drow — dark elves who once, many millennia ago, were part of the great throng of surface elves. Sometime in the distant past, a great dispute and schism divided the elves of the surface world. The elves will not speak of it outside of their own race. Those who withdrew to the Underdark eventually became dark elves, able to use faerzress-induced native abilities.

Bauthwaf, The — the term drow use to reference the network of 100 or so tunnels surrounding Menzoberranzan. The Bauthwaf is vigilantly patrolled by drider-riding elite drow.

Phentarm &mash; a renegade male drow who fled Eryndlin in PR 200 after running afoul of a cabal of illithid sorcerers. In PR 201 he met and befriended Exodore, a svirfneblin. The Phandalin Four met and assisted this pair against slavers kidnapping individuals from the Surface world for some unknown nefarious purpose.