it's been a tough road 🤕 ✨Quick tutorial how I make my Seldarine Drow Tav👉 ua-cam.com/video/DNTH3uKXUHg/v-deo.htmlsi=qMpR2Tx3gfXg7vVU ✨More Baldur's Gate 3 clips here👉 ua-cam.com/play/PL1aWsigQ8kuCSkIWEPsefo1slaHJLYeqI.html
If you want to get rid of the “bloodless” stat each day you let Astarion go nomnom on your neck, you can pick up the “Silvanus charm” from at the grove. It’s under a rock near the bear by the beach (it’s a big rock but you just have to move it slightly and then you can see the necklace). Just equip it, use the spell it has, and then you can swap back to whichever other necklace you want to wear. No more bloodless -1 stat, and Astarion still gets his +1 happy.
Play Drow felt relatable in the sense that it felt like the moments when I'd leave my room and my family would be like "It's rare to find you outside of that cave! Rare and intriguing indeed!"
@@lawrencefosterjenkins8216 I played as a duergar and got the same thing it was sort of cute though cause I helped the one chick who's poisoned in the underdark and she was like "Why are you being nice to me? And Tav's like "Not all of us are slavers and assholes ^^"
The funniest is being a drow druid at the grove. Everyone is like "Ew drow!" and when you replay that you're actually a druid they're like "Yeah don't care. Evil drow."
I see youtube deleted my comment but kept me in the notifications...... Seriously UA-cam if you are going to censor people and auto delete their comments don't keep them in the notifications....
I played a drow druid and when the druids at Emerald Grove were being rude about my character being a drow, I got a special drow druid dialogue option that was like "I may be a drow, but I am a druid first :)" and the other druids were like yeah we still hate you
The saddest is my drow tav grew up at the surface raised by a wood elf, and for a few years was an apprentice of the local Druid grove but was super rejected ): so later in game being named as the keeper of faith at this other Druid grove was an immense honor. They kept the staff they’ve been gifted this day very previously since then.
@@JosukeFromMoriohIt isn’t as simple as that. He wasn’t thinking clearly because the absolute was influencing him and he’s ashamed about it when you meet him again
@@JosukeFromMorioh [SPOILERS] if you find him in the second act and talk to him, he will explain his actions, but it will be up to you whether you consider what you hear to be a betrayal. And this is why I love BG3
I ran a seldarine drow bard who I was RPing as someone who's really chill and loves people, I got about as far as the poisoned gnome in the myconid camp before I just imagined her patience finally snapping and yelling "ALRIGHT, I GET IT, EVERYONE HATES DROW"
I've got to play through where I have one who's a bard. It was hilarious how many of the cultists simply let me through out of fear. The only person who really insulted me was Kagha who misstook me for one of "Mother Lolth's children". That's when I knew she was evil and had to die.
Love how the windmill deep gnome immediately assumes you’ll enslave him because you’re a drow and then immediately calls you ignorant when you ask him what he’s doing on the surface
@@snipermagoo Not in my playthrough because I accidentally pulled the wrong lever. Rest in peace Barcus Wroot I'll always remember you as being found dead 200 yards away from the windmill.
This is why I love playing as a Drow. Everyone either hates you or is scared of you. Though usually I go Lolth Sworn because their dialogue options are hilariously evil
@@memecat9830is Volo making up the dragon stuff only to drows ? I’ve only played drow but would think he has that same dialogue with everyone (apart from being surprised to see a drow, lol, remind me the Harpells when they first met Drizzt).
Full Drow, not a half-elf Drow. Minthara will diss 'your polluted blood is unworthy of her Baenre family lineage..' if you're keeping her for an Evil Playthru.. Lloth -sworn Drow get the good dialog options- it's assumed that you're Evil , or at least Evil- curious..😂
I remember in a video before launch the developers said the reason Drow aren't listed as subtype of Elves in the game is because they have so many unique interactions which leads to a very different experience. Can definitely understand that, and I'd really recommend doing a playthrough with a Drow if you're not sure what to pick, it's hilarious how a lot of the goblins cower before you.
there are so many different types of elfs in the forgotten realms lore that i think making high and wood the only 2 combined ones is the perfect choice
Can relate. Playing a duergar has so far just been “Well by the nine hells! I’ve never seen a grey person before! What is it like? Being grey and all? You’re very grey ma’am. So so grey.”
I'm experiencing this joy right now with my half drow warlock Meredith. She might be my fav Tav in my 700 hours of playing so far across 14 characters.
when minthara was like "find the grove and it will make up for your poor breeding" I was like "lady I just fucking met you, why you throwing shade like that"
@@unhackerthelaziestbastardo6083 doing a drow druid playthrough she goes through the same dialogue as normal if you play as a drow, she doesnt have anything special to add to druid dialogue options if you choose those
@@vyvisabastard Oh, I know. But I like to believe that she barely contains herself upon seeing a drow druid. Or that as a Lolth Sworn Drow, you just have the option to show her how a drow does things and just attempt a homicide.
@@MyNameIsBucketi made my first character a half-drow trans man. honestly was a bit dissapointed, i hoped i would be bullied more, considering he was both a half blood ex slave AND 'refused' lolth's gift of being born a woman. only got passing comments in the goblin camp, smt like "huh, i guess *anyone* can become a true soul these days". oh, and minthara mentioned something about my dirty blood. other than that, almost no one commented.
@@pasharighton Same with my Cleric of Eilistraee, non-binary because they're currently undergoing the Changedance. Insofar as modern cultural issues, I guess D&D lore only goes so deep.
I played a male seldarine drow sorcerer and when I talked to Mattis, he said something about how he heard that drow eat children. I had the option to say "Only the red-eyed ones." Another hilarious situation was when I decided not to push the Duegar dwarf into the water on the way to Grymforge. As soon as we got there, a female dwarf asked him "Who's he? A friend of Nere or are you plowing Drow now?" I could reply "Digusting. No plowing was happening." Then she grinned and said " Might help with that stick up your a**." or something along the lines. Then my baby-faced drow popped a vein and unalived everyone except the deep gnomes being also a Dark Urge.
that duergar who entered our ship to the Grymforge had lines which I've never heard before and sent me ROTFL. something about getting ploughed sideways or Thrinn finally choking on that prick up her throat...
My first playthrough was a tiefling druid and it was funny getting xenophobic comments from the druids while also having access to druid dialogue options to use against them.
