Thread 717085926

Why are dark elves/drow such cunts?

because they are black

>>717085926 (OP)
Their goddess is a cunt that forces them to be cunts too

>>717085926 (OP)
lack of vitamin D

>>717085926 (OP)
They cannibalize each other in the womb, the mothers get mindbreaking orgasms from it. This is actual printed lore btw.

>>717086314
For what edition?

>>717085926 (OP)
Because matriarchy is vile.

>>717086216
I'll help them with that

>>717085926 (OP)
>Why are dark elves/drow such cunts?
They come from a matriarchal society. Women are fucking mean, dude.

>>717085926 (OP)
Drizzt is such a badass though.

>>717086402
random article in the the pathfinder focused magazine IIRC. But of course since that information is just as fictitious as any other I chose to believe it and I chose to believe that you can permanently mindbreak drow women by keeping them knocked up

>>717086402
It's old forgotten realms lore, iirc it's either 3.0 or 3.5

>>717086402
Ed Greenwood, the same guy that said tieflings lactate spicy milk

>>717088771
and that drow have mushroomy milk

>>717088771
Also that elves fuck by rubbing their legs together

The idea that nobody ever called this guy out and he was just allowed to write 90% of the Forgotten Realms lore is hilarious

>>717086156
In D&D the drow are so over the top evil and it gets so extreme even among themselves that Lolth needs to make occasional divine interventions just to stop them from self-genociding.

>>717085926 (OP)
>Why are dark elves/drow such cunts?
For the females it's the lack of a White human male leader companion. A female Dark Elf is in her happiest place when she's being led and mate pressed every night at camp by her White human fighter companion.

>>717085926 (OP)
Lack of diversity

>>717085926 (OP)
Its bullshit. Guaranteed there's normal Dark elf farmers who just want to tend to their crops and manors (said fields are worked by slaves thoughever)

Its just the highly overproduced city elites that are doing the whole perpetual backstabbing pseudo civil war ad eternum. The fact that they have food on the tables and clothes on their backs proves that there's a productive side even to dark elf society.

And those plantations must have masters and sons and daughters and so on. Likely even free born farm boys that will grow up to be small time farmers

matriarchy + no sunlight will do that to anyone

>>717093075
they use slave labor for farming, though. there are no drow farmers.

>>717093119
You don't leave overseer duties to slaves though. You don't leave the organization of farming to slaves.
Hence, there are Dark Elf farmers. And the model of mass aggregate farming is not feasible everywhere. Some geographical areas will favor smaller farms, and those farms yet again wont be helmed by slaves.
There are, therefore, small time Dark elf farmers who maybe own 1-2 slaves and another 1-2 servants who aren't fit for manual labor.

There's also, obviously, Dark elves that are less well off but not slave status. Paupers, poors etc. day laborers.
Craftsmen, blacksmiths etc. slaves can do some of this work, but not all. Being a sole blacksmith in a small village will give you a lot of power. Here, slaves simply are a bad choice. There would always exist regular craftsmen as well.

These people wouldn't engage in the traditional dark elf backstabbing to nearly the same extent. There's literally nothing to gain from that.

>>717085926 (OP)
purely economic factors

>>717093450
That's nonsense. Next you're going to say that some orcs are actually good people and don't like fighting.

>>717087001
Source on the magazine issue? I need this for my Pathfinder to SillyTavern adaptation for maximum lore friendliness.

>>717093629
I'm just saying that their culture can be 100% retarded genocidal stupidity, but that society as a whole requires a small core of productive people to keep it functioning. These people don't receive any attention or glorification, either by the culture itself or by writers of stories regarding Dark elves. But they still exist.

Orcs can have similarly gifted people - the existence of "menus" in Lord of the Rings proves the existence of restaurants, for example.

