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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5091229" data-attributes="member: 54846">These threads pop up from time to time, and I wanted to start a new one. As a side note, I'd like to keep monster fluff out of this thread and instead <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/272120-reflavored-monsters.html#post5091239" target="_blank">put it here</a>.Race refluffing can come down to changing their origin, their behavior, or just their place in the campaign.PirateCat posting about his <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/242305-running-player-commentary-pcats-d-d-4th-edition-campaign-38.html#post5090495" target="_blank">refluffing dark elves</a> and <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/242305-running-player-commentary-pcats-d-d-4th-edition-campaign-38.html#post5082653" target="_blank">other available races</a> gave me a bit of an inspiration.But like PCat, I wanted to take it in a different direction. Instead of the Big Bad Race unto themselves, I had the idea that the dark elves are the dirty little secrets of normal elves. [sblock]Shadow Elves, or Drel. The Drel are a dark reflection of the Elves (or Eladrin). But that is not a statement of the Drel themselves, but of the Elves that cast that shadow. The Elven Courts long ago did not want to tarnish their image; they wanted the world to believe the image they put out, of peace and perfection and grace, of being Above the cruelty and barbarism of the Humans. Thus the Drel were born in secret. A race groomed to be assassins, fell spellcasters, and anything in between. When the Courts need something done or covered up, something too heinous it would hurt their image, a Drel is dispatched. Each Court has their own Drel, bound in some way to the Court to ensure loyalty (their voice kept in a box, or some other insurance). Some Nobles have Drel as servants or slaves; it is a thing of high status within the Courts to have Drel loyal to a particular individual in addition to the Court. Outside knowledge of the Drel, or a Drel unbound and wandering the world, is reason enough to dispatch other Drel to erase this potential threat to the image of Elves.[/sblock]Other things I've done:Changelings are not a race of their own, or even a race descendant of doppelgangers. They are the pupal stage of Aranea, shapechanging spiders. The Changeling has to be "approved" by a committee of Aranea before it can undergo the change into a true aranea.Shifters are humans who bound animal spirits to themselves, letting the spirit of an animal 'ride' them. Their descendants then have a soul colored by the heritage of the spirit.</blockquote>

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