The cities of the drow are great and awesome works of art. Stalactites and stalagmites are both used in conjunction to maximize living space in the extremely close quarters of the underdark caverns that the drow inhabit. The cities are normally sectioned off into quarters where they keep the different classes of inhabitant separate.

Normally a house of significant power will watch over a section of the city, governing the lawless streets with a form of mock society of morals. This creates the illusion of security in the dark streets of the city. Daggers and swords are common even among the slaves and visitors to a drow city, since the streets are rarely safe, even if policed by drow patrols.
The streets of the drow may owe their allegiance to the priestesses of the temples and the matriarchs of the most powerful houses in the city, but the renegade nobles and thieves’ guilds that will always follow corruption and deceit own them. Rogue drow are not normally found in the houses. Those that can survive for more than a year are found by their families, trained in the arcane arts, and returned to places of power within the family, normally as assassins and dark blades.

The artistry that goes into the creation of a drow city would take the younger races of human, gnome and halfling centuries to even begin to comprehend. The vaulting ceilings and flowing rock escarpments are all decorated and carved.

City Institutes

Arach-Tinilith (Temple of Lloth)
El'lar d'Ssinssrigg (House of Pleasure)
Sorcere (Acadamy of Wizardry)
Melee-Magthere (Academy of Warfare)
Valsharen Drow Vel'Xundussa Magthere (Royal Drow Security Institute ("VDVM"))

Cities

* Abaethaggar
* Abburth
* Baereghel
* Charrvhel'raugaust
* Chaulssin
* Ched Nasad (City of Shimmering Webs)
* Cheth Rrhinn
* Dyon G'ennivalz
* Erelhei-Cinlu
* Eryndlyn
* Faneadar
* Guallidurth
* Haundrauth
* Ithilaughym
* Karsoluthiyl
* Lith My'athar
* Llurth Dreir
* Luihaulen'tar
* Maerimydra
* Menzoberranzan (City of Spiders)
* Orlytlar
* Rilauven (Neverwinter)
* Sschindylryn
* Sshamath
* Sshanntynlan
* Szithlin
* T'lindhet
* Tyrybblyn
* Uluitur
* Undraeth
* Ust Natha
* V'elddrinnsshar
* Waethe Hlammachar
* Yuethindrynn