Huh. Nobody is asking for Skyrim-Ugly elves. It's all in small details. It's completely possible to make elves both stunningly beautiful and different from humans at the same time. To quote straight from the player's handbook:

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Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it. They live in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world.

With their unearthly grace and fine features, elves appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. Elves have delicate chiseled features that are typically quite angular and beautiful. There is really no such thing as an elf born ugly; those who have low Charisma were either scarred accidentally or marred magically.


Asking for ugly, insectoid elves would be against an accurate representation. Have you guys seen the Witcher series recently? That show was bad for many reasons. When it came down to elves, all that it took for them was to put on a hat and hide the ears and nobody would realize they were actually elves. That is exactly what we are trying to prevent here, that the ears are absolutely everything that defines an elf physically.

I will post some examples of elves that have an alien feeling to them, something 'haunting' as described so often, while still being conventionally attractive:

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Last edited by Goldberry; 29/02/20 06:00 PM.