Elf

Elves are graceful, long-lived, and full of life.

## Shining Souls

The elves are the longest lived and eldest of all mortal races, many reaching eight or nine
centuries. They have long and keen memories right up to the ends of their lives and have
developed a patient and wide view of the world, which they move slowly and gracefully through.

Elven communities don't always intentionally isolate themselves, it is simply that traveling once
every decade or so is frequent for them and they are often wearied by the speed of development
of the “younger races”.

Elves dedicate much time to mastering the skills that are of interest to them and delight in perfecting art and finding the art in even the most practical of skills. Among these skills, pursued deeply, Magic is considered the highest art and most practice it in some way.

Overall Elven culture is one of long deliberation, quiet contemplation but also song and celebration. Almost everything they do is deliberate and laden with intricate meaning. Being long lived and slow to reproduce has impressed the importance of children and innocent enjoyment of the world around them, with all its beauty and its irony. They also seek to preserve nature and live harmoniously within it.

In the past many were fiercely protective about their own homelands, unwilling to open them to
the endangerment of more careless beings but the formation of Mosshaven has allowed many of them to see that the other races are not always a danger and that each species has something to
offer.

## The Memory of Escaro

There was a time where elves ruled all the world through mastery of mind magic. 'Envoys' influenced rulers to submit to Elven wishes and drastically changed cultures to their whims and curiosities. Many Elves remember Escaro shamefully, as an abuse of magic and trust and seek to redeem themselves by giving aid to the races around them. The currency of 'Escarans' is still the
common trade coin of all countries.

Some among the elves wish to see a return to their place as overlords, thinking the world was far better off for being so ordered. These groups are not openly accepted within Elven society, but they do still exist.

## Notable Subrace: **Snow Elves** (also known as Ice Elves or White Elves)

After what the Escaro had wrought was discovered, many elves retreated into the mountains north
of what would become Mosshaven to avoid the anger of the other races who believed all elves responsible. There they built small yet interconnected communities among the peaks.

This relocation also wrought a physical change, one that happened over a long period of time. Their skin, eyes, and hair paled or turned white, somewhat reflective as snow is. The snow elves have smaller bodies than their non-mountain counterparts, smaller features like ears to conserve heat, and an affinity with the elemental magic of cold. It is suspected that a sigilsite of elemental magic may have caused this transformation, though such a sigilsite has never been found.

Snow elves tend to be more practical but still devoted to beauty and perfection, though such beauty is more in line with the stark beauty of their surrounds. They are even more aloof and solitary than their lowland cousins and often said to have cold natures, even by those nomads around the
bases of their mountains with which they trade. Still, they have joined the Mosshaven collective
and also started venturing out of their lands.

**OOC Note**: Snow elves are the creation of player Raewyn Fox. As an absolutely not-mandatory option, consider getting in contact with them if you want to play one to potentially coordinate on details and cool character things.

Email contact is raewynwrites@gmail.com