Dark Elves

[O Dinas Powys]

PS If you have an iDevice you can turn the screen negative by triple-tapping the button.

I've just had a play and real, colour photos of white skin come out blue 

Illustrations can come out blue or grey, presumably depending on the pigments used and the surface they were painted on.

Who'd have thought! 

Cheers!

Meirion

[toxicpixie]

That's quite cool

Fits with Gygaxs' initial conception of "Dark Elves" - or as described, Black... from wiki from the 1st Ed. MM -

They are said to be evil, "as dark as faeries are bright"

Fighting Fantasy also had "Black Elves" IIRC who were the same, but I suspect Warhammer went from dark skinned ones to light when they got the mythology rolling and Dark Elves are dark because of their actions, but are pale because they're the pallid Arctic dwelling on-copyright infringing totes not stolen from D&D y'all versions of the already somewhat pale and wan High Elves...

Interestingly in Tolkeins conception "Dark Elves" just referred to Elves living in the shade of forests and trees, then was used for those who didn't travel West to see the Light of Valinor, as opposed to eeeeeevvvvviiiiiil "anti-elves".

[Ithoriel]

Alan Garner's Svart Alfar (Black Elves) are black & white, piebald goblinoids. So many colour schemes to choose from!

[toxicpixie]

I like Garners Svarts, they tick a nice Scandanavian style
Of dark elf / goblin for me, even if the Norse dark elf is more "dwarf" as we'd probably understand from D&D and Tolkien!