>>5410693You see the cracks in the crystals, the dimming of the lights.
You see how their network, while obviously refined and purposefully built and maintained in a way your multi-ethnic Dark Empire’s glow-worm based supply chain is not, is rigid and small in scope, inefficient for the limited size and understanding of the spiders.
So too do you see silk garments, with whitest silk worn by the tallest, healthiest elves—Drow nobility, who wear crystals as well, in jewelry or speckled across their garb… But the gems are small, roughly-sculpted. Even the cleanest and whitest silk is a dingy grey. The average Drow in this, their greatest city, dwells in a hovel carved into a stone wall, or a roughshod brick shanty held together with a bug-derived paste, hardly insulated from the cool underwater wind-currents which rise from the darkly-sparkling oasis-lake. The wealthy have larger, more ornately-carved homes, and they have their glowing crystal lamps to lend it depth of colour… But still, their homes are just as roughly constructed, their size limited in both height and majesty by simple building methods and substandard materials.
Even here, in this place of glory and among the social elite, you see paucity of circumstance.
