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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9531003" data-attributes="member: 42856">Drow are black because they were cursed by Corellon (who is a dick). It's a thinly-veiled rewriting of Apollo cursing the crows to be black and birds of ill omen because he sent a (then regular, colorful) crow to spy on his lover (Coronis?) and the crow reported she was cheating on him. So, because Apollo was as much a dick as Corellon, he cursed the newsbearer who was just doing his job.It is possible that the 70s American author of the drow story associated obsidian-black people with white hair with people of African descent, but it doesn't mean the story, which predates meeting with people of African descent (I don't think ancient greek peasants being told the tales had a lot of contact with them or even knew they existed) has such a baggage.Also, I find the analogy of black coming from black widow, and the matriarchy coming from the practice of eating its male after mating to be more compelling, with "eating your mate = evil", rather than a reflection of matriarchy = evil, which I think is a much more intellectual reading of the situation than the origin of the story, even if the author was a 70s typical mysogynist racist US person.</blockquote>