In the D&D universe, Seldarine Drow should be painfully aware of the reputation their kind have on the surface - and that it's well earned. Worshippers of Eilistraee, especially, are devoting their lives to changing people's minds about Drow knowing the uphill battle that it is. This makes it a bit weird that most of your interactions as a Drow amount to "OH DO YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF PROBLEM WITH DROW HUH??"
That’s the approach my Seldarine Drow monk is taking. He knows damn well how much Drow are hated, and because of his experiences, he honestly doesn’t blame folks for their reactions.
In the conversation with... I think the kid merchant whose friend pickpockets you? He can say something along the lines of "and here I thought drow were scary." As a seldarine, you can reply along the lines of "you absolutely should be scared of drow, if they have red eyes they do _not_ have kindness in mind for you." Eilistraee's followers seek to carve out an alternative to lolth's bullpucky, but. It's rather difficult to convince the surfacedwellers that drow aren't so bad, when nearly every drow to go to the surface is probably on a slave-gathering trip...
Missing is the genuine racism your drow and other drow have towards each other. It's 100% hilarious how your character reacts to people given they'd undoubtedly react the same way around other drow.
My Eilistraee worshipping Half-Drow Bard when people mistreat him: "I understand your hesitance, but you should nevee judge someone based on their lineage. Everyone is capable of change, and the character of an individual is their own choice." My Half Drow Bard when he sees a Lolthsworn Drow: *"Peace was never an option."*
My Eilistraee worshipping drow rogue immediately stabbing every Lolth-sworn she meets: how will we ever be accepted on the surface when the Lolthites are all so *violent*?!
"you should never judge someone based on their lineage" Even when not doing so has a 99.99999999% chance of causing you and your family to be tortured to death for fun by said someone because of his or her lineage. What could go wrong?
Not even. Drow as a race are comparable to demons where one female drow by herself has been known to go into a village, horribly slaughter every living thing, turn people inside out, paint a nice friendly hamlet with meat and guts in ways that make you think of something horrifically eldritch and kidnap or eat children and babies. If you encounter a drow in the wilderness the only sane responses are to run away as fast as you can or shoot her through the head with an arrow before she notices you. Brave honorable men are known to flee their homes leaving their wives and children behind because female drow are such horrific sorcerers. A morally good drow, if one could exist, would be dead on the floor because it's unreasonable to ask anyone from town or wilderness to not kill them immediately if given the chance. You meet a pack of wolves out in the woods. Do you stop to find out if they're morally good wolves? Drow are worse than that. Drow shouldn't even be a playable race. If you want to play a good drow, that's what elves are. Drow are corrupted insanely evil elves. If this were LOtR would you think you could play a good Uruk-hai? This is what they are lore-wise
like that southpark game where the skin color setting and difficulty setting are the same setting. so if you set the game to hard, it makes you black, if you make yourself white, it sets the game to easy. lmao.
I do wish there were more racial dialogues past act 1... the only other dialogue type I would like to see at least a little more of the subclasses in act 1, would have liked to see more interaction with Auntie Ethal as a Warlock who had an Archfey Patron(although I did also get the wild magic interactions with my secondary class)
one i particularly loved is when you side with Minthara against the druid grove, and turn to attack the teiflings once her army is at the gates: Zevlor / Teifling leader: "You! You're with the Drow!?" Tav: "[Drow] Obviously."
I roleplayed as a Seldarine Drow who explicitly chose to worship nature and leave the Underdark because it was too depressing and cutthroat for her. Innate Drow nature still had her in the Spore Circle. After our adventure, she only returned home because she had a certain undead watching her back…side.
I'm playing a Half Drow Paladin myself. He was originally Oath of Conquest, serving Lolth against the various enemies that threatened the drow. Then he ended up seeing the surface for the first time, illuminated by the full moon, and eventually fled the surface and converted to worshipping Eilistraee. Genuinely believes that anyone can change, and it's his personal mission to redeem the drow people as a whole
Larian did such a good job with the drow. (I say this knowing the complaints about lumping all non-Lolth following drow in together as ‘Seldarine’. Please have mercy on the developers, man. The game has limits) There was only really one time during my drow run that I felt needed a Drow-specific option that wasn’t there. It’s in act 3 with that terrible comedian in the elfsong. One of his shitty jokes is about a drow employee he supposedly had and ends with him killing her. I was kind of shocked he had the guts to joke about that while I was standing right there, especially since the drow aren’t necessarily known for how well they can take a joke. I really wanted a dialogue option to be like ‘you plan on killing me, too? I’d like to see you try.’ But there’s nothing. No reaction from you or him or any of the audience. Other than this one not-even-side-quest-related moment, I’d say well done. No notes.
There's no reaction with nudity either. People seem to be saying that it responds to everything, but there's a select few things that apparently slip under the radar, like what you've mentioned, and the fact that a dwarf can stand in the middle of the city, no clothes, and no-one seems to care in the slightest. I opted to a nudist playthrough for the hell of it, before you ask why I bring it up. I just wanted to see how funnier it would be if I just refused to wear clothes. Turns out, they never accounted for it. Even Bethesda games manage to have NPCs respond to naked characters. Kind of upsetting, ngl. But, big arse game, I get it if they just forgot some things, or didn't account for something else.
@@ogre7699They explained the reason. They wanted people to be able to wear whatever, including nothing, and have the game not penalize them in relationships among npcs. So, the non reaction is on purpose. The only one to react is some complaining and eye rolling from Gale if you put on a single pair of underwear from late game and stand by him naked. So, they didnt add it incase it would be annoying. That's really it.
@@wonderstuck-gg I guess that makes some sense, but one thing I was eager to try was a challenge run as a nudist, and just want to see funny reactions from people. Now that's very much a dead idea.
I was a Resisting Dark Urge Seldraine Drow. It was actually very interesting since the Dark Urge urgers you to be the monster people think you are but you try to prove them wrong. You missed how one of the Tiefling children think youre going to kidnap them and you can say something like, "Watch out for the ones with red eyes."
Yeah Nettie has an excuse, the guy on the slab literally tried to kill her and Halsin. It just so happens that he did that because he was a True Soul, and not because he was a drow, but Nettie does profess to not knowing as much about this stuff as Halsin does.
