Baldur's Gate 3 Race Politics Explained (In-Depth)
includes a variety of races, but some of the ways they interact with each other in hostile manners don't have an immediately clear reason. Creating Tav as different races opens up the option to use race specific dialogue, but it also changes how other NPCs view the main character. However, a lot of the context as to why this is the case is found across the editions of and in the changes to the Forgotten Realm over time.
Regardless of Tav's race, the views of some races in the game are shown early. Saving Shadowheart from her pod in the Nautiloid leads to her making a remark about Lae'zel being a githyanki, calling her dangerous company. Act 1 also brings the party across the tiefling refugees near its beginning, which leads to information about how they're treated by the druids led by Kagha. However, these tensions and various views between the races of the Forgotten Realms are never really explained in-depth in .
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Most drow are raised in the cult of Lolth, swearing to live by her virtues. They’re called Lolth-Sworn in, and it’s the reason that drow are feared and hated throughout the game, whether the drow in question is Lolth-Sworn, or against Lolth as a Seladrine drow. Lolth is a cruel goddess, and she encourages that cruelty among her followers. This leads to a Lolth-Sworn Tav having dialogue options that reflect a joy in torture and cruelty, such as encouraging Kagha to kill Arabella. Since Lolth-Sworn drow see themselves as the prime race in the Underdark, they tend to enslave other inhabitants such as deep gnomes.
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In past versions of, drow had an evil alignment by default.
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