Race Dark Elf

  

The Dark Elves first appeared prevalently in fantasy lore in the great Forgotten Realms books focusing on the Dark Elf Drizzt Do’Urden and the folk of Icewind Dale. While not going into the whole story, the Dark Elven race is about as evil as you can get…..but at the same time extremely intelligent. The personification (or elvinization?) of Evil Geniuses.

Dark Elves enjoy torture immensely, and don’t mind in the least when members of their own family die painful deaths (unless it causes them any sort of inconvenience, and then only the inconvenience is the issue) and are just general…..well……..scumbags.

Seeing as though the race essentially defines evil, EQ2 logically only permits Dark Elves to inhabit the lands of Freeport, the center of all evil in EQ2. Don’t even think about saving any sort of good hearted folk in the game, more than likely you’ll be slaughtering them mercilessly.

In Fantasy history, the Dark Elven race are known to live solely in deep, elaborate cavescompletely devoid of any light. For this reason, they see by a sort of "Predator" type vision. You know that funky infrared vision from the Predator movies. For this reason, EQ2 stays true to the lore and grants Dark Elves a skill called "Ultravision", allowing you to see perfectly well….albeit in a different spectrum…….in extremely dark environments.

In addition to their excellent vision, Dark Elves are incredibly agile, light on their feet, speedy, and are born extremely skilled in the ways of dark magic. They are also known for their prowess in melee and magical battles, not in terms of strength….but in terms of precise cuts and accuracy resulting from surprise attacks.

Putting all these traits together you have a race which is perfect for the stealthly ways of a scout, or the magical Priest or Mage professions.

Racial Attributes
Strength 15
Agility 20
Stamina 15
Intelligence 25
Wisdom 25

Resistance
Mental 2%
Heat 0%
Cold 0%
Magic 5%
Divine 5%
Poison 2%
Disease 0%

Traditional Roles:
Mage, Priest, Scout

Language:
Thexian

Racial Sight:
Ultravision

This is all beta info, and is subject to change when the game goes live. We shall expand/expound etc etc.