It's so cool to see all those difference references to the race you picked, even gameplay effects like not having to roll persuasion or intimidation against the goblins. I was amazed to see all these differences in my second playthrough when I played as a Drow. Many rpg games in the past didn't address your picks or if they address it was really minor and never effected gameplay. Well, it should not come as a surprise that BG3 is different.
Gale is usually such a softie, approving of all the rescuing and such; he got a genuine surprised laugh out of me when he approved of my drow threatening to pluck out Booyahg's eyes.
I played a drow rogue my 1st playthrough. It’s bizarre, being able to waltz into all “hostile” areas like it’s nothing and having to fight like hell to justify your existence in “allied” areas 😂
I played as a good Duergar Durge and saved Thulla in the underdark in act 1. She was acting all thankful then, but when I met her again in act 3, she was basically like “go away, grey dwarf!” And I was like 😢
Currently playing as a Durge Lolth Drow and girly really just said: 'If everyone's gonna hate me, let's at least give 'em a valid reason to' lol, girl has no inhibitions 🤣
*Meanwhile, my Loth Drow* >Stealing the Idol, getting Tieflings and Druids to fight each other > Betraying the survivors to Minthara > Killing Minthara because she denounced Loth > *ASKING CHILDREN IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE ENSLAVED AND TORTURED* I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to fuck Sh!t up!
Its awesome that you get that reaction as a Drow. Its lore accurate and makes it more fun to play. The world has some tension. Makes everything more special
I played a Drow for my first playthrough and it took me until basically the end of Act 2 to realise that I wouldn't be able to properly join the Cult of the Absolute because they were the only ones being nice to me.
*Druids:* Foul Drow, keep away you evil creature! *Npc:* A Drow, Gods spare me I don't want to die! *Guards:* I'm watching you Drow, give me a excuse to kill you underfilth! *Gale:* I must say, you're handling the constant abuse quite well my friend. **Drow Takes Deep Swig Of Ale** *Drow Pc:* Not gonna lie man, I don't know how many *"It is what it is"* I got left in me...
The ox in the stable at the Duke's Manor, the one attacked in Act 1 near the secret hide out close to the Githyanki Dragon, instantly attacks you if you're Drow. He calls you a monster then no dialogue option to talk him out of it.
@@baskazdunk There is also a sword in the underdark that is specially for Elistraee worshiperrs. well it can be taken by anyone but it'd dedicated to Elistraee. So basically a must have and a blasphemy against the Spider Queen.
Ah this makes me wanna get back to my spider themed seledrine, summons em, walks on and creates webs, uses poison everything, and turns into a spider herself. Lol-th would be so pissed and that's the point.
considering loth drow are like 99% of the drow population and if you encounter one, they will either kos you or enslave you, this kind of behavior checks out. I would argue, that there are quite some rolles missing, to prevent someone to attack you. it just stays with "omg a drow, wtf man" with an optional answer instead of more agressive responses
Drow are rare on the surface, Drizzit himself was one of the first they really saw outside of raids, So really its more they dont even know how Drow work but they know they usually just leave bodies
For those who didn't know, "drow" means traitor in elven. They were once an Elven warrior sub race that stood for honour and courage. Until in the last elven civil war, they betrayed their creator god Correlon and caused the destruction of many elven empires.
My og Tav is a Seldarine drow and when I tell you that I was so *offended* when Kalga was like "oh yes, a worshiper of lolth. You'll understand my child hating ways!" Like, bish DO I LOOK-?!
Im playing as a Drow who worships Eilistraee and it sometimes takes every fiber of my being not to bitch slap someone. Not to mention I'm a male Drow so I truly can't catch a break.
tbh if i were to live in their universe i would run if i see a drow girl, especially as a guy yall should watch some lore videos about Drow culture and their goddess the spider queen
Makes sense, Drow tend to be a lot more evil than Tieflings. Anyone who knows both species and doesn't make their decisions based solely on stereotypes would be more cautious of Drow due to them coming from an entire underground civilization of slavers while Tieflings are usually just outcast most of the time.
Before i picked up BG3 I knew only a little about Drow (like they were considered evil and worshipped Lolth) but I had made a character before I knew ANYTHING about Drow, im talking years and years ago, and I wanted to create his likeness, and was THRILLED with the Seldarine option for a "good" drow. But the whiplash both I and my character felt at the sheer, unadulterated, Grade A Racism was overwhelming (For context, my characters history is that he was yoinked as a kid to live on the surface in extreme solitude with his father for reasons i dont really remember, the father having taken a human woman as a wife afterwards who then had a half drow sorcerer kid. So dude didnt even know what racism WAS let alone experience it, then he gets kidnapped and has to deal with all that nonsense probably shattered his heart of gold)
2:24 - you missed an opportunity to add the scene where Nettie poisons you. Would be a nice insult to injury 😄 3:14 - in case you didn't know, Lesser Restoration removes Bloodless status. Very useful for all of the blood banks of Faerun 😉
@@baskazdunk The Amulet of Silvanus at the beach next to the druid grove can be handy for folks who actually want that one point back LMAO I never use it to get rid of Bloodless, though, since I personally take it as a badge of pride 🥰 I did use it to cure being poisoned but was very sad that the Bloodless went away
Hells, practically every BG3 clip I've stumbled upon on UA-cam has tavs looking so god damn good. Nice change of pace from all the "realistic" ugly-ish faces we've been fed in many modern games recently. It's just eye candy but it's nice to have if we're going to be looking at those characters during dialogue closeups
My main character was a half-drow with pale skin (I had a whole thing going) and I was STILL getting all that racist b-s about being a "drow". Like bruh, looking at me, you'd think I was a high half-elf, not half-drow... It was kind of jarring every time they looked at me and were like OMG A DROW?! Like no, not really... It was especially weird because canonically, that character didn't know her heritage so she didn't know she was half-drow, lmao.
One of my favorites is the Scholar who wants you to steal the Gith egg, and you can say “people think the same way of Drows” and she says “don’t worry. You’re the good one.”
ive never played dnd before, picked a drow bc the backstory was cool, and am now being shitted on by everyone... guys im just sexy and gray i swear :(((
Got first hand experience with this as my first Drow character: a Pact of the Great Old One Seldarine Drow who has a long story essentially boiling down to her being a warlock by accident because she found what would be her Tome of Shadows and glimpsed the Far Realm through it. Her deal is she knows she's doomed, so she makes the best of her life by being a hero despite being terrified of her power. I imagine she kind of just shrugs such comments off and politely informs others of the differences in Drow when possible: after what she's seen and now fears, a couple rude comments are nothing. This is the very much shortened version of her story, but she remains one of my favorite characters.
it's been a tough road 🤕
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Your Tav is very pretty.
