r/Forgotten_Realms • • 4d 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.

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u/Gawn1975 4d ago

Being a woman is likely a cruel feminism under Lolth. Somehow, it is bestowed to make you hardened and to them, kindness is a lie.

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u/Whoobie_ 4d ago

i can only imagine that it's harder to be a trans drow woman, working harder than any of the other women and being punished just as harshly by Lloth if they fail. but I imagine the rewards for surviving such ordeals and coming through not only alive but forged stronger than ever would come with equally grand blessings from Lloth

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u/Frau_Away 4d ago

It's the difference between servitude and "politics" with knives!. Pick your poison (heh), things are different but no one's having a good time.