barbaric bliss

Maybe a weird take, but I think the old, weird, racist and just whacked-out descriptions of D&D's "always evil" species work if you assume they're in-universe propaganda. Like, the whole "drow are led by women, are always naked, are back-stabbing, duplicitous, keep men as slaves, and have strange rituals involving a spider goddess" might be inspired by the truth, but it sure sounds like the kind of thing an uptight, patriarchal society would write about a group of people they want burn at the stake, right? Like if someone told me that was pulled straight from the Malleus Maleficarum I'd probably believe them. "Orcs and goblins are stupid, violent, cannibalistic raiders who will raze your town and steal your women back to their backwards cave towns" really sure sounds like the kinda thing you read in historical texts about a society when the empire wants to justify colonizing them.

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Ccan i hit?

Astarion before his vampire days! I love the head canon that he had golden/amber eyes.