Thorn Of Heaven
Sorry in advance if I ruin the dark elf role. I know enough of the lore, but decided to do a race raised by another race idea since both Cressa and Jessie seem to be well established proper dark elves.
Oh, don't worry about that! What I did was basically read a LOT of stuff when I ended up with a dark elf character, and since then I've been using the kind of "canon" stuff in other worlds, like D&D, more as a base than hard and fast rules. (Translation:
I make everything up as I go along. mrgreen )
The only reason I ended up with a dark elf character was because we started off with a mod whose character was a (very different) form of Jessie, but very soon after the rp started, he vanished, as did our other mod, who played Panda (you might have heard his name tossed around - Mab and Evelyn's histories involve him). In a panic about what to do, I took over and played both of these other guy's characters as a stop-gap until they returned. Panda came back. Jessie's "dad" didn't. So I ended up just keeping on playing him and changing him to the point where he had very little resemblance to his original incarnation. When his "dad" came back about a year later, there was nothing to really do except draw a line between "His Jessie" and "My Jessie". And Cressa came tumbling along at some point.
dramallama Atlae looks awesome and I cant wait to see him in action. The concept is interesting, too - a race raised by another race, or rather, by a different
culture. I think (personally) when things get reduced down to "race," you end up stereotyping, or say, expecting all members of a "race" to act in a particular way. I know there are people who start frothing at the mouth when they see a dark elf above ground, or non-evil-aligned.
"BUT DARK ELVES ARE ALL EVIL!" they cry, "AND THEY LIVE UNDERGROUND! IT'S JUST IMPLAUSIBLE FOR EITHER OF THESE THINGS TO NOT BE TRUE EVER BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE"
To these people, I would point out that there's a little thing called
individuality. Human characters invariably have it in spades, so why not elves, or dwarves, or dark elves, or lizardpeople, or gorgons, or whatever else?
To me, my two charas are just two elves from an interesting
culture. They may or may not retain certain aspects of that culture, but they can certainly tell people a lot about what it was like to grow up in it. To me it's no different to somebody who grew up in India, or Chile, or Malaysia, or Thailand, or Japan, or conversely anybody in those cultures meeting somebody from another culture. People are interested in them, because they're different - they have different experiences, different ways of doing things. That doesnt HAVE to define who they are... but it definitely makes for interesting conversations
blaugh EDIT: If all else fails we can just assume that Atlae & the other two are from two different worlds. Actually, I've been trying to avoid giving definite names and stuff since the reboot began - you guys might have noticed I havent been using any last names (e.g J&C's surnames have vanished without a trace), no names of worlds or countries or anything like that. I didn't really wanna get too caught up in details this time around, personally, so I'm leaving all of that kind of thing vague. If I started applying them to countries, perhaps those in the D&D canon or whatever, I'd have less freedom to make my own rules. So although I might REFERENCE certain things - e.g Cressa mentioned recently in her story that her people collapsed part of the surface during a full-scale magical war, which is an actual part of the D&D canon - no names are named, no specifics given. If you wanna get bogged down in details, go read some of the resources on the internets:
Quote:
The first drow civilizations arose in the Underdark of southern Faerûn circa -9600 DR. The first great kingdom of the drow was Telantiwar, with its capital in the great cavern of Bhaerynden, the conquered heart of the first great kingdom of the Dwarves, which was seized by the drow in -9000 DR.
The drow fought among themselves, noble against noble, priest against priest, for rule of their new realm. This war ended amid great magical explosions that brought down the roof of Bhaerynden. The ceiling collapsed entirely, burying many drow and the shattered dwarven cities they had seized. The cavern, now open to the sky, became known as the Great Rift.
But yeah, I'm not committing to anything. As far as I'm concerned the elves and the history of their unnamed world are
inspired by many other resources out there, but not directly affiliated to any of them.
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