Drow city-states

The Drow city-states are a collection of advanced city-states in the Underdark, born of the collapse of the once-mighty and expansive Drow empire millennia ago. Like with most Drow societies and organizations, the most powerful Drow rule the city-states, often based on a caste system, while the less powerful and lesser races serve and slave for them. They are centres of military and arcane might, as they must be to resist destruction or domination by their many would-be conquerors (such as hobgoblins, illithids, etc.), vengeful slaves, and competing Drow city-states. They are also centres of trade and artistic achievement, due to the sophistication and high level of development of Drow culture, and requiring substantial economic inputs to sustain themselves as they do.

It is not known how many Drow city-states exist, as new ones are formed from time to time, while others fall on occasion to the many sinister threats that lurk in the Underdark.

The greatest of the Drow city-states is New Drowla.