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Here's some friendly advice: Everything in the Underdark hates everything else in the Underdark. No exceptions.

"The Underdark was made to kill you." So it's Australia, but underground?

It's an absolute sin you didn't bring up the absolute joy that is the flumphs. After all, the first rule of dungeon survival is "Trust a Flumph"

Dale is said to have the highest CR in D&D

The Flumph is a pancake made of friendship that Runesmith didn't talk about. In short, they're lawful good aberrations (maybe even the only LG aberrations) that speak telepathically and aren't very good at fighting. They mostly live in utilitarian socialist groups and are so friendly that they turn mindwitnesses good.

Why does no D&D Underdark video ever talk about the Flumph?! Where's the love for the floaty good boys?!

"So he made a pact with Satan, and liberated his people from Squidward." These Spongebob fanfics are getting wild.

The ancestral home of the edge lord's

4:16 “Brains aren’t food; stop eating mine!” That last quote kinda sounds like James from the Pokémon anime. Like I imagine his Pokémon chomping on his head as he is saying that. Anyone else hear it?

The Underdark, or OOPS NOW YOU CAN'T SEE

Drow bards: we come from the land down under

I always pronounce Duergar as Dvergar which is literally the icelandic word for dwarfs and I am 99% sure that that is where that word comes from. IT IS LITERALLY ONE LETTER OFF!

“Black pudding cups” Probably a good thing we don’t have art for that

I'm building an Underdark spider race that also has literally no connection to Lolth, but the Drow THINK that they do. They're generally pretty nice and make a living hunting giant insects with big webs. If they see a human caught in a web, they'll release it because they think humanoids taste really bad.

06:44 A wild Matt Mercer appears!

Official Lore: Drow are awful, racist, bad and are slavers Me, who just wants a few sexy and cool af Drow NPCs: Jared, 19

I once made a Derro Warlock, with a Patron called The Gelatinous Convocation, which gave them the ability to absorb memories from the melted remains of creatures. An already insane creature had a bit of trouble keeping all the memories that didn't belong to them in check.

I love the underdark, but I've always wondered what the weather is like down there. I can only assume they've never seen lightning or thunder down there. Can you imagine how terrified they'd be of a storm sorcerer? Basically, storm sorcerers when? :D

4:28 I'm guessing tone deafness from my part, but both pronunciations sounded the same for me.

Now do "basically the sponsorship" that gives a more in-depth review of your book, with a basic explanation of how the stoff imn your book works.

*Home of Drizzt, the only good drow* Zaknafein: Am I joke to you ?

"the underdark was made to kill you." So......... Australia?

My friend pointed out that drow are basically elf simps, and honestly I can't see them any other way now.

Nevermind caves filled with violent people, misterious cities and spooky forgotten horrors, you're telling me your book has a SPAGHETTI CHILD!?

Underdark home of the ptsd dwarves, actually cool gnomes, crackhead dwarves, toads from Mario, evil squidward, and an even gayer version off elves

>be Aboleth >used to rule the world >seas would rise when I gave the word

"Drizzt, the only good drow", you're wrong in that, remember the followers of Eilistraee, typical chaotic good dark elves

Baldur's Gate 3 has once again thrust the world of the Underdark to the forefront. Their imagery of it is awesome. Thanks for putting this together!

Dang! A shout out to R.A. Salvatore! Also, much of my childhood.

Fun (favourite) fact about Lolth worship : Lolth prefers live sacrifice over other forms of worship. Lolth prefers sentient beings as sacrifice over other living beings. Lolth prefers humanoid sacrifices over other sentient beings. Lolth prefers elves as sacrifices over other humanoids. Lolth prefers Drows over other elves as sacrifices. Lolth prefers its own High Prisestesses over other Drows as sacrifice. Also High Priestesses are kind of the ruling class (in theory) of Drow society. Drow society is a fun place.

2:50 Aaaanndd, demonetized.

I love the underdark. I often use dark elfs but as (mostly) good npc's because i feel that they have gotten a bad reputation overtime, and that not all of them could be evil

"Dammit Bobby, why are we in the underdark?"

