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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3358736" data-attributes="member: 4134">Or, there's a goddess who made redeeming drow her life's work. (a hen and egg situation if I ever saw one).For me, it's only logical that deities like Eilistraee and Vhaeraun exist: Drow are still humanoids, evil is not in their blood, it's all cultural. It's not such a far shot that there are those who don't buy into that culture, and that they at one point band together. They're too smart and confident to be bullied into that one culture wholesale. They're not stupid, socially inept orcs who won't think for themselves, or, if they happen to have a different opinion, can't avoid being killed by the rest. (In fact, there should be more orcs that aren't murderous maniacs). So along comes Eilistraee, who wants the drow to cease their evil ways and come back into the light (literally and figuratively). Her priestesses are instructed to give everyone a chance to abandon their evil ways (usually at swordpoint). Most of those who choose her over death do so for selfish reasons at first, until they see how nice life can be if people don't backstab each other all the tim. Her followers aren't universally accepted, mind you, and they don't mingle freely with the rest of the surface population, so it's not like an Eilistraeeean would never have problems (and they should not never have problems, either)Vhaeraun's a different case: He doesn't preach that drow should stop being evil, underhanded bastards, but he tells them (mainly the males) that they don't have to let themselves be lorded over by the females. He tells them that all this "males are expendable" is so much manure. He, too, wants the drow to come to the surface, but mainly because it is their right to get a piece of the cake (the surface is a lot less lethal than the underdark). And he's not against backstabbing in general, but thinks that the stabbing should be directed at enemies, not at the own ranks.</blockquote>

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