Silican Drow
A sect of the dark elven species that worship Silica, Queen Of Spiders these drow are very different from normal elves due to Silica's influence on their bodies, minds, & souls. Silican Drow are known to be prideful like normal elves but they are also cruel, heartless, misandrist, and enjoy using others to their advantage to Silican Drow people are only either tools or obstacles. These elves live deep underground in massive cities ruled by drow houses who are constantly planning each other's downfall as infighting is common among these elves. Silican Drow are known for their dark rituals and use of demons to prove their status, as well as their veneration of spiders. The Silican Drow recently lost their deity as Silica was finally slain during the Black Garden War now their divine magic and blessings are lost to them.
Basic Information
Anatomy
The Silican Drow are different from other elves; the females are taller and physically stronger than the males. They have an onyx complexion, straight silver white hair, & typically have orange, purple, green, or red eyes. Blessed Silican Drow often exhibits traits reminiscent of spiders: four arms, purple blood, three sets of eyes, & durable muscles. Silican Drow have different brains from the typical Drow and are much quicker to emotion than other elves.
Biological Traits
Silican Drow have unique magic that allows them to make flashing lights, make clouds of magic darkness, & cause others to glow making attacks easier to hit. The female silican drow are taller and physically stronger than the males of their species. Blessed Silican Drow have unique traits gifted to them by Silica herself giving them four arms, poisonous purple blood, three sets of eyes, natural webbing, & the ability to telepathically communicate with spiders.
Genetics and Reproduction
Silican Drow reproduce sexually at a more frequent rate than regular elves having up to 5 children every six months.
Growth Rate & Stages
Silican Drow during the first 30 years of their lives their trance is complete and utter darkness it isn't until then they have memories of their lives.
Ecology and Habitats
Silican Drow live deep underground typically the second level of the underground 25 km underground. They live in massive cities built in large cave chambers in underground deposits of water, fungi, and mining materials.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Just like other elves they need much smaller portions of food & water for sustenance. They are known to eat mostly fungi, bats, and other monsters of the underground.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Silican Drow has a misandrist matriarchal society built on strength and superiority in status with Silica. The strong & popular live lavish lifestyles typically the females living as priestesses or other high ranking positions in their society like venom blades or inquisitors. The weak are put to work as slaves for these elves typically the captives of their raids as well as their male counterparts are put into slavery and treated as property. Silican cities are ruled by many drow houses all ruled by a matron mother, a cleric of silica who has reached the pinnacle of power with her eldest daughters and her high priestesses. While males are typically seen as the lesser sex some manage to find themselves in high ranking positions in their society like House General, Favored Consort, ECT. The drow worship Silica out of fear more than genuine love like other gods they also worship to gain power and status.
Facial characteristics
marks under & above the original set of eyes
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
The Silican Drow has the ability to see in the dark much like other elves.
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
Surface Dwellers
- Silican Drow often raid settlements on the surface during the night taking resources and captives as slaves.
Spiders
- They use many different types of spiders to use their venom for many purposes to put them to sleep, paralyze them, & use necrotoxin.
Civilization and Culture
Major Organizations
Drow Houses are the most important organizations leading silican cities planning to gain more and more power through ending the others.
The Venom Court
- The Venom Court was a court of divine entities that act as the main enforcers of Silica and Silican Drow sought to become part of the Venom Court. The members of the venom court disbanded after Silica's death and were hunted down by the forces of the new spider god.
The Venom Church
- The main following of Silica made of all silican drow the group disbanded 15 years ago after Silica perished and her children vanished.
Beauty Ideals
Silican Drow are very shallow, finding power and status to be very attractive nothing else really matters to them.
Gender Ideals
Female Silican Drow are seen as superior to the males and deserve the power in their society. Male Silican Drow are the lowest of the low, not worthy of power or status existing only to serve to stronger gender.
Courtship Ideals
Among Silican Drow power and status are what makes a prosperous partner. The girls court the guys taking them based on their physical attributes and the men of nobles are bought, becoming one of the girl's concubines. The rare men who don't belong to a drow are given money for being a concubine.
Relationship Ideals
Relationships with silican drow are very one-sided as the females have harems of many male concubines who live to serve her until she tires of them.
Average Technological Level
Silican Items
- Fang Of Silica: A ceremonial shortsword used by priestesses of Silica to deal the final blow to sacrifices to Silica after they suffered hours of excruciating public torture.
