Local Drow Enthusiast

She is willing to work with men in leadership positions even post-mind control and she will actually compliment and admire their tyrannical prowess

She will argue that the refugees in Baldur’s Gate should be enslaved because it’s practical and better for them that way, not because they’re weak lesser races that deserve to be subjugated

“Gasper Throaks,” he said and lingered on the s-sounds. For you can take a boy from the Underdark, but you can never wash his tongue clean from the sibilants.

Side by side Elven and Drow perspective: Love and Marriage.

Despite the obvious bias against the drow perspective on love, I think their attitudes are more similar than they seem at first glance.

There’s obviously the more liberal views on sex, as well as both societies having no stigma against children born out of wedlock, but I think it goes a little deeper…

One could say that the Elven need for freedom and independence is just the Drow’s mistrust and fear of weakness painted in a more positive light. Both of these groups find the idea of love and commitment daunting. Elves because they fear that needing someone and being needed by them will chain them down and limit their individuality, Drow because to need someone else is to be weak and to open oneself up to betrayal.

Drow handle their fears by limiting the closeness with their romantic partners, keeping them at an arms length and never fully trusting their doubts and fears (weaknesses) to them, lest they be used against them. All trust is foolishness, after all, and physical intimacy seems the lesser of two evils. I think this is also why a drow will seek out a partner of lesser station, because then that drow will have the barrier of social standing between the two of them.

Elves however, handle their fears a little differently. I find it interesting that the snippet says elves are more likely to get into long term committed relationships with shorter lived races. It’s safer. An elf can be free to love and be loved without worrying about spending their whole life with this person. They get 50(ish) blissful years and maybe a half elf or two out of the experience. Even when they do end up in a long term relationship with another elf, marriage is still a little too daunting (which makes complete sense given what elven marriages entail).

(I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m being dismissive. This isn’t meant as criticism, it’s meant as commentary on the lore.)

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Like I think part of why bg3 is so good is that you have both options!! As someone who plays Skyrim and avoids the dragonborn stuff as much as possible I’m so happy I have a choice where I can truly just fuck around and do what I want! Sure you don’t get as much/any unique scenes to your character but i don’t mind. It just means I can play origins (including durge) for extra content!

Like durge is great but it’s a set backstory and character. Like even the evil path as durge you are evil in a specific way. If you are evil you’re mostly evil in the way Baal tells you to be. Maybe you wanna be evil but not a murder hobo! Having the options for tav and origins just, makes it a lot bigger.

evil Tavs exist, no reason Tav can't be a fresh lich or have Vecna's eye or be a devout Cyricist. i've read and/or played all of these and they're fantastic.