Fear i Bhfolach (Far ee Volach gutteral ch): Those in Hiding
So I briefly talked about elves in the setting the other night. They were a unified 2nd generation race up to about 150,000 years ago. Some massive solar instability in their home system started to seriously damage their home planet. Some of the population up and left and others remain behind and went underground. Properly " those who hid below" in academic circles and considered offensive to the general drow population since it has connotations of cowardice
I was also thinking that Lolth, rather than being a proper goddess is more of a divine hero/prophet kind of situation. She found some artifact that allowed the elves who remain behind to genetically adapt to their devastated world and new subterranean home. The noble houses trace lineage back to her similar to how Muslim caliphates would trace back lineage to Mohammed.
And in their hiding/lack of resources their society and technology regressed and now as far as the League of Worlds is concerned they may as well be a third generation species. Understandably the drow are very upset about how others view them as barbarians and deny them access to the tech that they once called their own