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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8372104" data-attributes="member: 7635">Well, that's complicated.Your typical Drow might not be summoning demons, raiding the surface for slaves or engaging in treacherous backstabbing politics, but how many are accepting or tolerant of it? They see little need to change such systems, keep a small shrine to Lolth, and gladly reap the rewards the systems provide to them? Yeah, there are Drow merchants, scribes, healers and other mundane people who do mundane jobs and don't rock the boat, and while that doesn't make them capital E Evil, it's kinda hard to say they are Lawful Good either. Without wanting to stray into any RW debates, let's just say there are people who are or have been tolerant, accepting, or even in favor of all sorts of atrocities, even if they themselves never engage in said acts. And I don't need to get into how propaganda and religion can further cement such ideas into the hearts and minds of even the smartest of people. The banality of evil is still Evil.And if course that doesn't take into account both the centuries of living in such a society, especially by a race that is as naturally long lived as elves, nor any magical effects both Lolth and the Underdark put on them. It is completely possible that a drow raised outside of Menzoberranzan could be of any alignment, but drow raised in the city (and outlying areas) are overwhelmingly evil aligned due to a combination of indoctrination from birth and magical effects that influence behavior and suppress free will. Which is why the Aven and Loren drow are important to present the vision of a drow culture that, outside of the Underdark, drow culture doesn't have to be full Evil. That said, most of the drow in the Underdark are going to be evil, sympathetic to evil, or at best indifferent to it.</blockquote>

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