I would very much like that texture:) It's wonderful! I especially love the spider tattoo. I haven't gotten Vicky just yet and I actually prefer practicing on the plain old P4 woman. Off subject: I am new to Poser. Could you please tell me how you morph ears to look like those in the pic?

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Nice - looks about as close to the D&D Drow as I've seen anyone get so far! Good work!

Oh MY!! Thank you for telling me about Morph World!! Let me say again...I love the texture. It is wonderful!

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Properly speaking, if one's mind isn't dominated by D&D, "drow" can refer to several things: 1: To dry up (from "adrough"--to be dry). 2: A fit of illness or fainting (from "dree"--to endure or suffer) 3: A cold mist or drizzle (Scots, derivation unknown) 4: To throw (Cornwall/Devon dialect) 5: Past tense of "to draw" (obsolete) 6: A variant of "trow", Orkney dialect for "troll". If one's mind is dominated by D&D and looks no further afield, then one only knows of "bad" elves who live underground. It should be noted that the Orkneying version of "drow" was noted as follows in at least one source: 1868 D. GORRIE Summ. & Wint. Orkneys v. 168 The trows, or drows,..resembled the daoine shith of the Highlanders, in the malevolent feelings which they..entertained towards mankind. These Orkney "daoine shith" are at the very least linguistically related to the Daoine Sidhe of Ireland, who are often considered a basis for the D&D "elf" (with or without any actual resemblance between the D&D "elf" and the tales of the Daoine Sidhe). Thus, since the "drow" of the Orkneys are a malevolent version of the Daoine Sidhe, it makes some sense to use the term as the name of the "bad elves" for a D&D setting. You don't want to know my theory regarding why a type of elf that D&D has traditionally painted as the most evil of all races has black skin. It's not very complimentary to the minds of D&D's designers.

A "drow" elf is the AD&D version of the "Svart Alfer", an evil pixie of Germanic origin (Norwegian, I THINK) - literally it's a "Dark Elf"

"svart"="schwartze"="black" The svartalfar were also the inspiration for the "xvart" and the "duergar".

I knew they'd inspired the Xvart - the xvart got a lot of criticism as a result - but I hadn't known the Duergar came from that myth-cycle

Think of all the D&D monsters inspired directly or indirectly by the "trolls" of northern Europe. These include ogres, orcs, hobgoblins (which are far more trollish than they are hobgoblinish--a "hob goblin" was either a helpful goblin or a tiny, mischief-making fairy), hill giants, gigantes, and fomor giants. Oddly enough, the D&D "troll" bears no real resemblance to legendary trolls and was lifted straight out of a P. Anderson novel (Three Hearts and Three Lions).