Species!Elf

## Physiology

Elves are a magical being of mysterious grace, living in a world they're not entirely part of. Elves can live in places with exquisite beauty, in the center of ancient forests or in silvery steeples glistening with fairy light and soft music that swims through the air and gentle aroma in the breeze. Elven's love nature, artistry, music, poetry, and the good things in the world. Elves are known for their talent in magic, archery, and long lives. Elven's are more amused than excited and more curious than greedy depending on the elf and its beliefs. Elves tend to stay detached and unbothered by petty accidents. When elves pursue a goal, whether it be adventuring on a mission, or learning a new skill or art, elves can be focused and persistent. They are unhurried to make friends and enemies, even more so to forget them. They reply to kiddy insults with disfavor and to major insults with retributive justice.

Elves initiate adventures out of wanderlust. Since elves are so long-lived , they have the advantage for centuries of expeditions and discoveries. Elves despise the pace of human society, which in turn, is both controlled from day to day but also constantly changes over decades. Elves also appreciate utilizing their offensive prowess or achieving greater magical power, and exploration allows them to do just that. Some elves might unite with rebels, who are fighting against tyranny, and others might join alongside for tyranny.

Elves are humanlike beings who are either fairies, close relatives to fairies, or human with an abnormal lifespan and magical capabilities. As a whole, elves bear a resemblance to slender, attractive, ageless, elegant humans. Numerous versions of elves are adjacent to human size, others are miniscule, and others are taller than humans. Although some human-sized elves are mistaken for exceptionally bewitching humans, most have one or more noticeable elven traits. Pointed ears are the most stereotypical but some elves have big eyes, skin/hair/eyes of an odd color, and/or hollowed-out eyes.

Elves can be separated into two extensive groups: modern and mythic. Modern elves are mortal or near-mortal with capabilities similar to humankind. Mythic elves are justly more powerful, with some significant power contradicting that of insignificant deity. Disregarding which group the elf is apart of, all elves partake certain traits, including elegance, some magical potential, and skill in both close combat (specifically swords) and marksmanship (with bows).

Out of all fairy races, eves are most seemingly to form their own communities, nations and states of differing sizes. Although modern elves own kingdoms and lands in a physical presence, mythic elves tend to live on a separate plane of civilization.

## Personality

Elves have three underlying features: A love of freedom, a terrific sense of personal responsibility, ad a tiny number of overpowering specific attitudes. The love of freedom extends towards physical, mental, and social barriers, and other people. Elves find it considerably difficult to watch captivity or confinement than violence. Elven parents would preferably beat their children than incarcerate them to the home, and the elven children feel identically to this. In vast society, elves let other people do whatever it is they're doing, as log as it does not meddle with their own amusement.

Personal responsibility to elves mean, they are good on their promises and try to repair any harm that they have caused. (Harm, in this use, means anything that the elf thinks is bad, killing an enemy does not count as harm to them.) This also means that elves will try to get themselves out of any struggle, than wait for help. Elves have little proneness to blame others for matters, and have more proneness to blame themselves.

Lastly, Elves do not form specific bonds easily. Elves have approximately the same viewpoint to everyone, doesn't matter who or what they are. Despite the fact if someone does something either good or bad for the elf, this minimally has any effect, however it is not entirely forgotten. Repeated and notable deeds, cultural education, or specific display acts can form a certain feeling, and the feeling created is one and the other, strong and very abiding. Since elves are not persuaded from their normal perspective by petty defamation, they are also not persuaded by stronger defamations by unimportant stuff. The friendship or hatred of an elf is heavily to lose.

Most elves have a welcoming and supportive perspective to everyone, as part of their folk's habit to chaotic good behavior. However, there are, irritable elves who respond unethically to everyone. An elf's natural viewpoint does not impact the likelihood of different sorts of strong bonds; most elves are as willing to love as to hate.

Almost all elves are bisexual, and are not captivated predominantly by physical appearance. It is believed that this is because elven men and women look nearly the same, and all are beautiful. Whatever the reason, it means that elves are allured to members of other nationalities as often as to members of their own. They are only able to produce with humans, but it is not rare for elves to have lovers from all nationalities, even half-orcs. The rarest pairing, in fact, is elves and dwarfs, by reason of, the dwarfs do not find elves sexually tempting. Dwarfs still find them beautiful, but in a finding fine pieces of jewelry beautiful.

