Elves

Children of Autophotic, who emrerge from the bows of certain trees. Which type of tree they were born from dictates their subrace. Typicaly elves live long lives, unburdened by poisons, & typicaly incapable of sustaning anything other then a photosythetic diet.

### General Attributes

People with extremely long and pointed ears, which grant them extreme hearing. Their hair and eyes are both naturaly green, both which allow for photosynthesis. Nutrients can be taken in through eating food, but all calories come from photosynthesis. An average elf maxes out at about 800 years. Their skin resembles the bark of the tree they emerge from, with tough wooden bodies, & sap functioning as blood runs throughout, pumped by a heart of deep wood notes. Their brain is a set of coiled roots, while some sections run into the rest, which carry signals to lignen muscles for operation. Over a span of weeks, they can regrow lost limbs, costing high energy costs, which can be sped up by resting more in the sun.

Born as a strange form of sentient fruit, although resembling the tree itself more then any fruit, they birthed from the bow of a tree which was a previous elf who planted themself. An elven tree is created by an elf planting themselves, which then spread seeds within a short area who will also procure elves, but those new trees can't spread more seeds. One elven tree creates typicaly only creates one child, each taking about 100 years to incubate. They retain sexual organs, although actual reproduction sexually is impossible with meat based humanoids, but often they engage anyway. Most elves never succeed in planting themselves, instead living philosophical lives by partnering with others, outliving entire generations. All the plant-based evolved races started by humans over generations evolve to become more plant-affected to mate with elves, producing a variety of plant-based races.

#### Oak

Born from oak trees, who can birth elves weher they grown sprawling or stayed small. Their skin can be any shade of brown, & has a slightly rough texture, with their shade of green sprawling across those seen in western forests. They have an average height of 6-8 ft, and their body type tends to be on the thicker side. Amoung elves, they experience high endurance & strength for their size.

(Land-Common, Sky- Rare)

#### Birch

Born from birch trees, which to birth an elf see multiple birch trees pooling resources to grow one of them extra large. These mega-birches are slightly wide, although more notable for their tallness. A single megabirch can birth many elves in proportion to how many birch trees contribute to it. Skin of sickly pale color, which is very thin and easy to break. Their slender, lanky bodies, which look only slighty anemic reach 12-15 ft, with green shades starting at vibrant forrest & then raging across to pale. Their limbs while incapable typicaly of feats of strengh, can exerct great power in pistion like motions.

(Land-Uncommon, Sky-Common)

#### Aspen

Born from aspen trees, who can only birth in periods of great wind. During extreme gales, they shake & blur, that visual smearing slowing congealing together into an elf. Smaller folk with creamy colored skin, kinda like someone blured plae makeup. They look similar to children, although their constitution & mental capacity of adults. Miniature bodies mean they reach only about 2-4ft, with their green always skewing pale or minty. Tangently releated to wind itself, being one of the Seeded Taxes, from The Emancipiator. They can sence incoming winds, weither they be originating from storms or not, & can ride strong currents. Examples include not taking falling damage through rushing air, or drifting along gusts in the clouds.

(Land-Rare, Sky-Uncommon)

#### Redwood

Born from redwood trees, who must reach minumium a couple hunderead feet to birth. Rough reddish brown to dark brown skin covers their body, which is rough texure wise, & quite thick, acting as durapble layer of plant bark. Capable of holding their breath for up to 12 hours, often orginating from coastal redwoods who themselves peak out of relativly shallow sea beds, peaking about 100ft out. Their limbs are typical prortion for a person, letting them reach 45-55ft tall, a green shades on the darker & vibrant side.

(Land-Very Rare, Sea-Rare)

#### Gatarole

Born from the green flame-looking Gatarole trees from hell, their hair is replaced from green locks to a green flame. This hair which looks like fire, is actually a woven set of plasma state poison, those that touch it get corroded in a way similar to fire. Their bodies range across the spectrim, although lean skinny, and they have an average height of 9-12 ft. Skin colour of ashen gray, which is prone to either being quite smoth or heavy on splinters depending on the individual although never really in between, paired with a green shade considered untypical for a natural tree, like an olive, sage, or pistachio. One of the Seeded Taxes, from The Lawmaker.

(Land-Very Rare)

#### Blood

Born from dragon blood trees, which are required to grow to maturity before they can birth. Their skin tone range anywhere along the tan to black scale, with their shade of green typically ranging al9ong the darker side. All their hair tends to form an afro, and their ears look chewed off at the ends somewhat, despite most never encountering a situation where that occurred. Their typical sappy blood is replaced with thick red ichor, still of the same substance but now looking like blood, which is highly toxic. Their bloody sap which they can also spit from their mouth, although having to draw from their greater supply, seeps through materials easily, rotting their inside in a cancer style fashion, counting as magical poison. Can fully breathe underwater, although their breaths remains constantly troubled seeming weather on land or sea. Their jagged lined bodies reach a typical 10-14 ft tall.

(Land-Very Rare, Sea-Rare)

Sakura

#### Yggdrasil

Elves are born from the legendary tree species of Yggdrasil, a select few born as they acted as titans, of which only time still remains. These where the first elves born of Autophotics, and they were as tall as 4-5km. Instead of hair, they had glowing green roots going upwards/outwards from their head. Their eyes shared the same glowing green color, along with their brown and dark green swirled skin.

(1 left)

### History

Created by Autophotic, before the gods were even created, as part of the first created elementals. Yggdrasil elves were born first, as their mother natural trees acted as titans, who directly worked under Autophotic as part of their expansion. Those yggdrasil roots birched the elven trees of oak, birch, redwood, blood, & sakura, who also joined in their master's escapades, but showed considerably more autonomy. During the pallet war, many elves were compelled to combat for their master, in the end losing to the god's forces. They then gained free will through the Birth of Minds, except for the yggdrasil elves who continued to campaign. The yggdrasil elves were eradicated, except for one who remains in incubation in the last surviving yggdrasil tree. Through the seeded taxes, both gatarole & aspen elves were birthed, from The Lawmaker & The Emancipator respectively.