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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: 8369544" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Because the cultures of the Torilian north pole and deep jungle have been exhaustively detailed, with no room for mysterious, secretive cultures to be added? A genre trope long existing in fantasy, sci-fi, and pulp? We can't have new things added to D&D lore unless they've already been referenced in canon? <em>No thanks.</em></p><p></p><p>How you feel about the new additions, the quality of the story ideas and writing, is independent of how one feels about the sacredness of canon. Two different issues. You can feel that canon needs to take a back seat to good story, good worldbuilding, and the cleansing of problematic lore elements . . . and feel WotC and Salvatore dropped the ball with the <em>aevendrow</em> and <em>lorendrow</em>. Of course, most of the folks I've seen complaining . . . haven't read Starlight Enclave . . . <em>quelle surprise</em>.</p><p></p><p>These changes to drow lore are going to be dribbled out over years, potentially. The <em>aevendrow</em> were introduced in Starlight Enclave, but were not exhaustively detailed (which is okay). We don't know much about the <em>lorendrow </em>yet, perhaps we'll learn more in the next Salvatore novel, which we won't see until sometime in 2022. Will WotC release some sort of supplement detailing the new cultures for the game itself? Perhaps, I hope so, but they haven't made any announcements yet, so . . . maybe again in 2022.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, the decision to add additional, secretive drow cultures in remote parts of Toril is a fine one. The basic strokes of the <em>aevendrow</em> and <em>lorendrow</em> are fun and neat. The introduction and description of the <em>aevendrow</em> in Starlight Enclave is a bit heavy-handed and on-the-nose . . . Salvatore has his strengths, and his weaknesses, as an author and world-builder . . . but they are an interesting and fun culture that I hope gets more detail in the next novel and/or game book.</p><p></p><p>The biggest issue I have with the portrayal of the <em>aevendrow</em> so far, is that they are as good as the Menzoberranzan culture is evil. Hard to criticize one without criticizing the other, but a more balanced and realistic culture would have been better. Having said that, the <em>aevendrow</em> are paranoid to a fault, and almost toss our heroes off a cliff when they fear our heroes MIGHT be spies for Callidae's enemies. After coming to trust our heroes, they still insist that the heroes be mind-wiped should they choose to return home to the south, keeping Callidae's secret intact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8369544, member: 18182"] Because the cultures of the Torilian north pole and deep jungle have been exhaustively detailed, with no room for mysterious, secretive cultures to be added? A genre trope long existing in fantasy, sci-fi, and pulp? We can't have new things added to D&D lore unless they've already been referenced in canon? [I]No thanks.[/I] How you feel about the new additions, the quality of the story ideas and writing, is independent of how one feels about the sacredness of canon. Two different issues. You can feel that canon needs to take a back seat to good story, good worldbuilding, and the cleansing of problematic lore elements . . . and feel WotC and Salvatore dropped the ball with the [I]aevendrow[/I] and [I]lorendrow[/I]. Of course, most of the folks I've seen complaining . . . haven't read Starlight Enclave . . . [I]quelle surprise[/I]. These changes to drow lore are going to be dribbled out over years, potentially. The [I]aevendrow[/I] were introduced in Starlight Enclave, but were not exhaustively detailed (which is okay). We don't know much about the [I]lorendrow [/I]yet, perhaps we'll learn more in the next Salvatore novel, which we won't see until sometime in 2022. Will WotC release some sort of supplement detailing the new cultures for the game itself? Perhaps, I hope so, but they haven't made any announcements yet, so . . . maybe again in 2022. In my opinion, the decision to add additional, secretive drow cultures in remote parts of Toril is a fine one. The basic strokes of the [I]aevendrow[/I] and [I]lorendrow[/I] are fun and neat. The introduction and description of the [I]aevendrow[/I] in Starlight Enclave is a bit heavy-handed and on-the-nose . . . Salvatore has his strengths, and his weaknesses, as an author and world-builder . . . but they are an interesting and fun culture that I hope gets more detail in the next novel and/or game book. The biggest issue I have with the portrayal of the [I]aevendrow[/I] so far, is that they are as good as the Menzoberranzan culture is evil. Hard to criticize one without criticizing the other, but a more balanced and realistic culture would have been better. Having said that, the [I]aevendrow[/I] are paranoid to a fault, and almost toss our heroes off a cliff when they fear our heroes MIGHT be spies for Callidae's enemies. After coming to trust our heroes, they still insist that the heroes be mind-wiped should they choose to return home to the south, keeping Callidae's secret intact. [/QUOTE]
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