Editing Drow (section)

==Related creatures==
{{See also|Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons}}
Like elves, drow have other creatures associated with them either by environment or by blood. The drider, a drow transformed into a half-drow half-spider creature as a punishment, is one of the most often cited examples.

===Drider===
Only high-level priestesses in good standing with Lolth are able to initiate the transformation of a dark elf into a drider. This transformation is very painful, and lasts at least 12 hours. Driders develop a poisonous bite. Their digestion changes and they must drink blood of living creatures for sustenance. Driders still maintain the spells and special abilities they had developed as a drow. There can exist any character class of drider. They retain intelligence and memories. This usually makes them bitter, spiteful creatures. Some hunt for magic powerful enough to undo the transformation.

In previous editions, driders appear sexless due to bloating, but able to magically reproduce. In ''Dungeons & Dragons'' edition 3.5, driders seem to retain their gender and characteristics after the transformation, but fertility is debatable.

Driders play many roles in drow society. The dark elves both fear and are revolted by driders. After transformation, they are usually pushed to the wild area around a drow city. Driders are usually found in company with tiny, huge and giant spiders. Driders speak Common, Elvish, and Undercommon. In the first and second editions of the game, Driders spoke Drow. Driders are almost always [[Chaotic Evil]].

In the Fourth Edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', becoming a drider is actually considered holy and a blessing from Lolth.

===Draegloths===
'''Draegloths''' are half-[[Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)|demon]], half drow monstrosities. Found in any campaign setting, they are particularly numerous in the ''Forgotten Realms''. They are created by the unholy union between an ascending high priestess of the drow goddess [[Lolth]] and a glabrezu.

Draegloths are about ten feet tall and have four arms, the upper pair being much larger than the lower. They have large claws on the upper arms and they use them for hand-to-hand combat, for they usually prefer the feeling of tearing flesh and sinew under their claws and fangs. Their face is stretched so it resembles that of a dog. Their flesh is as dark as a drow's, and they are covered in a fine coat of fur; they also have a white mane. They are sacred creatures to the Lolthites and are usually treated with respect.

[[Triel Baenre]] of [[Menzoberranzan]], in the ''Forgotten Realms'', had a draegloth son, [[List of Forgotten Realms characters#Other members of House Baenre|Jeggred]].

V3.5 statistics for the draegloth can be found in ''[[Drow of the Underdark]]''.<ref name="DROW" />

===Chitines and choldriths===
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"The '''chitine''' and the '''choldrith''' are part-elf, part-spider abominations created by magic as servitors of the spider goddess Lolth"<ref name=KA>{{cite book|first=Keith|last=Ammann|date=2019|title=[[The Monsters Know What They're Doing]]|publisher=[[Saga Press]]|pages=180–183|isbn=978-1982122669}}</ref> appearing in the Forgotten Realms setting. Chitine resembles a sickly, white, four-foot tall humanoid with vaguely [[spider]]-like features.  They are depicted with wavy hair and sly faces with a set of spider's fangs protruding from their mouths. Chitines also have four arms which feature an additional joint (compared to a human), giving them great flexibility and dexterity. They were created inadvertently by the drow as a result of failed experiments on normal humanoids.

Chitines typically hate their former masters, the drow, but keep worshipping Lolth. The role of priests in their society is taken up by a closely related but completely separate race, the choldriths. Chitines strongly live up to their spider heritage; in their underground cities and villages, they build with webs in the same way that humans build with wood and stone. They build everything out of it, homes, traps, clothing, weapons, and more.