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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 197597" data-attributes="member: 1106"><p>Salvatore is right; the drow are somewhat spent to those who aren't new to them. But I think that the dark elf mystique can live on elsewhere.</p><p></p><p>Not all dark elves need be drow - taking a fey, Unseelie Court angle on them (rather than a dungeon skulk one) re-enchants them. For instance, consider the imprisoned dockalfar prince who - risen by PC bumbling from a slumber of a thousand years of exile, imprisoned inside a magical sarcophagus in a forgotten tower within sylvan surrounds - resumes the plots he began a millenium ago without missing a beat. </p><p></p><p>He looks like any other elf, but is regal and beautiful, and represents an insane and jovial, yet utterly sinister evil that only immortal fey know. And because of the colour of his skin doesn't betray the soulless void at the centre of his being, the PCs may trust him to the end. Resultingly, and because of the questions his existence poses, he is more mysterious and sinister to me than a city full of drow. </p><p></p><p>I think that the Dragonlance team were on to something when they omitted drow from the setting, and instead made them fallen elves. A redcap (an insanely evil brownie, so called because they dip their caps in the blood of their former human patrons) draws upon the same set of concepts - each evil fey is a riddle, as to why they turned out that way. The drow dispel this dimension, for only the tale of why their entire race turned to evil is interesting - and that's all history.</p><p></p><p>I think that this sort of material is why one of my most favourite monsters is the Quickling, being fey who dabbled too much in the dark arts. Which dark arts, and why? What could turn these creatures so? That's the essence of a dark elf to me - they represent something twisted and unnatural, and from this they derive a goodly amount of their mystique.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rounser, post: 197597, member: 1106"] Salvatore is right; the drow are somewhat spent to those who aren't new to them. But I think that the dark elf mystique can live on elsewhere. Not all dark elves need be drow - taking a fey, Unseelie Court angle on them (rather than a dungeon skulk one) re-enchants them. For instance, consider the imprisoned dockalfar prince who - risen by PC bumbling from a slumber of a thousand years of exile, imprisoned inside a magical sarcophagus in a forgotten tower within sylvan surrounds - resumes the plots he began a millenium ago without missing a beat. He looks like any other elf, but is regal and beautiful, and represents an insane and jovial, yet utterly sinister evil that only immortal fey know. And because of the colour of his skin doesn't betray the soulless void at the centre of his being, the PCs may trust him to the end. Resultingly, and because of the questions his existence poses, he is more mysterious and sinister to me than a city full of drow. I think that the Dragonlance team were on to something when they omitted drow from the setting, and instead made them fallen elves. A redcap (an insanely evil brownie, so called because they dip their caps in the blood of their former human patrons) draws upon the same set of concepts - each evil fey is a riddle, as to why they turned out that way. The drow dispel this dimension, for only the tale of why their entire race turned to evil is interesting - and that's all history. I think that this sort of material is why one of my most favourite monsters is the Quickling, being fey who dabbled too much in the dark arts. Which dark arts, and why? What could turn these creatures so? That's the essence of a dark elf to me - they represent something twisted and unnatural, and from this they derive a goodly amount of their mystique. [/QUOTE]
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