Shades

The Shades are clans of Dark Elves who inhabit the Blackspine Mountains in Naggaroth.

Many of the ancient traditions of the Nagarythe are preserved in their culture. Newborns spend their first night outside their parents dwellings, only after the child has survived the nocturnal beasts and fierce climate will its parents accept it. They are also known to drink fermented blood. It is customs such as these which have earned the shades the label "feral" even among their own Dark Elven kin.

When deployed as part of a greater Dark Elf host, shades serve as scouts, skirmishers and infiltrators. Their primary weapon is the repeater crossbow which they also use for hunting in their native land. Other than this they are armed with a number of daggers and short swords. Their captains are known as bloodshades.

Some shades were stationed in the Sunken Isles during the Age of Strife. Malekith promised to reward them for each Shadow Warrior head delivered to him in Naggarond.