now the nice thing about
this is let's say you have a creature that is invisible maybe this isn't so good for the
invisible creature if you have line of sight to the one that cast it it will also become visible
and everybody gets to know where you are and they can shoot you now if you want to know a little bit
more about the other playable races in star finder then check out the playlist on your screen now or
if you want to learn a little bit more about the packed worlds then check this one out thank you
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