Drow elves are trained from about the age of 4 as to what they will be, be it warrior, wizard, necromancer, or priestess, or whatever else. They have uncanny dexterity and ultra fine vision in the dark approaching darksight. They also will all have minor magic resistance (*set c mob mr %), not going any higher than 40%, depending on level. All drow weapons and armor(shadowmail) is magical from +1 to +4, depending. They are made of a black darkmetal which is forged in the deepest pits of the underdark. Forges for it have not yet been set up in Oakspire. Their equipment also cannot withstand direct sunlight, or it will decay over time. That is a property of the darkmetal. It is also feather heavy and is as impregnable as adamantium. Drow organize in groups of 4-6 warriors which are considered to be of patrol size. If any bigger than that, for every extra group of 4-6, there will be a level 12 or so mage with them, and if more than 3 of such groups are encountered, there will be 2 mages and at least one priestess. The highest level priestesses are called matron mothers, and there is one for each drow noble house in the drow elven city. Right now, there are only 3 noble houses in Oakspire, all three of which are the top three houses in the Drow city in the underdark, which has yet to be named. The drow, with the blessing and magic granted by Arachnus, have managed to somewhat tame the doom spiders of the Darkhold. Before the Drow came to the surface and slaughtered most of the wood elves of Oakspire, the wood elven mages had the doom spiders magically sealed off from the surface world. The Drow broke those spells, thus also gaining the allegiance of the doom spider queen. The Drow keep doom spiders in specially designed dark copses of trees which are filled with funnels of dark spiderwebs. Doom spiders are not very fond of the sunlight, and niether are Drow. Specially trained Drow elven doom spider handlers handle the spiders. The spiders are intelligent, and are able to understand more than a german shepherd does, even to the point of understanding and exexuting complex commands in the dark-elven tongue. Doom spiders are about the size of a mastiff or irish wolfhound, but obviously wider. All Drow are ambidextrous and are able to fight with two weapons, although they do not all choose to do so as a fighting style. Typical Drow weapons are made of darkmetal, and vay upon individual warrior style. Note that even Drow wizards and priestesses are trained in use of the sword, albeit not as much as warriors are. Rapiers, longswords, shortswords, scimitars, daggers, and falchions are the most common drow swords. They almost never use blunt weapons. Some warriors train with pole weapons, particularly shadow pikes, which are deadly sharp darkmetal pikes with a taint of negative energy forged into them. There are lances like this as well, called darklances or death lances. Drow are also well known for one-handed crossbows which lace arrows with sleeping poison. They rarely use anything but these crossbows for missile weapons. The absolute most commonly known weapon in use by the Drow, however, is the dreaded snake-head flail/maces and whips which priestesses of Arachnus wield, usually matron mothers. These dreaded weapons have living snakes which bite at the target with poisonous fangs. Some of these are also tainted with negative energy, as is the poison. Sometimes Drow wish to immobilize and capture their enemies. To do this, they use special wands which exude a sticky black gooey substance, which will adhere to anything and shoots out in a large blob, thus sticking enemies to walls, their weapons, their own limbs, each other, etc..Trying to break free of the substance causes damage to the person captured, and only the Drow have the formula which can dissolve the goo. Nothing is known which can cut it.