Drow wanderer

Drow wanderers are skilled drow who have eschewed their race's traditions to wander the depths of the Underdark. These unusual drow may have been either good or evil, having cast aside the way of their people to seek freedom in the darkness. Solitary and alone, these individuals honed themselves to excellence in order to survive the many terrors that are common below the surface world.

Culture
For most who wander the dark caverns within the Underdark it was a horrific and forbidding place, filled with unspeakable monstrosities and deadly horrors. Even most drow were unwilling to negotiate the twisting maze of tunnels to seek only certain death. By contrast drow wanderers, who not only live but thrived in the Underdark, were extremely abnormal but valuable individuals.

Part of their skill comes from untapping the heritage of their race, turning the curse that ensnared their race into a strange blessing that gave them a special affinity for the pervading darkness of the world below. More importantly was the special care that drow wanderers took to train their pathfinding abilities, which allowed them to navigate the Underdark with relative ease.

Abilities
Drow wanderers could acquire their skills from a variety of sources and can come from as diverse backgrounds as clerics, fighters, or wizards, united solely by their race, their ability to survive the Underdark, and their rejection of Lolth and her ilk. As such a drow wanderer charged their abilities with arcane or divine power, among other sources. Some of them were simply be an unusually skilled warrior with an uncanny knowledge of underground locations.

However, all drow wanderers displayed some supernatural abilities, many of which draw on those of the drow race. Drow wanderers took advantage of those struck with their innate darkfire ability to deal more lethality with their attacks. Similarly, drow wanderers had an uncanny sense for the stones around them, giving them an edge on most races that saw underground world is strange and alien. They also possessed more mundane skills, such as their expertise at setting up ambushes.

This multitude of abilities lent themselves to a drow wanderer's methodology of survival. The darkblade they could conjure took advantage of the clouds of darkness that most drow could create. This allowed wanderers to fuse their weapons, granting them the power to temporarily blind their enemies. Drow wanderers could draw upon strength in darkness, which allowed them to self-heal through the power of shadow.