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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1961416" data-attributes="member: 2020">TO RIKANDUR  Posted by Rikandur:  OOC: Echem, You are mistaken Edena, or my writing is shoddier that I thought. Wich, raised among drow, plaything will bow to a male deeper than to "woman in charge" ?  From Edena:  Among drow?  First of all, all allowed to address drow address them as superiors, if they wish to live (or unless they are very powerful themselves.)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Females would bow or curtsie to drow females.  Females would never bow or curtsie to a drow male, especially if drow females are present.  Males would bow deeply or prostrate themselves before drow females.  Males would bow to drow males.  In a diplomatic setting ...  It is a general idea for one to bow more deeply to females.  It might not get you hurt not to bow to the female more deeply, but the drow MALE might be in serious trouble (from the female) if accorded equal respect to hers'.  -  Posted by Rikandur:  (From the First Maid)  My Master didn't rejected their gifts, nor their emissary Eiryne Victoria. He will learn from them and find his own way, as alvays. He know that someone is already serving devils and their power in this world is growing. And as for seeing downfall ... my Master is sure that everybody are wishing his downfall. He would, being someone else, wishing downfall of such power. Motives mean nothing be it greed, fear of envy. Result is still the same.  And I could say that forests of Aliador resemble beautiful dream ... Drow live in their own ... dream . But I know from experience that all dreams end someday, or change into nightmares. Such time come for Drow ... and only drow seeing it, my previous mistress, Velsharess and Supreme Matron Mother Eclavdra of Eclavdor is working toward the only goal that she sees desireable. Surviwal of their race at all cost.  Change is coming toward fair folk of Aliador, and personal wishes mean nothing here. Als alvays, they mean ... nothing.  From Edena:  The Lord and Lady exchange grim looks.  Then the Lord speaks:  'We appreciate that Iuz must study the ways of the enemy, especially since everyone else is doing so.  And in this, we see the strategy of the devils:  fear will drive the races of Oerth to obtain these weapons, and ... yes ... the dream will change ... to a nightmare.  The devils laugh at us all, First Maid.'  'We do not wish the downfall of Iuz.  As we have said, we wish peace.  Unfortunately, the devils with their gifts have destroyed peace.  In bitter regret, we prepare for the inevitable war ... we are victimized, Iuz is victimized, all are victimized, by the devils and their 'gifts.'  'But we do not wish harm to Iuz.  We wish peace.  That is all we want:  and we will pay the extraordinary price required for peace, though that price cost us all we have.'  'Velsharess Eclavdra ... we know well the Way of Lolth ... endless war, misery, and horror.  Never a ray of hope.  Never a glimmer of light.  And never ... joy or joy in life.  It is like they were dead, and in Living Death they live in the insane 'dream' of Lolth.'  (Note:  a report of this speech is taken to Velsharess Eclavdra, who has a stinging reply to it.)  -  Posted by Rikandur:   *For a moment mask of calmness that were written over First Maid broke, and displayed moment of resigned sadness, before she regained her grip over herself.*My Master knows it already, he listen to my prayers ... as alvays with prayers of His faithful. And if You think that rejecting something, mean denying it's existence ... Aliador will be doomed. I thank You whole heartedly for hospitality ... and will go to the place wher I have to stay, more important emissaries than me are surely awaiting.*She bowed again, this time deeply, with forehead touhing the ground before the Lord and the Lady, before standing up and waiting for their response with eyes lloking humbly on the ground.*   From Edena:  The Lord and Lady bow and curtsie to the First Maid.  The Lord speaks ...  'We deny nothing.  We are honored to house you in our home, First Maid.  Our respects and all honor to Iuz the Powerful, Iuz the Magnificent, Iuz who grants the prayers of his Faithful'  After the First Maid leaves, the reaction to the First Maids' looks and words is swift:  The Lady Gwyndilyn breaks down in tears.  With a face sad, Lord Leathnor holds her in his arms, rocking her as she cries.  -  Rikandur posted:  Demons behave absolutely neutrally towards Aliador elves, and ignored most other emissaries. Except evil grins and hisses of hatred toward any devil passing by, along with vulgar gestures toward devil females. Or whistles of applaud toward foreign succubi. And of course they waved toward passing by drow, exchanging heartily comments of their miserable mortal frames, and how it happened that drow are licking shoes of Faerie Elves ? Nothing more than friendly breezing. Every sign of upset or wounded feeling only provoked laughter from demons, and more comments including shameful detail from childhood of drow wictim. Aliador elves are as dumb as from beggining, because demons speak to Drow in language of Dark Elves. At one moment their recived telepatic sending from First Maid and stopped all activites. Smiled broadly to themselves, make faces toward the elven guards, the most daring evne turned back on them, raised his scaled kilt and farted loudly. Laughing of this poor joke, Demons departed singing drunken song in their foul tongue, describing charms of sccubus Jerleirei.  From Edena:  The drow are infuriated by ANY insinuation that they are licking the shoes of the Faerie Elves, and would challenge the succubi to duels, if their Geas allowed it.  The drow, do not have a sense of humor.    It would appear that some of the Elves of Aliador speak drow, and they listen to everything said, forgetting nothing, but they say nothing.  The Elves of Aliador retain strict control over themselves, remaining loyal to their Lord and Lady ... although they are clearly horrified by the succubi and drow, how they are sometimes talking, and how they are sometimes behaving.  This is not a superiority complex:  the Elves of Aliador do not talk of being superior to drow and succubi, and they make no snide comments in private.  They simply mourn, quietly resigned to the all too real horrors of war facing them.  The threat of war is made all the more real by those statements dropped by succubi and drow alike.  (When news of all this is brought to Velsharess Eclavdra, she simply comments, like an evil Yoda:  'If only the elves TRULY appreciated war.  And they will.  They ... will ...' )</blockquote>

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