WHAT IN THE SAM HELL OF HADES

The Drow enslaved almost all of the Rakshia, forcing these semi-sentient creatures into treacherous labour camps, enforcing a horrendous death as punishment for failure. With many of the less intelligent Rakshia being killed for their mistakes, they began to gain intelligence at a surprising rate, and again Drow took advantage of this. Forcing the Rakshia into increasingly complex and dangerous situations. Eventually - and to the disappointment of the Drow - they discovered that despite the Rakshia's immense adaptability, they still had limits. With many of the Rakshia dying from the extreme conditions, the Drow discovered that the Rakshia could not survive for long with their current treatment. The Drow stopped treating the Rakshia as harshly, allowing them to live like other slaves, and forcing them to do whatever they saw fit. Again the Rakshia's adaptability and newly gained intelligence allowed them to survive well enough within their enslaved world.

Rakshia were often seen as less desirable and cheap slaves since they were still rather simple minded and ugly. During their time of captivity, the Rakshia were always seen as wild creatures and treated as such. Despite the fact that their intelligence and success were nearly on-par with others in captivity. Even among fellow slaves, the Rakshia were treated terribly, and given the worst of the gruel, sometimes forced to eat mere scraps and waste. However, due to the Rakshia's adaptability, they were eventually able to live off of waste and little bits of organic scraps without falling ill. Additionally, the fact that the Rakshia were seen as animals led many of the Drow to slaughter them as if they were livestock when food was scarce.

When the Drow first started to kill the Rakshia for food, they found that the Rakshia were surprisingly edible. The Drow discovered that most of the Rakshia’s body was filled with a sweet and sour thick purple liquid that surrounded the organs. This so called "honey" was not only quite delicious (having a taste similar to sour berries), but was also very slow to spoil and was an incredibly good ration, as it was easy to get and supplemented as both food and water. Since the Drow needed both the food and the slaves many of them decided to remove the abdomens of the Rakshia. This allowed the Drow to collect this honey and continue to use the Rakshia as slaves. Unfortunately for the Drow, they eventually discovered that the Rakshia required their abdomens for both their metamorphic adaptation and to have young. This lead to the eventual death of most of the captive Rakshia populations. The sudden loss of both slaves and resources forced many clans within the Underdark to war, thus igniting the Slave War.