Racist party member?

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Ahmed Today 14:43 : Hey, just a quick question, is Anara the Mage racist?

Alanah Today 15:01 : ?

Ahmed Today 15:01 : Is she a racist?

Ahmed Today 15:03 : In the new dialogue option for the recruitment event she says "Elfbreeder" as a slur, so is one of our main party members and romance options a racist?

Ahmed Today 15:04 : Also how will it affect gameplay with the party having her and an elf, should we have a choice about which member will the player support or how to mediate and correct the Mage's way?

Alanah Today 15:06 : Wait, I think you're jumping into conclusions too fast, I just put that line there to show that the humans have wide prejudice against elves. To contextualize the king being a racist fuck and maybe show it's a bit more ingrained in the population because of it.

Alanah Today 15:08 : I didn't mean her to be racist, just that humans have biases against the Ashani elves. Like that it's the on the same level as calling the person a "drunk". It doesn't mean Anara hates all alcoholics.

Ahmed Today 15:10 : Please explain why "Elfbreeder" isn't that bad, and why does it equal to "drunk"?

Alanah Today 15:20 : Okay, so in the new lore for the Ashani and Dranie who you can kinda parallel with High Elves and Dark Elves from Warhammer, -ish. They live much longer than humans, but also don't breed as fast, so to keep up with the growing human population they had humans come and breed them, at least the Ashani did, the high elves. The Dranie, dark elves, won't let filthy humans touch them. And because they were competing for the same ground the humans who went to breed the elves were seen as traitors or fools, like how r/notlikeothergirls girls look at men lusting for bimbos. Like "who will take you to breed elves you ugly fuck" but either as a bit jealous remark or as an insult.

Ahmed Today 15:23 : Okay.. but why does she use the term?

Alanah Today 15:26 : Like to show that it's still in the human culture to have some xenophobia and it's like "normal" in the eyes of many. Like if you say "that's gay" about something, even if you aren't a homophobic, but you still use it in your everyday language. And only once you're mindful of that, that's when you stop using it.

Alanah Today 15:27 : I don't know, it was stupid, I just thought I'll add something to do a little bit of worldbuilding, I'll remove it.

Ahmed Today 15:28 : No, it's fine, you have a point. We can maybe use it to have the elf talk with the mage about using inappropriate terms maybe?

Alanah Today 15:28 : Sure, players love being preached to about being politically correct =P

Ahmed Today 15:29 : Shut up...