During the age when the Elven Kingdom of Ulthuan was split by civil war, and the soil of Nagarythe was spattered with the blood of brothers for Malekith’s treasons, an elite line of warriors was born: the Shadow Warriors.

In the time of relative peace between the first chaos invasion, and the war which sundered the Elves into the High Elves loyal to the Phoenix King, and the Dark Elves who followed Malekith the Witch King, these warriors called Malekith’s homeland of Nagarythe their home. They agreed with Malekith’s view that the Elven people were growing soft and complacent, and that the elves needed to stay strong and warlike to face the growing threat of Chaos and destruction, but they disagreed with his policy of murdering the Phoenix King based on flimsy accusations and transparent desires for the throne. Armed with the warlike mindset and methods of the Dark Elves, and the sense of justice and morals of the High Elves, they took up arms against Malekith’s corruption. Since that time they have become the harsh justice of the High Elves, fighting the dirty fights which make others balk, taking vengeance on the enemies of elfkind, and walking a line in the moral shadows between dark and light.

During the Age of Reckoning, the Shadow Warriors continue in their traditional role.
High Elves look upon the Shadow Warrior as “almost a necessary evil.” Despite their proven loyalty to the Phoenix King, they put other Elves off because of their affinity for vengeance, and because their “sense of justice outweighs their sense of morality”. They are respected but not entirely loved by their own kind. Their kin regard them “as powerful tools” in the wars against the ancient enemies of the Elves.


- We have to call the Judge or priest or.. Really i don't know what to do with that child, he seems to be able to be cured... Polfiss didn't finsh her sentence while child's head felt out to the ground. Veolith starts cleaning his sword slowly.
- He was a chaos servant, this is my way how to deal with corruption, babe. Let's clean up that mess, give me the torch and start from other side of the village.-


The Shadow Warrior is designed to be deadly at all ranges. They are snipers, skirmishers, and toe to toe melee combatants all rolled into one.
The draw back of the Shadow Warrior is that they aren’t the best at what they do. Meaning that if a Shadow Warrior and a Bright Wizard were to stand side by side and hurl death at their foes from long range, the Bright Wizard do the most damage every time, well, almost every time, but we’ll get into that later (see Vengeance of Nagarythe). Assuming this hypothetical foe is a few degrees more intelligent than a lobotomized greenskin, they’ll close in on the Bright Wizard and hit them at close range where the Wizard is vulnerable. This is where the Shadow Warrior shines, as they are just as good at close range as they are at long. In fact, the shadow warrior is just as good at medium range and harassment (or run and gun) tactics, so the foe might not even make it across the field of battle to experience close range combat.

The Shadow Warrior is really designed for players who enjoy playing well rounded and versatile classes. They’re for players who don’t care about being the best at this or that, but enjoy the challenge of having a broad range of talents, and strategically applying the right combination for skills to diverse situations on the fly. Strategy is meant to be a big part of the Shadow Warrior’s appeal. A common mantra among MMO developers is ‘easy to get into, difficult to master’ and this was the philosophy in mind when they developed the Shadow Warrior.