@@Scoritn Thank you 🥰💕
If you want to get rid of the “bloodless” stat each day you let Astarion go nomnom on your neck, you can pick up the “Silvanus charm” from at the grove. It’s under a rock near the bear by the beach (it’s a big rock but you just have to move it slightly and then you can see the necklace).
Just equip it, use the spell it has, and then you can swap back to whichever other necklace you want to wear. No more bloodless -1 stat, and Astarion still gets his +1 happy.
@@elenalizabeth thank you! I didn't know about it! 💕
Love the edits, top tier video! Lmfaooo I need to give Drow a playthrough.
A Drow: *Exists*
Everyone: Can u not?
Feels like Skyrim in the khajiites
@@Scooby_NubieI mean, people are also really racist against the dunmer, which is their version of drows 🥲
Play Drow felt relatable in the sense that it felt like the moments when I'd leave my room and my family would be like "It's rare to find you outside of that cave! Rare and intriguing indeed!"
same here 😄
real
Lmao I got similar vibes from the grove while playing a duergar. They were so surprised to see me on the surface
Felt relatable in a sense that everybody were telling me to f*ck off no matter how nice or not nice I am.
@@lawrencefosterjenkins8216 I played as a duergar and got the same thing it was sort of cute though cause I helped the one chick who's poisoned in the underdark and she was like "Why are you being nice to me? And Tav's like "Not all of us are slavers and assholes ^^"
The funniest is being a drow druid at the grove. Everyone is like "Ew drow!" and when you replay that you're actually a druid they're like "Yeah don't care. Evil drow."
Drow have been a blight on Faerun for something like 4,000 years or more.....usually raiding surface settlements for supplies and slaves.....
A Drowid!
I see youtube deleted my comment but kept me in the notifications......
Seriously UA-cam if you are going to censor people and auto delete their comments don't keep them in the notifications....
Same with druid tiefling, they actually insult you
I see youtube deleted my comment but kept me in the notifications....
A deep elf? In our grove? On this day? Located entirely within the inner sanctum?
...can I see it?
"No."
No mother, it's just the Northern lights
Ah, Simpsons.
I played a drow druid and when the druids at Emerald Grove were being rude about my character being a drow, I got a special drow druid dialogue option that was like "I may be a drow, but I am a druid first :)" and the other druids were like yeah we still hate you
wow, I didn't know about that! This game will never cease to amaze me
The saddest is my drow tav grew up at the surface raised by a wood elf, and for a few years was an apprentice of the local Druid grove but was super rejected ): so later in game being named as the keeper of faith at this other Druid grove was an immense honor. They kept the staff they’ve been gifted this day very previously since then.
They say the same to teiflings if you're a druid
For me it was when I played a tie fling druid trying to bring peace to the camp
Same lmaooo
Zevlor is honestly so chill of you're nice to him. Offer him help and he'll make sure no one disrespects you. Love him!
yes, Zevlor is cutie patootie, that's why I feel so bad when I'm doing full evil dark urge run 😢
Sadly from what i heard in act 2 he betrayed the others
@@JosukeFromMoriohIt isn’t as simple as that. He wasn’t thinking clearly because the absolute was influencing him and he’s ashamed about it when you meet him again
@@JosukeFromMorioh [SPOILERS]
if you find him in the second act and talk to him, he will explain his actions, but it will be up to you whether you consider what you hear to be a betrayal. And this is why I love BG3
@@baskazdunk where is him? Do i need to find him before shaar gauntlet?
I ran a seldarine drow bard who I was RPing as someone who's really chill and loves people, I got about as far as the poisoned gnome in the myconid camp before I just imagined her patience finally snapping and yelling "ALRIGHT, I GET IT, EVERYONE HATES DROW"
Dont worry. After act 1 most people dont even react to you being drow
@@Zyklon_B_still_and_know_God to you being any race, really
Only class-related choices remain outside of very specific encounters
I‘m going lawful evil. Be nice to me, I‘ll be nice to you. =3
@@ArDeeMee but if they aren't nice Lolth is going to shudder from what will be done
I've got to play through where I have one who's a bard. It was hilarious how many of the cultists simply let me through out of fear. The only person who really insulted me was Kagha who misstook me for one of "Mother Lolth's children". That's when I knew she was evil and had to die.
I love how Kagha's like, "YES! Surely this Drow is a bigger piece of sh*t than I am! She'll validate my violence against children!"
Love how the windmill deep gnome immediately assumes you’ll enslave him because you’re a drow and then immediately calls you ignorant when you ask him what he’s doing on the surface
even funnier if you're dragonborn "well get on with it, whatever you are" and we're the ignorant one haha
@@RikkeDK1996 I believe this goes for githyanki as well lmao
Love Barcus
I bet he thinks gnomes can't fly, either.
@@snipermagoo Not in my playthrough because I accidentally pulled the wrong lever. Rest in peace Barcus Wroot I'll always remember you as being found dead 200 yards away from the windmill.
I see that bloodless debuff
🤫😈😈
@@baskazdunkbtw it can be cured using lesser restoration
LISTEN
I'm wheezin 😂
@@EpicGamer-yv5nfThanks I didnt know that now I can resume getting suck more frequently
This is why I love playing as a Drow. Everyone either hates you or is scared of you. Though usually I go Lolth Sworn because their dialogue options are hilariously evil
Volo just wants to interview you then tell everyone that you ride dragons
Every single Lolth Sworn Drow dialog option is fantastic, like telling the children that in the underdark you'd eat them etc.
@@memecat9830is Volo making up the dragon stuff only to drows ? I’ve only played drow but would think he has that same dialogue with everyone (apart from being surprised to see a drow, lol, remind me the Harpells when they first met Drizzt).
@@Adahlenino he does it to everyone
Full Drow, not a half-elf Drow. Minthara will diss 'your polluted blood is unworthy of her Baenre family lineage..' if you're keeping her for an Evil Playthru..
Lloth -sworn Drow get the good dialog options- it's assumed that you're Evil , or at least Evil- curious..😂
I love playing a drow, especially when entering the shadowlands and my tav suddenly said “this is not like the under dark”, like that made me happy
Barcus: I suppose you’re going to enslave me now -_-
my Seldarine drow cleric of Ilmater: 🧍No.
