A Practical Guide to Evil - Chapter Book 7 44: Antecedents

... was really more a charnel yard that the Firstborn provided him. He was cutting open a rylleh’s skull with a silver knife when I entered, from the top of the head to the strange almost beak-like nose bone that drow had where humans had cartilage. While there were more bones there were less muscles on their species’ face compared to humans and they were placed differently. It was one of the reasons the drow were considered less expressive.

I dropped into a rough stone seat, watching him w ...