Sun Elf

The sun elves, also known as the gold elves, and Sol'Qasire'fae, as they are called in their own language of Sudai'in and Eldmati, they are elitists, believing that elves, especially the sun elves, are the best of society and the only race deserving of authority within society and deity worship. While they are not entirely evil their... ambitious goals and means of doing things is often frowned upon by other species, moreso with other elven subspecies. After the great migration which brought their ancestors to Xaekla they found themselves ultimately displeased with their lesser numbers and began isolating themselves in their mountainous cities, now there is an abundance of the Sol'Qasire'fae with many families having between 10-16 children; some believe that the sun elves have been preparing for decades for an attack, on what or who is not known.

## Sociocultural Information

### Languages

* Eldmati
* Sudai'in

### Distinction(s)

* Broader than other elven subspecies
* Flatter nose
* Larger eyes

## Description

Sun elves are broader, taller, and weightier than their other kin. They stand at an average of 6'8 with broad and strong shoulders, and a weight of about 240 lbs on average, the women often being shorter than the men and weighing less but still having greater strength than their next of kin and fairly broadened shoulders. Sun elves have blonde, bronze, or copper hair with ginger hair being somewhat more uncommon with gold, bronze or hazel eyes; green and black are uncommon but not unheard of. Their skin is the color of bronze or copper, with some appearing as if a pale-skinned humanoid had heavily tanned in the sun.

## Abilities

In addition to the innate spells which are granted from their ethereal-fae heritage, the sun elves had a reputation for the spells they were able to cast which were commonly associated with the blinding rays of the sun; hence their name.

### Innate Spellcasting

When reaching teenagerhood, a sun elf would gain the ability to cast the spell, Sunlight once per day and upon reaching adulthood they could cast the spell Flame Body once per day.

## Society

### Culture

Sun elves, moon elves, and star elves live together atop their mountainous societies with the sun elves being the helms of society, acting as diplomats, nobles, and merchants while the moon and star elves fill in the gaps in military and worship.

Sun elf society is heavily based around honor, prestige, and loyalty; they value these characteristics almost as much as they value the nobles of their race whom rule over any given stronghold which they are in charge in. While nobles in human society acclaimed influence through the ownership of land, command of soldiers, or presence on the battlefield, sun elves gained influence through the age of their family, their authority and prestige, and/or the innate magic present in their families bloodline.

As mentioned before, sun elves often will have numerous children with the families that hold the most standing expected to have even more to provide battle heads, mages, and skilled warriors to their strongholds military. Due to this, sun elves have soared in numbers well ahead of the other elven subspecies leading many to believe that the sun elves have deliberately encouraging their people to have more children to elevate their numbers for the coming war, it is believed that the war would be waged against all other elvish races which the Sun elves dispise.

Sun elves who leave their home stronghold for the purpose of leaving sun elf society altogether are shunned by their people, thus many will never leave the security of their people to mingle with the other races of the realm and those who attempt to return are not accepted back unless they have a trade of equal value to the dishonor they've caused their people by leaving. However, sun elves were are specifically tasked with leaving in order to gain information or seek out artifacts or magical items are accepted back into sun elven society with ease.

### Art and Leisure

With their elven paticence and sun elven arrogance the sun elves induldged themselves often in arts and leisures that were no less perfect than they, favoring artforms that could truly bring the full emotion and picture of whatever the artist may be trying to convey so artforms like painting, epic ballads, and dancing are a fond part of sun elven entertainment; if something was not regal and flashy, it was unworthy of their time. In comparison, sun elven architecture was often equally exquisite and poised, they preferred for their buildings to have large sweeping windows delicating inlaid with various gems and minerals that would match the structure of the building, stained glass was favored among the elite; typically crafted by a child artisan of the house; as it show their familes skill in the craft. Balconies and long enclosed walkways, greenhouses and swaths of elaborate statues to boot, the sun elves truly enjoyed the grandeur of wealth and nobility. It was a common occurance for the noble or wealthy sun elf houses to have their own library within their compound which would contain a score of original and replica books, gems, artifacts, and other such items to elaborate the families wealth and influence and act as a place to study for the children of the home, though even commoners would place great pride in their collections of books, trophies, or crafted items especially if they were crafted by one of the members of their house.

In addition to the gaudiness of their homes and art, sun elves found that they particularly enjoyed elaborate clothes to boot in colors which would complement their bronze, copper, or tanned skin. Blues, whites, blacks, fushia, and green were commonly worn in sun elven society with golds, silvers, and tiutilum being used as accenting colors which would weave detailed sprawling patterns across whole swaths of the faberic. Among the noble houses capes, frills, and looser clothing was popular while the working class members of society would typically wear clothing that hugged their body as to not get in the way of their work. Armor and weaponry in particular were the most detailed pieces in any sun elves collection with the armor crafted by the slum dwarves and later detailed by a skilled sun elf artisan they told stories across the piece of metal like no other could.

### Magic and Religion

Sol'Qasire'fae were known to be the most zelous of the elven subspecies with their immense dedication to the patron deity of elves, Elsinthael, who was also the ruling deity of the elven pantheon, and Solios, the sun elven deity of fire, dance, and liturature. In any given sun elven city you would find temples to both these deities as well as various statues, stattuets, and iconography. Though Elsinthael and Solios were the two favored deities of sun elf society, their were a few others who drew upon these pious elves attention due to their way of worship, ideals, and interaction with the religiously valiant of the sun elves, these other deities who are worshipped by sun elves are: Arellous, Minalayous, and Freilia; who gain near equal attention as their more favored counterparts.

While sun elves were the diplomatic leaders of sky elven society, they also often act as the mages and scholars, alongside the star elves and odd moon elf. Sun elves have a very intune connection with magic, the second most out of all the sky elves behind only the elustrious star elves, favoring what's commonly called Elven magic; though its true name is Hisi'mai or 'powerful magic' in Eldmati. Hisi'mai is a potent and powerful form of magic which despite its common name of Elven magic can only be wielded by sky elves and even then it is a select few that can harness its power, a trait they gain partially through a magical bloodline and partially through learned discipline.

### Relationship with other races

Sun elves think highly of themselves, placing their worth above even the other sky elves, and the often showed distain towards the lowbrow ground elves which roam the vaster reigons of the realms. They tenuously ally themselves with the star and moon elves, somewhat out of nessessity and somewhat out of a fondness for their fellow elitist brethren.

Among all their elven brothers sun elves found the Qo to the most distasteful. Sun elves believed that Qo were in need of "civilizing" as in their culture it is common for them to act more "barbaricly" than the sun elves care for and thus the sun elves believed that they brought upon a bad name to the Qasire'fae lineage. Of course, from their divine zealousness, the sun elves found themselves seeing only the Ai'iri as greater than themselves as the Ai'iri had the blood of the gods themselves or their divine workers within them, something that even a sun elf could not outmatch.

Outside their own racial family of the Qasire'fae, sun elves were far more elitist. Sun elves are incredibly prejudiced, to the point were it becomes a problem within their own race, so removing the factor that an individual is a fellow elf and you will find sun elves at a loss on the worth of aiding them. Sun elves (and thus subsequently all sky elves) hold a hefty three century grudge against gnomes as when the elven nation of Qae'kalme was caught in a war against the up-and-coming Kilvarian empire the neighboring gnomish settlements refused to aid Qae'kalme which they believe resulted in its fall; more-or-less the gnomes got their comeuppance when Kilvaria wiped those settlements of the map, though the elves wish for a greater score to be settled against the gnomes.