was reading up on silk and dagger. am i just not enlightened enough yet to understand that half of all good worldbuilding starts with the author getting really, really horny
It helps to understand that Silk & Dagger is very specifically parodying how dark elves are depicted in the Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting which is a. essentially a romantic fantasy setting awkwardly pretending to be high fantasy because D&D players aren't ready for that conversation, and b. principally the brainchild of Ed Greenwood, a Canadian fantasy writer who has a decent shot at claiming the title of the horniest man alive. Like, this a parody whose source material is a fictional setting whose idea of challenging villainous queer-coding is having nations ruled by buxom middle-aged sorcerer-queens with interesting ideas about rehabilitative justice spanning the entire alignment grid. What Silk & Dagger is making text was just barely subtext to begin with, is what I mean to say.
Yeah Silk & Dagger is way less horny than a lot of OG Forgotten Realms lore regarding drow that it's riffing off, but it is a lot more up front about being sort of a sex-comedy.
We asked ourselves "What kind of conditions would produce a society and individuals actually like this?" and then "What would develop as a result?" And the answer is this.. sexy dominatrix libertarian nightmare world.
Yeah ever since I've heard that Ed Greenwood gave a lore dump about how breast milk tastes like for each race in the forgotten realms I definitely agree with the title of "horniest man alive" like wdym tiefling breast milk tastes spicy and like cinnamon rolls like wtf
What. Okay, no, I have a complaint.
Tieflings breast milk doesn't taste spicy and like cinnamon rolls. Like this ain't even me baulking at the idea that different forgotten realms kith get to have differently flavored breast milk. That's the premise: I can buy into near any premise long enough to write 200 words about how wrogn the execution of the idea is.
So, of all the core kith in the Forgotten realms, Tieflings are one of the most diverse, sporting 10 different variants (Elves have 14, Humans have a rather undeserved 11 (tho discounting variants outside the FO, they drop to 4 and 0 respectively), and tied with dragonborn).
And given the nature of the teifling variants is whole-ass who the origin of fiendish blood is, which conveys a difference betwixt variants large-enough to in my opin make them seporate kith by a standard definition, with Tiefling being an umbrella term for these different disperate Kiths designed by the writers to convey a shared political reality of unfair and prejudical treatment steming from the fiendish origin these people had no say in choosing and aren't in anyway affluenced by. SURELY, this is a group which would, lineage depending, sport more than one flavor of breast milk.
Like, I can buy Asmodael Teiflings have cinnimon flavor'd breast milk. That's whatever. But at the very, at the very least, Levistean teiflings' breast milk ought to have cool minty undertones and aftertastes like a shamrock shake.