## Housing & Material Articles

Elves have a much larger area of physical comfort than the other races. Although they can take damage from intense conditions in the same way, they're enjoyable almost until the point when they take an injury. Nonetheless, they find unattractiveness physically unpalatable, just as other races acknowledge to disproportionate heat, or tough clothing. Elven residences, then, tend to be charmingly decorated, but substantially uncomfortable. Those who do not know elves well bear to think of them as abstinent aesthetes for this reason. For instance, elven clothes made for elves are consistently beautiful, yet other cultural groups find that they scratch, or dig into the body, or are differently uncomfortable, even if they are alike in size.

Elven homes are almost not ever on the ground. Admirably, they are located in the branches of trees, but partially they are located on the highest floors of buildings. This seems to be a primary non-rational preference of the elves.

Elves have a very occasional approach to most physical possessions, both their own and others. They have shame about picking up and using, or keeping, stuff that's lying around, and have no problem when other people do the same to their things. Even gifts from someone the elf adores have no distinct value to the elf, as they are, not, after all, the person loved. This doesn't mean that elves are nonchalant with their belongings, or that they carelessly wander off with anything that is not impenetrable. It is just that if an elf lost the sword which had been passed down in his family for generations, he would be not at all annoyed than if he had attained it ten minutes prior, and if he had no need for a sword at that point, it would not bother him at all.

Nonetheless, elves respect other people's living abode and carried items far more strongly than humans. An elf would no more think of entering someone's house uninvited than burning it down, (of course, some elves think of both). Hence, possessions inside your home or in your pockets are sacramental, but not because they are possessions. Magical possessions although, are a huge exception. Elves are partially as possessive of their magical items as humans are of valuable antiques. Gifts between lovers always carry at least a slight enchantment, so that the beneficiary will cherish the gift and not leave it aside somewhere.

## Sleep

Elves can't sleep. Elven legends say that, millennia ago, the elves killed the first God of Sleep, and in revenge his next in line denied them her blessings. Whatever the reason may be, elves cannot sleep in the way that other races do. They still need physical and mental rest, however. Physical rest is easy, and elves need about eight hours of that per day, on average. Mental rest can only be gained by the use of certain meditation exercises, which all elves inhabit as children. (There are things that parents do with babies which have the same effect.) Elves need to achieve these meditations for about four hours every day, and this is the rest required to regain spells. The meditation does not have to be continuous, but it is less effective if it is not, rather like a broken night's sleep for humans.

## Magic

Elves love magic, specifically the arcane variety. Wizards are very common among them, as are bards. Sorcerer's are a little rarer, but not much, and other elves regard them as blessed by Merianath. As far as anyone can tell, this preference is racial, not cultural.

## Forests

Forests are the most appealing scenery, in elven eyes. Trees make them feel calm and at home, and even the enclosure found in a deep, old forest gives them nothing but a sense of safety. Their low-light vision helps with this, of course. Elves do not automatically feel that they have to guard the forests, and may even cut them down, but all of them recognize their beauty.

## Religion

Mutaka, the goddess of forests, is unsurprisingly popular with elves, as are Merianath Thousand-Eyes and Herath. Dancing Cloud and Shaskal Torin are also praised by many elves. Mercer and Grandin are simply alien to the elven way of perceiving, and many elves find Pilanna's dictates to be positively unpleasant.

## Language

Elven languages have many things in common. They are all alluring to listen to, and very difficult for members of any other race to learn properly. There are several reasons for this.

* First, elven tongues have intricate grammars. Word order is exceptionally fluid, so words must carry markers to show which part of speech they are. Furthermore, elven languages distinguish more tenses, moods, voices, cases, and numbers than other tongues. For example, every elven language has singular, plural, dual, and collective numbers for nouns. Dual number means that there are exactly two, while collective means that there are many things but that they form a single entity of some sort or other. Likewise, all elven tenses come in at least finite, infinite, bounded past and bounded future forms. Finite mean that the action was begun and finished during the time in question - 'he closed the door.' Infinite means that it neither began nor ended in that time - 'he was closing the door.' Bounded past means that it began during that time but continued after, while bounded future means that it finished during that time but started before. Most languages have more numbers or tense forms than these, as well.