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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7818000" data-attributes="member: 58172">For me, the dark elves are personifications of bedrock and mud. So, I tend to go with earthy flavor.Dark elves in Egypt? Assuming these Drow have black skin, maybe make them personifications of the black Nile river soil. They might also be personifications of death, the womblike blackness between life in this world and the rebirth in the afterlife.Associating with Norse dark elves, there is also a tradition of shapechange into animals. Maybe, nocturnally, the Drow have their humanoid form, but diaurnally, each elf has a different alternate form as some animal associating with the Nile (ibis, panther, crocodile, etcetera), so as to avert the harmful effects of sunlight.</blockquote>