- Claws Of Silica: Ceremonial triple headed whips used by priestesses of Silica for public execution/sacrifice.
- Webs Of Silica: Powerful adamantium chains adorned in netherial runes used to keep prisoners and demons bound with no means of escape.
Weapons & Armor
- Silican Drow typically use hand crossbows, whips, shortswords, raipers, & claymores as their main weapons. They typically use iron to make these weapons although the most popular material they use is adamantium for their weapons and armor.
Weapons
- Silican Claymore: A primary weapon of silican soldiers made of iron & steel adorned in runes.
- Silican Raipers: A primary weapon of silican soldiers made of steel adorned in runes that aid in the envenoming of victims.
- Silican Fangs: A secondary weapon of silican soldiers a pair of twin shortswords made of iron.
- Silican Spitters: Secondary weapons for silican drow wrist mounted crossbows adorned with runes that can give poison to bolts.
- Adamantium Claymore: The strongest type of claymore used by silican soldiers typically the female venom blades and inquisitors.
- Adamantium Raiper: Raipers made of adamantium fallen out of style for silican drow but had the thrusting power to peirce through armor and stone.
- Adamantium Bolts: Crossbow bolts made with adamantium capable of peircing armor.
- Adamantium Fangs: The strongest type of shortsword used as a secondary weapon for higher ranked silican soldiers.
Armor
- Silican Chitin: The standard armor of silican soldiers made of black iron.
- Silican Heavy Chitin: Adamantium armor used by higher ranked silican soldiers
Spiders
Silican Drow often use spiders for various purposes from the generation of various venoms to paralyze, knock people out, & even cause necrosis, spiders are also used for recon & the production of webbing.Larger spiders are also used as mounts in battle using their webbing and venom to quell their enemies.- Achidna Spiders: The children of the first tanari demon existing around the Silican cities acting as spies and making powerful acid.
- Umbral Spiders: Jet black spiders that would skulk around silican cities acting as spies.
- Tarantulites: The children of Tarantulas famed for their neurotoxin that causes long lasting paralysis.
- Isilikes: The children of Isilik famed for their necrotoxin.
Alchemy & Mechs
While male drow are barred from using silica's divine magic & blessings they compensate through learning alchemy and tinkering something that the girls thought was beneath them. They often brew alchemical substances and poisonous compounds through the venom of spiders, fungi and other things found around the underground. Their skill to make mechs where great enough to make turrets, and mithryl spiders.Silican Contraptions
- Spinneret: A special type of turret that shoots web traps hard to break through.
- Venom Turrets: Turrets fitted with vials of venom to give their shots poison damage.
- Mithryl Spiders: Large spider shaped autonomotrons of Silican make. Mithryl Spiders are large crystalline mechs that fire electrified webs in a large area, their mithryl body makes them hard to hurt, & strike with mighty force to their targets body.
Alchemical Substances
- Achidnite: The corrosive saliva of achidna and her children used as an alchemical substance capable of melting organic & inorganic substances.
- Umbral Venom: The venom of the umbral spiders capable causing mental anguish and hallucinations.
- Sulirus: An alchemical substance made from the sulirus fungi the spores once introduced to heat will detonate.
- Tarantulite Venom: The venom of the tarantulite spiders capable of causing paralysis.
- Isilik Venom: The necrotoxin found in the Isilikes and their mother capable of killing in hours.
- Blessed Ichor: The purple blood of the blessed Silican Drow capable of putting others to sleep.
Magic
Female Silican Drow are able to use the divine magic of Silica becoming preistesses of Silica and gaining powerful magic. Male Silican Drow are barred from the divine magic of Silica have to compensate through learning arcane magic becoming bards & wizards.Sonahir
Sonahir is a type of magic radiation that emanates from sonite buried deep in the underground the Silican Drow build their cities near deposits of it to inhibit outside divination and conjuration magic.Demon Summoning
The preistesses would often use their magic to make sacrifices to Silica to summon demons to their realm to use them as aid or a symbol of status.Silican Runes
As elves they would apply runes to their weapons and armor these runes would typically use poison, netherial energy, increase stealth, ECT.- Web Rune: A netherial rune applied to chains and spinnerets to increase the strength of the binding.
