Corpsetaker
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I'm not understanding this move to make the Shadar-kai into a subrace of elves. They have always been described as "human like" so I don't get this. Why not introduce the Lythari?
Elves are basically like humans anyway, except that their one racial hat is to sub-race out with very little provocation. If you take a group of elves, and move them anywhere, they will turn into a sub-race of that kind within a few generations. If you take a group of elves and move them to the shadow-whatever, you're going to get shadow elves within two generations.I'm not understanding this move to make the Shadar-kai into a subrace of elves. They have always been described as "human like" so I don't get this. Why not introduce the Lythari?
When Shadar-Kai were first introduced, they were fey (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fey_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)#Shadar-kai but note the misspelling as "Fae").
4e made them humans, but elves seem to me the perfect answer for making a fey PC subrace.