On Elves

As promised: On Elves. This will be added to in the (hopefully near) future.

The elves are one of the ancient races of the second founding, along with the dragons and the trolls. All of these races were created without elemental energies. This means that instead of having their own elemental energies, they take in and draw from the world around them. Elves take in energy from their environs and beliefs, over long periods of time. As they love for thousands of years (longer with magic) elves will have the chance to become much immersed in an environment. Tall and lithe the physical features of the elves change in relation to their environment.

The elves own tongue calls themselves a’quas’ani or the ‘children of Ani’. They believe that they were created by the Ancient of Life, and are his chosen children in spirit. These beliefs have caused a number of splinter groups to separate from the elvish nation, including the shadow elves, the fallen elves, the fated and the free kindred.

The first elves were spawned on a verdant island. According to elf lore they were created only by the ancient Ani in his image, and that Morr seeing the elves happy and free cursed them with mortality. The shadow elves in contrast believe that Morr later blessed them with death, as the first elves grew old and tired. However when they were created, there were no divisions between the elves, they were one free and happy people. Food was plentiful and they did not need to hunt, as there were fruits and berries in abundance. This land was called Sithis’tor – homeland.

The elves learned how to farm the berries and fruits as their population increased. They lived in the trees, and lived in harmony with the land. After a while the population increased further and they began to live on the plains of the island, in the caves and on the mountains. The elves that lived in these environs picked up the energies of these places. The elves that lived on the plains grew taller and fairer; they had to cut down trees to make their homes, and became skilled craftsmen. They learned how to work wood and created many things from wood. They also learned how to fish the lakes and rivers that covered the plains land.

The elves of the mountains grew tougher, and burlier. They also had to use woods to make their homes, but they soon learned to fashion stone – first crudely in rough walls, but with increasing skill and dexterity. There wasn’t much fruit and berries, so they had to learn how to hunt like the great eagles that they shared their alpine land with. The elves in the caves grew sharp of eye and could see in the darkness of the caves. Their skin became dark, allowing them to blend in with their environs. They learned the art of mining to make their homes and to find ores metals and gems. They learned to smelt ores, first crude copper implements in fires, but they grew in skill and ability. Living largely off the mushrooms of their subterranean homes they traded for other foods and goods.

Thus were born the first for kindreds of the elves: the wood elves who remained in their woodland homes, the high elves who moved to the mountains, the deep elves who moved to the caves and the river kin that lived on the river banks and plains.

Peace reigned and the conservative elvish communities changed slowly with the passage of time. The river elves began to use rafts and small boats to fish the rivers, ponds and lakes, and towns and villages grew around the best fishing areas. The high elves had learned to build stone buildings and create towers. They had also trained the great hawks, using them as a lord would use a hunting dog, or with the largest of them as flying steeds. The deep elves engaged in much trade – particularly with the high elves to whom they sold hunting spearheads and arrowheads. The wood elves were the most segmented from the other branches, but they traded for items such as they needed, but these were few. Their contact was mainly with the high elves, regarding the great eagles that left their rocky crags and hunted in the woods at the foothills of the mountains. The wood elves were masters at taming beasts, and often used squirrels to find nuts and boars to find truffles.


The coming of the dragons changed all this. The first dragon flew across the sea, and made its nest in the crags of a remote mountain. A commotion stirred throughout the land as the rumour of this mighty beast spread. A group of high elves were sent to observe the great beast. Regular reports came back to the mountainspire (the capital of the high elves).

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