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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 849699" data-attributes="member: 1328">Alzrius > The excerpt you posted says they originally had "dark" skin, but it also says they were "cursed into their present appearance."No, I simply said there was conflicting canon. The canon that said they were fair-skinned before had been obsoleted in 2e. If you look at the Realms in their current incarnation, and in its 2e version, the dark elves have always been dark elves -- dark skinned elves. Just like green elves have always been green elves, for their greenish skin tone.Alzrius > Given that curse, they must have looked different to begin with. So, they had dark skin before, but nothing compared to how they looked after they were cursed, so then we know "dark elves" couldn't always have applied to them as a specific subrace.Actually, they were cursed to flee the light of the surface. If that changed something to their physical aspect, it would be at most the eyes.Alzrius > Now, given that when that happened, when they were cursed, they became drow, it doesn't make sense for them to also have a second racial term...but makes far more sense that they'd just be given the title of any evil elf, "dark elf".It all makes sense when you consider they always have been dark elves, and have been given the moniker "drow" for their betrayal; rather than the reverse.As for sun elves, the topic at hand... The book say nothing actually on their alignment. One may assume from the fact elves are, by default, chaotic good; but elves behave, by default, in ways that are quite different from those listed for the sun elves in Races of Faerûn and previous sources.As an aside, wasn't Xan, the depressive elf wizard with a moonblade in Baldur's Gate (first episode, found in Mulahey's cave), a sun elf ? He was lawful neutral. (And, as a fighter, a total waste of a nifty magic sword.)</blockquote>

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