"I could if you want me to."
My Durge Seldarine Drow: "No, but if I was still the me from before the tadpole, that would be the least of your worries."
You mean Barcus? Wulbren was the one in prison in Act 2
@@chantinoire yes ty! i cannot keep their names straight for some reason, even tho i love Barcus' character and hate Wulbren.
You can be a cleric of ilmater?
I remember in a video before launch the developers said the reason Drow aren't listed as subtype of Elves in the game is because they have so many unique interactions which leads to a very different experience. Can definitely understand that, and I'd really recommend doing a playthrough with a Drow if you're not sure what to pick, it's hilarious how a lot of the goblins cower before you.
I go Nordic lore: Elves and Dark Elves are different kinds of creature.
But then I'd have to stop playing dragonborn
@@ravensflockmate Fair point, I really enjoyed my dragonborn bard with a fancy hat as well.
there are so many different types of elfs in the forgotten realms lore that i think making high and wood the only 2 combined ones is the perfect choice
Can confirm, playing a lawful good selendrine drow paladin has got to be one of my favorite runs in bg3 XD
Can relate. Playing a duergar has so far just been “Well by the nine hells! I’ve never seen a grey person before! What is it like? Being grey and all? You’re very grey ma’am. So so grey.”
did this for my durge run! grymforge was a completely different experience
This is my exact experience in life but without the letter R
@@rethomore 🫵 GAY
Duergar is so fun. Invisibility on command, freaks people out, and has some fun dialogue options
@@Jefrejtor
Does the dwarven thrower work with a duergar race?
Even plaging as a half drow you'll have people assuming your a drown and then drow going like "ew a half breed".
I'm experiencing this joy right now with my half drow warlock Meredith. She might be my fav Tav in my 700 hours of playing so far across 14 characters.
DOUBLE the racism
“ew a drow” “half drow actually” “ugh that’s even worse!” “what do you mean that’s worse?”
when minthara was like "find the grove and it will make up for your poor breeding" I was like "lady I just fucking met you, why you throwing shade like that"
You know your race is irremediable when the only one who's happy to see you is Kagha.
true lol 😂😂
@@baskazdunk I feel like if you play a drow druid, Kagha would literally bust at the sight of you.
she was happy to see my duergar too /sobs
@@unhackerthelaziestbastardo6083 doing a drow druid playthrough she goes through the same dialogue as normal if you play as a drow, she doesnt have anything special to add to druid dialogue options if you choose those
@@vyvisabastard Oh, I know. But I like to believe that she barely contains herself upon seeing a drow druid.
Or that as a Lolth Sworn Drow, you just have the option to show her how a drow does things and just attempt a homicide.
you should do a male drow so you can be even more attacked by drows and others alike
Or half-drow... a very accurate biracial experience
@@MyNameIsBucketi made my first character a half-drow trans man. honestly was a bit dissapointed, i hoped i would be bullied more, considering he was both a half blood ex slave AND 'refused' lolth's gift of being born a woman. only got passing comments in the goblin camp, smt like "huh, i guess *anyone* can become a true soul these days". oh, and minthara mentioned something about my dirty blood. other than that, almost no one commented.
@@pasharighton Same with my Cleric of Eilistraee, non-binary because they're currently undergoing the Changedance.
Insofar as modern cultural issues, I guess D&D lore only goes so deep.
@@MyNameIsBucketI wouldn’t call that a modern cultural issue
I mean… if you’re fully clothed, how would they even know?
I think it should have been the point where Khaga openly praised Lolth that Rath and the nature clerics should figured it out.
Yeah... bit of a red flag there.
Yeah I heard that and thought WTF? I knew you were bad but Lolth? Really?
Less of a red flag and more of a confession.
I played a male seldarine drow sorcerer and when I talked to Mattis, he said something about how he heard that drow eat children. I had the option to say "Only the red-eyed ones."
Another hilarious situation was when I decided not to push the Duegar dwarf into the water on the way to Grymforge. As soon as we got there, a female dwarf asked him "Who's he? A friend of Nere or are you plowing Drow now?" I could reply "Digusting. No plowing was happening." Then she grinned and said " Might help with that stick up your a**." or something along the lines. Then my baby-faced drow popped a vein and unalived everyone except the deep gnomes being also a Dark Urge.
yes! 😆and if you are Lolth-sworned you can say that drow kill more children than enslave them and he's like "uuumm.. okay"
@@baskazdunk You'd think that might scare them enough to not try and steal from you 😄
I hate the Duegar, they are so crude and disgusting
that duergar who entered our ship to the Grymforge had lines which I've never heard before and sent me ROTFL. something about getting ploughed sideways or Thrinn finally choking on that prick up her throat...
"Only if you are a little ___."
"If no one else accepts me, I know Kagha got me" - your Tav when Kagha said nice things about you as a Drow, possibly-
*2 seconds later*
Nevermind-
Genuinely how it went for me except I was playing a Duergar.
Karga only accepted you because she's been corrupted and thought you'd take her side as most Loth swarn probably would have
Kagha: "Wow, I love Drow!"
Tav: 😊
Kagha: "I bet you're as psycho as me!"
Tav: 😠
i played as a circle of spores seldarine drow, everyone was so disrespectful at the grove
My first playthrough was a tiefling druid and it was funny getting xenophobic comments from the druids while also having access to druid dialogue options to use against them.
@@SaHaRaSquad wow, what a perfect combo 😄
Seldarine Drow are cursed with the sibling complex, having to remind everyone they’re “not like the other Drow”.
In the D&D universe, Seldarine Drow should be painfully aware of the reputation their kind have on the surface - and that it's well earned. Worshippers of Eilistraee, especially, are devoting their lives to changing people's minds about Drow knowing the uphill battle that it is. This makes it a bit weird that most of your interactions as a Drow amount to "OH DO YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF PROBLEM WITH DROW HUH??"
That’s the approach my Seldarine Drow monk is taking. He knows damn well how much Drow are hated, and because of his experiences, he honestly doesn’t blame folks for their reactions.
In the conversation with... I think the kid merchant whose friend pickpockets you? He can say something along the lines of "and here I thought drow were scary."
As a seldarine, you can reply along the lines of "you absolutely should be scared of drow, if they have red eyes they do _not_ have kindness in mind for you."
