Elf

## Description and Abilities

As an Elf you are idealistic and chaotic. You will explore you own interests and wants but are more than welcome to the idea of helping others. Often elves are adamant on the way of life that there subrace pursues. Wood elves live and breath nature, High elves venerate magic and dedicate hundreds of years of their lives to wizardry.

As an elf you are naturally beautiful and live for hundreds of years, it is not uncommon to see elves in high places of society due to this. This doesn’t mean all elves are meant for the high society life. Many an elf find companionship in the more simple ways of life. It all depends on what each individual elf deems as its ideals and what it thinks is worth pursuing.

Something that can become problematic for elves is the concept of time and the people around them. For a human they will never see a hundred years, were as a hundred years to an elf is nothing. Sometimes elves may forgo making friends with the races that don’t live long as they will not see the years invested as worth the little time they would get to know the individual. Elves will spend years at a time exploring other people as well as themselves if they find them interesting enough.

An elf will use their timeless view of the world to aim for the long game and use their time to master many subjects. A typical elf will choose to outlive another race than to argue with them.

## Subraces

### High

The high elf is what most consider the stereotypical elf. Proud and adept at magic inherently. They pride themselves on being elegant and graceful while also being skillful and impressive at what they do. Often the most powerful of Wizard are High elves because of the years that they can live. Usually a high elf prides itself the most on becoming skillful at something. High elves have a long history of being intelligent in war and in artisanal crafts for such a reason. This has often turned into arrogance after a few hundred years of being told you are amazing at the things you do.

### Wood

The wood elves are surprisingly more civilised than the rest of the world would believe. The wood elves chose to adopt the way of life they live. Having the inherent ability to blend into natural phenomena they often lend themselves to being impressive hunters and other quiet types. They tend to live in close relation to the forest also has many a wood elf become a druid. Many people will ask advice from a wood elf or follow one's lead without question as they are naturally wise.

### Drow

The drow are egotistical and cruel. They harbor dark twisted desires and a sense of superiority above all other races. Naturally gifted in the art of killing, magic and deception, a Drow will most likely capture and detain an interesting or useful creature for the benefit of its family, wallet or self.

A drow strives to be better than everyone else and undermine the achievements of others, easily sewing seeds of doubt and vile rumours into the minds of all. Generally, Drow do not care about one another, unless they find the other drow useful or belonging to them.

Drow hierarchy is split between the genders and the level of authority and power. A cleric is always above others. And clerics are more often than not, female.  Magic and fighting prowess follows after this.

Drow females are taller and more developed than males as they get preferential treatment from birth. A male is raised to be submissive and fearful of the females in power. They are indoctrinated to serve and want to please their superiors. A female is raised to be assertive and domineering, always vying for power and the want to control others.

Drow culture teaches its populus to scheme and work to betray others cleverly and swiftly. Being caught or found out is equal to death. Drow treat their superiors with the utmost care, making sure not to anger them.

A drow is raised by its mother or someone its mother put in place to raise them. They do not receive love or care, just intense training and lectures on who they should respect. A drow usually does not know or have connections to its parents. Fathers more than mothers. The title of mother is given to the head of most houses so a drow will not call its mother my this title unless its mother is the head of the house. To survive as a drow, they are taught to be either or both of two things; good at fighting and power or be really attractive & good at sex.

Drow Outcasts: Many drow grew up in contrast to their people’s views, harbouring thoughts of disagreement with the culture and actions of its peers. These drow will do several things: Grow up to maturity and leave once they are able. Submit to the views of their society and fall in line, changing who they are. Work against their peers and people to attempt a change (usually die).