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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8496936" data-attributes="member: 79428">Critical Role is a weird one to pick because the first setting book leans hard into fantasy racism and making out orcs and such as pure monsters.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The dwarves of Kraghammer have rock gnomes as a model minority and only allow people of other races to live in the "Otherwalk" section of the city. Also one of the Dwarven noble houses once responded to discovering a myconid colony in a cavern they opened up by sending in pyromancers to burn all the myconids alive.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The elves of Syngorn have a "kill drow on sight" policy, don't even allow trade with dwarves, and refer to half-elves as "illbloods".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Goblins are described as barely more than vermin who are brainwashed into serving as foot soldiers in their evil god's army from birth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The primary orc group is the Ravagers, who not only go around killing and destroying but also force strong captives to drink a brain-damaging poison that eliminates the ability to feel any emotions other than hate or rage. Half-orcs are noted as the subject of prejudice and that the rare stories of good orcs trying take their half-orc children away from the evils of orc society end with the orc parent getting killed and leaving their children orphans who usually grow up to be criminals.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drow society, in at least a minor subversion, is a hellscape where the nobles worship Lolth and the commoners worship Tharizdun, leading to constant peasant uprisings and a dwindling population. Becoming a drider is considered a blessing because that way someone can get strong enough to leave drow society without getting killed by aberrations. Some are so desperate to escape their home cities that they willingly let themselves be transformed into aberrations.</li> </ul>About the only subversion in the first book was the wood elf city of Lyrengorn, who welcome drow refugees from the Underdark as opposed to high elf majority Syngorn's "kill dark elves on sight" policy.Of course, I'm sure most of this will be altered or retconned in the upcoming book, but the original Tal'dorei Setting Book definitely wasn't being re-released as is in 2022.</blockquote>

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