Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20160526042255/@comment-26084195-20160526184003

I want to talk about the Dark Elves of Myrror here too.

Dark Elves have slender and delicate builds, with violet-colored skin and flowing white hair. Their eyes vary wildly in shape, size, and luster. Elves are the human form perfected, but Dark Elves give a decidedly exotic, even alarming, twist.

Dark Elves have prodigious intellects and make formidable magi and occultists. Unnatural and dangerous energies run through all members of the race, and cities of Dark Elves can generate vast amounts of Mana. Their armies sport a wide range of marvelous powers.

Dark Elven civilization is advanced and retains all the ancient forms of elven culture, just with a strong dose of profanity. At some point in elven history, a gifted faction penetrated Myrror and began colonization, and it is unclear whether these elves fell under the world's corrupting influence or married themselves to it willingly. Most denizens of this plane have a cruel nature, but Dark Elves are without a doubt the most sinister race of them all.

If personal excellence is the core ethic of the elven people, the Dark Elves wrote a version of it which discards frivolities like wisdom and sanity in favor of the one-track pursuit of greater magical power. Magic fosters their will to dominate and enslaves them in turn. It governs their society, family life, and every waking thought.

Like High Elves, the Dark Elves live under a caste system where family clans, or Houses, control the guilds and military. Unlike their cousins, their slow growth rate is not generally blamed on boring night life, but instead comes on account of the warfare within and between these clans. High-born Dark Elven children routinely murder their parents, siblings, and retainers to consolidate their House's legacy for themselves. This is sanctioned behavior, believed to cull weakness and keep Dark Elf societies under powerful, ready leadership.

Subjugated races usually receive the same level of respect Dark Elves accord to their own lower castes. This encompasses pretty much every form of methodical injustice, oppression, and cruelty. Dark Elves consider most other sentient beings to be pond scum. They only have genuine regard for their most dangerous adversaries, the Dwarves and Trolls, and for their High Elf cousins, who seem to give them competing urges for indoctrination and genocide