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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Any faction that uses banks and likes money a lot is a Jewish stereotype, got it. in mystara the shadow elves are reclusive monotheists who wandered a desert for 40x years and reached a promised land where their god gave them 14 commandments on stone tablets. they are also ethnic outsiders who hide their ethnicity in order to secretly gain control of many world governments and control the "Subhuman" races, using them as a tool to weaken human / dwarf / elf aka white culture. don't worry though, not all the underground elves in D&D are as bad as drow and shadow elves. Gruugrach elves also lived underground, sharing a society with gnolls. It's just an unfortunate reality that they know for a fact that miscegenation will destroy the world and therefore have to police race-mixing
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Kai Tave posted:My favorite bit of Awkward Drow Bullshit comes from 4E where one of the drow-specific Epic Destinies you can choose from is "Redeemed Drow." Now understand that Epic Destinies in 4E are where your character hits such a high level that they become gods, apotheosize into pure magic, give birth to new planes of existence, become undying legends that will live on through the ages, etc. So what's the grand reward for the Redeemed Drow? Why, being reborn as a light-skinned elf! The blood-taint of your sins made manifest upon your skin expunged from your body! Isn't that just wonderful? The only underground elves in D&D that aren't full of terrible racial problems are Eilistrae's offworld Drow in Planescape who are all Svartalfar, aka they are Drow who have names like SVEN and BRIGITTE and they sail in longboats and drink a lot. Maybe svartalfar (Northern Reaches Gazetteer) in Mystara too, I think they were just average looking elves who spent all their time designing traps. But otherwise the lesson is clear: In D&D, racism emanates from the center of the earth, the closer to it you are the more racist your portrayal in-game is. (WotC actually tried to solve the "Drow were cursed with black skin" issue by explaining that, no, you see, the uncorrupted Drow had brown skin, being demonically corrupted just made it blacker! Redeemed Drow was supposed to play into this - i.e. you were supposed to be reborn as the brown skinned elves, but this is buried in an 8-novel series that also spells out that the majority of the Drow are of mixed race heritage and therefore not able to be redeemed!)
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