House Rilyntlar was the lead noble house of the northern drow for as long as any can remember, until losing favour during the resurgence of the spider queen, where their practises of open trade with surface worlders and the despicable surface elves led to their downfall to Lolth loyalists. Those that managed to survive the inquisitions quickly learned their place at the bottom of the new hierarchy. Despite this, the northern drow do still hold tentative trade with a select few surface worlders, using their control over rare goods from the underdark as a means to manipulate and influence powerful individuals of surface world states.