Category:Dark Faeli

Few in number, the Dark Faeli are an offshoot of the Faeli race created by Asharra through the infusion of her blood and power. They are identical in build and height from normal Faeli, but their skin is stained black and their eyes are a deep reddish hue. Dark Faeli are often powerful sorcerers, as the cursed blood of their goddess gives them potent arcane powers. They were once a fanatically religious race, and their worship of their goddess was essentially the basis for their entire culture. The Dark Faeli believed themselves the greatest and most favored of the Dark Lady's children. They formerly lived alongside communities of Illithids, but their failures during the war of the sun led to the lady cutting their priests from her power and abandoning them. Now called the Fey'ri, a word meaning "Broken", they languish in the underdark, seeking to avoid the predatations of their goddess' other children.

The taint of their lady's blood is powerful, causing many Dark Faeli to become cruel, lustful and self-centered. Strange obsessions plague the race, most often powerlust, and few things can stop a Dark Faeli which has made up it's mind on something. Their former peaceful nature has warped into a deep longing to have as much as they can gather, whether it be power, items, land, servants or lovers. As their goddess was the source of their power, many are fiercely devoted to redeeming themselves in her eyes with sacrifices and bloodletting. Others refuse to believe that they have been forsaken, and blame some other, unknown force for their loss of power. They point to the fact that their sorcerers still draw power from the lady's blessing.

Dark Faeli can reproduce in the traditional manner... or via a dark ritual in which a Dark Faeli lies with a normal Faeli and passes on the goddess' touch via a combination of sex and spilling some of the Faeli's blood in the goddess' name. The original Dark Faeli were all willing recievers of this ritual, but they can also perform it upon the unwilling if they can be restrained. The newly emerging Dark Faeli retains it's mind and memories of the process, and will likely hate it's captors... so often they are simply claimed by Tsochar or forced to breed more Dark Faeli children that can be raised to worship the Dark Lady properly.

Like the Faeli themselves, the Dark Faeli are slender and quick. They recieve -2 to their Strength and Constitution scores. Their grace, strong wills and assertive natures provides them + 2 to their Dexterity and Charisma. Dark Faeli heroes often use magic over physical prowess. Sorcerers, Beguilers and Clerics of the Lady are their most common taken classes. High leveled Dark Faeli often take levels in Alienist or Nightmare Spinner.