Miggen

Wild Elves

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**Miggen**, also known as the **Children of** **Mig** or **Wild Elves**, as they are called by others, are a kindred of elves who refused Erastor Elvwe's calling of the elves to Eldarmar.

## **Appearance:**

Miggen are generally physically strongest of the elven kindreds. They are muscular, with hair of many colors and posses large, sharp eyes.

Most wear clothes or armor sown from furs and hides and wear their tribal amulets upon their necks.

Most of the wealthier Miggen wear bronze armor and jewelry.

## **Culture:**

Miggen are the most warlike of the elven species. They are boisterous, adventurous and possibly the easiest to befriend, if you are a good drinker and warrior. They are carefree, and hold to their word and oaths like glue.

They are ruled by the Eternal Queen, powerful elvish woman, that is rumored to be conduit of divine power, and so is held in high regard. However, she is not a queen in strictest sense of that word, and serves only as a formal authority. Wild Elves then can do nearly everything they want, except anything that is against the Code of Honour, closest thing they have to a lawbook.

Code of Honour is made out of eight tenets, which are:

* You will respect the Eternal Queen, Mig is the soul of the Miggen.
* You will not leave behind your comrades in lost battle without at least an attempt to save them.
* You will not retreat out of battle without a just case.
* You will not strike down a fleeing opponent, let them escape to warn others not to intrude upon our lands.
* You will share your loot with your comrades.
* You shall never steal another Migg's amulet, nor try to pass off another's as your own.
* You will not commit the abomination of sleeping with your siblings.

For Miggen, honor is everything, and to lose it brings shame to their family name. If a Wild Elf breaks one of the tenets, he has to give up his rank of warrior and burn their totem amulet, or die. Most of them chooses death.

They often carve small totemic amulets that their shamans place ancient magics upon. These are said to give various effects such as quicker healing, increased strength, and enhanced senses.

Amulets are made by young Miggen as they reach adulthood and are considered a part of their soul. Those without totems are not considered full citizens of the Miglands and to some not seen as full elves, a fate they consider worse than death.

## **Social Structure:**

On top of Wild Elf social pyramid stands the Eternal Queen, a powerful cleric, who´s name is unknown. After her are priestesses that take care of rituals and healing. Then there are various chieftains leading their own little warbands.

In times of great invasions, or an attack on Miglands, chieftains meet and elect a Warchief, who then leads them in this situation.

## **Background:**

Wild Elves were once a part of Elverdeem, exactly the various people in more distant and primitive villages. When Jun’huru became a demon, and started razing and slaughtering everything on Onixana, his horde’s first victim was the elven homeland. Remnants of their military united under a presumably elvish woman with unknown identity, and started fighting the demon with extreme ferocity. In their fight, they were joined by Erastor Elvwe and his two friends, Ezolva the dwarf and a human today known only as the Champion-Who-Was-Lost. They fought on the front lines, specializing on taking down Dusk Titans, giants corrupted by Jun’huru.

They knocked them down by cutting apart the tendons in their legs, binding them to the ground, and then cutting into their heads until they died.

When the war ended, and Jun’huru was sealed, Erastor invited them to come with him to Eldarmar. They refused him, since they already swore loyalty to the Eternal Queen. They settled in Miglands, the region of future Tyranis, and started living there. Naming themselves after their Queen, they became the first of the Miggen.

Many armies have attempted to claim the Miglands for their kings or dragonlords, only for weeks later the few survivors to emerge from their realm speaking of mad warriors who came from the trees bighting through their armor with crystal weapons.

## Notable Miggen:

Mig, The Eternal Queen: The great Queen of the Miggen, a warrior of Elverdeem of old who allied with Erastor Elvwe during the Cataclysm of Onixana. After the war, she and Erastor fought over the fate of the elves as she and her followers refused his call to the east. She founded the kingdom and people that now hold her name. She is the oldest living mortal ruler in all of Onixana.

## **Trivia:**

* They were created because not all Elves were completely cultivated. Wild Elves symbolize their warmongering and bloodthirst that is present in every being of the Keyvaile Universe.
* They started out as an idea of stone age Elves, who used crystal weapons in early drafts of the Keyvaile universe, in fact in early drafts they were from Keyvaile before that was retconned.
* If you were going to describe their government, it would be most likely Anarco-Monarchism.
* They are tribal and primitive by choice not by cultural slowness.