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Message: <blockquote data-quote="storyguide3" data-source="post: 1306179" data-attributes="member: 8555">You must have some interesting ancestors.<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=":)" /> I think that seeing the skin tone of creatures like drow as having anything to do with dark-skinned human ethnicities says more about the beholder than that being beheld. I think that drow (and other evil races) have dark (usually black, actually, of a blackness that no human ever attains) skin has nothing to do with human races at all. It is far older and more primal than insipid racial bigotry. It is the fact that darkness, meaning the darkness of night, is bad. It hides the danger, protects the creatures that killed and ate our primordial forebears when they strayed too far for the protection of the light, the light of the campfire. The Dark Forces are not dark because they are modelled after anyone's ancestors (unless your ancestors have pig-snouts and tusks, and then I think your family tree must stray across species). They are dark because all humans feared the darkness of the night and what could be out in it.</blockquote>