The Dark Elves, or Drow, are generally not the nicest people one could meet. There is a rather unpleasant tendency to take advantage of their empathic capability to be cold-blooded manipulators; worse, those that do enjoy it.

As one might expect by the name, Dark Elves tend to be nocturnal, enjoying the silken feel of the darkness as opposed to the unpleasant warmth of the glowing day ball.

::''I had the pleasure about six months into my Awakening to be introduced online to another Dark Elf. It's an enormous rush of relief to find that the odd feelings and desires that had floated around in my head for as long as I could remember...and, on a few occasions, actually indulged....were actuallly normal. For my species, anyway.

::One thing it has done is make me glad that I was born human. I realize many Otherkin complain about having been stuck in a human form (see Manual.EarthAsHell? ). For me, however, it offsets natural tendencies and desires which are just plain frightening, from a human perspective.'' -- Silussa