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Fried Chicken posted:I managed to find an unpaywalled copy, but it is very poorly formatted, it looks like they just scanned the hardcopy to .txt and didn't do any cleanup. I did my best but I couldn't quite sort the last bit Hahaha, of course the dweeb likes Chestertonian distributism.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Technically yes they should have lost their color but then it's a fantasy world so it doesn't necessarily follow the same rules. I don't think it's ever explained why Drow are black other than "dark" being used as a common descriptor for the nasty races. Granted that also goes into old folklore that has roots in fear of the night. Trolls, monsters, elves, etc. that live in dark places and are dark so they're hard to see at night are a very common trope in folklore and literature in general. Doesn't have much to do with racism, in that case; it probably has to do with predators hunting humans in the dark before fancy things like electrical lights got invented and the fact that humans as well tend to be lovely to each other more when nobody can see what's going on. So it turned into "be careful when you're in a place you can't see anything because something might try to hurt you." They did explain why Drow have black skin. First they were cursed for their sins, then they miscegenated with demons. That's not even getting into Mystara's weirdly anti-Semitic underground elves.
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