Basically, edgy cave.

"My book." "When I asked." Did stibbles cover for Logan?

I literally just started reading the legend of Drizzt today.

In classic half-elf fashion, my current character has a ridiculous backstory lol. His mother is a Drow who was cast out for being empathetic to other races and then married a nice human veteran. She was a wonderful storyteller, while he had an incredible past and stories to tell, though his way of telling them was much less beautiful. Inspired by this, Aelar (my character) set out to become a famous orator and storyteller, seeking amazing histories and epics to tell. And then he never managed to get anywhere because everyone hated him for being half drow and his spirit was crushed. Eventually he started using his verbal talents to manipulate and fool people into gambling with him and then he'd cheat them out of their money so he could get food to survive on. There's more, but that's the part that came to mind because of the underdark. Poor drow boy.

According to 2002 "Dissolution" by Wizards of the Coast, Lolth's titles are "Mother of Lusts" and "The spider Bitch" Yup, seems about right there.

"So he made a pact with Satan, and liberated his people for Squidward." -Runesmith, May 2020

Thanks, I am running a underdark segment soon. Also this lifts my spirit

Plug your book as much as you need, man. Good on you for making it! Also cave fishers are something to be afraid of in the Underdark as well :x

1:33 Blackreach is actually a perfect way of picturing the Underdark, just with less Dwemer stuff and more slaves.

When you look at it there's two kinds of people in the under dark. Really mean or really nice.

You forgot one of the most important history of all. the endless maze that hide somewhere down in the underdark that holds the kobold god. No? no one cares about that part of History? Oh fine fine then.

2:51 Uh...think you forgot to censor something there, buddy.

1:52 I feel personally attacked...

Bro, my girlfriend actually just broke up with me, thank you for this video. It's a nice pick-me up.

I'm glad we're on the same page with ducks, my single most malevolent companion I have ever given to a player.

Can't believe the drow are just orbiters.

Man every time I go into one of these videos thinking I know a good amount of the subject matter, you bring something outta left field I never even knew about. Neverlight Grove sounds amazing, and I cant wait to explore some of the history of that place. Thank you once again, Runesmith!

2:56 I nearly spat my drink on my laptop when I saw this image

You forgot about the cripped torture god that claws its ways through the depths of the Underdark

Context: Drow are in the underdark because when Lolth was banished for trying to kill a God, and a select few elves just followed her down into where she was banished aka the underdark and they just kinda evolved into drow

Been running out of the abyss for a while, this is really good to understand a bit of the places I have to explain to my players, thank you~.

Lore dump time, the reason the drow are in the underdark is that Lolth who used to he the queen of the elven gods, betrayed her husband and betrayed him, her daughter ratted out her plan and she was banished to the underdark, and some of the elves loyal to her followed her down there evolving into the drow we know today

Debatable quality is the most interesting quality. Keep up the good work!

So the root of the Underdark's misery is a crappy snack bar... Interesting.

One of my favorite videos. It’s harder and harder to find any content covering Dale.

Im now on Companions of the Hall in the Forgotten Realms series. I love that series with all my heart

1:40 The Land Down Under, in more ways than one.

Ah yes, the Underdark, the place that is always night, dark and full of terrors.

Starting an out of the abyss campaign and your pronunciations are literally helping me more than anything in the module

May be sad, but your work in these videos is fantastic, makes me sincerely happy to see that exists such a person like you.

I'm mildly dissapointed that Runesmith didn't include some of the more interesting Underdark denizens, like Umber Hulks, Flumphs, Grimlocks, Myconids (they did have their own video but so did a lot of things), Quaggoths, Xorn, and purple worms.

2:53 I think that's where Logan lost his monetization.

Faerûn on surface: A typical fantasy setting Under dark: It's Warhammer down here Bi'zzni't'ch

Thanks!! I was in need of this.

I just got done with a campaign in the underdark. Managed to free all the slaves from gracklstugh and change the entire system of living there too... it’s a very grim and claustrophobic environment to play in.... but it has its charms!

Uploaded 12 seconds ago? Sorry I was late, Rune.

