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Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:01 am
by JIŘÍ
Anyone still playing a cleric / FS to Eilsitraee?
I and friend will poke to BG after ages again, and i would like to attend bodyguard role play. I do not care if the clergy is elf or drow, i would make one or the other race to play along.
I thought i would ask first here, before we blindly roll die and pick elf or drow
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:18 pm
by Deragnost
I am definetely RPing a cleric of Eilistraee!
Tell you privately race, name, etc.
Because, apparently, Eilistraee is not well seen in both worlds
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:22 pm
by Your best friend
I have a Drow ranger of Eilistraee but she's mostly shelved at this point. Still, she's been around for years and can give some pointers!
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:38 pm
by cosmic ray
I play an Eilistraeen too, although she isn't a cleric or favoured soul. My in-game account is Endless Kosmo.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:39 pm
by JIŘÍ
Who's scared, can't enter forest then, as we say.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:26 pm
by Rinzler
There was a time when Elistraee drow heavily outnumbered evil Drow (it at least felt like it) on BG. It’s shifted in recent times but it would be interesting to have some moon dancers back in the mix.
Either way, we always welcome any form of PC in the UD!
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:01 pm
by Empoweredfan
That never happened. It just seemed that way, as they were more visible.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:27 pm
by JIŘÍ
Empoweredfan wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:01 pm
That never happened. It just seemed that way, as they were more visible.
Haha correct. And also all evil drow are broken up into tens of houses, sub factions and so on. If most people grouped up into single or two factions, it would be much different.
But i suppose this is never going to happen as everyone of us who plays a drow wants to play something different and seek different story for their drow.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:07 pm
by Snarfy
*
Totally dusts off this blast from the past....
then flees*
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:42 pm
by yyj
Drizzt (and I hate having to bring up this argument, which nevertheless is canon [a brief history of Drizzt is mentioned in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting], because people think it's cool to hate Drizzt, but if it is the only way to get the message across...) came to the surface in 1341, if I recall correctly. By 1347 (three years prior to our current server time) he had he had been rejected - not outright attacked - by surfacers. Dove Falconhand's ranger company, which even had surface elves, even helped him. And Alustriel Silverhand accepted him into Silverymoon. He's not even Eilistraeen, though. This is just an example (or several, actually) of how surfacers could interact when seeing a drow who doesn't actually make hostile moves.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:22 pm
by yyj
And to adress a big elephant in the room
https://www.tor.com/2020/06/29/wizards- ... s-content/
Seems just a few people are clinging to the past.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:26 pm
by Snarfy
What do Drizzt(who I personally enjoy) or WoC purging racism have to do with Eilistraeen clergy again?
Anyways, I would much rather cling to the servers past than turn this thread in a Drizzt bashing-fest or a debate on applying modern day values into the setting.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:31 pm
by yyj
1. Quoting the thread you quoted.
2. Racism on the setting is something wotc wants to see away since it makes no sense for a "good" character to display evil traits such as racism example "tolerance is treason" regarding drow in the surface. Clinging to the racist lore while ignoring other is what it is. An elephant in the room.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:44 pm
by Snarfy
Wotc can change whatever they want, but that doesn't automatically make it apply to THIS setting, nor should everyone who plays here feel obliged to change the way they RP. Players here, including you and I, are free to roleplay their characters' perceptions of drow, or racism in general, in whatever way they see fit.
Yours and my feelings are irrelevant.
This thread has nothing to do with how "racism" is portrayed on BGTSCC. It's about Eilistraeen clergy.
Re: Eilistraeen clergy
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:45 pm
by Shadowspinner70
I'd love to see a strong Eilistraeean community, hidden or no! I have my hands full with Aunrae, otherwise I'd make one to boost the population.
As for the WotC thing . . . I believe it's not racism from the setting, it's insensitive material in the lorebooks itself. As one bud eloquently put it, "This character despises drow/orcs/elves, whatever. You can prove this character wrong."
Good characters, from what most of the Coast knows, can totally fear drow and orcs based off of their reputation and be wary of those who break the mold (like Eilistraeeans)! Just like how good characters can be greedy, envious, or whatever, but it's how they react to it.
But back to the topic!
It'd also be awesome to see the Circle of Song be revived.