Blood Elves

A chaotic, awful spawn-offshoot of some of the First Elves, and looked similar to the Drow and Dark Elves. "If you think the Drow are bad, what we do know about the Blood Elves was worse.- Venthir Stormcaller, Goliath Archeologist, studying the reaches of the Blood Elves, 1647 ADW." What is known about the Blood Elves is that they were cruel, psychotic fey-creatures that descended from the most vile spawn out of the Feywild. While not the entirety of their species was evil, their tendencies to blood magic and sacrificial rituals put them in darker and shady places throughout the world. Actively practicing blood magic and darker rituals one would find a hag performing, Blood Elves were incredibly powerful in the ancient Primordial forms of magic. It is believed that the Blood Elves are the first type of Elves to exist in Axzhallon, their blood being so pure of the Feywild. But at some point, the Elves we know today came to be, and the Blood Elves became vile and twisted. Their features remained, but their blood and magic flowing within them forever changed. Drawn to darker powers, Blood Elves have no problem existing in some of the darker, more unforgiving parts of the world. Being able to detect and sense corruption, a Blood Elf's sense of darkness came i handy on the side of good. But on the side of evil, they were a powerful and sinister force to be reckoned with. Whole kingdoms did anything they could to appease a small fortress of Blood Elves, for they knew that the drive of a Blood Elf was so great, they would do anything to defeat their enemies. For Blood Elf society, it was lawless and unchecked, psychotic even. While the Drow had laws, Blood Elves ruled by power and fear. The strongest survived, and that is it. There were no "weak," as each member of the Blood Elf society was trained from birth in all forms to be strong. While Blood magic is a slow process to cast, if done successfully, it could turn the most powerful warriors' bloodline to dust.

The power of the Blood Elves became so great that during the Divine War, a 200 year conflict of questionable acts and gods fighting over petty squabbles, Blood Elf kingdoms rose among the ashes and were seen as tyrants of the wastelands. As the lands became barren battlefields, ripe with corruption and darkness, Blood Elves would thrive. They would control whole armies of undead, demons and devils, and create dark cities known as Blood Citadels where a great battle took place. Their foul armies became their people, and when a threat dare challenged them, they would have to fight an entire city. But a dark secret lived in the minds of each Blood Elf. That being, Blood Elves are incapable of reproduction. Their darkness came with their own curse. Throughout a Blood Elf's life, many seek darker rituals to allow them to reproduce, but the only success came with changing their lineage completely. It was inevitable that their society would fade. Many solutions were created, but in the end, they were merely temporary. From clones to lichdom, the incapability of reproducing meant that their tyrannical bloodlines would end. A good-willed Blood Elf usually comes to terms with this idea, as they know the foulness of the rest of their kin. An evil Blood Elf will do everything they can, even to their own deaths, to allow their bloodline to continue. The 200 year conflict was enough time for many Blood Elves to either become converted into more fair Elves, or converted into Dark Elves/Drow as punishment by gods who faced them. This occured at such a fast pace that, eventually, a council banded together of the last Blood Elves, known as the Bloodhunters. This group of 9 powerful warriors and mages combined their efforts to create their bloody gifts into an order and teaching of supernatural gifts. However, they shortly disappeared after the Battle of the Blood Gate, never to be seen again. 5 years later, the horrors of their experiments were discovered by Gravewatchers, those that scour the battlefields for histories. They were unable to truly publish their atrocities by the time the Divine War ended.