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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8690454" data-attributes="member: 58172">Consider the gender-division of the drow Uda culture. Each D&D edition has its own version of what this drow is. Probably what makes the culture Evil (at least while Lolth oversees it) is its lack of gender fluidity. If the boundaries between the genders were less severe, the culture might be more benign. In the setting, there are fey drow who include those who never followed Lolth and those who fled from her, plus immigrants from Loren and Aeven cultures and elsewhere. Arguably the fey drow tradition looks something like the following.Among the Uda culture in the underdark in the material plane, the martial Rogue and Dex-Fighter are probably gender-neutral, and Lolth intentionally "breeds" the material drow to select for extreme Dexterity. In other words, those individuals who happen to have high Dexterity and prove successful at the martial class, enjoy high cultural prestige.[Edit]: I found a bit more info about the other drow cultures, Loren and Aeven. Loren are especially Druids. Aeven are especially Wizards. Both cultures come into existence after materializing to the material plane. But they split off before descending into the Underdark with Lolth. As such, they still preserve much of their preexisting fey drow culture. Evidently, the earlier fey drow culture is especially Druid and Wizard. Apparently, Lolth adapted the womanly drow druidic traditions into a clerical one that worshiped her alone as a god. The manly wizardly traditions continued on, moreorless as they always were. To these fey traditions, Lolth likewise martialized them via Dexterity to promote Fighters and Rogues. The empowerment of womanly Cleric serves herself only, at the price of severely disempowering the manly Wizard, and of the censoring of nonbinary who traditionally became adoptees of Corellon.Fey drow• woman: Druid (whence Lolth Cleric and Paladin)• nonbinary: Sorcerer (often of Corellon)• man:  Wizard (whence Lolth Warlock)</blockquote>

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