Eilistraee's followers seek to carve out an alternative to lolth's bullpucky, but. It's rather difficult to convince the surfacedwellers that drow aren't so bad, when nearly every drow to go to the surface is probably on a slave-gathering trip...
Missing is the genuine racism your drow and other drow have towards each other. It's 100% hilarious how your character reacts to people given they'd undoubtedly react the same way around other drow.
@@danieljames1868 My drow is out to find mr Drizzt, lets just say he failed
Need a Drow Ending where your Tav turns around and goes "HUH THATS FUNNY, All 3 of the big baddies were Humans HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH"
Well technically Ketheric is an elf
@@TheCatabolicTrex half-elf. And Orin is a Doppelganger, which I guess considered different race.
What you thought humans weren't just as capable at EVIL as Drow? that's racist!
My first tav was a drow and now that I'm playing other races I genuinely miss how easy being a drow made passing by the goblins
Disguise. Self.
What Loromir said!
Playing a drow 🤝 playing a druid tiefling
everyone in the grove hates you on sight
I am playing my first playthrough as a druid thiefling 😂😂 the struggle I had with others trusting me/taking me seriously
Oh so your a Tiefling Druid? Uh what's your animal companion? Well my animal companion is a hellhound of course.
@@masterpainter78 dog what are you saying
@@lunardelos1210 What animal companion would you expect Avernus Tiefling Druid too have haha. A hellhound.
@@masterpainter78 that's so funny that we're talking about in-game racism and you're joking about a stereotype...
My Eilistraee worshipping Half-Drow Bard when people mistreat him: "I understand your hesitance, but you should nevee judge someone based on their lineage. Everyone is capable of change, and the character of an individual is their own choice."
My Half Drow Bard when he sees a Lolthsworn Drow: *"Peace was never an option."*
My Eilistraee worshipping drow rogue immediately stabbing every Lolth-sworn she meets: how will we ever be accepted on the surface when the Lolthites are all so *violent*?!
Same XD
LITERALLY ME except I was a Tempest Cleric but I chose the same Deity
"you should never judge someone based on their lineage" Even when not doing so has a 99.99999999% chance of causing you and your family to be tortured to death for fun by said someone because of his or her lineage.
What could go wrong?
Me after a few minutes of exploring as a drow: ah, so I see I chose the racism playthrough
It's not racism if your race mainly consists of literal slavers and cave nazis.
Not even. Drow as a race are comparable to demons where one female drow by herself has been known to go into a village, horribly slaughter every living thing, turn people inside out, paint a nice friendly hamlet with meat and guts in ways that make you think of something horrifically eldritch and kidnap or eat children and babies. If you encounter a drow in the wilderness the only sane responses are to run away as fast as you can or shoot her through the head with an arrow before she notices you. Brave honorable men are known to flee their homes leaving their wives and children behind because female drow are such horrific sorcerers. A morally good drow, if one could exist, would be dead on the floor because it's unreasonable to ask anyone from town or wilderness to not kill them immediately if given the chance. You meet a pack of wolves out in the woods. Do you stop to find out if they're morally good wolves? Drow are worse than that. Drow shouldn't even be a playable race. If you want to play a good drow, that's what elves are. Drow are corrupted insanely evil elves. If this were LOtR would you think you could play a good Uruk-hai? This is what they are lore-wise
like that southpark game where the skin color setting and difficulty setting are the same setting. so if you set the game to hard, it makes you black, if you make yourself white, it sets the game to easy. lmao.
@@Kugrox 🤣 yep
Tiefling and Drow are definitely the most "ah shit, they are about to say a microaggression arent they?" choices
Drow: *breathes*
Everyone: *disapproves*
i approve
i love it how much the people in act1 react to the race you are playing! haha drow is so interesting to roleplay!
I do wish there were more racial dialogues past act 1... the only other dialogue type I would like to see at least a little more of the subclasses in act 1, would have liked to see more interaction with Auntie Ethal as a Warlock who had an Archfey Patron(although I did also get the wild magic interactions with my secondary class)
It’s like South Parks stick of truth difficulty meter “remember this doesn’t affect combat only every other aspect of your life”
one i particularly loved is when you side with Minthara against the druid grove, and turn to attack the teiflings once her army is at the gates:
Zevlor / Teifling leader: "You! You're with the Drow!?"
Tav: "[Drow] Obviously."
🤣🤣
Playing as a Seldarine Drow, these mfers keep acting like I'm gonna torture and dominate them. Goblins say some wild things.
Me playing as a lolth sworn durge: "You're goddamn right"
I roleplayed as a Seldarine Drow who explicitly chose to worship nature and leave the Underdark because it was too depressing and cutthroat for her. Innate Drow nature still had her in the Spore Circle. After our adventure, she only returned home because she had a certain undead watching her back…side.
I'm playing a Half Drow Paladin myself. He was originally Oath of Conquest, serving Lolth against the various enemies that threatened the drow. Then he ended up seeing the surface for the first time, illuminated by the full moon, and eventually fled the surface and converted to worshipping Eilistraee. Genuinely believes that anyone can change, and it's his personal mission to redeem the drow people as a whole
Larian did such a good job with the drow. (I say this knowing the complaints about lumping all non-Lolth following drow in together as ‘Seldarine’. Please have mercy on the developers, man. The game has limits)
There was only really one time during my drow run that I felt needed a Drow-specific option that wasn’t there. It’s in act 3 with that terrible comedian in the elfsong. One of his shitty jokes is about a drow employee he supposedly had and ends with him killing her. I was kind of shocked he had the guts to joke about that while I was standing right there, especially since the drow aren’t necessarily known for how well they can take a joke. I really wanted a dialogue option to be like ‘you plan on killing me, too? I’d like to see you try.’
But there’s nothing. No reaction from you or him or any of the audience. Other than this one not-even-side-quest-related moment, I’d say well done. No notes.
There's no reaction with nudity either. People seem to be saying that it responds to everything, but there's a select few things that apparently slip under the radar, like what you've mentioned, and the fact that a dwarf can stand in the middle of the city, no clothes, and no-one seems to care in the slightest.
I opted to a nudist playthrough for the hell of it, before you ask why I bring it up. I just wanted to see how funnier it would be if I just refused to wear clothes. Turns out, they never accounted for it. Even Bethesda games manage to have NPCs respond to naked characters. Kind of upsetting, ngl. But, big arse game, I get it if they just forgot some things, or didn't account for something else.
