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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 850832" data-attributes="member: 8461">You don't seem to have understood what I meant when I mentioned yoru &quot;excerpt&quot;. You scanned a page from Races of Faerun and posted it here, remember? That scanned page says that while they originally had dark skin, that they were also &quot;cursed to their current appearance&quot;. Given that, they had to look different before from how they appear now, which means they didn't have ebon skin and white hair. Since it doesn't mention that any specific change, their is no reason to assume its just a small thing like the eyes (especially since a change to just the eyes is hardly changing their entire &quot;appearance&quot;).Except nothing explicitly says that they have always been called dark elves. Why would they be, when they called themselves Ssri'Tel'Quessir or whatever.That's because alignment is a guideline, not a restriction, there is room for differences in action for CG creatures. Simply put, acting &quot;different&quot; is no reasoning for a wholly different alignment.Hey, Drizzt Do'urden is, what, NG? That doesn't mean all drow are that alignment. Same goes for Xan in Baldur's Gate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 850832, member: 8461"] You don't seem to have understood what I meant when I mentioned yoru "excerpt". You scanned a page from [I]Races of Faerun[/I] and posted it here, remember? That scanned page says that while they originally had dark skin, that they were also "cursed to their current appearance". Given that, they had to look different before from how they appear now, which means they didn't have ebon skin and white hair. Since it doesn't mention that any specific change, their is no reason to assume its just a small thing like the eyes (especially since a change to just the eyes is hardly changing their entire "appearance"). Except nothing explicitly says that they have always been called dark elves. Why would they be, when they called themselves Ssri'Tel'Quessir or whatever. That's because alignment is a guideline, not a restriction, there is room for differences in action for CG creatures. Simply put, acting "different" is no reasoning for a wholly different alignment. Hey, Drizzt Do'urden is, what, NG? That doesn't mean all drow are that alignment. Same goes for Xan in [I]Baldur's Gate[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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