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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5908125" data-attributes="member: 40176">Don't Drow pretty much fulfil the "beautiful but evil" slot already? I'm having a hard time coming up with anything that works with your parameters but doesn't borrow at least some of their schtick.One option I can think of would be to take an existing race (even humans or orcs or hobgoblins) and create a culture for them that prizes physical perfection above all else. Their caste system is based upon their standards of beauty, anyone who displays physical traits they deem unworthy is ruthlessly slain and their close relatives sterilised, and even anyone who acquires disfiguring scars or injuries is executed or banished unless they can be promptly healed back to perfection. As a result, their warriors tend towards heavy armour and tend to carry around potions or items that grant fast healing or regeneration.They're not so much evil-for-evil's-sake as overwhelmingly xenophobic/racist, in that no other species - and indeed no other cultural offshoot of their own species - matches their idea of perfection, and they consider all other races a hideous blemish upon the world, one best scrubbed away with fire and steel.You could have a dark secret amongst some of the leading clans of the society - they've kept their bloodlines so 'pure' in their search for perfection that they're suffering heavily from inbreeding, and are relying upon heavy use of magic to disguise the fact that, in reality, these 'perfect specimens' have been falling well below their society's standards of perfection for several generations.</blockquote>

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