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Archaon
Elves! Lots of em.
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bump for more drows.
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>>221460
More? There haven't been any till now. Unlike these brown/blue/grey elves Drow have black skin. They're the nigras of the elvenkind. And yeah, I feel REALLY nerdy for pointing this out.
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>>221288

Source please!
>> Anonymous
Shouldn't they be called Bosmer, Altmer and Dunmer?
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>>221573
Diversify yourself... EQ has had blue - gray - purple elves for years... then lineage 2... step outside of your moms basement and play something other than D&D
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>>221579
Those would be Elder Scrolls terms I believe.
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>>221597
Someone referencing MMOs for their examples of elfkind has no right telling someone else to get out of their mother's basement
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Considering elves are shown in different shades (for example, Record of Lodoss War has Pirotase as a chocolate brown color of skin, and she's called a Dark Elf), I would suspect that it doesn't matter much.

Besides, I believe it makes more sense for a "Dark Elf" to be a 'lighter' color because they wouldn't need the darker skin to protect against sunlight, since they're underground. But then again, maybe my perception as to skin color is skewed. Light blue/grey color skin for "dark" elves should be okay, in my opinion.

And here's Arshes Nei from the manga/anime called Bastard! Can't remember if they called her a dark elf in that one, but here she is. Go figure.
>> Anonymous
>>221597
How is he supposed to learn about MMOs if you're making him leave the house?

Besides, there are only really three different races of elves. They just go by lots of different names.
High/Wood Elves=Human skin tones
Night/Dark Elves=Grey/Blue/Purple and DARK human skin tones
Drow=Black
That's the basic outline, but the lines are always blurry when it comes to fiction.
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moar
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>>221607
Darsh called Arshei a half-Dark Elf. All Dark Elves are dark-skinned, even though that defies logic and science. It's basically the evil from their pasts altered their pigments apparently. Or some shit.
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>>221692
Logic in anime, cat girls, death, etc.
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Exactly.
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HOW BOUT SOME MELNIBONEANS????????
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>>221607
Warhammer's Dark Elves (and Dark Eldar in 40K) are pale-skinned. None of them got exiled to an underground realm, ironically.
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Drow's skin are dark because of the massive amount of time existing in the underdark. Just like the Duerger. If you're trying to bring Earth logic into a scenario commenly shown in fantasy worlds, you should be shot.

In the foot.

Twice.
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Nah, Drow have always been dark skinned as long as they've been around. They just went into the underdark due to some wars, and actually only started fighting the high elves because of Lloth. But that's only DnD. Outside of that, I normally just work under the notion that dark elves are dark, and that's why the name happened; not that they were evil and turned darker skinned or something.
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Heh, kinda strange seeing my photoshopped version of this pic

Too bad I lost the original...
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... "but that's only DnD" I'm pretty sure D&D *invented* dark elves. If anybody can show me a black/purple elf with white hair from _before 1980_ I'd LOVE to see it.
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More specifically, RA Salvatore invented the drow/dark elves.
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No gary giax and such made the drow.

Salvatore made them famous. There is a difference.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svartalfer
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Owned
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>>222194
Not that someone else didn't already point out the wiki, but I said the 'only dnd' remark because there are now a lot of different varieties of dark elves with just as many backstories, regardless of which was first.
>> Anonymous
damn people.... drow are dark skined because they we cursed by lolth and appear in her image because they wanted power
>> DAMURDOC
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as much as i like Salvatore, you sir are ignorant and dumb.

Just because an author makes something popular, it doesn't mean he INVENTED them... fucking idiot.
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>>221620

This isn't E, but...wow, source?
>> Anonymous
wow!