Drow Elves (dark elves):
found in Endless Nights
These dreaded,
evil creatures were once part of the community of elves that still roam
the world's forests. Now these dark elves inhabit black caves and
winding tunnels under the earth, where they make dire plans against the
races that still walk beneath the sun, on the surface of the green earth.
Drow have
black skin and pale, usually white hair. They are shorter and more
slender than humans, seldom reaching more than 5 feet in height.
Male drow weigh between 80 and 110 pounds, and females between 95 and 120
pounds. Drow have finely chiseled features, and their fingers and
toes are long and delicate. Like elves, the have higher Dexterity
and lower Constitution than men.
In the
centuries they've spent underground, drow have learned the languages of
many of the intelligent creatures of the underworld. Besides their
own tongue, and exotic variant of elvish, drow speak both common and the
subterranean trade language used by many races under the earth. They
speak the languages of gnomes and other elves fluently.
Drow also have their own silent
language composed of both signed hand movements and body language.
These signs can convey information, but not subtle meaning or emotional
content. If within 30 feet of another drow, they can also use complex
facial expressions, body movements, and postures to convey meaning.
Coupled with their hand signs, these expressions and gestures give the
drow's silent language a potential for expression equal to most spoken
languages.
Driders:
found in Endless Nights
These strange
creatures have the head and torso of a drow and the legs and lower body
of a giant spider. Driders are created by the drow's dark goddess.
When a dark elf of above-average ability reaches 6th level, the goddess
may put him or her through a special test. Failures become driders.
Because
they have failed their goddess's test, driders are outcasts from their
own communities. Driders are usually found alone or with huge spiders,
rather than with drow or other driders. They are violent, aggressive
creatures that favor blood over all types of food. They stalk their
victims tirelessly, waiting for the right chance to strike.
Elephant:
found falling out of the air onto hapless
victims
Elephants have thick, baggy
hides, covered with sparse and very coarse tuffs of gray hair. The
elephant's most renowned feature is its trunk, which it uses as a grasping
limb.
Ettin (two-headed ettin):
found in Greyknife Peaks, Valley of the Giants
and Serpentine Mountains
Ettins,
or two-headed giants, as they are often called, are vicious and unpredictable
hunters that stalk by night and eat any meat they can catch.
An ettin
at first appears to be a stone or hill giant with two heads. On closer
inspection, however, the creature's vast differences from the relatively
civilized giant races become readily apparent. An ettin has pink
to brownish skin, though it appears to be covered in a dark brown hide.
This is because an ettin never bathes if it can help it, and is therefore
usually encrusted with a thick layer of dirt and grime. Its skin
is thick, giving the ettin its low Armor Class. An ettin's hair is
long, stringy, and unkempt; its teeth are large, yellowing, and often rotten.
The ettin's facial features strongly resemble those of an orc - large watery
eyes, turned-up piggish snout, and large mouth.
An ettin's
right head is always the dominant one, and the right arm and leg will likely
appear lightly more muscular and well developed then the left. An
ettin wears only rough, untreated skins, which are dirty and unwashed.
Obviously, ettins smell very bad, due to their complete lack of grooming
habits - good or bad.
Eyewing:
mostly found as pets to magic users
Eyewings
are loathsome inhabitants of the Abyss. They are obedient, loyal,
and dumb - perfect servitors for the dark gods and their more powerful
minions.
An eyewing's
body is a fat, egg-shaped ball covered with matted black fur. The
5-foot-wide body is supported by a pair of five-foot-long leathery bat
wings. Each wing is tipped with a set of three razor-sharp talons.
An 8-foot-long rat's tail dangles from the back of the body. The
tail ends in a small, sharp spur. It has no feet and has never been
known to land.
The body
is dominated by the single, bulging, 4-foot-wide eyeball. The eyeball
is black with a blood-red pupil. A vile blue fluid continuously leaks
from the eye, soiling its fur. Great leathery eyelids squeeze this
fluid out and away from the creature. The stench is unbelievable.
It gives off an acidic smell that scorches the sensitive tissues in other
creatures' noses and mouths.
Firbolg: found
in the Valley of the Giants
Of all
the giant-kin, the firblog is the most powerful, due to natural intelligence
and considerable magical power.
Firblogs
appear to be normal humans, except that they are over 10 feet tall and
weigh over 800 pounds. They wear their hair long and keep great,
thick beards. Their skin is a normal fleshy pink, with any shade
of hair color, although blonde and red are most common. The flesh
and skin of firbolgs are unusually dense and tough. Their voices
are a smooth, deep bass, thick with rolling consonants.