History YMMV / Drowtales

** [[TheChessMaster Snadhya'rune]] of the Sharen is steadily revealed as the closest thing the series has to a BigBad. Snadhya masterminds the rise of the Nidraa'chal, a terrorist faction that specifically makes a focus on targeting civilians, in order to throw the city of Chel into chaos. Snadhya also masterminds the murder of her mother in order to seize more power, using her daughter Kalki as the Nidraa'chal's proxy leader to keep herself out of the spotlight. Snadhya is also a sexual predator at Orthobbae, the school she runs and also where she recruited many of the Nidraa'chal's members by seduction, including her longtime lover Mel'arnach. Snadhya uses Mel as a tool and sends Mel back to her [[AbusiveParents controlling and brutal mother Quain'tana Val'Sarghress ]],who breaks Mel's arms and holds her captive for 15 years. When Snadhya has several Sarghress captives, she toys with them before [[TheSadist sadistically]] executing them to show off her new airship. Then when Kalki defies an order from Snadhya for the second time, Snadhya coldly informs her that she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has run out of chances]] and has her killed by her summons without any emotion whatsoever.

** Sate'ja seems to have definitely crossed it with the fans after [[spoiler: she stabs Naal]]. And then a page later she twists the knife in. Slightly mitigated by the fact that [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that she's not in complete control of herself anymore, what with being a summon]], but still killing a fan-favourite character had many fans baying for her blood.

*** In chapter 44, if you didn't already think Snadhya'rune was over it [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9634 her smug expression]] as [[spoiler:Mel'arnach runs into her arms and instantly forgives her]] did this for a lot of people who were on the fence with the "is their relationship genuine?" question. As one forum goer commented, the correct reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:your girlfriend has been imprisoned for 15 years, had her arms broken and her children taken from her]] is ''not that''. Even worse is that Snadhya's expression suggests it all went according to plan, including the terrible things.
*** In chapter 46, the [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10028 execution of the squad]] left no more doubt about Snad's status as a monster. Her clear enjoyment of the squad's suffering really cemented it.
*** At the end of the chapter, it made many readers agree that [[spoiler:Snadhy'rune has outdone Quain'tana on being an AbusiveParent by telling her own daughter she only saw her as a tool and then killing her in cold blood without any regrets]]
** And now we have yet another moment for Snadhya'rune after what happened to [[spoiler:Shinae's baby]] since WordOfGod confirms that [[spoiler:it's the result of Snadhya's faulty seeds]]. She may not have done the deed directly, but [[spoiler:a child was still horribly mutated and died before it could even be born]] and worse, it's very heavily implied that it's not the first or last time it's happened. And worse, the main victims are [[spoiler:Snadhya's own family, and her plans boil down to wiping them all out]].
** In chapter 42, [[spoiler:Kyuusei]] crosses this in one conversation.

* PacingProblems - Drowtales is generally focused on story and characters more than action. However, people being people, the choices of the creative team in how to tell the story fairly regularly end up in TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot, GetOnWithItAlready, OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, BattleDiscretionShot, a kind of RelaxOVision, TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste, or TakeOurWordForIt. Or GushingAboutWritingYouLike. The creative team has acknowledged some of these problems and have been attempting to fix some of them with newer chapters, and it seems that it's working.

* AlasPoorVillain: For all the horrible, awful things [[spoiler: Kalki]] has done, and even though she got very little sympathy for [[spoiler: having her arm torn off to replace Ariel's,]] it's still hard not to feel sorry for her when [[spoiler: a completely fed up Snadhya murders her horribly via summon. The fact that she says "Mom?" in disbelief as she's left to her fate, along with the confirmation that Snadhya has ''never'' seen her as anything other than a tool rather than a child, only makes it more tragic.]] Especially considering that [[spoiler:Snadhya's "parenting"]] is a major reason [[spoiler:Kalki]] turned out the way she did.

** Snadhya'rune causes this as well. See also DracoInLeatherPants for one reason, and a major topic of debate is whether [[spoiler:she really loves Mel]] and both sides of the debate have long lists of why their theory is correct and the other side is full of it.

** Mel too has become a base breaker, especially with her behaviour in Ch44 and Ch46. Some say she is justified because of the abuse she suffered at the hands of Quain while others feel she has gone full circle and became a hypocrite and is no better than Quain. How she reacted to the brutal execution of the Sarghress squad in Ch46 turned of a lot of people who formerly sympathised with her. Though it seems the hate died down when her conversation with Zhor showed how Snad broke her and that Snad was doing it for quite a long time. One key point was how Zhor compared the clothing Snad gave Mel to that of Kalki's pets, and Mel couldn't really come up with a rebuttal.

