Elves

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## Elves

### Subgroups

Cloud Elf
Storm Elf
Wind Elf
Stygian Elf
Stone Elf
Dryad/Forest Elf

### Typical Characteristics

Pointed ears
Pastel coloring
More delicate than humans

**Elves** are one of the three Elder Races.

They were one of the first three of the Twins' creations, alongside the Humans and the Ancients. While humans are made up of a roughly even balance of all six elements, elves are bent more strongly towards wind and lightning, producing a delicate, flighty people that lack the stability of humanity. They resemble shades of the sky, with their skin colored with pastel blues, purples, and whites and patterned with stars or clouds. Elves are most commonly weather mages, but it is not unheard of for an elven mage to possess power over other elements. They typically live longer than humans, but struggle in times of conflict; their airy nature makes them less stable.

## Subraces

### Cloud Elves

Cloud elves are the least elementally-influenced of all elf subspecies. They typically have clear purple skin, distinguishing themselves from other elves that typically have mottled or speckled patterns on their skin. They mostly live on the Archipelago Nimbus, a chain of floating islands that drift around the world. The Cloud elves there produce a textile called windsilk, woven from the threads of the cocoon of a rare insect that spends its life floating in the upper atmosphere. When worn, windsilk makes the wearer extremely light, able to jump extremely high and drift down slowly. However, it is extremely difficult to acquire on the ground, since the cloud elves are isolated and rarely trade.

### Storm Elves

More common than average in human society, Storm elves typically have shorter ears and sturdier builds than other elves. Their greyish-blue skin is mottled with cloud-like patterning and they have yellow, blue, or occasionally pink hair that reflects their stronger lightning influence.

### Wind Elves

Wind elves reside at the tops of tall mountain peaks and have stronger wind influence. Their pastel skin has pale streaks that resemble cirrostratus clouds.

### Stygian Elves

When the humans and the elves left the Singing Caves for the first time after the element winds died down, the Stygian elves stayed behind. They became altered by the increasingly hostile nature of the caves, likely becoming influenced by Stone and even some Void energy. Their black skin is freckled with stars. They are extremely difficult to find, and it is more common to find someone with Stygian elf ancestry than a full elf. Recently, they have been coming to the surface, as the increasingly potent cave corruption begins to affect even them. However, they're not very comfortable in sunlight, and tend to only emerge at night. Due to their association with the caves, they are regarded with suspicion.

### Stone Elves

Unlike other elves, which are skewed towards wind and lightning, stone elves primarily live in stone-influenced areas and have developed stony armor plates similar to trolls, even often living among them.

### Dryads

Dryads, or Forest elves, are faintly life-influenced. Their skin helps to camouflage them in forested, extremely life-influenced environments, and they possess plant-shaping abilities. Dryads tend to avoid interactions with outsiders, but they are more open to contact and trade than Stygian elves.

## References

1. ↑ The Three Elder Races (comicaurora.com)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "*So, from left to right...*" to "*but they're recognizable for other reasons*": messages in #aurora-discussion in the OSP discord server (discord.com)
3. ↑ What kind of textiles are there, besides our "normal" ones? (tumblr.com)
4. ↑ What sort of human/elf is Caliban supposed to be disguised as? (tumblr.com)
5. ↑ Are the Stygian Elves or the Cloud Elves more elementally influenced by anything like the storm or wind elves... (tumblr.com)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hey Red, can you tell us anything about dryads and stygian elves?... (tumblr.com)