D&D 5E If you were to rename the Drow for a neutral setting, what would you name them? (thread 3/3)

[Slit518]

If you were to rename the Drow for a neutral setting, what would you name them?

If I recall correctly the Drow came from some of the earlier versions of D&D, probably Greyhawk, adapted to Forgotten Realms and other settings. Drow were modeled after the Dark Elves or Dökkálfar of Norse mythos.

In World of Warcraft they are called Night Elves.

One very setting neutral thing I have seen the Drow called are Dark Elves.

What would you call them?

 

[Gradine]

1) Dusk Elves
2) Twilight Elves
3) Midnight Elves
4) Under Elves
5) Shadow Elves
6) Umbral Elves

 

[MarkB]

Drizztlings.

 

[Yunru]

Steve.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

Why not "drow"? The term isn't specific to D&D, and comes from the folklore of the North Atlantic islands. (It's related to "troll".)

 

[Slit518]

Why not "drow"? The term isn't specific to D&D, and comes from the folklore of the North Atlantic islands. (It's related to "troll".)

You mean like Trowe?

And after further research and inspection, you are correct.

Trow; Trowe; Dtrow; Drow, all the same thing.

My mistake.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Svartalfar.

 

[Gardens & Goblins]

White heads, dark body? Hmm..

Guinness

 

[Sunseeker]

Dark Elves?
Dusklings?
Shadow Elves?
Winter Elves?

I mean, are there any competing elf tribe names we can't use? Are we keeping the general cave-dwelling, matriarchal, evil elves theme going?

I made them Swamp Elves in one setting, but that was because there wasn't an "underdark" there, or any of the standard D&D gods. I also replaced Drow with Desert Elves once, kinda mashing up Persian culture and Drow culture into one thing.

The Night Elves are substantially different from the Drow, retaining only certain general themes (priestesses, female goddess, matriarchal). WoW now has the Nightborn, who are probably closer to standard D&D Drow (or were until they had a revolution). I don't think "Night Elves" is copyrightable outside of the context (IE: if your Night Elves didn't look like Blizzard's Night Elves there wouldn't be a legal problem).

Personally, K.I.S.S. "Dark Elves"

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Just Drow or Dark Elves.