** [[EvilMatriarch Snadhya'Rune]] of the Sharen is steadily revealed as the closest thing the series has to a BigBad. Snadhya masterminds the rise of the Nidraa'Chal, a terrorist faction that specifically makes a focus on targeting civilians, in order to throw the city of Chel into chaos. Snadhya also masterminds the murder of her mother in order to seize more power, using her daughter Kalki as Nidraa'chal's proxy leader to keep herself out of the spotlight. Snadhya is also a sexual predator at the Academy she runs, where she recruited many of Nidraa'Chal's members by seducing her students, including her longtime lover Mel'Arnach, who Snadhya uses as a tool and sends Mel back to her [[MyBelovedSmother controlling and brutal mother Quain'Tana Val'Sarghress ]],who breaks Mel's arms and holds her captive for 15 years. When Snadhya has several Sarghress captives, she toys with them before {{sadist}}ically executing them to show off her new airship. When Kalki defies an order from Snadhya for the second time, Snadhya informs her that Kalki [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has run out of chances]] and has her killed without any emotion whatsoever.

** And though it's more like Crack Offspring (with the pairing part only being implied) someone pointed out that Jysmur kind of looked like some deranged lovechild of Kiel and Ariel, so [[http://www.drowtales.com/wordpress/?p=5457 this happened]].

** Snadhya'rune. Her plan involves intentionally spreading faulty demon seeds amongst the populace (which turn the infected into hideous abominations while destroying their mind in the process) and poison all notable clan leaders who aren't on her side so she can rule over of the Underworld or rather what's left of it. She's also nauseatingly arrogant to the point of narcissism and is show to be a massive hypocrite on top of it. And what had been one of her possibly redeeming traits, mainly her relationship with Mel, was rapidly shown to be another manipulation with the seeming goal of cutting Mel off completely from her family and turning her into some sort of pet to parade around.[[spoiler: The same with how at first it looked like she seemed to care about her daughter, Kalki, but it was later shown that Snadhya only saw her as a tool to use and killed her when she got sick of her WildCard actions]].

** Sate'ja seems to have definitely crossed it with the fans after [[spoiler:stabs Naal]]. And then a page later she twists the knife in. Slightly mitigated by the fact that [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that she's not in complete control of herself anymore, what with being a summon]].
** For Balsii, [[spoiler:after being told that the Balvhakara and Jie'yen will not accept her as the Queen, stabbing Nega'fanae in the throat and ordering her guards to kill Sandaur]]. Also a case in-universe.

** Snadhya'rune. Her plan involves intentionally spreading faulty demon seeds amongst the populace (which turn the infected into hideous abominations while destroying their mind in the process) and poison all notable clan leaders who aren't on her side so she can rule over of the Underworld or rather what's left of it. She's also nauseatingly arrogant to the point of narcissism and is show to be a massive hypocrite on top of it. And what had been one of her possibly redeeming traits, mainly her relationship with Mel, was rapidly shown to be another manipulation with the seeming goal of cutting Mel off completely from her family and turning her into some sort of pet to parade around.[[spoiler: The same with how at first it looked like she seemed to care about her daughter, Kalki, but it was later shown that Snadhya only saw her as a tool to use and killed her when she got sick her WildCard actions]].

** Snadhya'rune. Her plan involves intentionally spreading faulty demon seeds amongst the populace (which turn the infected into hideous abominations while destroying their mind in the process) and poison all notable clan leaders who aren't on her side so she can rule over of the Underworld or rather what's left of it. She's also nauseatingly arrogant to the point of narcissism and is show to be a massive hypocrite on top of it. And what had been one of her possibly redeeming traits, mainly her relationship with Mel, was rapidly shown to be another manipulation with the seeming goal of cutting Mel off completely from her family and turning her into some sort of pet to parade around.

*** At the end of the chapter, it made many readers agree that [[spoiler:Snadhy'rune has outdone Quain'tana on being an AbusiveParent by telling her own daughter she only saw her as a tool and then killing her in cold blood without any regrets http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?side=10146]]

*** At the end of the chapter, it made many readers agree that [[spoiler:Snadhy'rune has outdone Quain'tana on being an AbusiveParent by telling her own daughter she only saw her as a tool and then killing her in cold blood without any regrets http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?side=1146]]

*** At the end of the chapter, it made many readers agree that [[spoiler:Snadhy'rune has outdone Quain'tana on being an AbusiveParent by telling her own daughter she only saw her as a tool and then killing her in cold blood without any regrets http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php]]

** Amusingly, the only thing funnier than watching individual DILP fans of a particular character is watching them ''collide'' with DILP fans of another character and start arguing with each other. The Quain'tana versus Snadhya'rune arguments are especially amusing in light of the fact that Quain and Snadhya are really NotSoDifferent when you think about it, so when a character someone likes does something terrible it's justified, but if the ''other'' one does the same thing they're a CompleteMonster. Watching their fans twist themselves into knots to try to explain this is pretty entertaining.

