Ancient Elves

There are two types of ancient Elves: Hyzecks and Prozecks.

## History

The Prozecks and Hyzecks were originally created by the Ulgundar in order to maintain the balance between life and death and the light and dark on Sylos. They lived in peace with one another until the year 1218, when Warthall built an Army of the Dead (known as the Forsaken) to conquer kingdoms of the Western World and disrupt the balance of life and death. Since the Hyzeck do not believe in war (in theory), they have not disrupted the Prozecks control of the Western World (meaning that have not tried to attack land under Prozeck control), but they have been officially at war since 1218 and have had many battles in the Eastern Kingdoms to defend their lands. Both are extremely intelligent, although not as intelligent or wise as the Farkhan.

## Hyzecks

The **Hyzecks** dwell within the **Ancient Forest of Bankuru** in the southern tip of **Savaros**. They rely on light energy and base their civilization off the creation and preservation of life. They are masters of magic, and can create and control vegetation and plants at their will. They live in the tops of trees and believe in peace and diplomatic relations, rather than war. Their eyes glow green as they are the ancient healers of Sylos, and certain Master Healers can bring back the dead by transferring the life from something that is living. It has been seen in the past that a Master Hyzeck Healer has transferred the life of a tree to that of a person, granting life to the person and death to the tree. Many often wonder why they do not just create tree farms to harvest life and bring back the dead, but their answer is that it must be used sparingly. The cycle of life and death should not be altered so carelessly.

Hyzecks are grown from Ancient Trees, which they are able to create and maintain in many regions of Savaros. They are extremely large trees which 7-12 Hyzecks are grown at a time.

## Prozecks

The **Prozecks** are the dark elves of Sylos. They are masters of stealth, the shadows, and deception. Where the Hyzecks create and preserve life, the Prozecks corrupt and destroy it. They feed off of life like leeches and often abuse their ability to transfer life from the living to the dead, usually raising servants at their control. They are assassins of the night, and almost impossible to detect. They drain the life of those they kill and regularly keep the energy to become more powerful, rather than transfer the energy on. They are able to convert light energy into **250% more dark energy** to which they harvest. They are able to move quickly and fly as a cloud of thick black smoke. They have pitch black eyes, and in the daylight they have a dark grey skin, similar to that of the Mulangost. When light falls or there is no natural light, their skin turns to a charcoal black and to the untrained eye, they are invisible. They do not have any one land to claim as their home, as they have destroyed anything they've come across including their origins. Nothing is left but the blackness of death and dark energy. Areas that are destroyed by the Prozecks look something like a forest fire; a barren landscape covered in black ash and soot. Before the Great War, Prozecks and Hyzecks would migrate to areas previously occupied by the other. Hyzecks would turn a wasteland into a lush, blooming forest. Prozecks would drain all life from the land, leaving a plain of death ready for the Hyzecks to transform back into lush forests. Each worked in harmony with one another, until the start of the Great War.

That being said, it would seem that Prozecks still live (at least temporarily) inside of trees or other large living things until they eventually suck the life out of them. If they have nothing for them to live in, they dwell within the shadows. The Prozecks cannot die of age but rather if they do not harvest enough life to maintain their own (this is not to say they are immortal, they can be killed). The reproduction of Prozecks is much different than that of the Hyzecks. They can only be created if a Prozeck is able to harvest 2,000 souls, at which point the Prozeck is given the ability to create another Prozeck. Once a Prozeck has harvested and saved 10,000 souls (not using those souls to create more prozecks), they are able to create a copy of their self. To do this, the Prozeck is forced to split its own shadow. Once the process has been fulfilled, a new copy of the Prozeck has been created. Both bodies are connected to the same mind, so if either are destroyed the Prozeck will still exist in which ever form is still living. To kill 1 Prozeck you must kill all of its shadows. This will end the cycle of the Prozeck and destroy it.