This week we talk about drow, dark elves, and the unseelie court, before pivoting to driders, ettercaps and spidery yokai. Why is every evil creature in the underdark a paranoid purple-skinned slaver? Why are there so many goshdarn elf civil wars? and HOW DO I SHOT WEB?

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https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/the-seelie-and-unseelie-courts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifications_of_fairies

The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) Paperback – Illustrated, January 31, 2006 by Snorri Sturluson (Author), Jesse L. Byock (Editor, Translator, Introduction)

Silver, Carole G. (1999) Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar

https://www.pbs.org/video/jorogumo-the-deadly-spider-woman-from-yokai-lore-2g9su3/

Mayer, Mathew. (2015) The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai

And of course the 5th Ed Monster Manual.