Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General If there's time, differing tags for different subraces

In Faerun there are two separate cultures of High Elf:

Sun Elves - who tend to be a little haughty toward practically everybody else, including other elves and prefer to live in realms or settlements that are purely Elven if possible.

Moon Elves - who tend to deal with others eye to eye and live in mixed cultures more than isolation.

There are also at least two cultures of Wood Elf but I don't know too much about them. They're both sort of isolationist, but one is outright xenophobic. (Ah, it's the Wild Elves and the Wood Elves)

With half-elves, are they from a thoroughly integrated community like Silverymoon? If so, they aren't likely to feel any different from anybody else. Waterdeep they'd likely be made more aware of their "difference". More human or elven dominated places they'd have grown up really having their mixed heritage pointed out. (Though, if we're all going to be from Baldur's Gate...I'm suppose it's the third by default.)

Gold Dwarves haven't experienced centuries of invasion and warfare that the Shield Dwarves have so they tend to be a bit more optimistic and used to stability and peace whereas Shield Dwarves tend to be a lot more fatalistic.

With drow....

Too be honest, a lot generational surface drow should mechanically be wood elves or high elves. And that set of "drow" would have very different cultural cues than either other elves or other drow. Among other things, Eilistraee followers to be a very ministerial culture, in that there's a lot of focus on providing aid to those who are in need. Their philosophy and life-perspective also tends more towards messages of perseverance and taking stands than a lot of other elves who've tended to have more stable lives.

I'd suggest renaming the Seldarine drow into something else if you're going to have them use the same dialogue cues as Lloth-sworn drow. Because those cues make sense for Vhaerun drow or recent exiles/escapees from Lloth-sworn societies, but they don't really fit generational drow followers of Eilistraee.

Lightfoot Halflings seem to be nomadic types by and large and Stronghearts tend to be more sedentary and rural.

I am aware this would be a small mountain of extra dialogue so I'm definitely not expectant, but it would be nice to be have the difference between the different cultures represented in dialogue.