It’s such a reactionary dog whistle. I used to be one of those “lore accurate” nerds for Tolkein. But for stuff like, “It’s Dwarves, not Dwarfs, that was intentional by Tolkein so we should use Dwarves as the plural.”
When I saw the same nerds I used to argue unimportant shit like that with turn around and say “The elves can’t be black and I’m not racist it’s just the lore” I ran out of there so fast.
I actually think elves should be dark skined. They have long limbs and slender bodies. Allens rule says this is a trait of tropical animals. Then you add the long ears with a lot of surface area those likley evolved as a way of termoregulating like those on the fenec fox or similar animals.
So these are clearly adapted to a more tropical enviorment than regular humans. And since skin color is also correlated with latitude you would expect them to be generally darker skined. Except from some outling populations that moved north and adapted to colder climates and agricultural diets outside of the forests.
Dark elves on the other hand. Should be very pale since thay live underground. Think mole rats.
for one the official lore of faerun is so jumbled and often contradictory over the years that you could almost say anything about it and it would be true according to one official source of another
on the other hand because the lore is a cooperative element of each table who is actively playing the game and thereby writing it as they go along anything you like is lore accurate because you are one of the writers of the lore yourself as a player and a gm
I’m more interested in ‘based mods’ in this context
Mods to make female characters more scantily clad and have shittier stats (also no black people) would be my bet as to what this mouth breather considers ‘based’
‘lore accurate mods’
it’s a fictional work, the only thing it has to be accurate to is itself!
It’s such a reactionary dog whistle. I used to be one of those “lore accurate” nerds for Tolkein. But for stuff like, “It’s Dwarves, not Dwarfs, that was intentional by Tolkein so we should use Dwarves as the plural.”
When I saw the same nerds I used to argue unimportant shit like that with turn around and say “The elves can’t be black and I’m not racist it’s just the lore” I ran out of there so fast.
I actually think elves should be dark skined. They have long limbs and slender bodies. Allens rule says this is a trait of tropical animals. Then you add the long ears with a lot of surface area those likley evolved as a way of termoregulating like those on the fenec fox or similar animals.
So these are clearly adapted to a more tropical enviorment than regular humans. And since skin color is also correlated with latitude you would expect them to be generally darker skined. Except from some outling populations that moved north and adapted to colder climates and agricultural diets outside of the forests.
Dark elves on the other hand. Should be very pale since thay live underground. Think mole rats.
underground pigments don’t always tend lighter. Sometimes things stay dark, like mole’s fur, or many beetles.
Good point. I made the asumption that both kinds of elves have diferet colors. But you are rigth that this may not be necessarily so.
it used to mean “this doesn’t have thomas the tank engine or anime characters in it”
now it usually means “no gay stuff”
I’ll be cold dead in the ground before I recognize “Macho Man Randy Savage dragons” are not lore accurate.
its wild
for one the official lore of faerun is so jumbled and often contradictory over the years that you could almost say anything about it and it would be true according to one official source of another
on the other hand because the lore is a cooperative element of each table who is actively playing the game and thereby writing it as they go along anything you like is lore accurate because you are one of the writers of the lore yourself as a player and a gm
I’m more interested in ‘based mods’ in this context
Mods to make female characters more scantily clad and have shittier stats (also no black people) would be my bet as to what this mouth breather considers ‘based’
I think they’re referring to a specific mod website that allows mods that nexusmods will take down - so think homophobia, racism, sexism etc
Earlier versions of that fiction are likely to have more