* AlasPoorVillain: For all the horrible, awful things [[spoiler: Kalki]] has done, and even though she got very little sympathy for [[spoiler: having her arm torn off to replace Ariel's,]] it's still hard not to feel sorry for her when [[spoiler: a completely fed up Snadhya murders her horribly via summon. The fact that she says "Mom?" in disbelief as she's left to her fate, along with the confirmation that Snadhya has ''never'' seen her as anything other than a tool rather than a child, only makes it more tragic.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy - While Drow society does operate on a different moral wavelength from humans, slavery is still tolerated by almost everyone, everyone is a huge racist (or speciesist more accurately) with a few exceptions, and their culture is plagued by violence and self-centered debauchery. Several readers have expressed the thought that most characters could die and they wouldn't be that bothered by it or that the setting's degenerate society could collapse and they wouldn't mind either in the sense that whatever replaces it can't be any worse.

* EightDeadlyWords: You've got better things to do than watch these {{Jerk Ass}}es derp around in some caves (and later, the overworld), being horrid to each other and every other sentient species within a ten mile sphere.

* EightDeadlyWords: You've got better things to do than watch these {{Jerk Ass}}es derp around in some caves, being horrid to each other and every other sentient species within a ten mile sphere.

* CompleteMonster: Snadhya'rune. Her plan involves intentionally spreading faulty demon seeds amongst the populace (which turn the infected into hideous abominations while destroying their mind in the process) and poison all notable clan leaders who aren't on her side so she can rule over of the Underworld or rather what's left of it. She's also nauseatingly arrogant to the point of narcissism and is show to be a massive hypocrite on top of it. And what had been one of her possibly redeeming traits, mainly her relationship with Mel, was rapidly shown to be another manipulation with the seeming goal of cutting Mel off completely from her family and turning her into some sort of pet to parade around.
** Snadhya's daughter, Kalki, also has little characterization beyond being a psychotic murderer with sadistic tendencies.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy - While Drow society does operate on a different moral wavelength from humans, slavery is still tolerated by almost everyone, everyone is a huge racist (or speciesist more accurately) with a few exceptions, and their culture is plagued by violence and self-centered debauchery. Several readers have expressed the thought that most characters could die and they wouldn't really be that bothered by it or that the setting's degenerate society could collapse and they wouldn't really mind either in the sense that whatever replaces it can't really be any worse.
* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome - Ariel to some, who tend to find Kiel, Chyrs'tel or even Chirinide much more interesting and engaging. Even the authors seem to realize this and have made Ariel ''a'' protagonist of the comic rather than ''the'' protagonist in later chapters.
* DesignatedVillain - Syphile fits this, much to many fans' ire. Especially since it turns out she's...well, right about a lot of things.

* CompleteMonster: Snadhya'rune. Her plan involves intentionally spreading faulty demon seeds amongst the populace (which turn the infected into hideous abominations while destroying their mind in the process) and poison all notable clan leaders who aren't on her side so she can rule over of the Underworld or rather what's left of it. She's also nauseatingly arrogant to the point of narcissism and is show to be a massive hypocrite on top of it.

*** In chapter 44, if you didn't already think Snadhya'rune was over it [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9634 her smug expression]] as [[spoiler:Mel'arnach runs into her arms and instantly forgives her]] did this for a lot of people. As one forum goer commented, the correct reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:your girlfriend has been imprisoned for 15 years, had her arms broken and her children taken from her]] is ''not that''. Even worse is that Snadhya's expression suggests it all went according to plan, including the terrible things.

** Mel too has become a base breaker, especially with her behaviour in Ch44 and Ch46. Some say she is justified because of the abuse she suffered at the hands of Quain while others feel she has gone full circle and became a hypocrite and is no better than Quain. How she reacted to the brutal execution of the Sarghress squad in Ch46 turned of a lot of people who formerly sympathised with her. Though it seems the hate died down when her conversation with Zhor showed how Snad broke her and that Snad was doing it for quite a long time. One key point was how Zhor compared the clothing Snad gave Mel to that of Kalki's pets.

** Mel too has become a base breaker, especially with her behaviour in Ch44 and Ch46. Some say she is justified because of the abuse she suffered at the hands of Quain while others feel she has gone full circle and became a hypocrite and is no better than Quain. How she reacted to the brutal execution of the Sarghress squad in Ch46 turned of a lot of people who formerly sympathised with her.

* DesignatedVillain - Syphile fits this, much to many fans' ire.

** Kiel herself has become a bit of a base breaker since becoming the official comic mascot, with many finding her antics annoying and childish, labeling her a SpotlightStealingSquad, and others finding her zaniness a welcome distraction from the oftentimes depressing war setting.

* CompleteMonster - Sene'kha is also one of the few characters almost universally agreed to be one of these. Her [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=801 plan]] to take over Chel puts her here, if nothing else, as did the fact that she turned the Vloz from a weird but harmless RagtagBunchOfMisfits into its current form by setting up Kiel's mother for death and using Kharla, who had been getting better, for her own purposes and planning on turning her into even more of an EldritchAbomination.

** The Balvhakara are quickly turning into this, especially since they possess suits of armor that essentially let them become [[{{IronMan}} Iron Drow]].