- Rancour Rune: An elven/netherial rune that imbues the weapon with necrotic plasma.
- Vile Rune: A netherial rune that imbues the weapon with powerful poison.
- Hidden Venom Rune: A rune that hides magic and venom from very high level divination.
- Netherial Conduit Rune: A rune that makes a weapon capable of being a focus for the casting of spells.
- Shade Rune: An arcane rune that connects a mage to the shade arconis
- Blood Rune: A netherial rune that gives a user connection to the law of blood gaining the power of the death law.
- Venom Rune: A rune that makes poison much stronger instantly envenoming those hurt.
Common Etiquette Rules
Silican males often courtesy to the females of their species whether they want to or not. The priestesses often disrobe when performing rituals to Silica to humble themselves in the presence of Silica.
Common Dress Code
Silican Drow often wear black & purple clothing to blend into their environment. The females clothing often show alot of skin the more skin is shown the higher ranked they are.
Culture and Cultural Heritage
Silican Drow are prideful to the point of arrogance due to their god Silica's power. Due to the misandrist nature of their gods females were put on a pedestal while males where often below in society. Silica demands sacrifices not only from the captives they gain but from her drow as males could be sacrificed & their souls consumed by Silica herself. These elves often summon demons from Silica's realm to use them for many purposes as a symbol of status, or for the creation of demon/elf offspring through procreation.
Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals
Sacrificial Executions
- Silican Drow sacrifice others to their gods in various rituals. These sacrifices are done with humans, elves, and male drow in the presence of altars of Silica and in public of the entire city the sacrifice is bound to stone spikes and are subjected to immense torture. This can be through whipping, pain inducing venom, breaking bones, slicing flesh which could last for hours once the torture is done through a sacrificial dagger called a "Fang Of Silica" the knife is plunged into the chest of the victim dealing the final blow to the sacrifice. A matron mother would issue the execution/sacrifice while a preistess would oversee the ritual and deal the final blow to gain standing.
Silican Harems
- Female Drow often have many concubines as a symbol of status amoung their people the higher rank the more concubines they have. Matron mothers have up to seven concubines, high preistesses have up to five concubines, & lower preistesses have up to three concubines.
Silican Procreation
- Female Drow often engage in group intercourse with their concubines however due to thousands of years of inflicting pain and torment to themselves and others Silican Drow have internalized this treatment and incorporate it into their sexual activities having many female sadists and male masochists. It's not uncommon for these Drow to summon demons to participate in the procreation making crossbreeds between elf & demon
Venom Gauntlet
- A blood sport ceremony to weed out the weak and grant boons to the one who wins. Silican Drow fight their hardest to prove their worth to their society and Silica many children of the matron mother fight and die in the arena for the glory of the mother of spiders.
Common Taboos
- It's taboo for the Silican Drow to speak prayers to Silica in any language other than elvish being prideful elves.
- Weakness and vulnerability are signs of weakness in Silican society grounds for imprisonment and sacrifice.
- To ask Silica for aid is highly taboo as they are supposed to prove that they can stand by themselves.
- Harming spiders is taboo as they are the favored creatures of Silica.
History
The Silican Drow was made when Silica usurped her father and took his divine power perverting it into her power the cosmos would come to know. She turned the elves that once were ruled by her father into the first generation of silican drow commanding them under her ideology of absolute strength through the law of blood. The Silican Drow went to many worlds to colonize the worlds under Silica's rule taking residence underground; they managed to gain other worshippers of Silica through the capture of other dark elves. Through the years they have established a reputation of being cruel monsters who worship pain and death.
Historical Figures
Silica Gilmadrith, Queen Of Spiders
- The patron goddess of the Silican Drow gaining her position from usurping her father the first god of the elven group. Through her leadership she made the elves one of the strongest and most feared people in the cosmos although they where suffering from the corruption she introduced. The drow feared her for thousands of years as she was more than willing to kill the Drow and subject them to torture for all eternity. Now that she's dead the drow are in dissary not knowing what to do next.
Saisisium, King Of Spiders
- The former ruler of the elves before they where even dark elves. He was a kind and just ruler beloved by his people but held secrets of dark untapped power that Silica discovered and usurped him for seeing him as a weak scared old man. Over the years Saisisium became forgotten by his people.