@@ogre7699They explained the reason. They wanted people to be able to wear whatever, including nothing, and have the game not penalize them in relationships among npcs. So, the non reaction is on purpose. The only one to react is some complaining and eye rolling from Gale if you put on a single pair of underwear from late game and stand by him naked. So, they didnt add it incase it would be annoying. That's really it.
@@wonderstuck-gg I guess that makes some sense, but one thing I was eager to try was a challenge run as a nudist, and just want to see funny reactions from people. Now that's very much a dead idea.
@@wonderstuck-gg He's embarrassed rather than complaining
@@Maritime631 Yes, I didn’t mean it as a negative.
Volo and Kagha being the only ones happy to see a drow lmao
I was a Resisting Dark Urge Seldraine Drow. It was actually very interesting since the Dark Urge urgers you to be the monster people think you are but you try to prove them wrong.
You missed how one of the Tiefling children think youre going to kidnap them and you can say something like, "Watch out for the ones with red eyes."
Aaaahhh yes, the "Average Day in the Life of Drizzt" playthrough 🤣 after reading those books, this is EXACTLY what I expected to happen.
Yeah Nettie has an excuse, the guy on the slab literally tried to kill her and Halsin.
It just so happens that he did that because he was a True Soul, and not because he was a drow, but Nettie does profess to not knowing as much about this stuff as Halsin does.
but she also tries to kill you too, so I wouldn't trust a word she says. She isn't even fussy if your a Drow, she'll try to kill you whatever you are.
3:27 even just hitting the ground too hard too close to sleeping bugbear has interaction that's insane!
I do love Barcus' reaction. Made me laugh quite a bit 1st time I've played Drow
It's so cool to see all those difference references to the race you picked, even gameplay effects like not having to roll persuasion or intimidation against the goblins. I was amazed to see all these differences in my second playthrough when I played as a Drow. Many rpg games in the past didn't address your picks or if they address it was really minor and never effected gameplay. Well, it should not come as a surprise that BG3 is different.
this is pretty much the singular reason bg3 is game of the year, and one of the greatest of all times.
Gale is usually such a softie, approving of all the rescuing and such; he got a genuine surprised laugh out of me when he approved of my drow threatening to pluck out Booyahg's eyes.
I played a drow rogue my 1st playthrough. It’s bizarre, being able to waltz into all “hostile” areas like it’s nothing and having to fight like hell to justify your existence in “allied” areas 😂
I played as a good Duergar Durge and saved Thulla in the underdark in act 1. She was acting all thankful then, but when I met her again in act 3, she was basically like “go away, grey dwarf!” And I was like 😢
1:38 racism at its finest D:
Currently playing as a Durge Lolth Drow and girly really just said: 'If everyone's gonna hate me, let's at least give 'em a valid reason to' lol, girl has no inhibitions 🤣
I‘m going for a male Drow in my Durge run. I‘m gonna make everyone pay for my own supposed „weakness“. =D
@@ArDeeMee same
Nice little collection. But the "as we found out later, they weren't our friends either" was just gold.
As a Lolth Drow, I like the conversations with the male Drow 😈
I like that they call you "mistresss" if you're a woman 😭 It just reminds me of the Discord mod jokes
@@lukesguywalker they also called her _my lordship_ . the goblins call Minthara _her ladyship_ , why not female player drows?
@@embreis2257 Probably to save on re-recording dialogue.
*Meanwhile, my Loth Drow*
>Stealing the Idol, getting Tieflings and Druids to fight each other
> Betraying the survivors to Minthara
> Killing Minthara because she denounced Loth
> *ASKING CHILDREN IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE ENSLAVED AND TORTURED*
I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to fuck Sh!t up!
didn't know that drow origin would affect the dialogue this much! appreciate for the vids!
Zevlor's at least honest about why he's skittish around you and willing to put your actions above your heritage.
And barcus is just traumatized.
Ran a duergar for a little bit and she got similar responses as an under-dwarf. The Urge about got embraced
There are so many races.. I hadn't even considered they would put this much thought into just one. Awesome.
Welcome to the forgotten realms.
Being a drow in baldurs gate either everyone is wary of you, fears you, or is in absolute awe 🤣
Its awesome that you get that reaction as a Drow. Its lore accurate and makes it more fun to play. The world has some tension.
Makes everything more special
I played a Drow for my first playthrough and it took me until basically the end of Act 2 to realise that I wouldn't be able to properly join the Cult of the Absolute because they were the only ones being nice to me.
This was legit the first thing I've watched this morning and I AM CRYING 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Poor Tav. She just looks so done with everyone. LMFAO
*Druids:* Foul Drow, keep away you evil creature!
*Npc:* A Drow, Gods spare me I don't want to die!
*Guards:* I'm watching you Drow, give me a excuse to kill you underfilth!
*Gale:* I must say, you're handling the constant abuse quite well my friend.
**Drow Takes Deep Swig Of Ale**
*Drow Pc:* Not gonna lie man, I don't know how many *"It is what it is"* I got left in me...
The ox in the stable at the Duke's Manor, the one attacked in Act 1 near the secret hide out close to the Githyanki Dragon, instantly attacks you if you're Drow. He calls you a monster then no dialogue option to talk him out of it.
I didn't know about that😮
@@baskazdunk
There is also a sword in the underdark that is specially for Elistraee worshiperrs. well it can be taken by anyone but it'd dedicated to Elistraee. So basically a must have and a blasphemy against the Spider Queen.
If you don't have speak with animals active you can calm the ox down with animal handling.
2:00 wow, she really does just admit to being totally evil there, doesn‘t she?
Ah this makes me wanna get back to my spider themed seledrine, summons em, walks on and creates webs, uses poison everything, and turns into a spider herself. Lol-th would be so pissed and that's the point.
shes literally just standing there, getting insulted, i love drow tavs
Pull your claws in, UNDER ELF.
I NAILED him across the face for that comment😂
Every breath Aradin takes, is a gift from a Drow.
Drows always get the low end of the stick I guess folks have seen how the Loth swarn act and assume that is how all Drow work
considering loth drow are like 99% of the drow population and if you encounter one, they will either kos you or enslave you, this kind of behavior checks out. I would argue, that there are quite some rolles missing, to prevent someone to attack you. it just stays with "omg a drow, wtf man" with an optional answer instead of more agressive responses
Drow are rare on the surface, Drizzit himself was one of the first they really saw outside of raids, So really its more they dont even know how Drow work but they know they usually just leave bodies
For those who didn't know, "drow" means traitor in elven. They were once an Elven warrior sub race that stood for honour and courage. Until in the last elven civil war, they betrayed their creator god Correlon and caused the destruction of many elven empires.
