“Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East”

So, he just took it and analyzed the developers through the lens of Freud. Although, for the sake of increasing sales, they should embody the fantasies (and not just erotic ones) of potential buyers, that is, ours.

If you are a heterosexual man, how should your fantasies differ from the fantasies of the developers? In general, most men see Dark Elf females like this: older units – as the owner of a brothel, younger units – as ordinary workers in that brothel... only also in the image of "make me a warrior, baby!"
Magnus, at least you also found the Mistresses from the upgrade vulgar... it's a relief.:smile20: By the way, I hope they at least teach them how to walk in heels. Because the Mistresses look more or less confident only when standing still. When they try to move, they resemble a schoolgirl learning to walk in her first "adult" shoes: they wobble, so to speak!:smile08:
So, about the image of a real Mistress, Hostess, or simply Owner... A woman in a long, straight, dark dress with a high collar, long sleeves, and neatly styled hair would look impressive.;) After all, she should be a Mistress, a representative of the highest authority in the Elven Community, and not some succubus whose only purpose in life is to seduce a man - and that's all.

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Maybe it's not attractive because no one knows what a "serious" matriarchy looks like, because it hasn't existed in human history?

You can argue about this with AlexeyPank, he is a historian. And matriarchy still exists in some tribes, as far as I know... but this has nothing to do with HoMM V. And don't confuse real history with a fictional world. The matriarchal Community of Dark Elves may be far from reality, but it was created that way, and its descriptions, which are quite detailed, exist. We should focus on them, and not on BDSM resources.

Real BDSM practitioners, by the way, don't practice all this latex and leather... they are not fetishists, so they don't depend on the form of clothing. (offtopic, sorry :smile41:)