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The Underdark, a fictional region, is the vast network of underground caverns and tunnels underneath the surface of the planet in the Dungeons & Dragons
Roleplaying Game. It exists in a number of settings, including the Forgotten Realms
and Greyhawk
, and in Eberron
, in which it is called Khyber and is home to a host of evil beings driven deep into the caverns at the end of the age of demons. The majority of gaming material (in the form of sourcebooks and accessories), however, has been published for the Forgotten Realms setting. The Underdark is clearly derivative of the Underland, a subterranean realm in C.S. Lewis's Narnia series.

Inhabitants

The Underdark is extremely dangerous, especially to those not native to it. There are the usual dangers associated with caverns: claustrophobia, occasional poor air circulation, and getting lost. There is no light except for occasional patches of fluorescent fungus; most Underdark inhabitants either have highly developed senses other than sight or have developed infravision. Food can be extremely difficult to find, and much of the natural vegetation is poisonous.

In addition to those dangers, the Underdark also is the home of many predators and often-hostile races, including:

beholders
derro (insane humanoids)
drow (dark elves)
duergar (gray dwarves)
dwarves
illithids (mind flayers)
kuo-toa
svirfneblin (deep gnomes)

Official Material

Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark, Eric L. Boyd, TSR
, 1999.
Drow of the Underdark, Ed Greenwood, TSR
, 1991, ISBN 1560761326.
Menzoberranzan, Ed Greenwood, Douglas Niles, and R. A. Salvatore, TSR
, 1992, ISBN 1560764600.
Underdark, Bruce R. Cordell, Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel, and Jeff Quick, Wizards of the Coast
, 2003, ISBN 0786930535.

Portals

A yuan-ti network of portals

and its ecology

Personalities

Specific prestige classes

Prime Underdark Guide ()

Specific templates

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