Dark Elves have a darker skin tone, tend to live on the ground rather than in trees, sometimes underground. They are seen as sneaky.
Name: Dark Elves
Average Height: Shorter then Most Elves
Weight: Lighter then Typical Elves
Hair Color: White or Black Hair
Eye Color: Green to Golden Eyes
Traditions:
[X] Prefer to live underground or in the Shade
[X] A Disdain of their tree-loving cousins
[X] Grudging Respect for the Crypt Lords as Moral Authorities
[X] Respect for Death
[X] An aversion to the norms of tree elf culture
[X] Hosts the place of the void, a area of religious value to both crypt lords and dark elves, where Death's power is strongest in the world.
Preferred Climates:
[X] Forest
[X] Jungle
[X] Underground
Lore: Dark Elves were a created in a combination of Death and Dark Magic, with sprinkles of Elemental darkness. Once in a time, and now on rare testament, Elves were sometimes exiled from their tree homes when they show a distaste to Elven culture that proved, inharmonious with nature. Exiled into the Dark, they were sometimes found to have created small ground level villages in the shadow of their trees, some resided to die lonely within the cave. However, this did not create the Dark Elves, this made the name, to mean those that dwell in shadows. What changed these elves was a council meeting. The Dark elves had began to form their own city-state underground, far from the prying eyes of the "True Elves" of the forest. There they struck a deal with a infamous Crypt Lord of the regions underground. He made them powerful, and in an exchange, the Dark Elves would then on serve as secondary agents of Death.
Summary Note: Dark Elves are the opposites of their surface cousins, they have a deep respect for death and the dark, worshiping Death as a deity and therefore empowering it. They resent their surface cousins for exiling them into the dark, the reason never fully explained, despite them actually becoming infused with the dark it self. Their hosting of the Place of the Void, was part of their deal with the crypt lords, they guard it from dangers from the surface.