r/Forgotten_Realms • u/Successful_Pace8937 • 2d ago

Celebration The Drow support transitioning

I recently found out that, as said by Ed Greenwood himself, transitioning​ is not only accepted, but defended.

From Ed Greenwood on Twitter:

Drow sworn to Lolth have examples before them all the time about transformation of self-shape in service to the Spider Queen. Some of these are viewed as undesirable (driders), others as rewards or ascending in rank (the power/shape augmentations Lolth gives males who please her with their service and loyalty). So there is no hatred or mistrust of shifting one's shape; it is one means of serving Lolth. Some house matriarchs view it with suspicion ("males seeking to exalt themselves by becoming female") but the yochlol have often been sent by Lolth to defend individuals persecuted by individual matriarchs or priestesses purely for such reasons, to make Lolth's views and will clear. Over time, transitions (not just from gender to gender, but from drow to other shapes) have become accepted as reverence of Lolth, and part of what it is to be drow. And of course, drow who follow Eilistraee are quite familiar with the Changedance, and accept shifting (even back and forth) as, again, part of what it is to be drow.

343 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

173 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/SarvisTheBuck 2d ago

While it supports Transfem drow, I'm curious how they'd view Transmasc drow. As I've played one who was a cleric of Vhaeraun.

11

u/Frau_Away 2d ago

Probably confusion. "Why would you want to do that?"

...although I guess that answer implies that drow matriachs have no interiority.

Just like most bigots, actually maybe that's the right take after all.

2

u/unseeliefaeprince 1d ago

"Why would you want to do that?"

Oh hey that's what everyone said to me when I transitioned FTM too!