Editing Drow (section)

==== Reception ====
Scholar Michael Blume posited that the inclusion of Eilistraee as a benign counterpart to her evil mother Lolth in ''D&D''s mythology of the elves contributed to bringing a complexity to the fantasy drow, beyond racist and antifeminist stereotypes perceived in the writings of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] and [[Gary Gygax]].<ref>{{cite conference |last=Blume |first=Michael |date=2021 |title=Mitarbeit am Mythos – Fantasy-Rollenspiele in der Bewältigung von Antisemitismus und Klimakrise |trans-title=Collaboration on the myth - Fantasy role-playing games in coping with antisemitism and climate crisis |url=https://d-nb.info/1260578623/34#page=85 |conference=[[SPIEL]] |location=Essen |publisher=Boardgame Historian/[[WWU Münster]] |publication-date=2022 |page=89 |access-date=2025-04-01 |editor-last1=Boch |editor-first1=Lukas |editor-last2=Falke |editor-first2=Anna Klara |editor-last3=Krause |editor-first3=Toni Janosch |book-title=Mehr als nur Zeitvertreib? – Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf analoge Spiele |lang=de}}</ref> Rob Bricken of ''[[Kotaku]]'' identified Eilistraee as one of "The 13 Strangest Deities in Dungeons & Dragons", commenting: "To know Eilistraee, you have to know the Drow. The Drow are a race of evil elves who live underground and basically spend all their days murdering each other because they're so damn evil. There has been one good Drow in the history of D&D, and that's Drizzt Do'Urden, who is one of the Mary Sue-iest characters in all of fiction—and he's been the star of countless novels and is the only reason any D&D player has even been interested in the Drow, of which now there is a terrifying amount of material. Anyways, Eilistraee is apparently the goddess of good Drow, which means she has one worshipper on the planet. This is nonsense."<ref>{{cite web |date=28 March 2016 |title=The 13 Strangest Deities in Dungeons & Dragons |url=http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/03/the-13-strangest-deities-in-dungeons-dragons/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331030901/http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/03/the-13-strangest-deities-in-dungeons-dragons/ |archive-date=March 31, 2016 |access-date=2 January 2018 |work=[[Kotaku]]}}</ref>