Shadow Elves of Thunder Rift

One of my players ( Gladys) decided to play an elf. She's a fan of World of Warcraft, and she named her PC after a Night Elf character that she played in that game. I don't know much about 'night elves' or WoW, but D&D/Mystara shadow elves seemed like a good fit...
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A race of elves quite different from the fair elves of Gauntlin Forest inhabits parts of the Grakken Wood. Where the Gauntlin elves love the open air and sun-dappled meadows, these shadow elves favor dim caves and overgrown gullies. They live in earthen warrens dug beneath the roots of ancient trees; lairs which provide some protection from the monsters that infest the Grakken Wood.  Owlbears and ogres are fond of eating shadow elves, so the elves spend a lot of time either hunting or hiding from such creatures.



The shadow elves look like other elves, but with unusually large ears, big eyes and pallid skin. Bright light hurts their eyes, and their skin burns easily in the sun. In-breeding has left some shadow elves subtly deformed. Dark clothing helps them blend into the woods at night, when they do most of their foraging.


Poorer and more isolated than the Gauntlin elves, these reclusive elves use flint to tip their arrowheads and are far more likely to wear hide armor than coats of mail.


 The elves of the Grakken Wood are so secretive that, until recently, most people assumed they were only a story for children. A young elf named Neblina has been sent out as an ambassador of sorts (or perhaps encouraged to leave on account of her disagreeable personality, according to some of her band mates).


Note- Unlike the shadow elves of Mystara, these elves live near the surface. I imagine them as looking like the shadow elf illo from the Creature Catalog, but also a bit like the ugly/weird wood elves in the animated Hobbit.