Helbram, The Bloodsoaked Angel
- Once a loyal subordinate of Saisisium but fell into dispair when Saisisium was overthrown feeling betrayed by his people. He fell and began his long crusade against the Drow and other dark forces known as a symbol of fear who wouldn't spare a single soul he thought was with Silica.
The Tanari Demons
Achidna, The 1st. Broodmother
- Achidna is one of the first ever tanari demons made by Silica being made when she became a goddess. Achidna is known to appear when someone disappoints Silica becoming food for her children. She lived in the Black Pits for thousands of years capturing anyone who would intrude in the realm.
Black-Fang, The Umbral Mother
- One of the tanari demons made by Silica capable of vanishing in darkness. She is a cruel and sadistic demon that the drow feared as if they disobeyed Silica or tried to leave the underground she would torment their minds as she hunted them.
Tarantulas, The White Weaver
- One of the four tanari demons made by Silica capable of weaving powerful webs that could cut through most material. She could even make venom that could cause paralysis when injected. Tarantulas was famed for how efficient her venom is being sold around the underground.
Isilik, The Violet Marauder
- The youngest of the tanari demons known for her necrotoxin being put in a large cloud to end multiple people. Isilik was feared amoung the drow as she enjoyed using her venom to harm others she would frequently take those who disobey Silica.
The Venom Court
Wydowna, The Black Spider
- Wydowna is the oldest member of the Venom Court. She was Arachnus that was once under the command of Saisisium choosing to be under his daughter for power as she thought of him as weak as well. Wydowna commanded the entire Arachnus species as they fought to secure more ground for her queen. She was blessed with powerful divine blessings and immortality known as a cruel & uncaring monster who adored Silica.
Visorak, The King Of Swords
- Once an elf that lived during the age of Spinaria and possessed feelings for Silica even accepting the Blood Law to gain her favor. He while he never gained her affection he was giving powerful blessings being given four arms and layed waste to many civilizations in her name. Visorak was famous amoung the elves as she slayed many to make room for the elves.
Munya, The Blood Maiden
- One of the members of the Venom Court munya was a powerful warrior who was hated in Alfheim for her thousands of raids and slaughters on the planet.
Anasi, The Red Gunslinger
- One of the members of the Venom Court she was a very skilled gunslinger during the age of Spinaria but felt her skills where being wasted. She joined Silica to keep her skills sharp and seek a higher purpose than being a hired gun for a reluctant king.
Miranda, The Mistress Of Pain
- One of the members of the Venom Court once a mere human scoundrel taken by a Drow raid & used as a sacrifice. Her enjoyment of the process made her an interesting mortal upon getting her soul deciding to make her into one of her own. Miranda was reborn as a powerful warrior under Silica's rule using bardic magic to draw in others for torment.
Venetta, The Flesh Weaver
- One of the members of the Venom Court a Drow transmuter known for her talent for morphing organic matter often having many offspring to mutate them through her magic.
Common Myths and Legends
- Others believe that Silican Drow priestesses practice cannibalism, eating the men of their race to emulate spiders.
- It's believed that these elves are all sadists and masochists due to their constant use of whips and chains.
- Mortals believe that these elves are all under the control of Silica and any individuality is a ploy.
- The elves rarely speak of their first god and hope for the day he returns and they can return to the light.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Humans
- The Silican Drow sees humans as pathetic, not worth breeding stock and only good for entertainment and sacrifice. Humans are the main sacrifice as their suffering is the most delicious to their goddess.
Elves
- The drow see the other elves as inferior due to their lack of blessings and backing of a god. Other elves are used for sacrifices and experimentation for the betterment of their people.
Demons
- The most powerful entities Silica has to command the Drow often summon them for many purposes. Sometimes there bound to servitude as a symbol of status or used as breeding stock to make other crossbreeds.
Silkin
- One of the volu races in Primal Heart often hunted for their wings and ate them as they are a delicacy to the spider elves.
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Scientific Name
Fey
Origin/Ancestry
Silica's influence corrupted the light elves once under Spinaria's rule turning them into the beings they are.
Lifespan
1,000 years
Average Height
5'6 - 6'8 (female)
4'6 - 5'5 (male)
Average Weight
180 - 250lbs. (female)
60 - 90lbs. (male)
Average Physique
slender athletic build
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
onyx complexion, purple markings
Geographic Distribution
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