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New Drow cultures coming in Starlight Enclave, the Lorendrow and the Aevendrow
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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8296366" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Certainly, in the decades that Salvatore and other writers have been exploring the drow, drow culture has become more varied and nuanced. Individual drow are now, not themselves intrinsically evil, but simply people raised in an evil and depraved culture. There are a lot of interesting, nuanced drow characters in the Realms other than Drizzt. I highly recommend the six-part "War of the Spider Queen" series, which centers completely on drow characters and culture.</p><p></p><p>But nonetheless, all existing drow cultures are depicted as evil. This is a problem. One solution, is to retcon some or all of them to be not really all-evil-all-the-time . . . . and again, I think that could have been done and done well. But it would have required WotC to retcon existing lore, which (I would assume) they are leery of doing after the fan blowback during 4th Edition. So, instead, they chose to create two new "lost" drow cultures that are not evil.</p><p></p><p>Again, I fail to see why this is a bad thing.</p><p></p><p>It's not the only choice they had, but it's a fair choice to make creatively.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8296366, member: 18182"] Certainly, in the decades that Salvatore and other writers have been exploring the drow, drow culture has become more varied and nuanced. Individual drow are now, not themselves intrinsically evil, but simply people raised in an evil and depraved culture. There are a lot of interesting, nuanced drow characters in the Realms other than Drizzt. I highly recommend the six-part "War of the Spider Queen" series, which centers completely on drow characters and culture. But nonetheless, all existing drow cultures are depicted as evil. This is a problem. One solution, is to retcon some or all of them to be not really all-evil-all-the-time . . . . and again, I think that could have been done and done well. But it would have required WotC to retcon existing lore, which (I would assume) they are leery of doing after the fan blowback during 4th Edition. So, instead, they chose to create two new "lost" drow cultures that are not evil. Again, I fail to see why this is a bad thing. It's not the only choice they had, but it's a fair choice to make creatively. [/QUOTE]
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