Dark Elves

Dark Elves are a race native (but not exactly indigenous) to the continent of Artograch, having evolved from a mixture of Wood Elves and High Elves - partially making them a sister-race to the Orcs - who were banished from their home country and migrated underground, where a mixture of environmental factors and dietery habits gave them the greyish-blue skin they are well-known for.

Just like their Wood Elven and High Elven cousins, Dark Elves have a relatively long lifespan, ageing roughly at tenth of the speed of humans after the age of eighteen, meaning that a 100 year old Dark Elf is biologically equivalent of a 24 year-old Human, a 200 years old Elf is essentially 24 years old, and so on. Unlike their High Elven and Wood Elven ancestors, however, Dark Elves do not devote this long lifespan to be conservative, fundamentalist, spiritualistic or even relaxed - they spend their long life trying to have fun, tasting all the enjoyment they can taste throughout the centuries, living lives of hedonism.

Dark Elves are typically 180 centimetres or roughly 71 inches tall (or 5 ft 11 in). Their hair colours vary between chalk white and coal black (grey only occours amongst older Dark Elves), although more blue-ish shades of white and black are also known. They are the only Elven race amongst whom red eyes occour naturally, albeit even amongst Dark Elves, only a minority have it, with the majority having grey, blue, violet or purple.

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