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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 4530577" data-attributes="member: 17913">Check out the Elves in Earthdawn, especially the Blood Elves.  They are scholars and artsy-fartsy types due to longevity, but mainly they are keepers of arcane (read: often evil and tainted) lore and the Blood Elves themselves are cursed to have small briars pierce through their flesh, keeping them in eternal torment and pain.Pretty interesting, if you ask me.Also, if you can find the fluff for Aarklash (by Rackham, makers of Confrontation, Cadwallon, Rag Na Rok, Hybrid), the elves there are awesome.  They come in three types:- Cynwall: outcasts that turned to modern society and have tried to become its protectors, but at what price?  They uncovered ancient technology (essentially The Warforged), cybernetic-like symbiot technology, and they've befriended lots of dragons.- Akkyshan: basically Drow by another name.  The first among them was cursed into spiderlike mutation for her vanity, and she and her followers cursed the regular elves such that their woman cannot provide offspring.  So, maybe the Akkyshans are a little more "dridery" than typical drow.- I can't recall the final name, but they are similar to Wood/Wild Elves, except their culture is very caught up in insect symbols...they ride giant beetles and such, have chitinous armor, and generally are very, very xenophobic.</blockquote>