Thread:Berus/@comment-5727151-20150804185213/@comment-5727151-20150811055115

I agree that the moon elves could be scrapped without messing the story too much: Sarixs would probably be an Iorwerth clan member, while Glissa and Maleandor would be members of Cadarn Clan. That said, the fact there is one elf with connections to the Moon Clan could mean that there might be a larger connection with the elves and the Moon Clan, which could be used to explain the existence of the moon elves, and I want to address why there is a single Moon Clan elf in the Western Sea Islands.

Regarding the dark elves, my idea was not to completely remove all content which involves dark elves and remove all references to them, but to merge the drow and the dark elves with one another. I agree that neither are particularly original, as Superscientist's dark elves are copied straight from Warhammer Fantasy, and the drow are, as you said, copypasted from the Forgotten Realms, but we can work around that. For example, yes, we would remove the most obvious references, like Lolth being their goddess and the drow living in the Underdark (we could very well replace the term "drow" with "dark elf"), but we would simply replace them with our version of the dark elves.

My current design for the dark elves is rather unfinished, but here are the main points: the dark elves are not a subspecies of elves, but are formed of exiled elves and their descendants who were banished from the city for various reasons, such as worshipping the other gods or committing horrible crimes, or they simply felt that the elven society had no place for them. After Seren's fragmentation, one of her shards gained a personality and identity of its own, and convinced these exiles to worship her as their "god", with the little help of mind control. The dark elves began actively recruiting more and more elves from Prifddinas to join their cult, and formed a totalitarian society based on the corrupted Seren shard's teachings. Their society still has the original 8 clan distinctions, but they are now significantly different from what they are in Prifddinas: for example, the dark elves' version of Hefin Clan resembles a cross between medieval papacy and KGB. The dark elf society is crumbling from the inside, though, as the Sixth Age has hit them hard, and among other things, their Shadow Realm-based teleportation machines no longer work due to Sliske's tampering with the Shadow Realm. I am working on my notes for the dark elves to provide a similar infodump as I did with the rest of the elven content, but it'll take a while to sort through.

As for the grand story, well, I do not have too many ideas for it: I am better at establishing a background for the story than writing a plot, and the few ideas I have are centered around the dark elves. What I would recommend to do is to start from the bottom, and work our way to the end of the story arc. I mean, for instance we could try to work first to improve The Princess and the Warrior's and My Dark Brother's narrative elements, then move to Slayerdungeon of Prifddinas to explain why everything there is as it is, and so on. Feel free to take the lead on this one and suggest idea what should happen: I do not really have a solid idea for a grand story, so you might just as well take the lead.