Female Elven Paladin Review

From Create Your Own Story

Our story begins with some backstory. Our heroine was apparently inspired by a random paladin who saved her village to become a paladin herself. So far, the backstory's not...contemptible. It's kinda standard: hero saves boy or girl, boy or girl is inspired to be like hero. Cliche but it's not...terrible, in by itself.

You know, there's something weird about this whole "elf" thing this CYOS has. They make the Drow a separate race to play, which is expected because the Drow are pretty much a separate race, they're that fucking different from elves that don't live in a place called "The Underdark" and worship a cruel spider-goddess. But the people who wrote this "elf" stories seems to not know much more about the different elf races. There's more then just "Drow" and "Elf" as subraces of elves in Forgotten Realms: there are Moon Elves, Sun Elves, Wild Elves, Wood Elves, Aquatic Elves, and even Avariel, the Winged Elves!

Now, Aquatic Elves would not be expected since they mostly live in underwater cities but there's still at least four other elven races! Could someone please clarify what kind of elf they mean when someone chooses to play as an elf? Moon, Sun, Wood, Wild? Give the reader something! A Moon Elf would be fine, they're the most common Elven race in Faerun and they're most like the elves in the Player's Handbook. So would a Sun Elf! Just, please, clarify what kind of elf this character's supposed to be!

This is the equivalent of writing a black character and only saying that they're "African". FROM WHICH FUCKING COUNTRY DID THEY COME FROM, MOTHERFUCKER?

Excuse me. This has been bothering me for some time. It's just such an easy detail to fix that leaving it unknown like that just comes off as laziness. It's also kinda insulting, implying that all of these races, Wood and Wild, Aquatic and Winged, they're all just the same race even when they're actually pretty different. But I digress.