This pleases me greatly.

Yesss! I've been wanting this so bad.

"Welcome... to the Underdork" Have fun with the rest of the video. You can't unhear it.

You didn't even mention the FLUMPHS!

This was very helpful thank you so much!

Basically Flumphs. I demand it

>Matriarchy >respectable quality i mean cmon lol

This is such a great video. I love this series. Thanks for putting yourself out there. KZfaq Algorithm comment

"The city of spiders" I'll take 'Places I will never ever ever go' for $200, Alex.

It ends up being a weird 'food for thought' sort of thing. I keep getting reminded of my campaign world with each 'basically' video.

2:58 Simp?

"The Drow worship the power of women and set up their hierarchy in that order. That's their only respectable quality." What? Why is that respectable? Lol

Fun fact: sunlight doesn't harm edible mushrooms at all, so long as they have enough consistent moisture to not dry out. In fact, it's beneficial to keep them in the light, because they absorb it to produce vitamin D. I'll see myself out.

Logan: neverlight grove Me, playing out of the abyss: *cries in Yestabrood*

I'm suprised the devs even bothered to come up with an explanation for how the ecosystems in the Underdark even remotely function with most creatures down in its depths are either SUPER predators but no apparent prey animals you'd think they'd normally eat but for some reason these creatures can sustain themselves entirely on witless or unlucky adventures and travelers. I mean the explanation is still BS...cause Magic radiation or whatever isn't very...well compelling to say the least but I guess it's something other than no explanation, not to say that its better than not knowing how the ecosystems of the Underdark could work either with real world inspiration and inspired idea. Heck, EVEN a better fleshed out and elaborate mythological causes would be cool too! *Example of a mythological or supernatural cause for the Underdark's ecosystem:* Say there's these great rivers of blood that flow from the bodies of buried gods trapped deep beneath even the lowest levels of the Underdark some pool into lakes or even underground small oceans. It is from these life giving waters that near constantly creates many of the creatures in the lower Underdark and occasionally gives birth to hordes of horrible monsters that terrorize the denizens in the upper layers of the Underdark. Some of the god blood rises through chambers of rock to create more mystical wells of power and life giving energies that many of the creatures use as an initial source of sustenance then in turn some of these creatures are eaten by other creatures in a magically propelled food chain! These wells of god blood are what allows life to flourish even in the darkness and or gloom of the Underdark, but its also the cause of much of the conflict and dangers the peoples living in such a harsh environment must face in order to carve out an existence and thrive by harnessing such a precious resource. So there a better fleshed out explanation for the magical causes for sustaining a functioning ecosystem *while still being "because magic"* just replacing magical radiation with imprisoned (or dead) gods who's blood sustains the world below BUT can be used to set up interesting adventures or quest for a slightly luckier adventuring party in DnD secessions.

Wait you can have an owl bear as a pet. I'll take your entire STOCK.

Duergars... Heathens to Moradin! *For the Mountain! For the STONE! FOR MORADIN!!!*

I always thought it would be awesome to hang out and party in the Neverlight Grove. Those mushroom people sound like some really Fun Guys.

The drow is literally a simp race.

The Drow is the perfect example of what feminism can do to a culture.

Nice video. Thanks for making it! 👍🏽

@Runesmith I REALLY like the inspiration you used there for the Skinti. Excellent taste

“That’s their only respectable quality” (referring to how Drow live in a matriarchal society) I will take “Things you would only hear in California” for 100 Alex!

Drow are respectabel for being sexist?

My party hated the underdark so much the party druid which was the plot hook for why they went there in the first place decided the best gift she could give them at her last session was sacrificing her character to send them home and leave her to die lmao

Man, your videos are always so entertaining and informative.

Nice matriarchy = good joke.

“The value the power of women. That’s their only respectable quality.” 1.) Boy is that some simp I smell? 2.) They only like women because they can get power from an evil spider. Which is hardly a virtue. 3.) Aren’t most Elves primarily matriarchal?

This isn't your normal darkness. This is ADVANCED DARKNESS.

I’m really looking forward to this book. I want those cards my boi.