Ancient Elves

**Rarity**

Extinct

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**General Overview**

Before the Great Awakening the word ‘Elf’ was not an umbrella term for all sub species of elf, but one collective species that spawned and gave rise to the sub species we see today.

Ancient Elves were one of the great species made by the Gods to build Aramoor, to build the land and shape the landscape for them. While Humans had the ingenuity, engineering and robustness, Ancient Elves had the magic, spirituality and agility to work in tandem.

After the Awakening they expanded and built marvellous constructs throughout the land, creating cities and structures of immense power and force until, one day, they disappeared never to be seen again around 300 post-awakening.

Scholars are unsure if this was gradual or immediate, whether the cause was environmental, Human or self-made. There are no signs and any puzzles found within their ruins have remained a mystery and difficult to reach.

Much of the Ancient Elves history has been lost to time, with only their grand and mysterious structures dotting the landscape in magically potent places, these signs of civilisation radiate such powerful magic that those sensitive to it are rendered incapacitated going near, even non-magical can be susceptible to severe headaches and sluggishness.

Then there is the environmental risks, most ruins are layered in either radiation, blistering heat, bitter cold, rapid overgrowth, harsh winds or littered with some of the most dangerous monsters in the land of Aether.

The most famous Ancient Construct named Coraar Ath Tel' Tarkhal by the Sun Elves, famous as it leaks an eerie hum and appears to ebb and flow with movement and glow a dull green. It is the only construct to date that has been explore more than 20% and found to still be seemingly alive.

However, the construct is littered with volatile conditions of spiritual interference and madness, many who go there report hallucinations so strong they were brought to murder without realising, or lost friends in the abyss, or faced violent attacks from forces they could not defend against.

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**Race Alignment**

Unknown

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**Natural Race Abilities/Affinities**

All that is know of the Ancients is their extreme magical prestige that could rival the Gods, it is believed they existed in the same power range that Circe exists in, leading many scholars to believe she is the only one to have ever tapped into the mysteries of the Ancient Elves…

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**Appearance**

No one is entirely sure what Ancient Elves once looked like, there are very few signs.

One of the few signs in two colossal statues deep into the Gorge, it is believed one is an Ancient Elf while the other, with a sword, is a Human.

Based on a signal bust found in an Ancient construct, it was vaguely recreated in the form of paintings and art, however, colouring varies between artists but the features remain the same, it is considered to be a great honour to be commissioned for art of this bust in person.

It is believed that the aetherial horns are conduits of raw and immense magic.

The bust remains locked away in Orthellion under House Travellion's care, much to the dismay of the Magisters and Scholars of the Oushivia Tower.

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**History**

They were one of the first races to be created alongside Humans and Dwarves, but little else is know of this history save for they mysteriously disappeared and left only architectural evidence that they even existed in the first place.