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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8342384" data-attributes="member: 7015558">1. I'm pretty sure monolith's controlling people's minds is just slavery under a different name.2. I meant the Emerald Claw, not the Blood of Vol. Emerald Claw is definitely a Neo-Nazi analogue.3. I'm not sure it does, but I've now checked the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, which lists Najara, the Underdark, and Luskan as all using or trafficking in slavery, including this quote;“Do you know what it is to be a slave? To feel the crack of a whip, the venom of a drow priestess's snake-headed lash, the weight of a burden you can't possibly lift after so much toil? No, you don't. So close your mouth and open your eyes and ears, and dip your quill.”The economy of Najara, such as it is, depends on slaves to exist. Slavery is arguably the only actual trade conducted in Najara, with the ruins of Thlohtzin in the Forest of Wyrms serving as a gathering place for those who would stoop so low as to sell slaves to the yuan-ti. Different factions among the Najarans have agents waiting near Thlohtzin, each hoping to strike a bargain with slavers before others arrive. Slaves with unusual abilities or specialized knowledge sometimes set off bidding wars among the yuan-ti. I fear that such was the fate of that apprentice who accompanied me out of the High Moor.4. Believe what you want to believe, but the adventure is proof that WotC can and has made a book for 5E with slavery a prominent theme, and there wasn't much of a backlash.</blockquote>

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