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<blockquote data-quote="Witchking of Angmar" data-source="post: 598269" data-attributes="member: 4741"><p>Yeah, it kind of strikes me as ammusing to hear someone touted as an expert in a scientific field he has no degree in, and is purely theoretical anyway.So sue the Norwegians. It's their mythology. Drow were originally based on Norwegian myths about evil, dark-skinned elves that lived underground and were good smiths. Gygax just took that and addapted it to match D&D elves. They are not dark because they're <em>EVIL</em>, they're dark because it's cool, interesting, and menacing. As for science, I couldn't care less. I've always liked inverted villains. As a kid I like Black Adam, Reverse-Flash, Nega-Duck, Faker, and many more. Science could just as easily explain how drow adapted to their environment and their skin pigmentation darkened to allow them to more easily hide in the black depths. Or perhaps some side affect of their adamantite fetish. It doesn't matter. They're dark and they're cool villains. If that bothers you, fine, but I like them that way. I really couldn't care less for the "science" of why they are the way they are, and I'm sure that when they're battling for their lives most players won't care either.Dark/black has <strong>long</strong> been the color associated with evil, and racism has nothing to do with it.Some could say that halfling society has a matriarchal slant, since their primary deity is female. Sure, drow are matriarchal and evil, but have you ever considered how many evil societies are patriarchal? What have you got to gripe about? As far as we know, males dominate all of these evil species (since none of them are described as matriarchal in the <u>Monster Manual</u>): orcs, goblins, gnolls, ogres, trolls, giants, bugbears, hobgoblins, kobolds, kuo-toa, sahuagin, efreeti, salamanders, troglodytes, and yuan-ti. Please save me from your concerns over sexism in regards to drow being evil and matricarchal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Witchking of Angmar, post: 598269, member: 4741"] Yeah, it kind of strikes me as ammusing to hear someone touted as an expert in a scientific field he has no degree in, and is purely theoretical anyway.So sue the Norwegians. It's their mythology. Drow were originally based on Norwegian myths about evil, dark-skinned elves that lived underground and were good smiths. Gygax just took that and addapted it to match D&D elves. They are not dark because they're [i]EVIL[/i], they're dark because it's cool, interesting, and menacing. As for science, I couldn't care less. I've always liked inverted villains. As a kid I like Black Adam, Reverse-Flash, Nega-Duck, Faker, and many more. Science could just as easily explain how drow adapted to their environment and their skin pigmentation darkened to allow them to more easily hide in the black depths. Or perhaps some side affect of their adamantite fetish. It doesn't matter. They're dark and they're cool villains. If that bothers you, fine, but I like them that way. I really couldn't care less for the "science" of why they are the way they are, and I'm sure that when they're battling for their lives most players won't care either.Dark/black has [b]long[/b] been the color associated with evil, and racism has nothing to do with it.Some could say that halfling society has a matriarchal slant, since their primary deity is female. Sure, drow are matriarchal and evil, but have you ever considered how many evil societies are patriarchal? What have you got to gripe about? As far as we know, males dominate all of these evil species (since none of them are described as matriarchal in the [u]Monster Manual[/u]): orcs, goblins, gnolls, ogres, trolls, giants, bugbears, hobgoblins, kobolds, kuo-toa, sahuagin, efreeti, salamanders, troglodytes, and yuan-ti. Please save me from your concerns over sexism in regards to drow being evil and matricarchal. [/QUOTE]
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