>>717085926 (OP)
The first book of the Drizzt series, Homeland, when he's still living in Menzoberranzan, does a pretty good job of describing their society from the viewpoint of someone within it. For all the shit the males get put through, arguably the females get it worse, as they're beaten down and indoctrinated from birth until they're absolutely ruthless and twisted. They have to be to keep control over all the males and slaves over which they have dominion, who would rise up in an instant if they showed weakness. That is if another House didn't take them out first.

>>717095875
but they have magic

>>717092883
Is that more recent? Because she used to love that stuff - weed out the weak and all that.

>>717093450
Drow who fail to rise to the highest levels take those jobs. They're considered failures, but have a purpose, so they're not put to death immediately.

>>717097249
Its such a retarded style of thinking. Of course everyone can't be a winner. Barely *anyone* can be a winner. True authoritarians know this.

Dark Elf society might have absolute disdain for the lower tiers, but that's just because stories often revolve around the aristocracy. The king/queen/emperor/empress in those stories hates the aristocracy with just as big boiling fervor as those aristocrats can muster for the lower tiers, and so on.

You still need regular soldiers. People that know their place. Hating those people is absurd for any halfway enlightened ruler. You want them to understand their position.

Imagine looking down on peasants for "failing to obtain higher status"... as an aristocrat. A warrior noble.
You know who that peasants needs to kill to obtain higher status? Its you, you insufferable faggot.

How would he react to DnD dark elves?

>>717097137
Calories in/calories out.

Using magic to make crops is retarded when you have slaves. Its a waste of good magic, which can make armor and enchantments that sell for billions in gold

>>717097034
I've read it and it isn't so bad at all unless you're a non-Drow.

>>717097618
They look down on them, but as long as they know their place, they're accepted and left alone. Unless something goes wrong, then they get executed for yet another failure.

>>717086852
I remember getting a ban on /tg/ just for posting this single image...

>>717099691
Drizzt is a member of one of the noble houses, so he has it better than many. Plus he's incredibly gifted and could be a potential future weapons master for his House, so they don't get rid of him for his numerous eccentricities (not being an evil dick). The point is power in that society is fleeting, and if you aren't strong someone it going to take a shot at you eventually. The story opens with House Do'Urden taking out House De'Vir (Viconia's House) for something like that. Later on House Do'Urden falls after repeated failures to retrieve Drizzt from the surface.

>>717097618
>Hating those people is absurd for any halfway enlightened ruler.
drow are completely retarded howbeight. Drow commoners are treated like shit (still somehow slightly better then non-drow)

>>717097654
Imagine always being right and never being wrong and having everything taken from you anyway by a bunch of sour grapes faggots because your hot mom won't give them a crumb of pussy after experiencing the wonder of your world-saving gigachad dragonmaster demi-god father's divine cock, so she would rather fuck a bunch of vikings than a bunch of nerds
I would slaughter them all too.

>>717102181
Luv this saucy elf

I like the Dark Elf Pope

They are literally following a shitty evil goddess pushing for the society that they have. So unironically religion in this case.

Which is why the good drow who follow Eilastree (basically a hippy drow goddess who encourages them to be naked and dance around a lot) is in such strong contrast to the more common Lolth underground society drow.

>>717085926 (OP)
They represent the more sinister and darker aspects of life while the surface elves such as the high elves represent the nobler aspects of life.
While good vs evil gets thrown into modern fantasy, ancient folklore depicted the differences between the elves (light) and dark elves (sometimes called dwarves) as opposing and differing forces rather than good vs evil. Elves supposedly derived from the idea of purified chosen ancestors waiting to be reborn through their blood relatives.

>>717085926 (OP)
vitamin d deficiency

>>717093075
agreed, the way everyone says all drow are chaotic evil is retarded and no society could ever function in that way

>>717102450
imagine how hot she becomes on death night

>>717092957
Wasn't the daughter of the arch mage of the City travelling with a human berserker in some novels?

Why didn't Larian put in lore-accurate naked Eilastraee following drow women?

>>717103150
Gameplay wise it was really fun. Solely focused on racking up hundreds of kills through being a infantry blender- like her entire army

Entire game is focused around being a ranged damage tard, except this gal