Dark Elves

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The **Dark Elves** are a race that mirrors the Elves of the surface world, or 'Upstairs' as it is called in the common parlance of the underground. They split from the surface elves in the earliest ages after deciding to follow That Which Hungers, or so their own histories would tell.

## Ecology

Dark Elves are a proud, tall, dark skinned, white haired race of Elves that value physical attributes and cunning above all other traits. Dark elf males tend to stand 6'2" to 7'0" tall with females standing between 6'6" and 7'4", making them the only elf sub-race where females are taller than males on average.

Dark Elves have long ears much like their high elf cousins, but their ears end in a nodule bump that they claim lets them sense direction while underground.

Their lifespans are extremely long naturally averaging over five centuries long, however their violent tendencies often shorten that span of time.

Dark elves strongly favor physical attraction when mating, and it is common for dark elf females to have multiple subservient partners. One of the most common quarrels in dark elf society are females competing against each other to claim a particularly favorable male into their control.

Dark elves tend to have more offspring than their surface cousin, perhaps due to their violent nature and needing to replenish population, or perhaps due to their emphasis on physical attractiveness causing them all to act more amorous than surface elves. A typical dark elf female will have between two and five children, with the daughters being favored in all things, and the sons being used for menial labor and alliance building deals.

The surface tradition of marriage is essentially unheard of in Dark elf society, being replaced by a female simply laying claim to those she wants. This tends to create a web of power and influence among the upper classes of their society, where people are bargained and traded between houses to cement alliances.

Dark Elves are instilled from birth a sense of superiority in themselves and their race that causes them to look down on, or not consider at all, the other races of Aedron. To their society, non-Dark Elves are simply a tool to be used to make their society better. This leads to a major slave population existing within their borders, serving as menial labor and sources of cruel entertainment.

## History

In the earliest ages of Aedron, The Primal Gods were numerous and active, each creating or holding various parts of the world in their image. It was during this age that That Which Hungers created their servitor race, known today as Weavers. However their children proved to be unruly and rebelled against their creator, leading the Primal God to languish without worshippers. In its weakened and dying state, it lashed out and managed to capture a few hundred elves from the nearby Emerald Forest, and secret them underground, away from the eyes of the world, and corrupt them into a race of servants more befitting and loyal than the Weavers had been.

Over time their numbers grew, and the teachings of their Captor-God instilled in them a sense of unbreakable pride, which they used to fuel their raids on the surface, taking captives of their own in a sort of sick mockery of their own enslavement.

Ages passed and today the Dark elves stand as one of the most numerous Elf races, and a power in the world that is not to be underestimated.