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Drow table manners through the ages

They are somewhere in between a restrained culture and an open one. They have one focus: keep society running in the long run, and they strongly value stoicism above all else. In their culture, torture is completely normal, and nearly 100% of their population were subjected to it at some point during their lifetime, and are often forced to eat rané (a special species of autotrophes) that block endorphines while producing an intense burning sensation. They also value harsh discipline, but not necessarely comformity.

-Any signs of bodily functions must be repressed. So, no burping, farting or moaning.

Restrained. They even consider animated conversations at the dinner table to be improper.

-Only the leaders of the house, namely the elders and the male head of house can sit in the comfortable tailor position. The rest must sit in the W position. It is considered especially rude to not sit in a W position as a house guest. Having a hierchical society but without furniture, this arrangement shows deference to the leaders, as well as an act of religious devotion. In religious orders, everybody is required to sit in a W position, and hierchy is shown with the leader sitting in the center of the circle.

-Children are expected to sit in W position, to keep their thighs bare and their left hand lifted and flat, palm upward. It is seen as a sign of deference towards the elders, of acceptance of house rules and discipline and is considered good for their coordination. Smaller children are allowed more leaway because their coordination is still underdevelopped, but after a certain point, they would be expected to sit like that nice and still.

-They view routine as a way of honoring the dead, by keeping the same routine for several generations. Findling with dinner time is there for considered about as polite as spiting on someone's grave. -In terms of eating, they do not have eating tools such as forks, instead the food is passed with only three fingers of the right hand to the mouth, although, spoons might be used to eat soup.

-Certain foods, such as fish liver, are considered very precious. It's one of the rare sources of vitamin D in their environment, and thus is usually reserved for the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with fractures. For grown, healthy adults to eat it, it shows they are selfish and take away a precious ressource from people who need it.

-In both the upper classes and the pariah circles, it is considered good a sign of strength, social fitness and good health to eat heartily and cheerfully right after being beaten. Failing to do so is considered weak and effeminate, plus, they would need the extra nutrition to recover more quickly. There is more pressure to do so in their men and in their women, since they associate masculinity with strength. Commoners view this custom as bizarre. In Drow culture, they also tend to value sexual masochism in their men as a sign of healthy virility and reproductive fitness. In upper class and commoner circle, failure is simply seen as slightly less attractive, while in their pariah circles, their women would systematically reject the romantic advances of a man who isn't. However, the same masochism is viewed as repulsive in their women. This culture strongly values being able to live and function in constant pain, and see it as the highest virtue one can aspire. Thus, inhability to continue the simple biological functions of eating and reproducing while in severe physical pain is seen as being an epic failure. However, because having an entire population comprised of crazy masochists would be quite a detriment to any society, and because of their humanoid body plan, the importance of this masochism is reserved for their men. -One should eat everything on one's plate, failing to do so is considered wasteful.

-When fresh berries are available, if a man's wife is pregnant or lactating, or if a couple expect their adult son to perform his "marital and filial duties", the berries are reserved for either the new mother or the newly weds. Kids who would fail to do so would simply be considered greedy, while if let's say the man of the house fails to do so, he's considered gross and selfish.

Scene idea for my House of Corvidae comic. I don’t really like the outfit that Hydrangea is in here but I do like the background wallpaper that took me a good several house I think.

Headcannon timeeeeeer once again

This one is broader than the other ones since it's generally world building

Saturation/hunger:I headcannon that while ppl can eat the food really quick like in game it only gives you saturation.That being said you also need to eat normal meals so you can get energy so you don't collapse.

Hearts/damage:So, it works like it does in our world except there are things like illnesses and sickness that transfer between servers and you have to deal with them like you do irl

Server hopping:when you server hope you are first transported to a black void and you need to think of your destination to get there.There is also an area commonly known as 'the hub'.The hub is somewhere that you can go to kinda just hang out it's not a server so you have to think of it while leaving a server to get transported to it.You can also join some servers through the hub but only popular public ones like hypixel