I'm working on a drow character and I want to add phrases and idioms that someone from who grew up in the under dark would use. Some ones i thought of so far, instead of walking into the lions den, sneaking into the hook horrors lair; instead of bullshit, rotheshit. But I'm having trouble coming up with more.
I played an underdark character - a goblin - who viewed darkness as good and light as bad, considered the open sky a 'yawning, terrifying maw, and endless abyss above your heads, a void waiting to suck you in.' He considered weather in all it's forms an absolute pestilence of the surface, rain and wind and snow being totally alien and abhorrent to him. He thought of the sun as a giant, blazing, burning, blinding fire in the sky, a baleful eye staring down at all times.
He didn't really worship, but respected and maybe venerated the 'awful, terrible powers of the dark below the Earth' - a gathering of nameless, faceless deities and/or monsters from whom you can expect no favors or mercy - but you're free to hope and pray anyways.
He was also deathly afraid of elves. Not so much dwarves, dwarves are enemies, but a known factor. But the elves he considered the very epitome of evil, the worst race a wicked universe could cough up to plague the world.
Obviously, he considered goblins to be good. The goblins only did what was right, or necessary - set upon and opposed at every turn by malicious, scheeming races who take all the good caves and food and ressources, and force the poor goblins to live hand to mouth.
Dunno if that helps =)
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I'm working on a drow character and I want to add phrases and idioms that someone from who grew up in the under dark would use. Some ones i thought of so far, instead of walking into the lions den, sneaking into the hook horrors lair; instead of bullshit, rotheshit. But I'm having trouble coming up with more.
If you can find the memes about the Drow being from "Down Under" there's a host of Australian phrases you can twist up to make this work pretty easy.
I played an underdark character - a goblin - who viewed darkness as good and light as bad, considered the open sky a 'yawning, terrifying maw, and endless abyss above your heads, a void waiting to suck you in.' He considered weather in all it's forms an absolute pestilence of the surface, rain and wind and snow being totally alien and abhorrent to him. He thought of the sun as a giant, blazing, burning, blinding fire in the sky, a baleful eye staring down at all times.
He didn't really worship, but respected and maybe venerated the 'awful, terrible powers of the dark below the Earth' - a gathering of nameless, faceless deities and/or monsters from whom you can expect no favors or mercy - but you're free to hope and pray anyways.
He was also deathly afraid of elves. Not so much dwarves, dwarves are enemies, but a known factor. But the elves he considered the very epitome of evil, the worst race a wicked universe could cough up to plague the world.
Obviously, he considered goblins to be good. The goblins only did what was right, or necessary - set upon and opposed at every turn by malicious, scheeming races who take all the good caves and food and ressources, and force the poor goblins to live hand to mouth.
Dunno if that helps =)
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.