Re: Neogi as who's pawns? (lost e-mails)

On Jul 9, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Dreamer wrote:

> Drow.
>
> These don't seem to go spelljamming, but pawns like neogi, who
> would automatically consider themselves to be drow property...
>
> Maybe even if they hadn't met any drow for generations...
>
> For real fun ensure the neogi can never remember who their real
> masters are, just think they are doing things they were ordered
> to by drow, because "it seemed a good idea".
>
> Arcane would quite happily sell Helms to the drow, which they
> then provide to their pet neogi?
>
>
> Just a thought... [grin]

While this is an interesting theory...
A) There are Spelljamming drow :)  I forget, offhand, whether the major 
Drow anchorage was in Realmspace or Greyspace, but the Drow do field a 
modest number of ships in the void. Jade Spider Commandships and 
Monarch class Armadas mostly.
B) The Neogi do not worship Lolth. If they had been a Drow creation, 
then like everything else the Drow do, there would have been some 
reverence built-in to the race for the Spider Queen. In fact, the only 
published source that mentions Neogi priests or worship at all is in 
the Astromundi cluster, where the Neogi worship the Astromundi 
incarnation of the Egyptian god Set.
Also: the Drow would *never* have let their creations range so far 
beyond their control -- it's in the Drow nature to keep a close rein on 
slaves and servitors.