This (screen shots after the jump) is the dark elf female in Neverwinter Nights 2 after installing player made face and hair mods. This is SO much better than the monkey-like appearances for dark elves that were created by Obsidian!

The character’s profile is “quick and dirty”. There wasn’t much room to write a proper profile, but I think that you’ll get the point.

I had an incredibly difficult time choosing the class, especially knowing how enormously biased Neverwinter Nights 2 is toward melee classes. This strong bias carried right on through to the expansion. This new dark elf model looks so damn cool in assassin or similar armor that I nearly could not resist. I wish that the game was not a linear path, else I would gladly make about 3 more classes at least.

Screen shots after the jump.

If you can’t read the text in the image for some reason, the gist is that she is a dark elf who has always been treated uncomfortably by the humans that she has been raised by (as per the game, the human are the Harbormen, and her coldly detached elvish father certainly doesn’t help). The behavior of a child’s parent(s) will shape the child’s emotional development, not the words. Regardless of whatever kind or accepting words the Harbormen may have had for this dark elf, their behavior showed discomfort and distrust Over time, even small amounts of this behavior form together in a child’s mind to create a less than compassionate childhood.

Even if these slights are exaggerated in her mind, the effect is the same. This, coupled with her desire to discover more about herself, has lead her down an all-too-familiar path for dark elves.

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