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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mortonia" data-source="post: 3455241" data-attributes="member: 48747">This isn't entirely true.  It's not they're taught to hate everyone, it's that they're taught to respect power, and that they're free to do whatever they have to obtain enough power to be respected.  Drow aren't a race of sociopaths - their society works quite well, as long as you accept that the underlying pinnacle of that society is the golden rule: Do whatever you want, as long as you don't get caught.Drow are also taught to believe that they're better than everyone else (or at least that's the impression that I get).  So it isn't so much hatred they have for the other races (surface elves not withstanding) as smug superiority and a overwhelming hubris that they are the pinnacle of creation.  It's not that they hate humans - it's just that they have no overwhelming concern for them one way or the other.  If they're in the way, kill them, otherwise, they really aren't worth your time.To quote from the FR Underdark (3e):This is not a race of slavering psychotics, frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of other races.  The same source indicates that they have a grudging respect for Illithids and Duergar because, like the drow, they have developed powerful societies that hold power with an iron fist and give ground to no one who cannot take it from them.  Respect is given when earned, and lost when the first hint of weakness is shown.I could probably ramble on for days, but I'll yield the floor for the moment at least.</blockquote>

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