Things I did not know

[james_davis_nicoll]

Apparently in their current version, the skin of Drow who convert to good becomes lighter coloured while the "blackness of the drow's skin has become a permanent sign of their depravity". The Curse of the Lamanites angle seems to have been introduced by self-confessed Canadian author Lisa Smedman in The Lady Penitent.

Nicked from arielstarshadow

Comments

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Al Qadim also rejected "permanent race war" in Zakhara.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that setting had the opposite problem of having all the PC (And some of the monster) races integrated into a single homogeneous monoculture, without considering any of the implications of the differing living requirements of, say, elves and ogres. It also suffered from the stndard "Ethnic Fantasy" flaw of being slavishly devoted to the surface trapping of the source material, while downplaying or outright ignoring any aspects of it that would confuse or squick American readers.