The Ashen Reprisal

The underground organization of Drow that covertly move throughout Avalon, operating in a variety of underhanded enterprises within the city: black market agents, contraband couriers, strongarm intimidators, spies. Led by Drex M'chte currently, following the death of Xhiret Kh'nil, who took in and fostered many of the Reprisal's current operating members.

Description
''After following a crack in the Weirding Wall in the back of the Dreg Slums, you come out into a cavernous system of tunnels. The stones that line the floors, walls, and ceiling are obviously old, and covered in a thin layer of sewer-like moisture. ''

Founding
Xhiret Kh'nil fostered many Drow children - whether they be the natural offspring of the old prisoners of war that weren't immediately executed, or the wave of children borne from the pillaging of the Drow soldiers during the war's occupation - in the Dreg Slums on the southwest portion of the Hidden Valley in Avalon. The Slums - which were already a mired part of the Hidden Valley as the runoff from the city water systems deposited there - were rarely examined by the Crownsguard, and provided a relatively safe haven for the war criminal and the orphans and runaways of Avalon to look after one another. Swiping goods and begging around town, the children were able to sustain themselves, learning the nooks and crannies of Avalon better than most who more openly walked her streets. Eventually other adult Drow of the city - scant captured prisoners of war from the invasions early days, who had been released and kicked onto the streets after years of confinement; or escaped indentured servants - joined the community as well. The group's growing size demanded a change in location, and Xhiret discovered a system of caverns and tunnels below the city streets - an old underground network that was largely collapsed, but provided adequate quarters for the Drow orphans and those looking to evade the eyes of the law above.

With a new established home, Xhiret and a few other Drow warrior veterans began guiding the Drow children in various means of combat for self defense, and field skills for survival. Eventually, the older Drow children began looking for work around the city, doing odd-jobs for whoever would pay coin to a Drow. Often, the elves would need to fall back on shadier, illegal, or dangerous tasks; however, their shadowy employers' overall lack of care towards race - just that the job got done - meant that the Drow quickly turned to the more lucrative, if illegal, opportunities throughout the city. Sentiment among the group of Drow, driven by most Avalonians' distaste for their kind, became one of spite towards most "upper" society, and they dubbed themselves the Ashen Reprisal.

"Founding" Members
Escaped war veterans or released prisoners of war who initially worked together to establish the underground caverns and train the younger Drow.
 * Xhiret Kh'nil
 * R'zhast Jheni
 * Mo'zrat Gniess