Originally Posted by Gelatinous Rube
I enjoy the fact that the Elves look alien and otherworldly. It helps sell the idea of them as a strange race of others, more in line with my idea of the "steal your babies in the night" Fae,


Great! Except that

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rather than the typical "Aryan ideal perfect humans" they're usually portrayed as.


is how the series has portrayed them before.

Now admittedly Elves have only been in two games, one published in 2003, and the other was set about 10,000 years before D:OS 2, so in a sense they're both "very far away". It's not a big deal, just a thing which makes some whiny dumb morons (me) scratch their heads and go "err... that's quite a bit different than the portrayal from before."