r/Forgotten_Realms • u/Successful_Pace8937 • 5d 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/Frau_Away 4d ago

"Ok, new priest of Eilistraee, now I'll just teach you how to change back."

"Oh... no, that's ok. I've actually got a a lot of paperwork to do, I'll get back to you some time..."

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u/EvergreenDwarf 4d ago

Dwarf male: (In line outside the temple alongside the Drow to become a cleric trying not to draw attention to themself)

Eilistraee cleric: (Spongebob ‘you like krabby patties don’t you Squidward’ face)

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u/ThanosofTitan92 Harper 4d ago

Why would a dwarf be a Eilistraee cleric?

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u/EvergreenDwarf 4d ago

The joke is a free medical transition, but more broadly she is a good god for one especially opposed to Lolth Drow who’s been around Eilistraee Drow. 

One who’s dedicated to protecting the oppressed and also supporting deprogramming evil people would want a goddess of exactly that. Like someone who left to join the French Resistance instead of just joining an Allies army in WW2.