Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Dark Elves (17)
By DARKMAGE from PLAY.NET (Starsnuffer)
On Jun 8, 2002 at 16:09
Subject Re: Dhe’nar vs. Faendryl (364)
This is what Varevice, the once guru of dark elves (dhe’nar and faendryl) had to say about it:
“Dhenar versus the Faendryl
Make no mistakes, the Dhe’nar are unified. They are perhaps one of the most unified races on the face of Elanthia. Nothing means more to them than their family and their heritage. This is a trait they share with their distant relatives, the Faendryl. To someone uninitiated to the Dhenar way of thinking, the two elven offshoots likely seem quite similar. But there are differences.
A Dhe’nar will just as happily see an opponent dead as a Faendryl would. But where the Dhe’nar is more likely to slit an enemy’s throat or use them for target practice with a bolt spell only after systematically dismembering them, the Faendryl is more likely to look up from his book, stick his nose in the air, sniff disdainfully, blast his foe, and return to his reading. Where the Dhe’nar are arrogant, the Faendryl are snobbish. Where the Faendryl are loathe to physical or close interaction with their foes, the Dhe’nar relish in the torment of their prey.
Where the Dhe’nar look to better their race by following the Way in order to rise, as a race, to a status above the Arkati, the Faendryl have no such lofty or noble goals.
The Dhe’nar do not care about politics, except when they serve to stabilize the Dhenar. The Dhe’nar see governmental and power structures as a means to end; the ascension of the Dhe’nar people to their proper place among, or even above, the Arkati.
The Faendryl are politicians. They see political power as an end of itself. They covet the power and wealth that positions offer and they often manipulate, assassinate and scheme to get these positions.
The Dhe’nar and the Faendryl are similar in that both races are very unified, dignified and powerful. But the differences are marked. Some people will tell you that the Dhe’nar are the”better” people for their believes of becoming a unified elven people and in their goals to ascend to something much higher. Some believe that Faendryl are the “better” people for their ambition in the here and now.”
-Starsnuffer