Night elves are a feared race of elves who embrace treachery, deception, and evil. They stalk the night as assassins and necromancers, with pale skin and coal black eyes. While once similar to other elven kinds, night elves grew apart and came to specialize in stealth, poison, and betrayal. They make effective villains as ambushers and commanders skilled in magic and compulsion.
Night elves are a feared race of elves who embrace treachery, deception, and evil. They stalk the night as assassins and necromancers, with pale skin and coal black eyes. While once similar to other elven kinds, night elves grew apart and came to specialize in stealth, poison, and betrayal. They make effective villains as ambushers and commanders skilled in magic and compulsion.
Night elves are a feared race of elves who embrace treachery, deception, and evil. They stalk the night as assassins and necromancers, with pale skin and coal black eyes. While once similar to other elven kinds, night elves grew apart and came to specialize in stealth, poison, and betrayal. They make effective villains as ambushers and commanders skilled in magic and compulsion.
Night elves are a feared race of elves who embrace treachery, deception, and evil. They stalk the night as assassins and necromancers, with pale skin and coal black eyes. While once similar to other elven kinds, night elves grew apart and came to specialize in stealth, poison, and betrayal. They make effective villains as ambushers and commanders skilled in magic and compulsion.
NIGHT ELVES T HEIR PALE, WHITE SKIN REFLECTS the moonlight. Their eyes are full of cruelty and deceit. They stalk the night, at one with the darkness - assassins, necromancers and foul priests. The night elves are rightly feared in all civilized lands, and their spired citadels given wide berth. Night elves are steeped in treachery; lies and deception are, to them, as natural as breathing. Life itself has little value, and the lives of inferior races have none. Night elves, like their grand elf cousins, were once no different to the sylvan elves of the woods and forests. When the sorcery and gunpowder cities of the grand elves arose, the night elves were but a prominent house. Politics, divisions, and rivalries took their course, and night elves today live apart from their cousins, feared and hated. Lovers of darkness, worshipers of the moon, night elves are tall, thin, and have pale, white skin the color of milk. Their eyes are coal-black, and their hair - when not decorated or dyed - is the purest white. Stealth, treachery, betrayal, and deception are the night elves' way of life. A night elf would stab a parent or sibling in the back for the slightest gain. Evil has a face, and it is the night elf.
writing Russ Morrissey
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EONS MAGAZINE | A The Face of Treachery: Night Elves Night Elves As Player NIGHT ELF Characters Night elf characters have the following racial The well-known cliche of the exile from an evil statistics. race adventuring on the side of good is not the only way a night elf might fit into a campaign as Size: Medium a player character. Here are a few other options. Attributes: AGI +1, INT +1, CHA +1, MAG +1 Evil PCs. An option best left to experienced Skill choices: stealth, alchemy, thievery, bluffing, GMs, an evil-themed campaign can be fun. If all insight, swords, creation of the PCs are night elves (or some other mix of evil races), a rewarding adventure can be had. The Exploits difficulty with these campaigns is party cohesion Fey. Elves of all types are considered fey. as players backstab each other; it is a good idea to Darksight. Night elves have superior find some reason why that should not happen. darksight, able to see in darkness as though it Ex-evil PC. Perhaps the night elf was, indeed, were daylight. once a cold-hearted killer, but something Night affinity. All night elves know the secret happened. Maybe a serious injury caused of shadow. amnesia, or a powerful enchantment Deceitful. When night elves make CHA fundamentally altered his personality. checks to deceive, the dice pool is considered They're not so bad. While the default night elf an exploding dice pool. is pure evil, the GM is, of course, in charge of her Poisoners. Accustomed to handling poison, own setting. Perhaps in your world night elves night elves have a natural SOAK 10 (poison) aren't evil? Brought up by good guys. An abandoned night elf child brought up by kindly smallfolk might Names grow up to be a good soul, unaware of the Night elves typically have single syllable names reputation of his biological kin. such as Ssoth, Karth, Vish, or Krin. They have no other names, and every night elf has a unique Night Elves As Villains name - no name is ever repeated. Night elves make excellent villains and foes. Usually encountered alone, or in small bands of Age 2-4 members led by a magister, night elves are Night elves do not live as long as their sylvan and expert ambushers and assassins. They are rarely grand kin. A night elf reaches adulthood at the seen in the open, at least during daylight hours, age of 30, and becomes old at the age of 100. for they are reviled and feared. Most night elves are armed with high quality New Trait rapiers and leather armor covered in looser fitting Added to the list of traits derived from high or robes or loose tunics. Their dress sense tends to low attributes is the following trait, available to the flamboyant, with blacks, reds, and greens characters as a high REP trait. being common color choices. Cruel. You are unusually sadistic. You gain The next page contains a pair of useful stat +1d6 to any interrogation attempts, even if you blocks. The first is for the rank-and-file night do not carry out your sinister threats. elves; the second is for the more powerful night elf magisters.
