The Dark Elves are a bit weird. I think they must be the most compelling villains in the setting overall, but they have a few problems. Games Workshop is generally guilty of using the "Evil is an endless horde" trope to much, and with the dark elves it really didn't work. It's well established that there are far fewer elves than humans, and it's also well established that the Dark Elves have a very high attrition rate in their society on top of being in general perpetual naval warfare with every faction in existence and having to fend off regular chaos invasions. With these things combined Dark Elves should be a small population, but GW couldn't resist the urge to tell us over and over again about endless ranks of dark elves marching to war against Ulthuan. I think this hurt them a lot and when they finnal came out in the end times and said "There are as many elves as we want there to be" it really kind of put the finishing touches on something that had troubled the faction for years. I still love the dark elves but they got hit with the villan sue stick harder than most in the end. And this is even before the weird attempts to redeem Malakith. Edit: There was also a weird reluctance to have them interact with factions that were not other elves. In almost all their books they are fighting high elves, or chaos, which is also an elite faction. The Dark Elves are some of the most dangerous fighters in existence, yet the impact of this was blunted because we rarely really got to see them fighting against more normal forces which would have allowed them to show off their stuff. A novel about a dark elf campaign against the Empire or Bretonnia or visa versa would have gone a long way, but we never really got it outside of a few incidents in the Malius Darkblade series. A lot of missed opportunitys.
Agreed. It really does mess up your suspension of disbelief. I also always thought it strange that just one of the kingdoms of Ulthuan can have enough warriors to challenge literally all the others combined. They might've had the biggest army overall and be the most militaristic society but it just doesn't work. Its like one province of the Empire decided to go to war with all the others and still hope to win. Since, like you said, they have a high attrition rates, another solution should've been found to avoid the infinite dark elves problem. After all, even by their own admittance, they don't have children often, and even when they do, i doubt they can have 4-5 kids in a short span of time like humans. By all logic, the dark elves should've been extinct even without even ever setting foot back in Ulthan again, lol.
@@GrimDarkNarrator In wh40k it's through the fact that half-born (quasi vat born) are mass produced by homonculi and can be resurrected. So Archons don't have to give shit about casualities of kabalite warriors, when it results in more loot for the remaining survivors. In whfantasy the normal elves are hundreds or maybe thousands of years old. To replace a generation of warriors every few hundred years would be quite possible. Also there is to consider that the social norms of mating in dark elve society is more or less considered "s.abuse" in comparison to RL.
I wonder whom, or what, else lives, or lived, in Naggaroth besides, and before, the Dark Elves? I’ve read it has unique flavors of Beastmen and a hidden civilization deep within the Underworld Sea. Would you like to know more?
The Dark Elves, or as we like to call them, The edgiest of all the edgy. Also, malekieth is so edgy, that you could probably cut yourself just by looking at him.
The Dark Elves are a bit weird. I think they must be the most compelling villains in the setting overall, but they have a few problems. Games Workshop is generally guilty of using the "Evil is an endless horde" trope to much, and with the dark elves it really didn't work.
It's well established that there are far fewer elves than humans, and it's also well established that the Dark Elves have a very high attrition rate in their society on top of being in general perpetual naval warfare with every faction in existence and having to fend off regular chaos invasions. With these things combined Dark Elves should be a small population, but GW couldn't resist the urge to tell us over and over again about endless ranks of dark elves marching to war against Ulthuan. I think this hurt them a lot and when they finnal came out in the end times and said "There are as many elves as we want there to be" it really kind of put the finishing touches on something that had troubled the faction for years.
I still love the dark elves but they got hit with the villan sue stick harder than most in the end. And this is even before the weird attempts to redeem Malakith.
Edit: There was also a weird reluctance to have them interact with factions that were not other elves. In almost all their books they are fighting high elves, or chaos, which is also an elite faction. The Dark Elves are some of the most dangerous fighters in existence, yet the impact of this was blunted because we rarely really got to see them fighting against more normal forces which would have allowed them to show off their stuff.
A novel about a dark elf campaign against the Empire or Bretonnia or visa versa would have gone a long way, but we never really got it outside of a few incidents in the Malius Darkblade series. A lot of missed opportunitys.
Agreed. It really does mess up your suspension of disbelief. I also always thought it strange that just one of the kingdoms of Ulthuan can have enough warriors to challenge literally all the others combined. They might've had the biggest army overall and be the most militaristic society but it just doesn't work. Its like one province of the Empire decided to go to war with all the others and still hope to win. Since, like you said, they have a high attrition rates, another solution should've been found to avoid the infinite dark elves problem.
After all, even by their own admittance, they don't have children often, and even when they do, i doubt they can have 4-5 kids in a short span of time like humans. By all logic, the dark elves should've been extinct even without even ever setting foot back in Ulthan again, lol.
@@GrimDarkNarrator In wh40k it's through the fact that half-born (quasi vat born) are mass produced by homonculi and can be resurrected. So Archons don't have to give shit about casualities of kabalite warriors, when it results in more loot for the remaining survivors. In whfantasy the normal elves are hundreds or maybe thousands of years old. To replace a generation of warriors every few hundred years would be quite possible. Also there is to consider that the social norms of mating in dark elve society is more or less considered "s.abuse" in comparison to RL.
I wonder whom, or what, else lives, or lived, in Naggaroth besides, and before, the Dark Elves?
I’ve read it has unique flavors of Beastmen and a hidden civilization deep within the Underworld Sea. Would you like to know more?
Too bad GW abandoned the setting before we could find out :)
@GrimDark Narrator Guess that means creative license is the rule of the land now. Shame they gave up so easily on fantasy before CA resurrected it.
I'd love to see more Druchii lore!
I might do more on them next :)
1st to say another great video, May the Emperor Protect
Thank you. Have a great day!
I love the dark elves been reading a few books about them. Great vid
The Malus Darkblade series is good.
I Like this voice, kinda like classic dracula is telling you about warhammer lore
Dark elves man. Amazes me how fxking wild there stories and lore is. Like xxx lol
At long last! Many ideas are coming to mind as I watched this video! Thanks man!
Dark Elves they are cool and great video GrimDark Narrator
You're welcome.
The Dark Elves, or as we like to call them, The edgiest of all the edgy. Also, malekieth is so edgy, that you could probably cut yourself just by looking at him.
He does have a very spiky helmet.
More LOREE. Pls
Yay! An edgy bois video!