Rhakhval communicate and fight utilizing sound waves and echo location. The scream of a Rhakhval is known to rupture stone quite easily. Rhakhval are able to control the pitch and tone of any sound they issue. They are perfect musicians, owing to their masterful ear to sound, they cannot, however sing or speak in any intelligible common fashion owing to the structure of their mouths.

Rhakhval are historically a good race, thou few of number owing to their ancestrel wars with the wicked drow which nearly wiped out their race. Myths claim that they are all blood-suckers, however, the Rhakhval find sustenance as insectivores. (though vampiric versions may exist, hidden from the rest of society as rogues.)

Rhakhval suffer greatly from any amount of light. Their small eyes are ill equipped to handle or adjust to light changes. Their skin, marble grey of color and thin textured, is likewise badly constructed to protect the Rhakval from the rage of the sun. While underground, Rhakhval have chameleonlike powers which allow them to seemingly merge with stone (though they are merely blending with the face of it). They are undetectable in such situations.

As the Rhakhval largely do not rely upon vision in their underground habitats, they are completely immune to all conventional forms of blinding (smoke, cast, gouge, dirt) as they rely on echo location to guide their movements. The only means of 'blinding' a Rhakhval is to deafen them, robbing their ability to hear and thus "see".

Rhakhval make extremely poor warriors being of frail stature. They are extremely intelligent, dextrous and charismatic.