Dark Fey

**Size:**

Same as it was before becoming afflicted.

**Weight:**

Same as it was before becoming afflicted.

**Average Life Span:**

Unknown, however it is theorised that they could potentially sustain themselves upon the energies they feed from indefinitely.

**Appearance:**

In general they appear as normal elves or half elves. Though there is something a little more wild about them. Their eyes seem to shimmer just a bit brighter and more vivid. Their skin flusher with life and often taking on a slightly less natural hue, tinted with purple or blue. Early in their affliction (Level 1) these are faint but upon increased severity (level 2-3) these traits seem to grow more notable.

**Original Religion:**

Whatever it was in life but generally they continue to worship the Ancients as it was this way of life they sacrificed themselves to protect.

**General Culture:**

Where as with manipulation, the weave is damaged or disrupted as a side effect of using magic, penetration is the act of actively damaging the weave to summon forth exterior energies from other planes, bringing them into the physical plane. The exterior energies differ, producing numerous effects to either the caster, the focus of the spell or even the natural energies of the weave.

This is often the most dangerous form of magic and more likely to result in corruption than manipulation.  Those who would choose to follow the path of the druid use the act of penetration to damage and then corrupt the natural weave within the plane of the physical. Through this method, they are capable of asserting a control or producing a desired action, through corruption, from animals, to plants to even the weather itself. This was the traditional method used by the original elves of Caraduil, however it was used sparingly.

Elves were capable of using magic to benefit their self and their surroundings, learning to command the elements and nature itself through speaking the divine language of the Ancients. It was taught that magic of darker origins was forbidden for good reason, and it was taught to be feared from a young age.  With the large ships and smaller rowing boats which marred the idyllic sunset reflected on the waves, they brought men with hairs upon their arms and bodies, ale, projectile phlegm, hatred, greed, jealousy, murder, theft and rape of mind, body, soul and soil.  They have been seduced and allured by the trappings of man and as a result some elves, during the initial conflicts with man, turned to these darker origins in order to try to protect their people from those who would seek to destroy their way of life.

By focusing on these darker origins, these elves found power to draw from the weave unlike any elf that came before them and wielded this power in devastating, earthshaking ways. Jealousy, greed, and power surged through these elves and by sacrificing themselves in this manner had an unintended side effect. It was no longer enough for these elves of Caraduil to merely use magic. They needed it. They were a part of it and it a part of them more fused than ever before becoming a conduit for the weave itself.  This power did not come without a cost, however.  In order to sustain themselves within the world of the physical, these elves learned they needed to feed and devour other sources of magic within the world and thus return that which was used by others back to the weave. Thus the first dark fey were born.

**Requirements:**

* Race: Elf or Half-Elf.
* Class: Cannot qualify for any other Racial Prestiege Class and cannot be a Paragon.
* Special: Character must have both killed and been killed though magical means.

**Class Specifics:**

* New Race: Fey.
* Hit Die: d4.
* Armor proficiencies: None.

* Shield proficiencies: None.
* Weapon proficiencies: None.
* Skill Points: 4 + Int Modifier.
* High Saves: Fortitude, Reflex, and Will.
* BAB progression: +1/2.
* A dark fey no longer gains their spell allotment by resting.  Instead they feed upon those with magical ability or magical items in order to regain spells.

**Level by level breakdown:**

* 1: Penetrative Casting, Darkvision, Drain Magic.
* 2: Emboldened Casting.
* 3: Twin Casting.

**Bonus Spells:**

Upon each level, the character gains new spells per day as if he had also gained a level any caster classes (bad, medic, shaman, witch, or warlock). He does not learn any new spells through this ability, however.

**Special Abilities:**

* Darkvision: Dark fey are able to see in the dark.
* Drain Magic: a dark fey is able to do a special attack that allows him or her to draw upon the magical essence of other casters or magical items.  If attacking a caster, the dark fey must succeed on a melee touch attack and if successful they drain the target of a number of spell slots equal to their dark fey level or half their fey level, rounded down, if the victim succeeds in a will save with the DC being 10 + class level + CHA modifier.  If drawing from a magical item, the item is consumed in the process and the dark fey gains either the number of benefitial properties on the item or their class level in slots, whcih ever is lower. The slots drained (if from a caster) are random and the slots replenished are ones at the lowest level.
* Penetrative Casting: So long as the dark fey has more than 25% of his or her spell slots available, their spells are casted as if they had the epic spell penetration feat.

* Emboldened Casting: So long as the dark fey has more then 50% of his or her spell slots available, all of his or her spells are cast as if under the effect of the appropriate epic spell focus feat.
* Twinned Casting: So long as the dark fey has more then 75% of his or her spell slots available, every spell cast is produced twice with the target of the twin being the same as the first.

**Note:** Dark fey who do not feed at least once every a month start to feel a compulsive need to do so.  This need results in a -1 to all mental ability scores, armor class and saves. It also causes a 10% to frenzy thus losing control and attacking the nearest humanoid they can find. These penalties stack for every day the dark fey remains in a starved state.