Reverend One

They resemble tall, slender, pale elves with brilliant violet eyes, clad in gleaming silver elven plate. Most fight on foot, though tales tell of mounted companies on barded warhorses.

When an elven nation is threatened they may appear in groups of 10-100 at a crucial moment, striking from behind or reinforcing a struggling elven unit. Their armor shines blindingly, giving foes -2 to hit in melee and -4 with missiles. One in ten wields a +1 to +4 magical weapon (the DM chooses or rolls for each). Undead or evil extraplanar beings such as tanar'ri hit by a reverend one must save vs. death magic: undead that fail are destroyed, planar creatures sent home. A slain reverend one returns to the elven paradise along with its gear, though now and then its weapon is left for a deserving elf.

Elven scholars argue whether they are the souls of long-dead elven heroes fighting on after death or warriors made by the elven pantheon to guard elvenkind. Either way, they are ethereal and potent. Their only known role in the mortal world is protecting elves and their realms, alone for a vital individual or in force during war. They never speak and vanish once the task is done; of their own society almost nothing is known.