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NIGHT ELF NIGHT ELF MAGISTER Medium sentient evil fey humanoid Medium sentient evil fey humanoid [shadow] (7d6) [shadow] (8d6)
Pale, wicked elves steeped in treachery. Cruel night elf commanders.
STR 4 (2d6) AGI 10 (4d6) END 6 (3d6) STR 6 (3d6) AGI 10 (4d6) END 10 (4d6) INT 10 (4d6) LOG 6 (3d6) WIL 6 (3d6) CHA 10 INT 10 (4d6) LOG 10 (4d6) WIL 6 (3d6) CHA 12 (4d6) LUC 3 (2d6) REP 0 (0d6) (4d6) LUC 3 (2d6) REP 6 (3d6) MAG 10 (4d6)
Poison. Night elves poison their rapiers with a Poison. Night elves poison their rapiers with a blinding poison. Any target hit by the rapier is blinding poison. Any target hit by the rapier is pushed one stage down the Blindness status track. pushed one stage down the Blindness status track. Night elves are immune to this poison. Night elves are immune to this poison.
Command (1). Once per turn as a single action, a
Magister Magic magister can issue a one-word command to a Night elf magisters are known for their powerful creature who can hear and understand him. This compulsion magic. Not only do they have the requires a mental attack, and if successful the target innate power to command other beings, they are obeys the command to the best of its ability. also able to use magic in the more traditional way. A night elf magister has a MAG attribute of 10 Invisibility (1). As a free action a magister can (4d6), 30 MP, and compulsion and creation skills of 6 become invisible until the start of its next turn. If it (3d6). The magister knows the secrets of shadow and spends its first action next turn maintaining the humanoids, granting a range of spells to use on effect, it can remain invisible. The magister cannot targets, focusing on compel person and create shadow spend more than one hour per day invisible, and effects. cannot remain invisible if at half HEALTH or less.
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Blinding Poison (1,000gc) Despite their cruelty, magisters are extremely charismatic. A magister's mere presence can cow a Night elves are known for their blinding crowd, and where their charisma fails, their poison. A secret alchemical substance, its reputation more than makes up for it. method of creation is known to but a few; it is A magister is always referred to as such - Magister known to scholars, however, that a gorgon's Vrin, Magister Ssoth, and so on. blood is part of the recipe. Night elf blinding poison is applied to an edged weapon. It takes one minute to apply Night Elf Citadels the poison thoroughly, and it lasts for one The citadels of the night elves are tall, spired hour before needing reapplication. Most settlements, usually found in remote, cold regions, night elf assassins carry up to three doses of and often containing hundreds or thousands of night the poison on their person. elves. Usually ruled by a religious figure, night elf When an edged weapon with the poison society is a theocracy. Night elf citadels are applied successfully cuts a foe (does 1 or independent, and answer to nobody. more damage, after SOAK), the target is Citadels vary in size. Most are made of a pale white pushed one stage down the Sight/Blindness stone known as moonstone, which is highly resistant status track. The first strike makes the target's to magic. In the moonlight, this stone takes on an sight fuzzy, with subsequent strikes pushing almost ethereal appearance. it through bleary, half-blind, and blind. The It is very rare that a somebody other than a night difficulty to shake off the effect is Difficult elf would ever be permitted entry into a citadel, [16]. except as a slave. Even emissaries and diplomats The blinding poison does not affect night (and there are very few of those) treat outside the elves. walls of a night elf citadel, and the interior of such a Night elf blinding poison costs 1,000gc per place is the stuff of mystery and rumor. dose.
Night Elf Magisters
Night elf magisters are higher ranking members of night elf society. Within their citadels, magisters occupy the roles of priests, police and dispensers of justice - this justice takes place on-the-spot, and is solely down to the discretion of the magister in question, who is judge, jury and - likely - executioner. Outside the night elf citadels, magisters lead small groups of night elves. While the race is prone to the chaos of barbaric raids or banditry, groups are sometimes sent out with specific missions of assassination or some other political goal. In some cases, squads venture forth in pursuit of an escaped slave or criminal.
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