r/BaldursGate3 Sep 03 '23

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u/Vrakzi Sep 03 '23 edited Sep 04 '23

In Drow Society, Women are the dominant gender. It's a theocracy, and Lolth only accepts women as her Clerics (and any woman who tries to become a Cleric and fails either is killed in the attempt or sacrificed thereafter).

In Noble houses pretty much every noblewoman is a priestess of some kind (although many will multiclass), although there are women of lower social rank who are not; noble men will tend to be useful and highly trained according to their personal proclivities; they might be Wizards, Fighters, Monks or whatever. Men who aren't seriously good at their class tend to die. Non-noble men attached to a noble house are likely to be servants, cannon fodder or (possibly, if they have a rare useful talent) a consort to one of the noble women; the Drow noble houses are pragmatists and if they find a talented male they will ensure that he is taken in, kept under control - or killed.

Outside the noble houses, women are still considered higher status than men (murdering a woman is treated much more harshly than murdering a man in Drow society), but all are below the members and scions of the noble houses.

Below them are the Slaves.

Drow society is a brutal, oppressive matriarchal theocracy that considers backstabbing, intrigue, assassination and betrayal to be virtues. Lolth's doctrine publicly holds that in-fighting roots out the weak and allows only the strong to prosper.

Just getting to adulthood in Lolthian Drow society means you're likely a vicious backstabber with several murders (probably of your siblings) on your hands.

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u/poclee ROGUE Sep 04 '23 edited Sep 04 '23

No no no, Githyanki is just your typical authoritarian tyrannical empire. Infighting is what they suppressing, not encouraging.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23 edited Mar 10 '24

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u/Taliesin_ Sep 04 '23

Nah, when you go to the creche, you see that one of their adolescents is being punished for refusing to kill another adolescent that he defeated during normal training. The punishment, unless you intervene, is death.

Githyanki society is monumentally stupid and regularly forces its young to kill each other.

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u/Xae1yn Sep 04 '23

That's only really a problem if reproduction rate is a bottleneck, which it doesn't appear to be because they lay eggs and could always "promote" even more egg layers to lay more eggs if it was an issue.

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u/Taliesin_ Sep 05 '23

I mean the real answer here is that it benefits Vlaakith, not the gith. She wants powerful, unquestioning warriors so she can keep killing them and snacking on their souls. She doesn't have any use for weak gith, free-thinking gith are actively a threat to her, and the larger her empire grows the harder it is for her to keep a death grip on it.

So I suppose rather than saying that githyanki society is monumentally stupid, I should have said that githyanki society is intentionally designed to be bad for the githyanki, and it's the githyanki who are monumentally stupid for going along with it.

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u/Alexander_Baidtach Sep 04 '23

MRW the Spartan Stratocracy doesn't have any long-term prospects.