Descent to Light
When the sun sinks below,
And the moon brings in the dusk,
Give us shelter in your wings,
With our hearts full of hope.
We will follow your example,
Deep beneath the earth above,
Finding light in these caverns,
With our hearts full of hope.
Sins of the Mother
When I was only, only a boy,
I saw my mother cry.
The time had come to pay for her sins,
The price, my friend, was I.
A nest of flowers covers the place,
Where in the ground I lie.
Now I'm a pile of lonely old bones,
A thousand years gone by.
Commentary of the Lullabies
Although there is a lot of contradictory information concerning the origin of the drow, and when they slip from their fey ancestors, there are two traditionally lullabies about the events. Much to the annoyance of many historians, both are largely vague, but the fact that they do not contradict one another, despite being from two different societies, provide them with at least some information that can be, quite confidently, confirmed to be true.
Descent to Light
Descent to Light is the traditional drow lullaby, being written in the drow's native tongue of Undercommon, with the verses above being translated to Continental Common. It implies that the drow were once a people that lived above ground, following someone or something's example to become a subterranean race. Many have suggested that
Avalore, the Goddess of Death is the winged being that they are following, which correlates with the drow's religion.
Sins of the Mother
Written to be the traditional lullaby of the drow splitting off from the rest of the fey for the eladrin, and written in Sylvan while being translated to Continental Common above, the Sins of the Mother is the more dark of the two, telling the events as if it were a tragedy. It is implied that the mother mentioned in the verses is
Nimue, the First of the Fey, and the person the song is being told from represents the drow, as Nimue had to pay for her sins and had to 'bury' a part of her children, with that being the drow.
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