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• drow clan
• abducted and enslaved by illithids
• trained to tasks as army

• human priest of Helm enslaved
• despite illithids many attempts he never gave up
• they could control him
• but not make him give up
• he could even resist them for a while
• the drows could not understand this
• and he talked to them
• as if they where free beings
• with their own minds
• he could sooth them when they where not being controlled
• and could free them for small times
• tell tales about freedom
• about how Helm protected him against the illithids
• but that he was still mortal
• this sparkedthe first seeds for freedom

• Illithids tired of this human aggitating their slaves
• and killed him
• but in his last act
• he took down the closest illithids with him
• in a blast of divine energy
• shouting the name of Helm
• in front of the drow
• through the illithids shock
• the drow saw that the mind flayers could be killed
• and attacked them and killed many in a matter of seconds
• the remaining illithids couldn't control so many drow and fled
• the drow brought the priests holy symbol with them
• as a symbol of their freedom

• Realizing that they couldn't resist if the rest of the illithids caught them
• they fled through a portal
• into a new world
• underground
• they crashed the rocks around the portal
• and fled away from it as far as they could manage

• Judging it far enough
• they selected a spot
• and started making a settlement
• having no other culture anylonger
• they based it somewhat on what they learned from the illithids
• combined with religion
• a few number of the old drow still held on to worship of Lolth
• but most of the younger members started worshipping helm as their saviour
• survival forced these two groups to cooperate
• weak alliance
• low on numbers they took slaves from nearby races to work and fill out the workers
• conflict between Lolth and Helm
• helmites insist on treating slaves well
• lolthians realized after their own imprisonment they would become to unpopular if they resisted
• lolthians plotting to eventually take control
• and bring the blasphemers back to Lolth

• survival is mostly guaranteed
• they number some 100 drow left
• and have some 20 slaves
• about 20 drows are lolth worshippers
• rest 80 is helmites
• they survive on fungus, fish and a bit of herd animals
• about 50 drow are active combatants
• scout and patrol areas around their new home
• drow as a group is slowly changing towards a NE/LE society
• with a strong dislike on cruel slavery
• they have recently discovered more races at the edge of their patrols
• and sent a group to scout this out
• and discovered the kobolds and hobgoblins of the sunless citadel
• though they haven't discovered the drow yet
• they sent in a scout to discover some more
• but she got unlucky and spotted by the hobgoblins
• and took her prisoner
• trying to learn more