Elves

Elves, also called "Lesser Elves" by the True Elves and members of the Court of Arcadia. Created to be servants of the True Elves and Arcadians, they were left in the mundane world in the aftermath of the War Between the Gods. As the Gods left and created their own planes, Val did the same, creating Arcadia. The Elves took this is stride and began ruling in their Wodes - Elf-haunted forests where the Law of Time has not yet encroached. That was long ago, in the distant times of the Age of Chaos, before the Dwarfs had even left their subterranean origin. The Elves and their wodes once covered almost all of Orden, now they are small and split by civilized lawful lands.

The Elves hold court in their Wodes, ruled by a king and queen. The Elven Courts tend to be mercurial, their temperament naturally changing with the seasons. They were chaotic in spring and joyful in summer. In autumn they turn to quiet contemplation and melancholy, whilst in winter they are fatalistic.

## History

When the lesser Elves were created by the True elves, they took after characteristics of their creators. The Solar Celestials created the High Elves, the Sylvan Celestials created the Wood Elves, The Astral Celestials created the Dark Elves, and the Moon Elves created the

## Elves relationship

* Elves think of humans like we think of dogs or cats. You find one you like and get along with, and then after a little while, they die and you feel sad. Then you go get another one.

Elf Player info:

Elves are functionally immortal, you do not age nor suffer from normal disease, but you can be killed.

**Wood** **Elf**

" The Wode elves (wood elf) are the hereditary enemies of the farming humans. But they are not the hereditary enemies of the barbarian humans, ie the Gol. Your home is a great Wode, a elf-haunted forest. Wodes remember the ear before the Dwarfs came and imposed the Law of Time on Orden. Now effect follows cause, in and orderly manner, but the Wode Elves remember a time it was not always thus. And in the Wode time is still malleable, and frisky.

You are a member of the Orchid Court, the Last Great Court. Not the only court remaining, but the last court that still maintains the size ,stature and influence of the great elven empires of the past. Traditionally the elf wars with the humans who cut down forests to build farms and cut through hills to make roads.

However the coming of Ajax has broken many alliances and made many strange bedfellows. The Orchid Court surrendered to Ajax and now officially serve him. Many elves do not like this, they chafe at the alliance. Some Wode Elf talk openly about allying with other kingdoms who oppose Ajax. This is of course folly. The deal with Ajax happened years ago but it is still fresh in everyone's memories because Sariel, the Elf princess of the Orchid Court was murdered by Ajax when she tried to oppose him.

The Elves, like the barrow men, view human civilization as a kind of madness. Feudalism, roads, farms, all the same pathology. The humans want to remake the world in their image, the elves think the world is fine as it is. The wodes elves favor chaos, the chaos of nature, of green things growing wild. To the elves the chaos that twists and corrupts and is unnatural, they call discord."

**High Elf**

" High Elves, or as they would call themselves the Eladrin, lorekeeper or librarian in their language. They also live in the Wode. The live in and around the ruins of the fallen city, Erranis. Literally fallen was one of the Sun Elves floating cities. The Sun Elves left the world thousands of years ago with their god, Val to go to Arcadia, leaving their servants, the Eladrin behind. The High Elves are educated and cultured, concerned primarily with art. In the absence of the Sun Elves, they spend their time cataloguing the extensive lore contained in the city, and emulating the Sun Elves and their traditions. The High Elf King, Lynn, made his own deal with Ajax, and his people scourer the fallen city looking for magic items.

The Eladrin share the same views of humans as their Wode Elf cousins, but take a long view of this. "This too shall pass" they think, and are content to stay in Erranis and let the humans destroy themselves. Because they don't much care for the border disputes between the men and the wode, they don't much care for the difference between the men of the farms and the barbarian Gol. All humans, who the Elves call Terrans, meaning "from earth", though in their language its closer to "from mud", are basically mad, but they can't help it, its the way they were made. The Eladrin liked Good King Omund and remember him, but he chose the folly of Men. A just king may rise one every few hundred years, but this is brief. Men make war, they can not help themselves, its part of their insanity.

The Eladrin see the Wode Elves as their lesser cousins, "tree-tenders" they call them. But the Wode Elves similarly see the High Elves as mere librarians, lacking vitality.

What you think of all these ancestries is up to you, ancestral attitudes are an average, not a law! This might be your first time journeying to the lands of men, and whether you share you ancestries biases or are skeptical of them, or a little of both is up to you.

The Fated

Reincarnated Elf heroes of either elven caste, the Fated are rare and they do not know their own nature or origin. It takes a wise and ancient Elf Lord to recognize a new Fated, they see behind the newly born Elf’s eyes an ancient and famous Elf hero. Over years of study, the Fated catches glimpses of his previous life and may eventually discover why he has returned to the world. Because the Elves are immortal, and cannot reproduce, this reincarnation is considered particularly miraculous and a gift from Val.