Eldorian Culture

Drow
The dark elvenfolk, as they prefer to be named, have not forgotten the day their ancestors were cast down from their homes, their businesses, their families. Relic remains of the life they had; artwork, valuables, rare literature, even maps. The dark elvenfolk have lost their connection to the faewild, and hold within them a hatred for the normal elves, the 'airyfae'; the more apparent the connection to the faewild, the more pronounced the hatred.

With no light and no hope, they turned to the only god that spoke through the blackness, Morte. Need for a god and hatred for their kin fed back into each other until both the skin of the folk and their nature turned as dark as their surroundings.

Dwarves
Dwarves in Eldor as very rare beings. They stay almost solely secluded in their mountain holds and homes, not even interacting with the rest of the world to trade. Most common-folk in Eldor do not even know of the existence of dwarves, and find their appearance to be startling: as if a halfling gorged for 40 years with ne'er a break to shave. The only place on is likely to sight a dwarf is upon the Broadspine; no other mountain range has known dwarf inhabitants.

Mountain goblins, orcs, ogres and trolls are natural enemies of the dwarf, and are often involved in confrontation over resources. The dwarves keep to themselves but find they are often raided and plundered when these creatures are nearby.

Dwarves, being heavily involved in mining, coexist nicely with drow. They keep their mines and tunnels separate from the underdark, and tend only to communicate with the drow to trade their works for phosphorescent fungi, or knowledge of minerals the drow may have come across.

Shortlings
Halflings and Gnomes are wild creatures, found only in north-east Cloyr. The other inhabitants of Cloyr think of them with distaste, for they are obscene, rowdy, and have no system of leadership. In fact, they are so hard to deal with that even they avoid other shortlings, making them a reclusive group of beings (except for when they grouped together to raid, which was often). As such, they have been confined to the forest Turnwood in the north by a woven wall of trees, aptly named Northwall. Though bordered on all sides by sea, have yet to become proficient in sea-travel, and so, are unseen outside of their peninsula.