My og Tav is a Seldarine drow and when I tell you that I was so *offended* when Kalga was like "oh yes, a worshiper of lolth. You'll understand my child hating ways!" Like, bish DO I LOOK-?!
I leaned into it : Drow Dark Urge playthrough
This was an interesting impact I did not expect in my first playthrough as a Drow
It's even funnier as a Lolth sworn because there's no "Wait! I'm one of the good one's" option
My gosh your editing is HILARIOUS!!
thank you! 🤗🤗
Im playing as a Drow who worships Eilistraee and it sometimes takes every fiber of my being not to bitch slap someone. Not to mention I'm a male Drow so I truly can't catch a break.
is there a difference in dialogues between male and female drow? I haven't play male drow yet
@@baskazdunk Minthara has a line with male Drow that references their matriarchal society where men are beneath women.
People be like *_"Get back in the dirt, digger!"_*
OK but the goblin kids' joke was cute.
I Love your editing omg .
Thank you 🤗🤗🥰
I need to look into some of those mods, your Tav is the best I've ever seen
Thank you! 💜 You can find mods list in the dicription. I will make soon a video how i make my Tav 🤗
@@baskazdunksame here, the character WIP seems broken so let me know if it still exists!
@@almalexiel The link is just broken. If you google "New Character Creation Presets WIP bg3" the nexusmods site for the mod shows up.
tbh if i were to live in their universe i would run if i see a drow girl, especially as a guy
yall should watch some lore videos about Drow culture and their goddess the spider queen
here i was playing a tiefling thinking of all "stereotyping" i was gonna get but it seems the drow gets more
Makes sense, Drow tend to be a lot more evil than Tieflings.
Anyone who knows both species and doesn't make their decisions based solely on stereotypes would be more cautious of Drow due to them coming from an entire underground civilization of slavers while Tieflings are usually just outcast most of the time.
Beautiful Drow. I made a Drow character myself.
i played as a drow paladin on my first playthrough and act 1 is hilarious. everyone is like “A DROW???????”
Before i picked up BG3 I knew only a little about Drow (like they were considered evil and worshipped Lolth) but I had made a character before I knew ANYTHING about Drow, im talking years and years ago, and I wanted to create his likeness, and was THRILLED with the Seldarine option for a "good" drow. But the whiplash both I and my character felt at the sheer, unadulterated, Grade A Racism was overwhelming
(For context, my characters history is that he was yoinked as a kid to live on the surface in extreme solitude with his father for reasons i dont really remember, the father having taken a human woman as a wife afterwards who then had a half drow sorcerer kid. So dude didnt even know what racism WAS let alone experience it, then he gets kidnapped and has to deal with all that nonsense probably shattered his heart of gold)
Justified racism is the best.
when Barcus said he'd be safer with mindflayers than at my camp, that actually hurt
Playing as a Seldarine is the best option for a drow, all the best of being a drown without the downside of misandry and evil god adorers.
Your Tav is basically walking around with a dress made of fish scales and somehow still manages to look stunning
aww thank you! 🤗💕💕
2:24 - you missed an opportunity to add the scene where Nettie poisons you. Would be a nice insult to injury 😄
3:14 - in case you didn't know, Lesser Restoration removes Bloodless status. Very useful for all of the blood banks of Faerun 😉
I didn't know that! Thank you! 🥰
@@baskazdunk The Amulet of Silvanus at the beach next to the druid grove can be handy for folks who actually want that one point back LMAO
I never use it to get rid of Bloodless, though, since I personally take it as a badge of pride 🥰 I did use it to cure being poisoned but was very sad that the Bloodless went away
I also did Seldarine Drow Sorcerer, but his bloodline was Red Dragon. Respect.
thats it imma play a drow durgeXD
I'm currently playing Lolth-sworn drow, full evil dark urge and I'm telling you... The experience feels good 😈😈😈
@@baskazdunksame! 😂
That's like letting the game play itself xD @@baskazdunk
I'm playing a lolth-sworn male drow Durge, resist, and then I got to act 3 and felt very, very tempted to do a heel-turn
I started a Drow - Seldarine, Bard play through because of this video.
This was funnier than i thought
The funny part is you get some of the same reactions as a tiefling except goblins don’t bow down to you and they are more common
i feel this so much i played a half-elf drow and EVERYONE, and I mean everyone called them every name in the book
Hells, practically every BG3 clip I've stumbled upon on UA-cam has tavs looking so god damn good.
Nice change of pace from all the "realistic" ugly-ish faces we've been fed in many modern games recently. It's just eye candy but it's nice to have if we're going to be looking at those characters during dialogue closeups
I'm not gonna lie, I like my Tavs cute
that has got to be the most beautiful tav I've ever seen
thank you!!!🥰🤗💖💖
My main character was a half-drow with pale skin (I had a whole thing going) and I was STILL getting all that racist b-s about being a "drow". Like bruh, looking at me, you'd think I was a high half-elf, not half-drow... It was kind of jarring every time they looked at me and were like OMG A DROW?! Like no, not really...
It was especially weird because canonically, that character didn't know her heritage so she didn't know she was half-drow, lmao.
I guess there is no need for DNA tests in Faerun lmaooo
One of my favorites is the Scholar who wants you to steal the Gith egg, and you can say “people think the same way of Drows” and she says “don’t worry. You’re the good one.”
ive never played dnd before, picked a drow bc the backstory was cool, and am now being shitted on by everyone... guys im just sexy and gray i swear :(((
Got first hand experience with this as my first Drow character: a Pact of the Great Old One Seldarine Drow who has a long story essentially boiling down to her being a warlock by accident because she found what would be her Tome of Shadows and glimpsed the Far Realm through it. Her deal is she knows she's doomed, so she makes the best of her life by being a hero despite being terrified of her power. I imagine she kind of just shrugs such comments off and politely informs others of the differences in Drow when possible: after what she's seen and now fears, a couple rude comments are nothing.
This is the very much shortened version of her story, but she remains one of my favorite characters.
do a duergar compilation
that's a good idea!