Try this for another type of "Dark Elf" game experience. This is an "OSR" translation:
😈 "Dark Elves" are impossible to visually distinguish from normal Elves, but clerics (only if made suspicious by unpleasant behavior) might get a weird result if they specifically detect undead and focus directly on the subject.
An Elf that would normally die, up to anything short of complete incineration, can deliberately collapse the Ethereal body into their physical form to sustain life and become forever changed.
They hide this deed carefully. This is considered a heinous crime by all right-thinking Elves.
This half-undead Elf is artificially sustained by a flood of infernal energy that becomes shrouded by the regenerated body. A false aura is then cast forth as camouflage. They are not repelled as undead, but such magic does make their insides itch a bit and can be irritating. They often murder clerics as a hobby.
Elves can sense them as a body with no aura only if they make direct skin contact with the perpetrator and will instinctively try to destroy the villain, just as a human would be repelled or terrified by a vampire.
This is the actual origin of the term "Dark Elf" as translated into the common tongue.
Most hide their status carefully by various means and, losing all innate psychic sensitivity, will compensate with spells or sorcery as is possible.
They no longer regain hit points by normal means or clerical magic, but regenerate HP by eating living meat, drinking blood from the living, or grappling for a direct 1 HP/level/round energy drain only if direct skin contact is made (regenerating on a 1/1 ratio).
Otherwise, they are really quite normal and might be found eating grapes, making toys, lecturing on morality, dancing in the sun, or singing in the local inn.
They do tend to avoid skin contact unless they are feeding, so they will rarely participate in naked group sex or other such sport. Gloves, long sleeves, and stylish leather garments are popular.
Strangely, player-character Elves often choose this cowardly fate rather than perish. Their sanity does erode over time, of course. 🎉
An Elf that would normally die, up to anything short of complete incineration, can deliberately collapse the Ethereal body into their physical form to sustain life and become forever changed.
They hide this deed carefully. This is considered a heinous crime by all right-thinking Elves.
This half-undead Elf is artificially sustained by a flood of infernal energy that becomes shrouded by the regenerated body. A false aura is then cast forth as camouflage. They are not repelled as undead, but such magic does make their insides itch a bit and can be irritating. They often murder clerics as a hobby.
Elves can sense them as a body with no aura only if they make direct skin contact with the perpetrator and will instinctively try to destroy the villain, just as a human would be repelled or terrified by a vampire.
This is the actual origin of the term "Dark Elf" as translated into the common tongue.
Most hide their status carefully by various means and, losing all innate psychic sensitivity, will compensate with spells or sorcery as is possible.
They no longer regain hit points by normal means or clerical magic, but regenerate HP by eating living meat, drinking blood from the living, or grappling for a direct 1 HP/level/round energy drain only if direct skin contact is made (regenerating on a 1/1 ratio).
Otherwise, they are really quite normal and might be found eating grapes, making toys, lecturing on morality, dancing in the sun, or singing in the local inn.
They do tend to avoid skin contact unless they are feeding, so they will rarely participate in naked group sex or other such sport. Gloves, long sleeves, and stylish leather garments are popular.
Strangely, player-character Elves often choose this cowardly fate rather than perish. Their sanity does erode over time, of course. 🎉
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