Does FR have dark elves and drow, or are drow the dark elves? I thought there were, like, tan/brown elves in addition to the drow.
Does FR have dark elves and drow, or are drow the dark elves? I thought there were, like...
Chase Russell
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Evan Morales
The Sun, Wild, and Wood elves are said to have 'bronze', 'dark brown', and 'copper' skin respectively.
Owen Russell
Drow used to be dark elves, before they were hit by a subrace-wide curse when a portion of them were total asshats, then all of them were driven under the earth by the ordinary elves, where they dwell to this day.
When Eilistraee (temporarily) died, any good drow that weren't descended from the genuinely evil dark elves were given the opportunity to revert to their natural dark elf state that looks much like your stereotypical waifubait hentai brown elf.
Robert Wright
Note when they say Bribze and Copper they actually mean it. Wild and Sun Elves look freaky.
Robert Anderson
It's funny because the dark elves who were cured of Wendonai's taint were still referred to as dark elves, which I'm sure makes semantics a problem.
Isaac Cox
sauce? i usually never ask for it
Ayden Powell
Something something they all died
Gabriel Wood
"Brown elves" are just dark elves as envisioned by Japanese artists, usually not entirely seriously (generally speaking they don't tend to take fantasy very seriously, especially Western fantasy). They come from the same roster as orcs that are literally pig people rather than simply "pig-like", kobolds that are literally dog people, dwarfs whose females are lolis, and minotaurs whose females have enormous tits. Like all of the above, they were embraced by Veeky Forums as a concept because for all that Veeky Forums might whine about weaboos and tarnishing their precious Gygaxian canon, they still can't resist masturbating to it.
Liam Carter
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Ian Ross
The way I heard it, the sexualized brown elves in Japanese media comes from Lodoss War's descriptions of them, back when Mizuno was doing replays of his setting in Comptiq magazine, and that those descriptions are actually derived from 2e modules like Queen of the Spiders, whose cover depicts sexuslized brown elves but were considered representative of drow because some of D&D's writers have no idea what the hell they were writing.