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To my mind, it would be logical if the Drow were all albino, as many cave-dwelling creatures are. In my comic Corner Alley 13 ( [link] ) however, they have their traditional appearance with dark skin and red eyes, i.e occular albinism.
In this picture I have also given the Drow girl large, bat-like ears as I assumed that her hearing would need to be excellent in such dark surroundings. She may even be blind. I postulate this with the assumption that the Drow, after thousands of years in the Underdark, cut off from the Surface, would adapt to their environment.

Disagree? I most heartily encourage discussion on this subject!

Further comment: Thank you for some great discussions on this subject! Some of the comments contained points so important that they ought to be mentioned here.
1) Talking of evolution in this context in misleading, as the process takes a lot longer than the few thousand years I am talking about. This becomes even more true if one assumes that the Drow have a longer life-span and reach maturity later than Humans.
2) A self-contained world COMPLETELY without sunlight is not orthodox D&D, whichever version of the rules one looks at. I know this and I only discuss the make-up of life without sunlight because it is an amusing theoretical dilemma.
3) There are several different versions of the D&D world. In one early version, the Drow were in fact pale.

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:iconanjuw87:
I have also thought about such things, I almost tend to think that the person who made the drow recieved the idea from a african tribe who lies underground druing the day to escape the heat and then hunt at night.

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Really? That's very interesting. What's the tribe called?
:icongreensprite:
I know close to nothing about drows, I've seen them in some artworks, but I know nothing of their origin and history. The only thing that I can say in this case is that I don't think a blind creature could make itself such clean cut clothes and especially tie those laces like that ^^; Sorry, it probably sounds bitchy, but that's what I instantly though when I read the description.
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no clue, I learnt about them in elementary school.

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ZOMG! thats precisely what i thought when making my "dark" elves for my comic. so instead of going for the traditional drow look. i made them white skin, white hair, blind, bigger ears and with antennae (cause it seemed like the thing to do :P) i call them cave elves.
your picture looks so cute though! i love albinos ^_^

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The drow as I know it did a shitload of war(pardon my french) when they were up top. They kept picking fights with folks and the other elves were tired of fighting wars, so they finally banished them.

So i figure, they spend thousands of years out on the battlefeild getting these rich, dark tans, and now they're suddenly shoved underground. Being the darwinist society they tend to be, they bred the best fighters in their circumstance, and probably kept the dark skin as best they could for aesthetic purposes.

Thus the red eyes and dark skin.

Yeah, the skin would probably get more pallid as time went on, it wouldn't be nearly as rich a color, but I don't think they'd ever get to the point of being purely albino. Maybe if they had more human lifespans...mutation happens faster then. >.>;;

Plus there's evolution versus technology. Look how much humans have evolved in 2000 years. I mean, granted, elves aren't fond of technology, but are they so repulsed by it they would choose the death of their species until somebody's genes finally got it right?

....Maybe.

I'm talking an awful lot here. I think it's the crab.

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Your realistic drow here is pretty good. I'd imagine the skin would be a little closer to transparent, rather than just pale.

Even big ears couldn't save them from bumping into things, unless they have echo-location like bats. So I imagine they have very poor vision, illuminated by dim glowing fungus or some such Underdark thing.

Or maybe they move slowly, carefully, and gracefully? Never in a rush. With a keen spatial memory?

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:iconluna-kitsune-blu:
You know, I've had the same, fleeting thought before.

And I LOVE her eyes. Pretty eyes.

...you know what would be interesting to see? Your current Drow charcters like this.

...okay, so maybe I just want more pretty blind-red-eyes >_>

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I actually agree on this

(Looks pretty by the way)

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:iconcannotescape:
i agree ^^

but artistic license and imagination dictate that your drow can look however you want them to look ^^

lovely pic, btw, i don't think anyone commented on that yet ^^

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