He has come

Mostly in response to the futile attempts of one 'Meldawen' to defend the Drow against accusations of Marty-Sam-ish-ness, the Inverted Frog has come to Blogspot. Since it is assuredly difficult to live in the Abode of Inversion in the Elongated Void without gaining a superior wisdom and intellect, he chooses to share with all whatever undertakings he has...undertaken, whenever he chooses to remember that he has an Abode on Blogspot, too.

At this current moment, the Inverted Frog desires to speak in first person instead of his preferred third person. It's something of an eccentricity of mine, which probably was assimilated from some hapless person online once upon a long time ago.

Because my statement at the top is true, that this Blogspot really was obtained really so that I could refute Melda's puny claims, I'm going to do exactly that. If you don't think it worked, well, that's because your intellect just can't comprehend my logic.

My rebuttal of Melda's Statements:

What the Drow have going for them:

The Drow are cool-looking. They have almost unparalleled skills with their weapons. They are mired in intrigue and deception, and have a taste for dirty deeds. They have natural adeptness at magic, their senses are just about unrivalled, and they can see in the dark. They have a number of villains among them, a very interesting society, and one hero who is able to defeat everything he's faced with. Drizzt Do'Urden is a very cool character, definitely.

What the Aiel have going for them:

The Aiel are a tall, sun-dark, light-haired people group with a culture that very much revolves around their warrior societies. They are feared by all for their skill in battle, which they attain through very severe training with little tolerance for slack discipline or sloppiness. For unknown (at first) reasons, they refuse to touch a sword, but circumnavigate that seeming weakness by developing the art of fighting with short spears. Their stamina and endurance is enough that they can run for hours non-stop, and their ability at blending into their surroundings is little short of amazing. They place a lot of value in honour, even if they do not understand all of their traditions. They have a very small sense of self-preservation, fulfilling their duty regardless of the cost. They find out that they were once a radically different people, the Dai'shain Aiel, who served the Aes Sedai and swore not to harm others, but had strayed from their ways in the long-distant past. Despite their seeming unity to the Outside world (Randland), they have internal conflicts among their clans, and complicated ties to their honour. They have Wise Ones, of whom many are wiser and more powerful than Aes Sedai, and Dreamwalkers, who certainly are not great in number outside of the Aiel. They are very cool.

Why Aiel are cooler than Drow:

Drow have an innate skill with weapons and magic; heightened senses and reflexes, and cool looks. A Drow raised apart from his people would [i]still[/i] have all of that. Aiel have nothing that normal humans don't. An Aiel raised apart from his people would be merely another human, albeit of greater stature. Drow have everything innately--Aiel have to work for it. Their skill with weapons, their endurance, their ability to seemingly vanish, all of it has to be learned and trained with. For me, that makes Drow less cool than Aiel, simply because Drow are automatic Marty-Sams/Mary-Sues, and Aiel aren't.

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As I stated earlier, if you didn't follow that, it's because you lack the intellect necessary to comprehend my logic. I suggest you immerse yourself in The Wheel of Time to the exclusion of The Forgotten Realms until you possess an intellect capable of comprehending me.