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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 2001076" data-attributes="member: 4134">I second that. Don't remake drow so suddenly noone knows them any more. Why bothering to try to recreate that touch of mystique they had back then? Just go ahead and create something completely new. Instead of saying "my drow aren't like the ones you all know" you have a new race and noone even presumes that they know it. No "Hm.. in that respect at least, they're just like the normal drow"In one of our campaigns, we had a long-lost subrace of elves appearing towards the end of it (we were epic at that point). Back then (I think it was even before the Crown Wars), an elven deity was banned by the rest of the Seldarine (for some hideous stuff, we were never able to find out what), and managed to draw the whole subrace with him to carceri. There, they were forgotten by the rest of the elves and fell almost completely under the sway of this Lawful Evil deity. Then, much later, they came back to the material plane, as their deity was able to break free of his prison and now planned to take revenge on the seldarine by drawing all other elves out of the prime and into Carceri, to imprison them.They had another name, but I only remember them as blue elves, as they had blue skin. They were also quite powerful - even more powerful than drow - and innately psionic (which added to their mystiqueness as we had no psionic PC's at all). Due to their long stay in another plane, their mindset was quite alien, which was compounded by their strong reliance to psionic means (when we were speaking with one of them, they seemed to have poor verbal skills - they seldomly talked with their mouths amongst themselves). You could do something like that. Want truly evil elves? Create a subrace that lets even drow look like paragons of goodness by comparison. Let them originate form a strange place - an outer plane or even the Far Realm - and give them strange powers - pseudonatural stuff, psionics, whatever.</blockquote>

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